Patrik Baard, new Postdoctoral researcher

Patrik Baard defended his doctor’s thesis in Philosophy at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) 2016. The thesis was entitled Cautiously utopian goals: Philosophical analyses of climate change objectives and sustainability targets and concerned normative reasons to set long term climate change and sustainability goals, what forms of goals that can be set given normative and empirical uncertainty, and when it is motivated to reconsider a previously set goal. His research interests are environmental philosophy, philosophy of risk, and goal-setting under uncertainty.

At CBM Patrik will focus on environmental ethical and moral philosophical discussions on biodiversity. This will form a framework for analysing how biodiversity is valued in policies. He will also investigate the relation between moral obligations and positions of epistemic uncertainty and incomplete knowledge regarding feasibility and collective action.