Robert Huseby

Academic Interests

Climate ethics

Contractualism

Democratic theory

Distributive justice

Normative methodology

Individual and collective moral responsibility

Consequentialism and nonconsequentialism

Economic sanctions

Courses taught

Political theory

Political analysis

Background

2015: Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo

2014-2015: Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo

2012-2013: Associate Professor,  Buskerud University College  

2008-2012: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo

2008: Research School Coordinator, The Ethics Programme, University of Oslo

2002 – 2007: PhD student, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo

2002: Lecturer, Political Science, Østfold University College

Selected publications

• Angell, Kim, and Robert Huseby (forthcoming): "Secession and Political Capacity." Critical Review of International Social and Political Theory. https://www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy.uio.no/doi/pdf/10.1080/13698230.2020.1851858?needAccess=true

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• Huseby, Robert (2022): "The Limits of Limitarianism." The Journal of Political Philosophy 30(2): 230-248 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jopp.12274

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• Angell, Kim, and Robert Huseby (2020): "The All Affected Principle, and the Weighting of Votes." Politics, Philosophy & Economics 19(4): 266-381. The All Affected Principle, and the weighting of votes (sagepub.com)

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• Huseby, Robert (2020): "Sufficientarianism and the Threshold Question." The Journal of Ethics 24(2): 207-223. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs10892-020-09321-7.pdf

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• Huseby, Robert (2019): "Sufficientarianism," in William R. Thompson (ed.) Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Oxford University Press. doi:https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.1382

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• Angell, Kim, and Robert Huseby (2019): "Global Luck Egalitarianism and Border Control." Ratio Juris 32 (2): 177-192. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/raju.12236 

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• Huseby, Robert (2019): "Luck Egalitarianism and the Distributive Trilemma - Accepting   Exploitation?" Social Theory and Practice 45 (1): 1-21 https://www.pdcnet.org/soctheorpract/content/soctheorpract_2019_0045_0001_0001_0019

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• Huseby, Robert (2018): "Should We Relinquish or Distribute the Benefits of Injustice?" The Journal of Value Inquiry 52 (2): 154-178. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs10790-017-9610-0.pdf

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• Huseby, Robert (2018): "In or Out? On Benevolent Absolutisms in The Law of Peoples." Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 13 (2): 154-178. https://www.jesp.org/index.php/jesp/issue/view/39

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• Huseby, Robert (2017): "Sufficient Autonomy and Satiable Reasons," Law, Ethics and Philosophy 5: 154-163. https://www.raco.cat/index.php/LEAP/article/view/10.31009-LEAP.2017.V5.13/429400

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• Huseby, Robert (2017): “How Should Citizens’ Collective Liability for State Action be Grounded?” Journal of Global Ethics 13 (2): 366-379. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/17449626.2018.1429483

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• Angell, Kim and Robert Huseby (2017): "Should Irregular Immigrants be (Rapidly) Enfranchised?" Political Research Quarterly 70 (2): 363-373. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1065912917695188

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• Huseby, Robert (2016): "Sufficiency, Priority, and Aggregation," in Fourie, Carina and Rid, Annette (Eds.) What Is Enough? Sufficiency, Justice and Health. NY: Oxford University Press.

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• Huseby, Robert (2016): "The Beneficiary Pays Principle and Luck Egalitarianism," Journal of Social Philosophy 47 (3): 332-349. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/josp.12154/epdf

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• Huseby, Robert (2016): "Can Luck Egalitarianism Justify the Fact that Some are Worse Off than Others?" Journal of Applied Philosophy 33 (3): 259-269.  http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/japp.12122/epdf

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• Huseby, Robert (2015): “Should the Beneficiaries Pay?” Politics, Philosophy & Economics 14 (2): 209-225. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1470594X13506366 

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• Huseby, Robert (2014): “Normative Consent and the Scope of Democratic Authority,” Politics 34 (4): 334-344. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9256.12048/pdf

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• Huseby, Robert (2013): “John Rawls and Climate Justice – An Amendment to The Law of Peoples,” Environmental Ethics 35 (2): 227-243.

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• Huseby, Robert (2012): “Sufficiency and Population Ethics,” Ethical Perspectives, 19 (2): 187-206. 

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• Huseby, Robert (2012): “Why Numbers (Almost) Always Count – Nonconsequentialism and Intrapersonal Aggregation,” SATS – Northern European Journal of Philosophy, 13 (1): 60-74. http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/sats.2012.13.issue-1/sats-2012-0004/sats-2012-0004.xml

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• Huseby, Robert (2012): “Cohens kritikk av Rawls – likhet og rettferdighet,” Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift, 2: 148-155. http://www.idunn.no/file/pdf/54229196/Likhet_og_rettferdighet_-_G_A_Cohens_kritikk_av_John_Rawls.pdf

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• Huseby, Robert (2011): “Spinning the Wheel or Tossing a Coin?” Utilitas, 23 (2): 127-139. http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayFulltext?type=1&fid=8278171&jid=UTI&volumeId=23&issueId=02&aid=8278169&bodyId=&membershipNumber=&societyETOCSession=

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• Huseby, Robert (2010): “Person-affecting Moral Theory, Non-identity, and Future People,” Environmental Values, 19 (2): 193-210.

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• Huseby, Robert (2010): “Sufficiency – Restated and Defended,” The Journal of Political Philosophy, 18 (2): 178-197. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9760.2009.00338.x/pdf

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• Huseby, Robert (2008): “Duties and Responsibilities towards the Poor,” Res Publica: A Journal of Moral, Legal and Social Philosophy, 14 (1): 1-18. http://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/duties-and-responsibilities-towards-the-poor-rVgYFeberM

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• Huseby, Robert (2007): “Liberalism, Tolerance, and Human Rights,” Nordisk Tidsskrift for menneskerettigheter (Nordic Journal of Human Rights), 25 (3): 245-58. http://www.idunn.no/file/pdf/33185397/ntmr_2007_03_pdf.pdf

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• Feiring, Eli and Robert Huseby (2007) “Velferdsstat, fordelingsrettferdighet ognyliberalisme,” in P. K. Mydske, D. H. Claes, og A. Lie (eds.) Nyliberalisme – ideer og politisk virkelighet (Oslo: Universitetsforlaget).

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• Huseby, Robert (2007): “Internasjonal fordelingsrettferdighet,” i Jon Hovi og Raino Malnes (red.) Anarki, normer og makt (Oslo: Abstrakt forlag).

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• Hovi, Jon, Robert Huseby and Detlef Sprinz (2005): “When do (Imposed) Sanctions Work?” World Politics 57 (4): 479-99. https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/world_politics/v057/57.4hovi.pdf

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• Huseby, Robert (2003): “Økonomiske sanksjoner - effektivitet og moral," in Bjørn Erik Rasch, Janne Haaland Matlary og Per Kristen Mydske (red.) Spillet om Irak (Oslo: Abstrakt Forlag).