Viki Møller Lyngby Pedersen

Assistant Professor

Viki Møller Lyngby Pedersen
PhD Student
Department of Political Science

Postal address:
Bartholins Allé 7
1332, 123
8000
Aarhus C
Denmark

Email: vikip@ps.au.dk
Phone: +4587166338, +4524260623

Academic employment

Assistant Professor, Centre for the Experimental-Philosophical Study of Discrimination, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University. 1 January 2020-3 December 2023.
(Maternity leave for 11 months of the period).

External lecturer, ‘Responsibility, Freedom and Unhealthy Choices’, MSc-level, Department of Political Science, Aarhus BSS, Aarhus University, 1 September 2019-31 January 2020.

Education

Ph.D in Political Theory, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, September 2015 - August 2019
Project: The Imprudence Trilemma: Sufficiency, Non-Paternalism, and Cost-Sensitivity
Supervisors: Søren Flinch Midtgaard and Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen
(Maternity leave for 11 months of the period).

Ms.C in Social Sciences and Mathematics, Aarhus University, March 2015

Bs.C in Social Sciences and Mathematics, Aarhus University, June 2012

Teaching

'Political Theory', first-year BSc students, teaching assistant, Department of Political Science, Spring 2016.

'Healthy Freedom and Unhealthy Choices', MSc-level, seminar teacher, Department of Political
Science, Aarhus University, Fall 2018.

'Responsibility, Freedom and Unhealthy Choices', MSc-level, seminar teacher, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Fall 2019.

'Political Theory', first-year BSc students, lecturer, Department of Political Science, Spring 2020.

'Political Theory', first-year BSc students, lecturer, Department of Political Science, Spring 2021.

'Nudging: Should the state influence us to make better decisions?", MSc-level, seminar teacher, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Fall 2021.

'Discrimination: What is it and (why) is it wrongful?', third-year BSc students, seminar teacher, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Fall 2021.

Research Areas

Political philosophy
Analytical political theory
Distributive justice
Paternalism
Sufficiency
Luck egalitarianism
Relational egalitarianism
Health and justice
Nudging

Honours & awards

Nominated for the Aarhus University Research Foundation’s PhD prize 2019.

"Is anti-paternalism enough?" (co-authored with Søren Flinch Midtgaard) shortlisted for the 2018 Harrison Prize (best paper in Political Studies' 2018 volume)

The article ‘On the Anti-Paternalist Project of Reconciliation’ has been selected for the 2018 Danish Yearbook on Political Science (Politologisk Årbog 2018)

Research outputs

Affirmative Action, Paternalism, and Respect

Pedersen, V. M. L. & Bengtson, A., 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: British Journal of Political Science.

Nudging voters and encouraging pre-commitment: Beyond mandatory turnout

Pedersen, V. M. L., Thaysen, J. D. & Albertsen, A., 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Res Publica.

Freeze the Biological Clock: Discrimination, Disrespect, and Fertility Preservation via Social Freezing

Pedersen, V. M. L., Jul 2022, In: Journal of Applied Philosophy. 39, 3, p. 456-470 15 p.

In Defense of Intentionally Shaping People's Choices

Pedersen, V. M. L., Dec 2022, In: Political Research Quarterly. 75, 4, p. 1335–1344

In defence of age-differentiated paternalism

Pedersen, V. M. L., 2022, (Accepted/In press) Ageing Without Ageism: Conceptual Puzzles and Policy Proposals (working title). Gosseries, A. & Bognar, G. (eds.). Oxford University Press

Respectful Paternalism

Pedersen, V. M. L., Aug 2021, In: Law and Philosophy. 40, 4, p. 419-442 24 p.

The Imprudence Trilemma: Sufficiency, Non-Paternalism, and Cost-Sensitivity

Pedersen, V. M. L., 2019, Aarhus: Forlaget Politica. 58 p. (Politicas ph.d.-serie).

Må staten stoppe folk fra at skade sig selv?

Pedersen, V. M. L., 2019, Politologisk Årbog 2018-2019. Grøn, C. H. (ed.). Kbh.: Djøf Forlag, p. 106-108 3 p.

Harm to Self or Others: On Central Non-paternalistic Arguments

Pedersen, V. M. L., 2019, In: Social Theory and Practice. 45, 2, p. 287-305 18 p.

On the Anti-paternalist Project of Reconciliation

Pedersen, V. M. L., Mar 2019, In: Utilitas. 31, 1, p. 20-37 18 p.