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Geoengineering – a serious alternative or a dangerous idea?
Geoengineering is a term used to describe techniques for large-scale manipulation of the climate to reduce the Earth's average temperature. These controversial ideas are now being debated more extensi
Grounding the legitimacy of international institutions in personal and collective autonomy? Human rights, state consent and alternative standards
Place: The Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, StockholmInternational institutions make claims to authority that can clash with both personal and collective autonomy. At the same time, th
Committing to Priorities: Incompleteness in Macro-Level Health Care Allocation and Its Implications
Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 43: 724-745. Abstract This article argues that values that apply to health care allocation entail the possibility of “spectrum arguments,” and that it is plausible that
Toward a hybrid theory of how to allocate health-related resources
Journal of Medicine and Philosophy Abstract How should scarce health-related resources be allocated? This paper argues that values that apply to these decisions fail to always fully determine what we sh
Long-term Care Insurance in Germany
Arbetsrapport 2011 nr. 13 Hur kan vi organisera och finansiera äldreomsorgen i framtiden med en åldrande befolkning? Den tyska äldreomsorgsförsäkring som infördes 1995/96 utgör ett intressant alternati
Stable and unstable choices
Economics and Philosophy, DOI:10.1017/S0266267119000026 Abstract This paper introduces a condition for rational choice that states that accepting decision methods and normative theories that sometimes en
Björn Åstrand: Equality and equity in Swedish education: policy, practice and historical perspectives
Björn Åstrand, Associate professor at Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Umeå University AbstractEquality and equity in education is since long a key policy priority intern
The impact of AI on the future of work
There is no denying that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will change the world of work. In the report "The Future of Work: Augmentation or Stunting?" philosopher Karim Jebari and Markus Furendal, a polit
Social choice, nondeterminacy and public reasoning
Res Philosophica 98 ABSTRACT This article presents an approach to how to make reasonable social choices when independent criteria (e.g., prioritarianism, religious freedom) fail to fully determine what t
Dags för omprövning? Om de offentliga verksamheternas organisering
Sverige har under de senaste decennierna genomfört storskaliga privatiseringar av verksamheter som tidigare drivits i offentlig regi. Likaså har traditionellt offentliga verksamheter anammat styrnings
