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28 April, 2017

From Categories to Categorization: A Social Perspective on Market Categorization

Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Volume 51, 2017 Abstract The popularity of research into categories has grown in recent decades and shows no sign of abating. This introductory article takes

Type of publication: Journal articles | Tyllström, Anna , , Rodolphe Durand & Nina Granqvist
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17 September, 2024

Pitcovski’s explanation-based account of harm

Philosophical Studies Abstract In a recent article in this journal, Eli Pitcovski puts forward a novel, explanation-based account of harm. We seek to show that Pitcovski’s account, and his arguments in

Type of publication: Journal articles | Risberg, Olle , Carlson, E. & J. Johansson
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12 March, 2021

Why the immorality of consuming alcohol during pregnancy cannot tell us that abortion is immoral: A reply to Hendricks

in: BioethicsAbstractRecently, Perry Hendricks argued that abortion is immoral even if the fetus is not a person. He did so by arguing that causing a future child to suffer from fetal alcohol syndrome

Type of publication: Journal articles | Lundgren, Björn
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15 December, 2021

Ethical machine decisions and the input-selection problem

Synthese 199 Abstract This article is about the role of factual uncertainty for moral decision-making as it concerns the ethics of machine decision-making (i.e., decisions by AI systems, such as autonomo

Type of publication: Journal articles | Lundgren, Björn
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04 September, 2020

A New Route from Moral Disagreement to Moral Skepticism

Journal of the American Philosophical Association Abstract Moral disagreement is sometimes thought to pose problems for moral realism because it shows that we cannot achieve knowledge of the moral facts

Type of publication: Journal articles | Tersman, Folke , & Risberg, Olle
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07 May, 2025

The Pragmatics of Obscuring in Political Philosophy

Journal of Applied Philosophy Abstract According to the obscuring objection against mainstream political philosophy, there has been a long-standing dominant research paradigm focusing on distributive ju

Type of publication: Journal articles | Björkholm, Stina , & Nicolas Olsson Yaouzis
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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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14 May, 2021
Modelling as a basis for decisions with Joe Roussos

Modelling as a basis for decisions with Joe Roussos

Policymakers often rely on models in order to help them plan ahead - this has been frequently discussed during the corona pandemic where new facts have changed the prerequisites for the healthcare sys

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27 June, 2018

Non-Cognitivism and Fundamental Moral Certitude: Reply to Eriksson and Francén Olinder

Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Volume 95, Issue 4, pp. 1-6. doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2016.1269352 Abstract Accommodating degrees of moral certitude is a serious problem for non-cognitivism about eth

Type of publication: Journal articles | Bykvist, Krister , & Jonas Olson
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26 January, 2021

Expert deference as a belief revision schema

in Synthese (2020) AbstractWhen an agent learns of an expert’s credence in a proposition about which they are an expert, the agent should defer to the expert and adopt that credence as their own. This

Type of publication: Journal articles | Roussos, Joe
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