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Andrea Asker
Andrea Asker is a PhD candidate at Stockholm University and research assistant at the Institute for Futures Studies. She has an interdisciplinary background with degrees in philosophy and economics from Stockholm University and Lund University.
Andrea works on topics in normative and applied ethics. Her PhD thesis is a compilation thesis on the topic of harm including chapters on collective harm and individual action, as well as harm-related issues in the philosophy of death.
Selection of publications
Asker, A. S.(2023). “The problem of collective impact: why helping doesn’t do the trick”. Philos Stud 180, 2377–2397.
Asker, A. S. & H. O. Stefánsson (2023). “Climate Change and Decision Theory”. In Pellegrino Gianfranco & Marcello Di Paola (eds.), Handbook of Philosophy of Climate Change. Springer Nature. pp. 267-286.
Asker, A. S., & H. O. Stefánsson (2021). “Collective Responses to Covid-19 and Climate Change”. Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 14(1), 152–166.