Jan Harald Alnes

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Jan Harald Alnes

Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø. His main field of research is philosophical logic and early history of analytic philosophy, but in the last few years he has turned towards political philosophy. Member of the Research Group Pluralism, Democracy and Justice at UiT, since 2010, and along with Manuel Toscano and José María Rosales, he has convened the series of workshops Themes in Contemporary Ethics and Political Philosophy.

He has two relevant projects to pursue in the coming years. The first is an investigation into the principle of civic education in a contemporary democratic regime, also called democratic education. He focuses particularly on the distinction between democratic education according to political liberalism and democratic education according to comprehensive liberalism. This issue has been at the forefront in the philosophy of education for the last the last thirty years. His second project is a comprehensive study of the political and ethical writings of John Stuart Mill. He has presented aspects of this research at numerous lectures and in two occasions at Themes in Contemporary Ethics and Political Philosophy.

Together with Manuel Toscano, he has edited the book Varieties of Liberalism: Contemporary Challenges (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014). His contribution is entitled 'Democratic Education and Reasonable Pluralism'. Recently he has published 'The Politics of Dissensus and Political Liberalism', Philosophy and Social Criticism, (July 2016), 1-18.

E-mail: jan.harald.alnes (at) uit.no

Web: http://en.uit.no/ansatte/organisasjon/ansatte/person?p_document_id=42390&p_dimension_id=88151