Emil Andersson

I am a political philosopher in the analytic tradition, working mainly on issues related to the classical problems of distributive justice and political legitimacy. Most of my research approach these problems from the perspective of Rawlsian contractualism, and I have a particular interest in how to develop and defend the most plausible version of the Rawlsian account of public justification as a requirement of legitimacy.

I have published on varous issues, such as liberal legitimacy and the idea of justificability to citizens, the justification of public reason, the problem of the basis of equality, contractualism and future generations, and the historicist criticism of Rawlsian political philosophy. See some of my most recent publications below, and a full list here.

My current research is primarily devoted to exploring previously neglected issues at the intersection of liberal legitimacy and intergenerational ethics. Relatedly, I am also working on the idea of cooperation across time, and on the relation between stability and legitimacy.

I earned my PhD at Uppsala University in 2019, and since then I have held postdoctoral positions at the Institute for Futures Studies, McGill University, and Uppsala University. Currently, I teach at Uppsala University and is an affiliated researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies. I am also an editor for the Swedish political philosophy journal Tidskrift för politisk filosofi.