Dr Malcolm Fairbrother, University of Bristol ABSTRACTMost people say they are concerned about the serious environmental problems confronting the world today and threatening the well-being of future ge

Economic Letters, vol. 203 Abstract Economic policy evaluations require social welfare functions for variable-size populations. Two important candidates are critical-level generalized utilitarianism (CL

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

Beyond reductionism: Contingent grounding and the Mind-Body Problem

I det här projektet undergrävs de två traditionella sätt på vilka man har betraktat kropp-medvetandeproblemet och föreslår en ny teori.

Wayne Sumner, University Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto. ABSTRACTFew people doubt that hate speech is capable of harming the minorities that it targets. This talk will explore the various ki

Karin Halldén, Stockholm University The “gender revolution” is a half-century old, yet gender inequality and segregation remain more resistant to change than many forms of racial and class inequality. W

Political Science Research and Methods, Volume 6, Issue 3, pp. 449-466. doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2018.9 Abstract This paper presents a new approach for studying temporal sequences across ordinal variables. I

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Global Environmental Change, vol. 76, 2022. Abstract Climate anxiety is a phenomenon which raises growing attention. Based on a national survey of climate-related feelings and behaviors (N= 2070) in Fin

Journal of Applied Probability Abstract Let V be an n-set, and let X be a random variable taking values in the power-set of V. Suppose we are given a sequence of random coupons , where the are independe