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20 November, 2018

Comparativism and the Grounds for Person-Centered Care and Shared Decision Making

Journal of clinical ethics 28(4): 269-278. Abstract This article provides a new argument and a new value-theoretical ground for person-centered care and shared decision making that ascribes to it the rol

Type of publication: Journal articles | Herlitz, Anders
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11 January, 2019

Nondeterminacy, Two-Step Models, and Justified Choice

Ethics, Volume 129, no. 2, pp. 284-308. doi.org/10.1086/700032 Abstract This article analyzes approaches to nondeterminacy (e.g., incommensurability, indeterminacy, parity) that suggest that one can make

Type of publication: Journal articles | Herlitz, Anders
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22 January, 2021

Nondeterminacy, cycles and rational choice

in: Analysis (2020) Volume 80:3. AbstractA notorious problem that has recently received increased attention in axiology, normative theory and population ethics is the apparent ubiquity of what can be g. This paper illustrates how nondeterminacy can spawn cyclical rankings. So, accepting that practical reasons can admit of nondeterminacy challenges the widely held idea that ‘better than’ is transitive. As a result, standard approaches to rational choice under nondeterminacy fail to be action-guiding, since in some situations all options are dominated, that is, impermissible according to standard rational choice criteria.

Type of publication: Journal articles | Herlitz, Anders
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24 November, 2023

Mike Otsuka: Determinism and the value and fairness of lotteries

Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm, and online Note that the speaker will join us online. Research seminar with Mike Otsuka, Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers Universit

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07 October, 2022

Social choice, nondeterminacy and public reasoning

Res Philosophica 98 ABSTRACT This article presents an approach to how to make reasonable social choices when independent criteria (e.g., prioritarianism, religious freedom) fail to fully determine what t

Type of publication: Journal articles | Herlitz, Anders , & Karim Sadek
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30 October, 2024

Cybercrime in Nordic countries: a scoping review on demographic, socioeconomic, and technological determinants

SN Social Sciences Abstract Knowledge of factors contributing to cybercrime threats is needed to plan effective prevention strategies to combat the increasingly common occurrence of cybercrime. This scon

Type of publication: Journal articles | Rostami, Amir , , Mojgan Padyab, Ali Padyab & Mehdi Ghazinour
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12 April, 2006

Health as a Factor in Regional Economic Development

The health of the European workforce is a crucial issue as the share of old age people as well as the mean age increases, moreover the interest in the relation between health and productivity of busin

Type of publication: Working papers | Bo Malmberg and Eva Andersson
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01 September, 2017

Counterfactual Skepticism and Multidimensional Semantics

Erkenntnis, pp. 1-24. Abstract It has recently been argued that indeterminacy and indeterminism make most ordinary counterfactuals false. I argue that a plausible way to avoid such counterfactual skepti

Type of publication: Journal articles | Stefánsson, H. Orri
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09 April, 2019

Climate Change and Optimum Population

The Monist, Volume 102, Issue 1, pages: 42-65. doi.org/10.1093/monist/ony021 Abstract It is often claimed that reducing population size would be advantageous for climate change mitigation, on the ground

Type of publication: Journal articles | Greaves, Hilary
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25 May, 2021

Government transfers to parents and population policy in a global perspective: An economic demographic approach

Stockholm Research Reports in Demography no. 2020:52 AbstractThe world is rapidly converging towards lower fertility: in 2020, countries with a total fertility rate of less than 2.25 will encompass mor

Type of publication: Journal articles | Kolk, Martin
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