I am associate professor in philosophy. My research has mainly concerned the measurement of various quantitative properties, some related to the social sciences, such as social welfare, freedom of choice, and equality, and some related to the natural sciences, such as similarity and diversity. From a broader perspective, I am interested both in the basic categories and methods that we use to understand the world and how we interact (and should interact) with it.
I have taught philosophy of science, critical thinking, normative ethics, theory of welfare, metaethics, political philosophy, decision theory, logic, epistemology, history of normative ethics, and philosophy of economics and social sciences (previously at Uppsala University, Stockholm University, Luleå University of Technology and Gothenburg University).
Publications
9) ‘Measures to Avoid the Repugnant Conclusion’, Economics and Philosophy, forthcoming
8) ‘Measuring One-Dimensional Diversity’, Inquiry, vol. 69, no 2, 2026.
7) ‘Doubts about Dutilitarianism’, Asian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 4, 2025.
6) ‘Measuring Social Welfare by Proximity to an Optimum Population’, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 104, no 1, March 2023, pp. 217–249.
5) ‘The Equivalence of Egalitarianism and Prioritarianism’, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, vol. 22, no 1, May 2022, pp. 74–108.
4) ‘Quantity, Quality, Equality – Introducing a New Measure of Social Welfare’, Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 57, no 3, Oct. 2021, pp. 665–701.
3) ‘Measures of Similarity’, Theoria, vol. 86, no 1, Feb. 2020, pp. 73–99.
2) Measures of Freedom of Choice, dissertation, Uppsala University, Uppsala 2012.
1) ‘Measuring Opportunity’, in Neither/Nor, eds. R. Sliwinski & F. Svensson, Uppsala Philosophical Studies 58, Uppsala 2011, pp. 53–68.
2026
Inquiry, Routledge 2026, Vol. 69, (2) : 245-278
Enflo, Karin
2026
Economics and Philosophy
Enflo, Karin
2025
Asian Journal of Philosophy, Springer Nature 2025, Vol. 4, (1)
Enflo, Karin
2023
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, John Wiley & Sons 2023, Vol. 104, (1) : 217-249
Enflo, Karin
2022
Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 2022, Vol. 22, (1)
Enflo, Karin
2021
Social Choice and Welfare, Springer Nature 2021, Vol. 57, (3) : 665-701
Enflo, Karin
2020
Theoria, John Wiley & Sons 2020, Vol. 86, (1) : 73-99
Enflo, Karin
2012
Uppsala universitet 2012
Enflo, Karin
2011
Neither/Nor: philosophical papers dedicated to Erik Carlson on the occasion of his fiftieth birthday, Uppsala: Uppsala universitet 2011 : 53-68