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Generosity pays: Selfish people have fewer children and earn less money
Journal of personality and social psychology. Abstract Does selfishness pay in the long term? Previous research has indicated that being prosocial (or otherish) rather than selfish has positive conseque
Healthcare Rationing and the Badness of Death: Should Newborns Count for Less?
in: Saving People from the Harm of Death, Eds. Espen Gamlund and Carl Tollef Solberg, p. 255-266, Oxford University Press. In this volume, leading philosophers, medical doctors, and economists discuss
The dilemma of human enhancement
Would you cut off your legs and replace them with prostheses which can take you places faster? Would you take drugs to enhance your cognitive skills? Perhaps you are already doing that? In the latest
Towards Successful Industrial Policy on AI in Healthcare: Establishing the Conditions for Future Public Benefit
AI Policy Lab at Umeå University Abstract This paper explores how pro-active government policies could promote artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare for the public good. Building on insights from t
Janine Wedel: Meet the new influence elites. How top players sway policy and governing in the twenty-first century
Janine R. Wedel is a university professor in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University and a Senior Research Fellow of the New America Foundation. ABSTRACTA new breed of influence elite ha
Do Offenders Deserve Proportionate Punishments?
Criminal Law & Philosophy Abstract The aim of the paper is to investigate how retributivists should respond to the apparent tension between moral desert and proportionality in punishment. I argue th
Criminal organizing applying the theory of partial organization to four cases of organized crime.
Trends in Organized Crime, pp 1–28, doi:10.1007/s12117-017-9315-6. Abstract We explore how the idea of partial organization can provide insights in the study of organized crime. Studying criminal organi
Implicit Bias and Discrimination
Theoria, Early View, pp. 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1111/theo.12227 Abstract Recent social‐psychological research suggests that a considerable amount of, for example, racial and gendered discrimination may
Modelling in Normative Ethics
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Abstract This is a paper about the methodology of normative ethics. I claim that much work in normative ethics can be interpreted as modelling, the form of inquiry fami
Tom Mueller
I am a free-lance writer of non-fiction and fiction. I studied at Oxford (DPhil, Rhodes Scholar), Harvard (BA, summa cum laude), and Alief Hastings High School in rural east Texas. After that, I worke