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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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16 January, 2017

Desirability of Conditionals

Synthese, Volume 193, Issue 6,  pp. 1967–1981DOI: 10.1007/s11229-015-0823-0 Abstract This paper explores the different ways in which conditionals can be carriers of good and bad news. I suggest a general

Type of publication: Journal articles | Stefánsson, H. Orri
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20 January, 2023
Karsten Klint Jensen

Karsten Klint Jensen

One part of my research has been within applied ethics. Much of this research has been in connection with international interdisciplinary research projects. I have mainly been concerned with how factu

PhD, Philosophy
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21 March, 2017

David Ellerman: Reframing the Labor Question

On Marginal Productivity Theory and the Labor Theory of Property. David Ellerman, Visiting scholar at the University of California in Riverside ABSTRACT Neoclassical economics uses the perfectly competit

David Ellerman, Visiting scholar at the University of California in Riverside
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11 September, 2020

Why Wear Blinders? Boonin and the Narrow Approach to the Non-identity Problem

Law, Ethics and Philosophy vol. 7, 102-126 Abstract Boonin endorses reasoning that leads to what he calls the Implausible Conclusion regarding when future-directed choices that at first glance seem to i

Type of publication: Journal articles | Roberts, Melinda A.
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14 January, 2016

How politically biased are you? New test on political biases

To what extent do you allow your political views influence your perception of reality? Do you trust facts regardless of whether they support your opinions or not? We may believe that we are impartial,

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10 March, 2016

Fair Chance and Modal Consequentialism

Economics and Philosophy, Volume 31, Issue 03, p. 371-395. Abstract This paper develops a Multidimensional Decision Theory and argues that it better captures ordinary intuitions about fair distribution o

Type of publication: Journal articles | Stefánsson, H. Orri
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29 December, 2005

Rural Population Growth in Sweden in the 1990s: Unexpected Reality or Spatial-Statistical Chimera

This article addresses the matter of “urban spillover” in rural population development, i.e. how urban localities tend to push a ring of diffuse urban growth outwards as they expand in area. The data

Type of publication: Working papers | Jan Amcoff
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01 March, 2010

Is There a Hidden Potential for Rural Population Growth in Sweden?

This paper examines whether a hidden potential for rural population growth can be found in Sweden through investigating survey data of people expressing their desire to move to rural areas, and regist

Type of publication: Working papers | Thomas Niedomysl and Jan Amcoff
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12 September, 2019

Anna Dreber Almenberg: Which results can we trust? Using replications, prediction markets and other tools to assess the reproducibility of scientific results.

Anna Dreber Almenberg, Professor of Economics, Stockholm School of EconomicsAbstractWhy are there so many false results in the published scientific literature? And what is the actual share of results

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