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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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21 December, 2009

The Geographies of Recruiting a Partner from Abroad. An Exploration of Swedish Data

Working  Paper 2009 no. 21 The chance of meeting a potential partner from abroad has expanded through international partnering websites, increasing international marriage migration. This paper explores

Type of publication: Working papers | John Östh, Maarten van Ham and Thomas Niedomysl
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29 January, 2020

Population Ethics and the Non-Identity Problem

Welcome to a workshop on the non-identity problem and population ethics at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm. The workshop will focus on the evaluative and moral significance of acts that

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15 February, 2017

Legal Power and the Right to Vote: Does the Right to Vote Confer Power?

Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence, 30(1), 5–22. Abstract It is widely believed that voting rights confer power to individual voters as well as to the collective body of the electorate. This pa

Type of publication: Journal articles | Beckman, Ludvig
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01 October, 2024

The global study of everyday norms - seminar with Kimmo Eriksson

Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm, or online Society’s everyday norms specify which behaviors are socially acceptable in which situations. How similar or different are

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18 November, 2024
Kimmo Eriksson: The global study of everyday norms

Kimmo Eriksson: The global study of everyday norms

Society’s everyday norms specify which behaviors are socially acceptable in which situations. How similar or different are everyday norms in societies around the world—and why? To answer these questio

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06 July, 2022

Artificial intelligence and democratic legitimacy. The problem of publicity in public authority

AI & Society Abstract Machine learning algorithms (ML) are increasingly used to support decision-making in the exercise of public authority. Here, we argue that an important consideration has been o

Type of publication: Journal articles | Jebari, Karim , & Jonas Hultin Rosenberg
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01 March, 2016

The Phenomenology of Specialization of Criminal Suspects

Abstract A criminal career can be either general, with the criminal committing different types of crimes, or specialized, with the criminal committing a specific type of crime. A central problem in the

Type of publication: Journal articles | Edling, Christofer , , Michele Tumminello, Rosario N. Mantegna, Jerzy Sarnecki
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20 November, 2018

Committing to Priorities: Incompleteness in Macro-Level Health Care Allocation and Its Implications

Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 43: 724-745. Abstract This article argues that values that apply to health care allocation entail the possibility of “spectrum arguments,” and that it is plausible that

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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