priorities

Setting priorities during pandemics
This projects aims to present a framework for making sound decisions in times of pandemics - when experience and time is scarce, and uncertainties are many.
Committing to Priorities: Incompleteness in Macro-Level Health Care Allocation and Its Implications
Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 43: 724-745. Abstract This article argues that values that apply to health care allocation entail the possibility of “spectrum arguments,” and that it is plausible that

Hilary Greaves
I am a Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Global Priorities Institute, at the University of Oxford. My current research focuses on various issues in moral philosophy. My interests include: fo.
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Where Does Europe End? Christian Democracy and the Expansion of Europe
Journal of Common Market Studies Abstract In this article, we argue that an analysis of the conflict around the nature and limits of European integration that arose between Catholic and Protestant Chris
The coronavirus, mortality and life expectancy
A demographer calculates how the average life expectancy can be affected In Sweden, we now experience the first pandemic that occurs in a society with modern information technology, and it is also the
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
Bi Puranen at symposium on security in Europe
FOCUS, a EU security research project (Foresight Security Scenarios – Mapping Research to a Comprehensive Approach to Exogenous EU Roles) will be arranging a final symposium on the 31st of January and
Safety requirements vs. crashing ethically: what matters most for policies on autonomous vehicles
AI & Society, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-020-00964-6 Abstract The philosophical–ethical literature and the public debate on autonomous vehicles have been obsessed with ethical issues related to c
Ron F Inglehart 1934–2021
We are saddened to announce that the founding president of the World Values Survey, Ron F Inglehart passed away on Saturday 8 of May. He was the president of the World Values Survey Association (WVS)