Andreas Eriksen

Academic interests
Andreas Eriksen’s main areas of interest are philosophical studies of moral responsibility, professional judgment, and public reason. His work includes articles on the nature of role moralities, the meaning of professional virtue, and the justification of welfare policy.
Background
Eriksen holds a B.A. from the University of Tromsø and an M.A. from the University of Oslo. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Konstanz. He earned a Ph. D. in the study of professions at Oslo and Akershus University College. His dissertation “Taking Roles Seriously. On Professional Duty and Virtue” investigated the relation between ordinary morality and professional ethics. He was subsequently researcher on the project “Between income maintenance and activation” (TREfF-2) at the Centre for the Study of Professions.
Project
Eriksen currently works on a post-doctoral project titled “The Democratic Value of Experts.” The project will provide a normative framework for reasoning in non-elected political bodies. This work is part of ARENA’s project “Democracy and Expert Rule: The Quest for Reflexive Legitimacy” (REFLEX).
Publications
- Eriksen, Andreas & Katsaitis, Alexander (2021). Accountability through mutual attunement: How can parliamentary hearings connect the elected and the unelected?. Public Policy and Administration. ISSN 0952-0767.
- Eriksen, Andreas (2020). Accountability and the Multidimensional Mandate. Political research quarterly. ISSN 1065-9129. . doi: 10.1177/1065912920906880 Full text in Research Archive.
- Eriksen, Andreas (2020). Political Values in Independent Agencies. Regulation & Governance. ISSN 1748-5983. . doi: 10.1111/rego.12299 Full text in Research Archive.
- Eriksen, Andreas (2020). The political literacy of experts. Ratio Juris. ISSN 0952-1917. . doi: 10.1111/raju.12269
- Eriksen, Andreas (2018). Conflicting duties and restitution of the trusting relationship. Journal of Medical Ethics. ISSN 0306-6800. 44(11), s 1- 6 . doi: 10.1136/medethics-2017-104682 Full text in Research Archive. Show summary
- Eriksen, Andreas (2018). Reclaiming Responsibility: The Case of Welfare-to-Work Policy. Journal of Social Policy. ISSN 0047-2794. s 1- 18 . doi: 10.1017/S0047279418000612
- Eriksen, Andreas & Molander, Anders (2018). Welfare reform and public justification. Policy Studies. ISSN 0144-2872. s 1- 20 . doi: 10.1080/01442872.2018.1538487
- Eriksen, Andreas (2015). Beyond Professional Duty: Does Supererogation Belong to the Morality of Roles?. International Journal of Applied Philosophy. ISSN 0739-098X. 29(1) . doi: 10.5840/ijap201561842
- Eriksen, Andreas (2015). Should eudaimonia structure professional virtue?. Journal of Philosophy of Education. ISSN 0309-8249. 50(4), s 605- 618 . doi: 10.1111/1467-9752.12162
- Eriksen, Andreas (2015). The authority of professional roles. Journal of Social Philosophy. ISSN 0047-2786. 46(3), s 373- 391 . doi: 10.1111/josp.12103 Full text in Research Archive.
- Eriksen, Andreas (2015). What is professional integrity?. Etikk i praksis. ISSN 1890-3991. 9(2), s 3- 17 . doi: 10.5324/eip.v9i2.1836 Full text in Research Archive.
- Eriksen, Andreas (2011). Hva er moralsk forpliktelse? En drøfting av tre forslag, I: Hans Erik Næss & Thomas Hylland Eriksen (red.), Kulturell kompleksitet i det nye Norge. Unipub forlag. ISBN 9788274775282. Kapittel 15. s 235 - 247
- Eriksen, Andreas (2020). Har politiske verdier en plass i forvaltningen?. Stat og styring. ISSN 0803-0103. 30(3) Show summary
- Eriksen, Andreas (2019). Agency Accountability: Management of Expectations or Answerability to Mandate?.
- Eriksen, Andreas (2019). The Accountability of Independent Agencies.
- Eriksen, Andreas & Katsaitis, Alexander (2019). Accountability through Mutual Attunement.
- Eriksen, Andreas & Katsaitis, Alexander (2019). Accountability through Mutual Attunement: Parliamentary Hearings & Agency Oversight in the European Union.
- Katsaitis, Alexander & Eriksen, Andreas (2019). Accountability and the Forging of Agency Ends: The European Security and Markets Authority in the European Parliament’s Committee Hearings.
- Eriksen, Andreas (2018). Blog: “Accountability overload”: Too much of a good thing?.
- Eriksen, Andreas (2018). Blog: Conflicts of duty: What do they mean?.
- Eriksen, Andreas (2018). Blog: Have Welfare-to-Work Reforms Promoted Citizen Responsibility?.
- Eriksen, Andreas (2018). Legitimate Agency Reasoning. ARENA Working Papers. 1. Show summary
- Eriksen, Andreas (2018). Political literacy. The concept and its application to the unelected..
- Eriksen, Andreas (2018). The Facts of Agency Accountability.
- Eriksen, Andreas (2018). The Political Literacy of Experts.
- Eriksen, Andreas (2017). Bokanmeldelse: New Contractualism in European Welfare State Policies. Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning. ISSN 0040-716X. 58(3), s 357- 360 . doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-291X-2017-03-08
- Eriksen, Andreas (2017). Conflicting Professional Duties and Blameworthiness.
- Eriksen, Andreas (2017). Detaljstyring av moralfilosofien?. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847.
- Eriksen, Andreas (2017). Legitimate Agency Reasoning.
- Eriksen, Andreas (2017). Moral philosophers and virtue: What is wrong with being bad? (Blog).
- Eriksen, Andreas (2017). Professional ethics in the age of AI: Upgrading to v3.0 (Blog).
- Eriksen, Andreas (2017). Reclaiming Responsibility.
- Eriksen, Andreas (2016). Lykkelig som engasjert i jobben.
- Eriksen, Andreas (2016). Lærerens dedikasjon og rolleforståelse. Bedre Skole. ISSN 0802-183X. (2), s 72- 76
- Eriksen, Andreas (2016). Profesjonsroller og lykke.
- Eriksen, Andreas (2016). Taking Roles Seriously. On Professional Duty and Virtue..
- Eriksen, Andreas & Lassen, Kjersti (2016, 02. mars). Derfor er noen lykkeligere på jobb. [Internett]. forskning.no.
- Eriksen, Andreas (2014). A. Eriksen svarer:. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening. ISSN 0029-2001. 134(8), s 808- 809 . doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.14.0453
- Eriksen, Andreas (2014). Tvilsom begrunnelse for reservasjonsmulighet. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening. ISSN 0029-2001. (5) . doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.13.1512
- Eriksen, Andreas (2013, 25. oktober). Om reservasjonsrett. [Radio]. NRK P1 Norgesglasset.
- Eriksen, Andreas (2013). Profesjonsroller og moralsk divergens.
- Eriksen, Andreas (2013). Vi taper offentlig begrunnelse. Vårt land. ISSN 0805-5424.
- Eriksen, Andreas (2012). The Force of Professional Obligations.