Nihlen Fahlquist, J.A. (Jessica)
Research profile
Jessica received her PhD from the Division of Philosophy at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm in 2008. The PhD project had two aims. The first aim was to analyse traffic safety from an ethical perspective and the second aim was to analyse the concept of moral responsibility. Previous to that, she studied for a Bachelor’s degree in philosophy and political science at Linköping University and received a Master’s degree in political science from the Uppsala University Programme of International Studies in 2001. In 1999-2000 she studied management and Scandinavian studies at University College London in the UK.
Jessica conducts research into different notions of responsibility and how these could be applied to R&D networks. Her postdoc project, “Conceptual and moral analysis of responsibility” is one part of the project called “Moral responsibility in R&D networks”, which is funded by NWO. This project studies the so called “problem of many hands” in R&D networks and the problem is conceived as a tension between the requirements of completeness and fairness in distributions of responsibility. Jessica’s project aims at developing a notion of moral responsibility that is able to achieve a complete and fair distribution of responsibilities in R&D networks.
3TU.Ethics Projects
Moral responsibility in R&D networks
Scientific publications (selection)
Kalle Grill and Jessica Nihlén Fahlquist. forthcoming. Responsibility, Paternalism and Alcohol Interlocks. In Health Promotion and Ethics.
Doorn, N. and J.A. Nihlén Fahlquist. 2010. "Responsibility in Engineering: Towards a New Role for Engineering Ethicists" Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society 30/3: 222-230.available online
Fahlquist, Jessica Nihlén. 2009. Saving Lives in Road Traffic – Ethical Aspects. Journal of Public Health.available online
Nihlén Fahlquist, J.A. 2008. Moral Responsibility for Environmental Problems - Individual or Institutional? Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics.![]()
Nihlen Fahlquist, J.A. 2007. Moral Responsibility and the Ethics of Traffic Safety, Doctoral thesis, Royal Institute of Technology.![]()
Nihlen Fahlquist, J.A. 2006. Responsibility Ascriptions and Public Health Problems. Who is Responsible for Obesity and Lung Cancer? Journal of Public Health 14 (1).
Nihlen Fahlquist, J.A. 2006. Responsibility Ascriptions and Vision Zero. Accident Analysis and Prevention 38:1113-1118.available online
Nihlen Fahlquist, J.A. 2005. Moral Responsibility in Traffic Safety and Public Health, Licentiate thesis, Royal Institute of Technology.![]()
Professional/Popular publications (selection)
Nihlen Fahlquist, J.A., Sven Ove Hansson, and Karin Edvardsson. 2005. Vad är ansvar?. In Filosofins nya möten: Gidlunds förlag available online
Teaching
Jessica has primarily taught and been responsible for a course in political philosophy at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm 2004-2006. She has also taught courses in ethics and technology and philosophy of science.
Jessica currently assists in the supervision of PhD student Neelke Doorn
