Jens Jørund Tyssedal
Biographic Data
| ID | 4802218 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jens Jørund Tyssedal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jens Jørund |
| FAMILY NAME | Tyssedal |
| SIGNATURE | TYSSEDAL J J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bergen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7666-790X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
What is a positional good? Recovering Hirsch’s insights
‘Positional goods’, a term coined by Fred Hirsch, is an important concept in economics, social sciences and philosophy; however, it is used in different ways. This paper recovers Hirsch’s concept of positional goods as scarce goods that are fixed or near-fixed in supply and argues for the usefulness of this concept. Hirsch’s concept may have explanatory power beyond the concept used by most economists – that of Robert Frank. Moreover, Hirsch’s co…
The Mirage of Abundance: Why AI Cannot End Scarcity and Implications for AI Risk
G. A. Cohen’s Principle of Labour Justice: Equality of Work and Income Protects Occupational Interests and Avoids the Freedom Objection
This paper identifies and examines what I argue is Cohen’s real principle of egalitarian labour justice, Equality of Work and Income. The argument turns on two often underappreciated aspects of Cohen’s view: the fundamental, fact-free level of reasoning that Cohen thinks is the correct level for inquiring into the fundamental nature of values and principles, and the fact that Cohen includes job satisfaction in the metric of equality, and thereby …
Relying on Intuitions in Moral and Political Philosophy: A Practice with No Support
How can we study normative questions, the subject matter of normative moral and political philosophy? A common answer is: by relying on our normative intuitions. This paper argues that this method lacks support: we have no good reasons to think we can learn about the normative by relying on our normative intuitions (or ‘considered judgements’). This is argued by examining the six most promising justifications that have been offered for relying on…
What is work? Engineering a working definition
Work is Meaningful if There are Good Reasons to do it: A Revisionary Conceptual Analysis of ‘Meaningful Work’
Meaningful work is an important ideal, but it seems hard to give an adequate account of meaningful work. In this article, I conduct a revisionary conceptual analysis of ‘meaningful work’, i.e. a conceptual analysis that aims at finding a better and more useful way to use this term. I argue for a distinction between cases where work itself is meaningful and cases where other sources of meaning are found at work. The term ‘meaningful work’ is most …
Good work: The importance of caring about making a social contribution
How can work be a genuine good in life? I argue that this requires overcoming a problem akin to that studied by Marx scholars as the problem of work, freedom and necessity: how can work be something we genuinely want to do, given that its content is not up to us, but is determined by necessity? I argue that the answer involves valuing contributing to the good of others, typically as valuing active pro-sociality – that is, valuing actively doing s…
The Value of Time Matters for Temporal Justice
There has recently been a revived interest in temporal justice among political philosophers. For example, lone mothers have, on average, 30 h less free time per week than people in couples without children. Recent work has focussed on free time as a distinct distributive good, but this paper argues that it would be a mistake for a theory of temporal justice to focus only on shares of free time. First, I argue that the concept of free time does no…
Good work: The importance of caring about making a social contribution
How can work be a genuine good in life? I argue that this requires overcoming a problem akin to that studied by Marx scholars as the problem of work, freedom and necessity: how can work be something we genuinely want to do, given that its content is not up to us, but is determined by necessity? I argue that the answer involves valuing contributing to the good of others, typically as valuing active pro-sociality – that is, valuing actively doing s…
The Value of Time Matters for Temporal Justice
There has recently been a revived interest in temporal justice among political philosophers. For example, lone mothers have, on average, 30 h less free time per week than people in couples without children. Recent work has focussed on free time as a distinct distributive good, but this paper argues that it would be a mistake for a theory of temporal justice to focus only on shares of free time. First, I argue that the concept of free time does no…
Work is Meaningful if There are Good Reasons to do it: A Revisionary Conceptual Analysis of ‘Meaningful Work’
Meaningful work is an important ideal, but it seems hard to give an adequate account of meaningful work. In this article, I conduct a revisionary conceptual analysis of ‘meaningful work’, i.e. a conceptual analysis that aims at finding a better and more useful way to use this term. I argue for a distinction between cases where work itself is meaningful and cases where other sources of meaning are found at work. The term ‘meaningful work’ is most …
Good work: The importance of caring about making a social contribution
How can work be a genuine good in life? I argue that this requires overcoming a problem akin to that studied by Marx scholars as the problem of work, freedom and necessity: how can work be something we genuinely want to do, given that its content is not up to us, but is determined by necessity? I argue that the answer involves valuing contributing to the good of others, typically as valuing active pro-sociality – that is, valuing actively doing s…
Relying on Intuitions in Moral and Political Philosophy: A Practice with No Support
How can we study normative questions, the subject matter of normative moral and political philosophy? A common answer is: by relying on our normative intuitions. This paper argues that this method lacks support: we have no good reasons to think we can learn about the normative by relying on our normative intuitions (or ‘considered judgements’). This is argued by examining the six most promising justifications that have been offered for relying on…
What is work? Engineering a working definition
What is a positional good? Recovering Hirsch’s insights
‘Positional goods’, a term coined by Fred Hirsch, is an important concept in economics, social sciences and philosophy; however, it is used in different ways. This paper recovers Hirsch’s concept of positional goods as scarce goods that are fixed or near-fixed in supply and argues for the usefulness of this concept. Hirsch’s concept may have explanatory power beyond the concept used by most economists – that of Robert Frank. Moreover, Hirsch’s co…
The Mirage of Abundance: Why AI Cannot End Scarcity and Implications for AI Risk
G. A. Cohen’s Principle of Labour Justice: Equality of Work and Income Protects Occupational Interests and Avoids the Freedom Objection
This paper identifies and examines what I argue is Cohen’s real principle of egalitarian labour justice, Equality of Work and Income. The argument turns on two often underappreciated aspects of Cohen’s view: the fundamental, fact-free level of reasoning that Cohen thinks is the correct level for inquiring into the fundamental nature of values and principles, and the fact that Cohen includes job satisfaction in the metric of equality, and thereby …
Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Law and economics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political philosophy (3 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works)