Aksel Sterri

• Earp, Brian D; Lewis, Jonathan; Hart, Carl; Sterri, Aksel Braanen & Moen, Ole Martin (2021). Racial Justice Requires Ending the War on Drugs. American Journal of Bioethics.  ISSN 1526-5161.
• Sterri, Aksel Braanen (2020). Heller velferdsstat enn borgerlønn. Norsk Filosofisk tidsskrift.  ISSN 0029-1943.  2(3), s 126- 140 . doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-2901-2020-02-03-04 Full text in Research Archive.
• Sterri, Aksel Braanen (2020). Prize, Not Price: Reframing Rewards for Kidney Donors. Journal of Medical Ethics.  ISSN 0306-6800.  s 1- 4 . doi: 10.1136/medethics-2020-106172
• Sterri, Aksel Braanen & Moen, Ole Martin (2020). The ethics of emergencies. Philosophical Studies.  ISSN 0031-8116.  s 1- 14 . doi: 10.1007/s11098-020-01566-0 Full text in Research Archive.
• Sterri, Aksel Braanen (2019). Sex Selection in India: Why a ban is not justified. Developing World Bioethics.  ISSN 1471-8731.  20(3), s 150- 156 . doi: 10.1111/dewb.12250 Full text in Research Archive. Show summary

  When widespread use of sex‐selective abortion and sex selection through assisted repro‐ duction lead to severe harms to third parties and perpetuate discrimination, should these practices be banned? In this paper I focus on India and show why a common argument for a ban on sex selection fails even in these circumstances. I set aside a common objection to the argument, namely that women have a right to procreative autonomy that trumps the state's interest in protecting other parties from harm, and argue against the ban on consequentialist grounds. I perform a pairwise comparative analysis of sex selection and its plausible alternatives and argue that that the ban fails to improve the state of affairs relative to a scenario without a ban. The ban makes the situation worse, especially for mothers and their daughters. India should therefore repeal its ban on sex selection.

• Moen, Ole Martin & Sterri, Aksel Braanen (2018). Pedophilia and Computer-Generated Child Pornography, In David Boonin (ed.),  Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy.  Palgrave Macmillan.  ISBN 978-3-319-93906-3.  29.  s 369 - 382 Full text in Research Archive. Show summary

  To be a pedophile, according to the World Health Organization, is to have a sexual preference for children, boys or girls or both, usually of prepubertal or early pubertal age. Pedophilia is widespread—approximately two percent of the adult population is primarily sexually attracted to children—and world-wide, approximately 1 in 5 girls and 1 in 12 boys, is a victim of sexual abuse. Most researchers working on pedophilia are psychologists, psychiatrists, and criminologists. How might ethicists contribute to the discussion? In this chapter, we ask, and seek to answer, three distinctively ethical questions about pedophilia: (1) Is it immoral to be a pedophile? (2) Is it immoral for pedophiles to seek out sexual contact with children? (3) Is it immoral for pedophiles to satisfy their sexual preferences by using computer-generated graphics, sex dolls, and/or sex robots that mimic children? We hope to show, through our discussion of these questions, that an ethical investigation of pedophilia can help advance our understanding of how pedophilia should be understood, assessed, and handled.

• Sterri, Aksel Braanen (2018). Provokativ offentlig filosofi. Etikk i praksis.  ISSN 1890-3991.  12(2), s 105- 128 . doi: 10.5324/eip.v12i2.2539 Full text in Research Archive.

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• Moen, Ole Martin & Sterri, Aksel Braanen (2019). Aktiv dødshjelp: Etikk ved livets slutt. Cappelen Damm Akademisk.  ISBN 9788202594848.  132 s.
• Sterri, Aksel Braanen (ed.) (2014). Global citizen - challenges and responsibility in an interconnected world. Sense Publishers.  ISBN 9789462099289.  128 s.
• Sterri, Aksel Braanen (2014). Tilbake til politikken: Hvordan Arbeiderpartiet igjen skal bli folkets parti. Kagge Forlag AS.  ISBN 9788248914372.  250 s.

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• Sterri, Aksel Braanen (2021). Derfor bør vaksinene til Oslo. Dagbladet.  ISSN 0805-3766.
• Sterri, Aksel Braanen (2021, 13. februar). How to distribute a Covid-19 vaccine ethicall‪y‬. [Radio].  In Pursuit of Development.
• Sterri, Aksel Braanen (2021, 09. februar). The Global Philosopher: Vaccine Ethics. [Radio].  BBC Radio 4.
• Sterri, Aksel Braanen (2021). Vanvittig vaksinefordeling. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.).  ISSN 0804-3116.
• Sterri, Aksel Braanen & Wig, Ståle (2021). Det er ikke dine penger. Dagbladet.  ISSN 0805-3766.
• Sterri, Aksel Braanen (2020). Alt er til salgs. Dagbladet.  ISSN 0805-3766.
• Sterri, Aksel Braanen (2020). Bør vi drepe katter?. Dagbladet.  ISSN 0805-3766.
• Sterri, Aksel Braanen (2020). Delicate Deals: Moral Choice on the Margins. Full text in Research Archive. Show summary

  People who experience severe economic hardships sometimes consent to deals that many would not even consider. Examples include deals involving payment for sexual services, pregnancies, and kidney donations. Moreover, they may feel forced to accept deals on terms that few would accept. The term I will use for such morally challenging transactions is delicate deals. A feature of delicate deals is that even when they are entered into without fraud and coercion, many of us nevertheless find them objectionable. Much of the literature on delicate deals has been concerned with characterizing their bad-making features. The vulnerable party is forced by economic necessities to engage in harmful deals, exploited, and involved in a practice of wrongful commodification. Although this line of research is important, it is unfortunately insufficient: it fails to inform us about what we should do, all things considered. Hence, they leave open questions, such as whether we should prohibit delicate deals or regulate them, and if so, in what ways. The dissertation consists of two parts, an introduction and five papers. In paper 1, “The Bulldozing Fallacy,” coauthored with Ole Martin Moen, we argue that we need, when justifying prohibition of delicate deals, to avoid the bulldozing fallacy. This is the fallacy of believing that when people have a very narrow range of available options, we help them by taking away their preferred option in that range. To defend prohibition on grounds of the interest of the people engaging in the deal, one must be explicit about how removing the option will make them better. We propose six strategies for how to justify a ban that avoids the bulldozing fallacy. In paper 2, “The Ethics of Emergencies,” also coauthored with Moen, we address our obligations to people in difficult circumstances. We explore whether we have special duties of assistance in emergencies and whether they generalize to other cases of need outside of emergencies. We defend a novel account of our duties in emergencies and show that it can be reconciled with many plausible moral theories. In paper 3, “Sex Selection in India,” I address the issue of sex selection in India, a harmful and controversial practice that is caused by, and reinforces, gender discrimination. The Indian government has therefore banned the practice. Through a comparison between legal sex selection and its alternatives, I argue that the ban is unjustified because it makes the situation even worse for mothers and their daughters. In papers 4 and 5, I defend a model of kidney provision where governments are the sole buyer of kidneys and kidneys are distributed according to need. In paper 4, “Why States Should Buy Kidneys,” I explore Cécile Fabre’s principled objection to organ markets: that they allow duty bearers to profit from doing their duty. This criticism, I suggest, fails to distinguish between different duty bearers. I argue that, when the collective is the duty bearer, it is not wrong to be paid to perform a service that it would be your duty to perform were it not for the collectivization of duties. In paper 5, “Reframing Kidney Rewards,” I propose a new model for how to reward kidney donors. Many objections to kidney markets are rooted in the view that body parts are not ordinary market goods, and that the giving of a body part is an extraordinary act that is not properly valued through a market transaction. I show how framing a monetary reward differently makes a difference to its moral status, and that a prize is better able to reflect the extraordinary act of giving a body part compared to alternatives such as incentives, compensation or a competitive market price. In the introduction to this dissertation, I illustrate how this model can be used in other delicate deals.

• Sterri, Aksel Braanen (2020). Heller velferdsstat enn borgerlønn.
• Sterri, Aksel Braanen (2020). Hvor komfortable skal vi være med å ofre de mest sårbare blant oss. Morgenbladet.  ISSN 0805-3847.
• Sterri, Aksel Braanen (2020). Ikke få panikk, Ropstad. Dagbladet.  ISSN 0805-3766.
• Sterri, Aksel Braanen (2020). Livet får en større mening i situasjoner som denne. Dagbladet.  ISSN 0805-3766.
• Sterri, Aksel Braanen (2020, 13. oktober). Norges lille intellektuelle enfant terrible er blitt voksen. [Tidsskrift].  Minerva.
• Sterri, Aksel Braanen (2020). Rasismen midt i blant oss. Morgenbladet.  ISSN 0805-3847.
• Sterri, Aksel Braanen (2020). Sexrobotene kommer. Dagbladet.  ISSN 0805-3766.
• Sterri, Aksel Braanen (2020, 01. april). The Global Philosopher: Pandemic Ethics. [Radio].  BBC Radio 4.
• Sterri, Aksel Braanen (2020). Vi er alle influensere. Dagbladet.  ISSN 0805-3766.
• Sætre, Sjur & Sterri, Aksel Braanen (2020, 25. september). Skulle vi kanskje like gjerne tillat kjøp og salg av organser?. [Radio].  NRK Ekko.
• Huitfeldt, Ingrid Marie Schaumburg; Andresen, Martin Eckhoff & Sterri, Aksel Braanen (2019). Ammeråd og foreldrepermisjon. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.).  ISSN 0804-3116.
• Huitfeldt, Ingrid Marie Schaumburg; Andresen, Martin Eckhoff & Sterri, Aksel Braanen (2019). Det meste du blir fortalt om amming, kan være feil. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.).  ISSN 0804-3116.
• Huitfeldt, Ingrid Marie Schaumburg; Andresen, Martin Eckhoff & Sterri, Aksel Braanen (2019). Gi gjerne pupp, men ikke for helsegevinstene. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.).  ISSN 0804-3116.
• Huitfeldt, Ingrid Marie Schaumburg; Andresen, Martin Eckhoff & Sterri, Aksel Braanen (2019). Hva kan vi forvente av en tredelt foreldrepermisjon?. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.).  ISSN 0804-3116.
• Sterri, Aksel Braanen (2019). En guide til sikker sex. Dagbladet.  ISSN 0805-3766.
• Sterri, Aksel Braanen (2019). Facebook knekker din frie vilje. Dagbladet.  ISSN 0805-3766.
• Sterri, Aksel Braanen (2019, 05. desember). Om å velge seg døden. [Internett].  Minerva.
• Sterri, Aksel Braanen (2019). Rusmidler kan være nøkkelen til et bedre liv. Dagbladet.  ISSN 0805-3766.
• Sterri, Aksel Braanen (2019). Sex kan også være arbeid. Dagbladet.  ISSN 0805-3766.
• Sterri, Aksel Braanen (2018). Raino Malnes & Knut Midgaard: Politisk filosofi. Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning.  ISSN 0040-716X.  59(1), s 116- 119 . doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-291X-2018-01-13
• Sterri, Aksel Braanen (2017). Revolusjon over evolusjon. Samtiden. Tidsskrift for politikk, litteratur og samfunnsspørsmål.  4
• Sterri, Aksel Braanen (2016). Ideenes makt over sinnene, I: Knut Olav Åmås (red.),  Makteliten: 252 kvinner og menn som styrer Norge.  Kagge Forlag AS.  ISBN 9788248918516.  Kapittel 4.  s 86 - 109
• Sterri, Aksel Braanen (2016). Makten som knebler seg selv, I: Knut Olav Åmås (red.),  Makteliten: 252 kvinner og menn som styrer Norge.  Kagge Forlag AS.  ISBN 9788248918516.  Kapittel 3.  s 61 - 83
• Berg, Ole Trond; Sterri, Aksel Braanen & Thorsen, Dag Einar (2014). totalitarisme. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven).
• Sterri, Aksel Braanen & Rasmussen, Magnus (2011). Sommerferieeffekten. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift.  ISSN 0800-336X.  28(2), s 213- 218

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