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Towards Common European Health Policies: What are the Implications for the Nordic Countries?
This paper reviews the contents of emerging EU policies in the area of health and discusses their implications for the Nordic health care systems. A central question is whether any coherent, common Eu
Following the Science: Pandemic Policy Making and Reasonable Worst-Case Scenarios
LSE Public Policy Review, 1(4), p.6. 2021 Abstract The UK has been ‘following the science’ in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in line with the national framework for the use of scientific advice in as
The Triviality Worry About Gender Terms and Epistemic Injustice
Social Epistemology Abstract According to contextualism, a gender term such as ‘woman’ does not invariantly refer to a specific social orbiological kind. Instead, gender terms have different extensions dincludingexcluding
Political Philosophy Mini-Workshop
This is an open event with pre-circulated papers, including a presentation of the first paper but not the second. See abstracts below. Schedule 13.15 Coffee 13.30 “Legitimate Authority and Social OntologAuthor: Laura Valentini, LSECommentator: Aaron Maltais, Stockholm University
The Oxford Handbook of Population Ethics - Interview with the editors
If we can affect how many people will be born in the future, what does that mean for our decisions today? Would it be bad if much fewer people would exist in the future, as an adaption to climate chan
Review of Elizabeth Barnes, The Minority Body: Theory of Disability
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 224, £25. Ratio. doi:10.1111/rati.12151 What does being disabled mean for the disabled individual’s life? Does being a disabled individual have inherent negatregarding disability.
Interpreting Europe and US Labor Market Differences: the Specificity of Human Capital Investments
This paper suggests that in the US context, workers tend to invest in general human capital since they face little employment protection and low unemployment benefits, while the European model favors
Education and Citizenship in the Knowledge Society – Towards the Comparative Study of National Systems of Education
This paper proposes that education systems can be studied in relation to the welfare state and knowledge society in the global age through discussing the aims of education in relation to core values o
Julia Driver: Schadenfreude
Professor Julia Driver, Dept. of Philosophy, Washington University in St. Louis.ABSTRACT One typical definition of "schadenfreude" is: "a feeling of enjoyment that comes from seeing or hearing about the
Julia Cage: Rethinking Democracy - Steps to Political Equality and Social and Environmental Justice
Research seminar with Julia Cage, Associate Professor of Economics, Sciences Po Paris Register Abstract Electoral democracies are in crisis. Turnout is at its lowest point in the history of universal sufand argue that the solution involves a radical rethinking of our system of political finance, participation and representation.