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27 February, 2025

What calibrating variable-value population ethics suggests

Economics & Philosophy Abstract Variable-Value axiologies avoid Parfit’s Repugnant Conclusion while satisfying some weak instances of the Mere Addition principle. We apply calibration methods to two

Type of publication: Journal articles | Spears, Dean , Stefánsson, H. Orri
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03 September, 2020

Air: Pollution, Climate Change and India's Choice Between Policy and Pretence

Harper Collins India’s air pollution is a deadly threat. Will its politics meet the challenge? Exposure to the world’s worst air pollution kills over a million Indians each year. It also affects childr

Type of publication: Books | Spears, Dean
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27 August, 2021

Jan Teorell: Commitments and bargaining delays in parliamentary democracies

Research seminar with Jan Teorell, professor of political science at Lund University. Register hereAbstractDuring the past decade, many parliamentary democracies have experienced bargaining delays when

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07 March, 2016
Olle Häggström

Olle Häggström

I am a professor of mathematical statistics at Chalmers University of Technology and a board member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA) and of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Science

Professor, Mathematical Statistics
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22 January, 2018

Lea Ypi: On dominated dominators

Professor in Political Theory in the Government Department, London School of Economics. ABSTRACT This paper explores the case of dominated dominators as a way of understanding structural domination. I s

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27 February, 2025

Artificial Intelligence and the Political Legitimacy of Global Governance

Political Studies, vol. 72 Abstract Although the concept of “AI governance” is frequently used in the debate, it is still rather undertheorized. Often it seems to refer to the mechanisms and structures

Type of publication: Journal articles | Erman, Eva , Furendal, Markus
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14 March, 2023
Lorne L. Dawson: Reconceptualizing Lone-Actor Terrorists as Solo Public Mass Murders

Lorne L. Dawson: Reconceptualizing Lone-Actor Terrorists as Solo Public Mass Murders

Lorne L. Dawson, Professor Emeritus, University of Waterloo, Canada. In public and expert judgements of whether an incident of mass violence by a lone actor is an instance of terrorism or simply mass m

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26 January, 2021

Catastrophic risk

in Philosophy Compass (2020) Abstract:Catastrophic risk raises questions that are not only of practical importance, but also of great philosophical interest, such as how to define 'catastrophe' and wha

Type of publication: Journal articles | Stefánsson, H. Orri
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11 January, 2016

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How we process personal data  The General Data Protection Regulation, a new important regulation for the protection of personal data, came into force in May 2018. It entails improved rights for you to d

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26 April, 2017

Completed: Harm and discrimination

What is it that makes discrimination wrong? We examine the concept of harm and its philosophical relevance, as well as the role it plays in discrimination.

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