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28 April, 2025

Deep moral disagreements and defective contexts

Synthese Abstract The key characteristic of deep disagreements is that any attempt to resolve them just reveals new points of disagreement that stem from underlying commitments. Many moral disagreementsInformal LogicSemantics and Pragmatics

Type of publication: Journal articles | Björkholm, Stina
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03 July, 2023

Climate change and affective conflicts

Sweden has just experienced some unusually warm weeks in June. In Spain, yet another heat wave is causing alarm. In a text published in the Spanish newspaper El País, philosopher Julia Mosquera descri

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20 September, 2024

Seeking a reflective equilibrium in the face of disagreement

Synthese, vol. 204, 86 Abstract How is someone who seeks a reflective equilibrium to respond upon learning that others disagree with her? Regrettably, not much attention has been devoted to that questio

Type of publication: Journal articles | Tersman, Folke
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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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15 February, 2017

An Ombudsman for Future Generations, Legitimate and Effective?

in: Institutions For Future Generations,  Iñigo González-Ricoy and Axel Gosseries (red.), Oxford: Oxford University Press. 117-134. This chapter examines the possibility to establish ombudsmen as instr

Type of publication: Chapters | Beckman, Ludvig , & Fredrik Uggla
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19 March, 2021

Implementing the Water Framework Directive and Tackling Diffuse Pollution from Agriculture: Lessons from England and Scotland

in: Water 12: 244 AbstractTackling diffuse pollution from agriculture is a key challenge for governments seeking to implement the European Union’s Water Framework Directive (WFD). In the research liter  

Type of publication: Journal articles | Fairbrother, Malcolm , , De Vito, Laura & Duncan Russel
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19 December, 2016

Hilary Greaves: The collectivist critique of effective altruism

Hilary Greaves: Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and a Tutorial Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford.  The previous topic "Reductionism about personal identity, prudential value and

Hilary Greaves: Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and a Tutorial Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford.
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13 February, 2015
Success factors for effective labour market projects

Success factors for effective labour market projects

Success factors for effective labour market projects. A comparative study of fifteen Social Fund financed projects.Research report 2014/7, 96 p. For decades, the Swedish municipalities have had a major

Type of publication: IFFS reports | Clara Lindblom
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20 March, 2023
Climate emotions and affective dilemmas

Climate emotions and affective dilemmas. A psychological and philosophical study of their normative principles and the public's perceptions

An interdisciplinary projects that tries to understand the normativization of climate emotions. How "should" we feel about climate change?

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16 January, 2025
The conversational context and conceptual engineering

The conversational context and conceptual engineering

Conceptual engineering concerns what it is for a concept to be defective and therefor ameliorated or abolished. The goal of this project, however, is to shift the focus to the role of the context, which might help us understand conflicts about the meaning of our words.

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