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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Gert Helgesson: Dealing with a university’s historical heritage: ethical quandaries

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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

I The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Disability, Adam Cureton and David Wasserman (eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press (2020) Abstract This Handbook introduces philosophers, as well as other scholars

Research seminar with Gert Helgesson, Professor, Stockholm Centre for Healthcare EthicsTitle: Dealing with a university’s historical heritage: ethical quandaries. RegisterAbstractIn the fall of 2020 a wo

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The basic income proposal has received increasing attention in the past few years. Several ambitious basic income experiments are currently being planned in different parts of the world and the very f

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