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Larry S. Temkin: Assessing the Goodness of Outcomes: Questioning Some Common Assumptions
Larry S. Temkin is Distinguished Professor at Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University.ABSTRACTThis talk explores and challenges several common assumptions regarding the assessment of outcome good
Continuity and catastrophic risk
Economics & Philosophy Abstract Suppose that a decision-maker’s aim, under certainty, is to maximize some continuous value, such as lifetime income or continuous social welfare. Can such a decision-
Normative Formal Epistemology as Modelling
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Abstract I argue that normative formal epistemology (NFE) is best understood as modelling, in the sense that this is the reconstruction of its methodology o
The climate ethics program: "Interdisciplinary at its best"
"Innovative, ambitious, and extremely well managed." A mid-term evaluation of the research program Climate Ethics and future generations praises it for being interdisciplinary at its best. Riksbankens
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Current and Recent Projects The Mimir Institute for Long Term Futures Studies Climate Ethics and Future Generations Sustainable Population in the Time of Climate Change Anxieties of Democracy The Boundary