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11 January, 2024

Is there a rating bias of job candidates based on gender and parenthood? A laboratory experiment on hiring for an accounting job

Acta Sociologica Abstract Biased practices by employers have been suggested as one possible cause for the observed gender disparities in labor market outcomes. While US-based laboratory experiments show

Type of publication: Journal articles | Bygren, Magnus , Erlandsson, A. & M. Gähler
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08 May, 2018

Katie Steele: The real paradox of supererogation

Katie Steele, Associate Professor, Australian National University. Abstract It is a feature of our ordinary moral talk that some acts are supererogatory, or beyond what is required. But ‘beyond’ in what

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04 September, 2020

Political Double Standards in Reliance on Moral Foundations

Judgment abd Decision Making Abstract Prior research using the Moral Foundations Questionnaire (MFQ) has established that political ideology is associated with self-reported reliance on specific moral f

Type of publication: Journal articles | Eriksson, Kimmo , & Brent Simpson Strimling, Pontus , & Brent Simpson
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29 January, 2020

Population Ethics and the Non-Identity Problem

Welcome to a workshop on the non-identity problem and population ethics at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm. The workshop will focus on the evaluative and moral significance of acts that

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28 April, 2017

From Categories to Categorization: A Social Perspective on Market Categorization

Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Volume 51, 2017 Abstract The popularity of research into categories has grown in recent decades and shows no sign of abating. This introductory article takes

Type of publication: Journal articles | Tyllström, Anna , , Rodolphe Durand & Nina Granqvist
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11 January, 2016
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Elizabeth Finneron-Burns

I am a post doc working with Krister Bykvist and Gustaf Arrhenius on the Valuing Future Lives project. I submitted my DPhil thesis at Oxford University in September 2015. Before studying at Oxford I wo

PhD, Philosophy
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17 September, 2024

Problems for Moral Debunkers: On the Logic and Limits of Empirically Informed Ethics, written by Peter Königs

International Journal for the Study of Skepticism Review of Peter Königs,Problems for Moral Debunkers: On the Logic and Limits of Empirically Informed Ethics. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp.: 9783110750171.

Type of publication: Journal articles | Risberg, Olle
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14 April, 2020
Intrinsic motivation and outer sanctions as drivers of prosocial behaviour

Intrinsic motivation and outer sanctions as drivers of prosocial behaviour

Why do we cooperate? This project studies drivers of cooperation, generosity and pro social behaviour.

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28 August, 2015

Rae Langton: How our attitudes accommodate injustice

Rae Langton, Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University ABSTRACTWhat we do with words can help or hinder justice in ways that exploit rules of accommodation: a process of adjustment that tends to

Rae Langton, Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University
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20 November, 2018

Comparativism and the Grounds for Person-Centered Care and Shared Decision Making

Journal of clinical ethics 28(4): 269-278. Abstract This article provides a new argument and a new value-theoretical ground for person-centered care and shared decision making that ascribes to it the rol

Type of publication: Journal articles | Herlitz, Anders
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