Henrik Friberg-Fernros
Senior Lecturer
Department of PoliticalAbout Henrik Friberg-Fernros
Areas of interest
Henrik Friberg-Fernros areas of interests are humanitarian intervention, bioethics, politics and religion and deliberative democracy. In research about humanitarian intervention he examines the preconditions to implement the responsibility to protect. In bioethics his research concerns the coherence of public policies and the application of the precautionary principle on abortion. With regard to religion and politics he focuses on the role for religious argument in the exercise of public power. Together with Johan Karlsson-Schaffer he has proposed a possible paradox in deliberative democracy: does agreement impede rational public discourse?
Current research
I am currently working in a project about deliberative democracy with Johan Karlsson Schaffer in which we explore what we call the consensus paradox, namely that achieving consensus might impede preconditions for future deliberation. I have just finished a project about religion and politics and ideal of secularity. My current research are focused on the metaphysical foundations of liberalism and the role of truth in liberal democracy.
Teaching and tutoring
• Responsible for course on advanced level in methodology (2006–2007). • Responsible for courses on advanced level in social studies (2010–2011). • Supervising theses on the basic level, and master thesis on advanced level in political science and social science, 2002–present. • Lecturer at courses in political science on advanced level, in qualitative methodology on advanced level, in social science courses on advanced level, and in courses program for teacher training, 2006-present.
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On The Problem of Defending Basic Equality: Natural Law and The Substance
View
Henrik Friberg-Fernros
Journal of Medicine and Philosophy - 2023 -
A Plausible Account of Basic
Equality
Henrik Friberg-Fernros
Agency, pregnancy and persons - 2022 -
An epistemic alternative to the public justification
requirement
Henrik Friberg-Fernros, Johan Karlsson Schaffer
Philosophy & Social Criticism - 2022 -
Against the Religious Neutrality
Requirement
Henrik Friberg-Fernros
Ratio Juris - 2022 -
Correcting an Interpretation of My View on Legal Punishment and
Abortion
Henrik Friberg-Fernros
The New Bioethics - 2020 -
The Explanatory Power of the Soul Why Liberals Should Seriously Consider
Dualism
Henrik Friberg-Fernros
Journal of Religious Ethics - 2020 -
Responding to Simkulet's objections to the two tragedies
argument
Henrik Friberg-Fernros
Journal of Medical Ethics - 2019 -
Deliberation after Consensus: Introduction to the
Symposium
Henrik Friberg-Fernros, Johan Karlsson Schaffer, Cathrine Holst
Journal of Public Deliberation - 2019 -
Within the limits of the defensible: A response to Simkulet's argument against the pro-life view on the basis of spontaneous
abortion
Henrik Friberg-Fernros
Journal of Medical Ethics - 2018 -
Hit but not down. The substance view in light of the criticism of Lovering and
Simkulet
Henrik Friberg-Fernros
Bioethics - 2018 -
Making a Case for Stricter Abortion
Laws
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Epistemic Democracy, Deliberative Quality and
Expertise
Henrik Friberg-Fernros, Cathrine Holst, Johan Karlsson Schaffer
Social Epistemology - 2017 -
Assessing the Epistemic Quality of Democratic Decision-Making in Terms of Adequate Support for
Conclusions
Henrik Friberg-Fernros, Johan Karlsson Schaffer
Social Epistemology - 2017 -
Media and the power of naming: An experimental study of racist, xenophobic and nationalist party
labels
Henrik Friberg-Fernros, Marie Demker, Johan Martinsson
Ethnicities - 2017 -
Clashes of consensus: on the problem of both justifying abortion of fetuses with Down syndrome and rejecting
infanticide
Henrik Friberg-Fernros
Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics - 2017 -
Respect, Coercion, and Religious Reasons: Toward a Post-Secular Deliberative
Approach
Henrik Friberg-Fernros
Journal of Religious Ethics - 2016 -
The limits of the principle of charity: Why Haesebrouck is wrong after
all
Henrik Friberg-Fernros, D. Brommesson
International Politics - 2016 -
A critique of Rob Lovering's criticism of the substance
view
Henrik Friberg-Fernros
Bioethics - 2015 -
The Consensus Paradox: Does Deliberative Agreement Impede Rational
Discourse?
Henrik Friberg-Fernros, Johan Karlsson Schaffer
Political Studies - 2014 -
Taking Precautionary Concerns Seriously: A Defense of a Misused Anti-abortion
Argument
Henrik Friberg-Fernros
Journal of Medicine and Philosophy - 2014 -
Bortom den sekulära
staten
Douglas Brommesson, Henrik Friberg-Fernros
2013 -
The Responsibility to Protect: An Incoherent
Doctrine?
Henrik Friberg-Fernros, Douglas Brommesson
International Politics - 2013 -
The feasibility of an expanded regime on the use of force: the case of the responsibility to
protect
Douglas Brommesson, Henrik Friberg-Fernros
Journal of International Relations and Development - 2013 -
Allies in Tension. Identifying and Bridging the Rift between R2P and Just
War
Henrik Friberg-Fernros
Journal of military ethics - 2011 -
“Antiracist Norm in News Media: Drawback for Anti-immigrant
parties?
Marie Demker, Henrik Friberg-Fernros
XVI Nordic Political Science Congress NOPSA 9-12 aug 2011, Vasa, Finland - 2011 -
“Individualization and Destabilization of the International Order. The Case of the Responsibility to
Protect”
Douglas Brommesson, Henrik Friberg-Fernros
International Review of Sociology - 2009 -
I gränslandet till liv och död. Om människovärdet och den offentliga maktens
koherens
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State Sovereignty or Human Rights – a Theoretical
Evaluation
Ulf Bjereld, Henrik Friberg-Fernros, Douglas Brommesson
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association 48th Annual Convention, CHICAGO, IL, USA, Feb 28, 2007 - 2007 -
The Desicive choice - Human rights or state
sovereignty
Douglas Brommesson, Henrik Friberg-Fernros
The Annual convention of the International Studies Association - 2006 -
Stater eller individer? Att undersöka dragkampen om den internationella
rätten
Douglas Brommesson, Henrik Friberg-Fernros
Bjereld, U. [et al.] (red). Det hyperindividualiserade samhället - 2005 -
De kristna och kriget mot
Irak
Douglas Brommesson, Henrik Friberg-Fernros
Hagevi, M. (red). Religion och politik - 2005 -
Irakkriget och de kristna
förhållningssätten
Douglas Brommesson, Henrik Friberg-Fernros
Signum - 2004