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Why the immorality of consuming alcohol during pregnancy cannot tell us that abortion is immoral: A reply to Hendricks
in: BioethicsAbstractRecently, Perry Hendricks argued that abortion is immoral even if the fetus is not a person. He did so by arguing that causing a future child to suffer from fetal alcohol syndrome
Voting behavior, policy responsiveness and democratic anger. Interview with Armin Schäfer
European citizens with low socio-economic status are staying away from the polls in disproportionate numbers. Some of them say it is because politicians don't care about them anyway. Are they right? P
Utilitarianism without Moral Aggregation
Canadian Journal of Philosophy (2021), 51: 4, 256–269 Is an outcome where many people are saved and one person dies better than an outcome where the one is saved and the many die? According to the stan
The Future of Privacy with Bruce Schneier
Welcome to a seminar on personal integrity in the era of digitalisation, and Bruce Schneier's book Data and Goliath. The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World. Main speaker:Bruce Sc
Benefiting from Injustice and the Common-Source Problem
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, pp 1-15, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-017-9845-7. Abstract According to the Beneficiary Pays Principle, innocent beneficiaries of an injustice stand in a special mora
Against the De Minimis Principle
Risk Analysis, https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.13445 Abstract According to the class of de minimis decision principles, risks can be ignored (or at least treated very differently from other risks) if the ri
The UK election and Brexit - David Miller and Gustaf Arrhenius
On midnight, the 31:st of January 2020, Britain left the EU. This was possible in part because the Concervative party won a landslide in the general election on December 12 2019. Why did they win so b
The UK election and Brexit - David Miller and Gustaf Arrhenius
On midnight, the 31:st of January 2020, Britain left the EU. This was possible in part because the Concervative party won a landslide in the general election on December 12 2019. Why did they win so b
Bo Rothstein: Why No Economic Democracy in Sweden: A Counterfactual Approach
Companies, that are owned and/or governed by their employees are on average performing better and have higher productivity than firms that are governed by outside capitalists/owners/investors and they
Martin Kolk: Low-fertility countries are responsible for almost all of the CO2 emissions
Do we need to reduce population growth to address the climate challenge? From the perspective that each person contributes to green house gas emissions and resource consumption, it is a logical though
