Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation

Göran Collste
 

Professor of Applied Ethics
Centre for Applied Ethics, CTE

 

 

Recent publications

Applied and Professional Ethics, The Asian Journal of Humanities Volume 19, No. 1, 2012 web.usm.my/kajh/vol19_1_2012.html

"... restoring the dignity of the victims." Is Global Rectificatory Justice Feasible? Ethics and Global Politics 2/2010 www.ethicsandglobalpolitics.net/index.php/egp/article/view/1996/5628

Specifying Rights. The Case of TRIPS, Public Health Ethics Vol 4, Issue 1, 2011 phe.oxfordjournals.org/content/4/1/63.full?keytype=ref&ijkey=7zmPaxXSQzzxqto

Value Pluralism and Prospects of Global Consensus. Implications of Pluralism. Essays on Culture, Identity and Values, ed. Collste, G (2011) liu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf;jsessionid=d7493398bbb4c79067591fbae61e?searchId=1&pid=diva2:461545

Reviews

Eva GARRARD and David MCNAUGHTON. Forgiveness. Durham: Acumen, 2010 (Ethical Perspectives)

Daniel BUTT. Rectifying historical injustice. Principles of Compensation and Restitution between Nations. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2009 (Ethical perspectives)

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I am professor of Applied Ethics at Linköping University. My research deals with problems in ethics and applied ethics and my publications include books and articles on the principle of human dignity, work ethics, ethical issues related to information and communication technologies (ICT-ethics) and global justice. I am coordinator of the Master's Programme in Applied Ethics at Linköping University and was 2004-2009 a member of the board of the Swedish Council for Research in Humanities and Social Sciences. I was in 2012 appointed International Academic Advisor for a new Center for Applied Ethics at Harbin University in China. Since 2011, I am president of Societas Ethica (European Society for Research in Ethics).

Competencies and previous positions

2001- Professor of Applied Ethics, Linköping University

1995-2006 Director, Centre for Applied Ethics, Linköping University

1993-2001 Assistant Professor (Biträdande professor)

1993-1995 Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Linköping University

1991-1993 Deputy Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Linköping University

1986-1993 Head of department of Religious Studies, Linköping University

1986-2001 Lecturer in ethics/religious studies, Linköping University

1986 Docent (senior lecturer), Theological faculty, Uppsala University

1984 Dr Theol (Ethics) Uppsala University

Commissions etc

2005- Programme director for the Erasmus Mundus Master Programme in Applied Ethics

2009- Scientific secretary for the regional committee for research ethics

2004-2009 Swedish Research Council, member of Council for Research in Humanities and Social sciences

2004-2009 Swedish Research Council, Chair of panel assessment committee for Religious studies, Antique studies and Non-European languages etc

2010- Member of the national expert committee on Misconduct in Research

2006-2010 Swedish representative of the European Science Foundation/COST, Cooperation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research, Committee for Research in the field of Individuals, Society, Culture and Health (ISCH)

2011-2015 President of Societas Ethica (European Society for Research in Ethics)

2012- International Academic Advisor, Center for Applied Ethics at Harbin University in China

Editorial boards etc

Social Justice Research

Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society (ICES), (Emerald, UK)

Etikk i Praksis. Tidskrift for Anvendt Etikk (Tapir akademisk forlag, Trondheim)

International Advisory Board, KEMANUSIAAN The Asian Journal of Humanities (University of Science, Malaysia)

Ethical Perspectives

Conferences and workshops

Responsible or co-responsible:

1997 Ethics and Information Technology

2005 Ethicomp (Linköping)

2006 Ethics and Nanotechnology

2007 Perspektiv på forskningsetik

2008 Identity and Pluralism

2008 Ethics and Society

Member of scientific boards of a number of international conferences.

Membership etc

President of Societas Ethica (European Society for Research in Ethics)

INSEIT (International Society for Ethics and Information Technology)

Honorary fellow of the Academy of the Moral Sciences, Renmin university, Beijing, 1998

Academic teaching

Undergraduate:

Courses in Ethics and Applied Ethics, e.g. Research ethics, Medical ethics, Computer/ICT ethics, Philosophy of Religion, World views and Ideologies, Scientific theory and method, Political philosophy

Master courses: Ethics, Information and Technology; Globalisation and Global Justice; Ethical theory and Moral practice

Post-graduate supervisor and teaching:

One doctoral student Anders Melin, graduated November 2001

Presently (2010) supervisor for two doctoral students

Responsible for post-graduate teaching in applied ethics (CTE), 2002-

Course: Ethics in research and IT (IDA), 2000-

Research projects

1978-1984 Ethics in Working Life (participant)

1985 The Value of Work (responsible)

1988-1993 Ethics, Working Life and Computerisation (responsible)

1999-2002 The Principle of Human Dignity (responsible)

1996 Development of a system for computer supported decisions for clinical work in diabetes care. (participant)

1997- 2004 Ethical Reflection in Economic Theory and Practice (participant), Globalisation and Justice (responsible)

1998-2001 Valuation of Nature (responsible)

1998-  Ethics and IT in Schools (participant)

2003-2006, 2007-2010 Possibilities of Religious Pluralism. Malaysia and Sweden (SIDA research links)

2005-2008 Ethical Dilemmas due to Prenatal and Genetic Diagnosis (EDIG). European interdisciplinary project financed within the EU FP 6 programme (partner).

From 2009 - Personalised Health Monitoring-Ethics. The project is financed within the EU FP 7 programme (partner).

2011 "…restoring the dignity of the victims". Is rectification a requirement for global justice? (Swedish Research Council)

Publications

Articles

- Moral Decision-Making, Narratives and Genetic Diagnosis. In: Fischmann T, Hildt E (eds). Ethical Dilemmas in Prenatal Diagnosis. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 167-176. ISBN-10: 9400713959

- Specifying Rights. The Case of TRIPS, in Public Health Ethics, Vol 4, Issue 1, 2011

- Under my Skin: The Ethics of Ambient Computing for Personal Health Monitoring, Chapter in The Handbook of Emergent Technologies in Social Research. Edited by Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber, Oxford University Press, Feb. 2011

- Svensk teologisk etik efter 2000, I Namli, Sundström, Yngvesson; Etiska undersökningar. Festskrift till Carl Henric Grenholm, Uppsala, 2010

- Challenges to Malaysian Pluralism – the Policy of Affirmative Action, in Collste, ed. Identity and Pluralism; Religion, Ethnicity and Values. Studies in Applied Ethics 12, 2010

- "...restoring the dignity of the victims". Is global rectificatory justice feasible?, Ethics Global Politics, Vol. 3, Issue 2

- Global ICT-ethics: the case of privacy, in Journal of information, communication and ethics in society, Vol 6 (2008): s. 76 - 87, Emerald, GB

- Applied Ethics and ICT-systems in Healthcare, in Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues in Medical Informatics, eds: Penny Duqnoi, Carslisle George and Kai Kimppa, (2008) pp 29-47, Medical Information Science Reference: Hershey, New York (www.igi-global.com/reference/details.asp?id=7741)

- Applied and professional Ethics, in Perspectives on Applied Ethics, Studies in Applied Ethics, 10, Linköping 2007

- Economic Globalisation and Global Justice, in Sustainable Development and Global Justice, eds, Grenholm, C H, and Kamergrauzis, Sustainable Development and Global Ethics, Uppsala Studies in Social Ethics, 33, Uppsala, 2007

- "…punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation…" An argument for Global Rectificatory Justice, in Heuser, S, Ulrich, H G, Political Practices and International Order, Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Societas Ethics, Oxford, 2006, Zürich, 2007

- Applied and professional ethics - an introduction (www.liu.se/cte/masters/introduction.htm), 2006

- "Globalisation and Global Justice", in Studia Theologica, Nordic Journal of Theology, Vol.59, No.1, 2005, pp 55-73

- "Priority setting in cardiac surgery: a survey of decision making and ethical issues." L Ridderstolpe, G Collste, H Rutberg, H Åhlfeldt: (2003) Journal of Medical Ethics, 29:353-358

- "The Internet doctor and medical ethics", Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, , Vol 5, No 2 2002

- "Should Every Human Being Get Health Care? On Priorities in Health Care and the Principle of Human Dignity", in Ethical Perspectives, Journal of the European Ethics Network, Peeters: Leuven, pp 115-125, 1999

- "Infanticide in Reflective Equilibrium?", in van den Burg, W & van Willigenburg, T, eds, Reflective Equilibrium, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Press, 1998, pp 239-250

- "Ethical Aspects on Decision Support Systems for Diabetes Care" in Collste, G., ed. Ethics and Information Technology, New Academic Publisher: New Delhi, 1998, pp 83-93

- "Value Assumptions in Economic Theory", in Value Assumptions in Economic Theory, ed. Grenholm, C H & Helgesson, G, Uppsala 1998, pp. 9-19

- "Expert Systems in Medicine and Moral Responsibility", in Journal of Systems and Software, 1992; 17, New York, pp. 15-22

Books

- Editor, Perspectives on Applied Ethics, Studies in Applied Ethics, 10, Linköping 2007
liu.diva-portal.org/smash/searchlist.jsf?searchtype=simple&freetext=Identity%20and%20Pluralism;%20Religion,%20Ethnicity%20and%20Values

- Possibilities of Religious Pluralism, Editor, Linköping Study in Identity and Pluralism, No 3, Linköping University, 2005

- Globalisering och global rättvisa, Lund: Studentlitteratur, 2004

- Inledning till etiken, Lund: Studentlitteratur, Lund, 3.e upplagan 2010
https://www.studentlitteratur.se/#6213-03

- Is Human Life Special? Religious and Philosophical Perspectives on the Principle of Human Dignity, Bern: Peter Lang, 2002

- Ethics and Information Technology, Editor, New Academic Publisher, New Delhi 1998

- Etik i datasamhället, Carlssons: Stockholm 1993

- Makten, moralen och människan. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Uppsala Studies in Social Ethics, 7 (Dissertation). Almqvist&Wiksell: Uppsala 1984