Niklas Möller, PhD.

Starting in the fall of 2009, I will be a Marie Curie Post Doctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Philosophy at Cambridge University.

However, my e-mail at the Division of Philosopy, Royal Institute of Technology will still be working.

 

 

 

Academic Background

MSc in Engineering Physics from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 1995.

BA in Practical Philosophy from Stockholm University, Stockholm, 2004.

Fil Lic in Philosophy from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 2006.

PhD in Philosophy from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 2009.

Research

My main fields of interest are philosophy of risk, moral philosophy, and philosophy of language.

Publications

  1. “Stability and Rightful Authority: the Political Failures of the Dune Societies” (2009), co-authored with Eva Erman, forthcoming in Dune & Philosophy, ed. J. Nicholas, Chicago: Open Court Publishing.

  2. Thick Concepts in Practice: Normative Aspects of Risk and Safety (2009), Stockholm: Royal Institute of Technology. (Doctoral thesis)

  3. “Should we follow the experts’ advice? Epistemic uncertainty, consequence dominance and the knowledge asymmetry of safety” (2009), International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management 11(4), 219-236.

  4.  “Principles of engineering safety: risk and uncertainty reduction” (2008), co-authored with S.O. Hansson, Reliability Engineering and System Safety 93, 776-783.

  5. ”Risk, säkerhet och den öppna frågans argument” (2008), in Risk & Risiko, ed. J. Persson & N-E. Sahlin, Nora: Bokförlaget Nya Doxa, 123-145.

  6. “Jakten på den försvunna meningen” (2008), in 8 filosofiska texter, ed. K. Löfgren & D. Munter, Stockholm: Förlaget Anomali, 95-110.

  7. Safety and decision-making (2006), Stockholm: Royal Institute of Technology. (Licentiate thesis)

  8. “Safety is more than the antonym of risk” (2006), co-authored with S.O. Hansson & M. Peterson, Journal of Applied Philosophy 23, 419-432.

  9. “Vad menar vi med säkerhet?” (2005), in Filosofins nya möten, ed. K. Edvardsson, S. O. Hansson & J. Nihlén Fahlquist, Hedemora: Gidlunds Förlag, 63-74.

  10. “Analysing safety: epistemic uncertainty and the limits of objective safety” (2005), in Safety and Security Engineering, ed. C.A Brebbia, F. Garzia & M. Garascio, Southampton: WIT Press, 63-72.

 

Department of Philosophy and the History of Technology
Royal Institute of Technology
Teknikringen 78B
100 44 Stockholm
Sweden
Phone: +46-(0)8-790 80 20
E-mail: niklas.moller@infra.kth.se