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01 November, 2021
Adina Preda: Can there be positive human rights?

Adina Preda: Can there be positive human rights?

Research seminar with Adina Preda, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin. Abstract This paper aims to establish that there can be human rights to socio-economic goods or services

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09 September, 2021

Adina Preda: Can there be positive human rights?

Research seminar with Adina Preda, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin.AbstractThis paper aims to establish that there can be human rights to socio-economic goods or services, ; the worry is that positive rights cannot have correlative duties assignable to everyone in the world. I then clarify the notion of correlativity and raise doubts about this claim. The paper concludes that there is no conceptual reason why positive rights cannot be general although they would probably look different from the socio-economic rights currently enshrined in international legal documents; the paper does not, however, argue that there are such moral rights. 

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28 January, 2019

Recent Work on Reflective Equilibrium and Method in Ethics

Philosophy Compass 13 (6), 2018.  DOI:10.1111/phc3.12493.  Abstract The idea of reflective equilibrium (IRE) remains the most popular approach to questions about method in ethics, despite the masses of cr

Type of publication: Journal articles | Tersman, Folke
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21 March, 2018

A Life‐Course Analysis of Geographical Distance to Siblings, Parents, and Grandparents in Sweden

Population, Space and Place, VolumLäe 23, Issue 3, e2020, doi.org/10.1002/psp.2020 Abstract This study makes a contribution to the demography and geography of kinship by studying how internal migration

Type of publication: Journal articles | Kolk, Martin
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25 November, 2024

Agent-based social simulations for health crises response: utilising the everyday digital health perspective

Frontiers in Public Health Abstract There is increasing recognition of the role that artificial intelligence (AI) systems can play in managing health crises. One such approach, which allows for analysin

Type of publication: Journal articles | Tucker, Jason , & Fabian Lorig
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25 May, 2021

Women's experience of child death over the life course: A global demographic perspective

AbstractThe death of a child affects the well-being of parents and families worldwide but very little is known about the scale of this phenomenon. We provide the first global overview of parental bere

Type of publication: Journal articles | Kolk, Martin , , Alburez-Gutierrez, Diego & Emilio Zagheni
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