I'm Professor of Practical Philosophy and Knut and Alice Wallenberg Scholar at Stockholm University, where I direct the Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace. I work on moral and political philosophy. I am Honorary Chair of the Society for Applied Philosophy.
My research explores a range of topics in normative and applied ethics. I’m especially interested in deontological principles, such the distinction between doing and allowing harm and the moral significance of using a person for the benefit of others. Much of my work explores how these principles interact with other morally salient considerations, such as responsibility, causation, consent, and authority. I have published extensively on theoretical issues connected to permissible harming, our duties to aid, the ways in which we can be connected to the wrongdoing of others, and the normative significance of heritage.
My work on the ethics of war and self-defence has been published in Ethics, Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Journal of Applied Philosophy, Law and Philosophy, Criminal Law and Philosophy, Journal of Moral Philosophy, as two monographs (Defensive Killing, Oxford University Press; The Ethics of War and Peace: An Introduction, Routledge) and in numerous edited collections. I am also co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Ethics of War and How We Fight: Ethics in War.
I am currently writing on a book on the duty to rescue. I have published papers on this topic in Ethics, Philosophical Quarterly, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society and Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. The latter won the 2019 Marc Sanders Prize in Political Philosophy. My most recent paper on the claims of Afghan refugees was published in Philosophy and Public Affairs and won the 2023 Elizabeth D. Rockwell prize for the best paper on ethics, leadership and public policy published in the last two years.
Between 2017 and 2020, I was co-PI (with Derek Matravers) on an AHRC project on the status of cultural heritage in war. Our book, Stones and Lives: The Ethics of Protecting Heritage in War, is in press at Oxford University Press; we also wrote a piece for the J. Paul Getty Trust's Occasional Series in Cultural Heritage Policy. An edited collection of papers from the project, Heritage in War: Ethical Issues, was published by OUP in 2023. I have broad interests in heritage ethics, including the removal of statues and the ethical tourism of heritage sites.
My work explores various ways in which we can be implicated in other people's wrongdoing, not least the issue of civilian liability for unjust wars. Mine and Jonathan Parry's paper on Wrongful Observation (in Philosophy and Public Affairs) argues that, sometimes, looking at people's wrongdoing, or the upshots of their wrongdoing, can itself be wrong. We argue, for example, that intentionally viewing so-called 'revenge porn' is usually wrongful and makes the viewer liable to bear costs for the victim's sake. Another paper, on wrongful assistance, was published in the Journal of Applied Philosophy as part of a symposium on the ethics of indirect intervention. This symposium is part of my project on the ethics of foreign intervention, which is funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. A third paper, on moral coercion, was published in Philosophical Studies.
You can find out more about my work by clicking on the links above.
I'm a Research Associate at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm. I've held visiting posts at Rutgers, Harvard, ANU (twice), Shandong University (China), York University (Canada), the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies (South Africa), UC Boulder, the Danish Institute for International Studies and Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania.
You can email me at helen.frowe@philosophy.su.se.
My research explores a range of topics in normative and applied ethics. I’m especially interested in deontological principles, such the distinction between doing and allowing harm and the moral significance of using a person for the benefit of others. Much of my work explores how these principles interact with other morally salient considerations, such as responsibility, causation, consent, and authority. I have published extensively on theoretical issues connected to permissible harming, our duties to aid, the ways in which we can be connected to the wrongdoing of others, and the normative significance of heritage.
My work on the ethics of war and self-defence has been published in Ethics, Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Journal of Applied Philosophy, Law and Philosophy, Criminal Law and Philosophy, Journal of Moral Philosophy, as two monographs (Defensive Killing, Oxford University Press; The Ethics of War and Peace: An Introduction, Routledge) and in numerous edited collections. I am also co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Ethics of War and How We Fight: Ethics in War.
I am currently writing on a book on the duty to rescue. I have published papers on this topic in Ethics, Philosophical Quarterly, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society and Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. The latter won the 2019 Marc Sanders Prize in Political Philosophy. My most recent paper on the claims of Afghan refugees was published in Philosophy and Public Affairs and won the 2023 Elizabeth D. Rockwell prize for the best paper on ethics, leadership and public policy published in the last two years.
Between 2017 and 2020, I was co-PI (with Derek Matravers) on an AHRC project on the status of cultural heritage in war. Our book, Stones and Lives: The Ethics of Protecting Heritage in War, is in press at Oxford University Press; we also wrote a piece for the J. Paul Getty Trust's Occasional Series in Cultural Heritage Policy. An edited collection of papers from the project, Heritage in War: Ethical Issues, was published by OUP in 2023. I have broad interests in heritage ethics, including the removal of statues and the ethical tourism of heritage sites.
My work explores various ways in which we can be implicated in other people's wrongdoing, not least the issue of civilian liability for unjust wars. Mine and Jonathan Parry's paper on Wrongful Observation (in Philosophy and Public Affairs) argues that, sometimes, looking at people's wrongdoing, or the upshots of their wrongdoing, can itself be wrong. We argue, for example, that intentionally viewing so-called 'revenge porn' is usually wrongful and makes the viewer liable to bear costs for the victim's sake. Another paper, on wrongful assistance, was published in the Journal of Applied Philosophy as part of a symposium on the ethics of indirect intervention. This symposium is part of my project on the ethics of foreign intervention, which is funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. A third paper, on moral coercion, was published in Philosophical Studies.
You can find out more about my work by clicking on the links above.
I'm a Research Associate at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm. I've held visiting posts at Rutgers, Harvard, ANU (twice), Shandong University (China), York University (Canada), the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies (South Africa), UC Boulder, the Danish Institute for International Studies and Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania.
You can email me at helen.frowe@philosophy.su.se.