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20 November, 2018

Microlevel Prioritizations and Incommensurability

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 27: 75-86. doi.org/10.1017/S096318011700041X Abstract This article addresses the prioritization questions that arise when people attempt to institutionalize reaso

Type of publication: Journal articles | Herlitz, Anders
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22 January, 2021

Review of Elinor Mason’s Ways to be Blameworthy

Oxford University Press (2020) Abstract:In the moral responsibility literature, it is often said that blameworthiness presupposes wrongdoing. But there are numerous conceptions of both blame and wrongd is, to our knowledge, the first book-length attempt to spell out what the relevant kinds of wrongdoing and blame are that would make a strong connection between wrongdoing and blameworthiness plausible.

Type of publication: Journal articles | Bykvist, Krister , & Gunnar Björnsson
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11 August, 2023
Reducing populations' vulnerabilities to mis-disinformation related to scientific content

Reducing populations' vulnerabilities to mis-disinformation related to scientific content

The purpose of this project is to develop evidence-based strategies to address populations’ vulnerabilities to scientific mis-disinformation.

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11 January, 2016

About futures studies

Interest in the future and the attempt to predict what will happen can be traced back a long way through history. The first attempts at more systematic studies about the future were made in the US def

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16 May, 2019

Hedonism, Desirability and the Incompleteness Objection

Thought, doi.org/10.1002/tht3.410 Abstract Hedonism claims that all and only pleasure is intrinsically good. One worry about Hedonism focuses on the “only” part: Are there not things other than pleasure

Type of publication: Journal articles | Andric, Vuko
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09 October, 2017

Lobbying in Practice: An ethnographic field study of public affairs consultancy

In: Power, Policy and Profit: Corporate Engagement in Politics and Governance. C. Garsten and A. Sörbom. Cheltenham, Edward Elgar: pp. 82-99. Power, Policy and Profit investigates the manifold ways in

Type of publication: Chapters | Tyllström, Anna
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17 November, 2016
Julia Mosquera

Julia Mosquera

I defended my dissertation in philosophy at the University of Reading, UK 2017. My dissertation, Disability, Equality, and Future Generations,is an attempt to answer the question of how egalitarian soc

PhD, Philosophy
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20 October, 2021
Emil Andersson

Emil Andersson

I defended my dissertation, Reinterpreting Liberal Legitimacy, in June 2019 at Uppsala University. The thesis deals with the topic of political legitimacy from a Rawlsian contractualist perspective. In

PhD, Philosophy
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24 June, 2025

To seed or not to seed: Estimating the ethical value of directed panspermia

Acta Astronautica Abstract Directed panspermia involves the deliberate spread of life between planets by intelligent actors. While it was originally proposed to explain the origin of life on Earth, rece

Type of publication: Journal articles | Sandberg, Anders , & Asker Soryl
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18 December, 2018

Countering Protection Rackets Using Legal and Social Approaches: An Agent-Based Test

Hindawi, Volume 2018, Article ID 3568085, 16 pages, doi.org/10.1155/2018/3568085. Abstract Protection rackets cause economic and social damage across the world. States typically combat protection rackets

Type of publication: Journal articles | Andrighetto, Giulia , , Luis G. Nardin
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