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28 August, 2015

Rae Langton: How our attitudes accommodate injustice

Rae Langton, Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University ABSTRACTWhat we do with words can help or hinder justice in ways that exploit rules of accommodation: a process of adjustment that tends to

Rae Langton, Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University
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07 January, 2016

Laura Valentini: There Are No Natural Rights: Rights, Duties and Positive Norms

Laura Valentini, Associate Professor of Political Science at London School of Economics ABSTRACTMany contemporary philosophers—of a broadly deontological disposition—believe that there exist some pre-i. In this paper, I defend this unpopular view. I argue that all rights are grounded in —namely, norms constituted by the collective acceptance of gives “oughts”—, provided the norms’ content meets some independent standards of moral acceptability. This view, I suggest, does justice to the relational nature of rights, by explaining how it is that right-holders acquire the authority to demand certain actions (or omissions) from duty-bearers. Furthermore, the view does not divest human beings of fundamental moral protections. Even if, absent some rights-grounding positive norms, obligations cannot be to others, we still have  (non-directed) placing constraints on how we may permissibly treat one Another.

Laura Valentini, Associate Professor of Political Science at London School of Economics
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09 September, 2020

Divine Placebo: Health and the Evolution of Religion

Human Ecology, 47, 157-163 Abstract In this paper, I draw on knowledge from several disciplines to explicate the potential evolutionary significance of health effects of religiosity. I present three mai

Type of publication: Journal articles | Lindenfors, Patrik
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03 December, 2013

Cumulative exposure to disadvantage and the intergenerational transmission of neighbourhood effects

Journal of Economic Geography (available online) Abstract:Studies of neighbourhood effects typically investigate the instantaneous effect of point-in-time measures of neighbourhood poverty on individual

Type of publication: Journal articles | Hedman, Lina, David Manley, Maarten van Ham & John Östh
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21 December, 2022
Säde Hormio: Individual emissions, equality and the state

Säde Hormio: Individual emissions, equality and the state

Seminar with Säde Hormio, researcher in Practical Philosophy at the University of Helsinki. ABSTRACT The amount of greenhouse gases that can still be emitted to the atmosphere is very limited if global

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11 January, 2016
Carina Mood

Carina Mood

My research concerns poverty, inequality, integration and the welfare of children and youth. At the Institute for Futures Studies I am one of the researchers leaders of the current reseach program's t

Professor, Sociology
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19 January, 2023

The Oxford Handbook of Population Ethics

Oxford University Press, 648 p.  The Oxford Handbook of Population Ethicspresents up-to-date theoretical analyses of various problems associated with the moral standing of future people and animals in c

Type of publication: Books | Arrhenius, Gustaf , Bykvist, Krister , Campbell, Tim , Finneron-Burns, Elizabeth
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16 November, 2016

Mikael Holmqvist: Djursholm – Sweden’s Leader Community

Mikael Holmqvist is Associate Professor of Sociology and Professor of Management at Stockholm University. ABSTRACTAll around the world there are ”leader communities”, i.e., places where leaders choose

Mikael Holmqvist is Associate Professor of Sociology and Professor of Management at Stockholm University.
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31 October, 2022

Säde Hormio: Individual emissions, equality and the state

Seminar with Säde Hormio, researcher in Practical Philosophy and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Helsinki. REGISTER Abstract The amount of greenhouse gases that can still be emitted to

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13 October, 2023

"Unique values among workers in tech"

In a new study of political values among workers in the American tech industry researchers found a ”unique” dominance of left-liberal values and anti-establishement thinking. We asked Niels Selling, p

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