David Brax

My work focuses mainly on issues related working conditions in academia, with a particular focus and exposure to harassment and threats, and the consequences of this for the individual, for the workplace, and for the presence of scientific expertise in the public debate. In previous research projects, I have mainly worked with moral philosophical perspectives on hate crime legislation.

My PhD dissertation ”Hedonism as the Explanation of Value” develops a proposal of how value-theory can be made into an empirically responsible discipline. The theory is a version of meta-ethical naturalism: value facts are natural facts, and can be studied as such. It is based on an explanatory approach to value, and the hedonistic version of the theory is based on the centrality of hedonic processes in the relevant explanations.