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20 June, 2019

Rawlsian Constructivism and the Assumption of Disunity

Journal of Political Philosophy, 27/1 (2019): 48–66. DOI: 10.1111/jopp.12157 Read the article: Rawlsian Constructivism and the Assumption of Disunity

Type of publication: Journal articles | Brandstedt, Eric , & Johan Brännmark
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24 May, 2018

Larry S. Temkin: Assessing the Goodness of Outcomes: Questioning Some Common Assumptions

Larry S. Temkin is Distinguished Professor at Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University.ABSTRACTThis talk explores and challenges several common assumptions regarding the assessment of outcome good

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25 October, 2022

The normality assumption in coordination games with flexible information acquisition

Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 203, 2022. Abstract Many economic models assume that random variables follow normal (Gaussian) distributions. Yet, real-world variables may be non-normally distributed.

Type of publication: Journal articles | Rigos, Alexandros
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12 September, 2017

Robert Goodin: Wisdom of the Multitude? Trump? Brexit?

Robert Goodin, Research Professor of Philosophy at Australian National University. Robert Goodin's research focuses on political theory and public policy. Read more about Robert Goodin ABSTRACT According

Robert Goodin, Research Professor of Philosophy at Australian National University.
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17 March, 2021

A patch to the possibility part of Gödel’s Ontological Proof

in Analysis, Volume 80, Issue 2 AbstractKurt Gödel’s version of the Ontological Proof derives rather than assumes the crucial (yet controversial) Possibility Claim, that is, the claim that it is possib

Type of publication: Journal articles | Gustafsson, Johan E.
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11 September, 2020

Revisiting the Cavity-method Threshold for Random 3-SAT

Journal Version Physical Review E 99 Abstract A detailed Monte Carlo study of the satisfiability threshold for random 3-SAT has been undertaken. In combination with a monotonicity assumption we find tha

Type of publication: Journal articles | Markström, Klas , & Lundow, Per Håkan
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20 November, 2018

Against lifetime QALY prioritarianism

Journal of Medical Ethics 44: 109-113. doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2017-104250 Abstract Lifetime quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) prioritarianism has recently been defended as a reasonable specification o

Type of publication: Journal articles | Herlitz, Anders
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22 October, 2013

Charles Manski: Seminar with a skeptic

Charles F. Manski On the 21st and 22nd of January this year Charles F Manski was in Stockholm, invited by the Institute for Futures studies to hold three lectures on his newly published book Public Poli.

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13 May, 2007

Predicaments in the Futures of Aging Democracies

Alternative demographic scenarios for Sweden are used to illustrate how even very small variations in the assumptions of demographic projections lead to radically different future population structure

Type of publication: Working papers | Thomas Lindh and Urban Lundberg
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03 October, 2017

What can be understood, what can be compared, and what counts as context? Studying lawmaking in world history

In: Arne Jarrick, Janken Myrdal, Maria Wallenberg-Bondesson (eds.). Methods in world history. A critical approach. Lund: Nordic Academic Press. Methods in World Historyis the first international volume

Type of publication: Chapters | Wallenberg Bondesson, Maria
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