Olle Risberg

Pro Futura Scientia Fellow, SCAS.
Researcher, Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University.
Project Coordinator, Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm

Olle Risberg defended his doctoral dissertation, Guiding Concepts: Essays on Normative Concepts,
Knowledge, and Deliberation, in 2020. Since then he has been the principal investigator of the research
project The Wisdom of the Crowd, funded by the Swedish Research Council for 2020–2024, which
studies the epistemic significance of agreement and consensus. At the Institute for Futures Studies, he
is involved in the research project Hidden Convergence in Ethics, funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.

Risberg’s research focuses on fundamental issues in ethics and epistemology, including moral objectivity,
epistemological skepticism, reasons and rationality, and the nature of harm. His publications in these areas
have appeared in leading international venues such as Noûs, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research,
Australasian Journal of Philosophy, and Oxford Studies in Metaethics. He is also one of the founders of
the international research network Progress in Ethics, which studies the nature and possibility of progress
in ethical theorizing, and is one of the editors of The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Harm, forthcoming
from Oxford University Press.

During his Pro Futura Scientia fellowship, Risberg’s work will focus on gradability, or “matters of degree,”
in evaluative contexts. Integrating research from both practical and theoretical philosophy with results from
measurement theory, his project will assess the hypothesis that many of the most central evaluative proper-
ties—including rationality, reason, justification, harm, and progress—are gradable (roughly in the sense that
things can have them to a greater or lesser extent, or have more or less of them), and that our philosophical
theories about them should therefore be designed to reflect this fact.

This information is accurate as of the academic year 2024-25.