Constellations Introduction Initial hopes of the democratizing potential of the internet are increasingly replaced by fear that a fragmented and unedited public sphere unleashes the destructive forces o

Philosophical Studies Abstract In her ground-breaking and highly influential book Transformative Experience, L.A. Paul makes two claims: (1) one cannot evaluate and compare certain experiential outcomes  evaluate and compare certain intuitively horrible outcomes (e.g. being eaten alive by sharks) as bad and worse than certain other outcomes even if one cannot grasp what these intuitively horrible outcomes are like. We argue that the conjunction of these two claims leads to an implausible discontinuity in the evaluability of outcomes. One implication of positing such a discontinuity is that evaluative comparisons of outcomes will not be proportionally sensitive to variation in the underlying features of these outcomes. This puts pressure on Paul to abandon either (1) or (2). But (1) is central to her view and (2) is very hard to deny. We call this the Shark Problem.

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

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Abstract While existing theories of political polarization tend to suggest that the opinions of liberals and conservatives move in opposite directions, avai

On the 27-29:th of January we are hosting the conference Democratizing the Corporation in collaboration with the Havens-Wright Center for Social Justice, University of Wisconsin-Madison.  The conference

In 2016 dozens of prominent researchers from around the world came to our institute to work on the ambitious research report "Rethinking society for the 21st century" by the International Panel on Soci. One of the many interesting researchers we had the pleasure of hosting was Daniel Wikler, Professor of Ethics and Population Health.

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

Professor Larry Temkin, a prominent figure within moral philosophy, is retiring. His career was celebrated at a conference at Rutgers University by a number of notable speakers and participants. Our d