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15 December, 2014

Human Enhancement and Technological Uncertainty. Essays on the Promise and Peril of Emerging Technology

Doctoral thesis. KTH Royal Institute of Technology.ISBN 978-91 7595-341-0 Abstract Essay I explores brain machine interface (BMI) technologies. These make direct connection between the brain and a machi

Type of publication: Books | Jebari, Karim
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25 March, 2021

Resisting assimilation – ethnic boundary maintenance among Jews in Sweden

in: Distinktion: Journal of Social TheoryAbstractThis article evaluates Andreas Wimmer’s theory of ethnic boundary making by applying it to the maintenance of Jewish ethnic identification in Sweden, a

Type of publication: Journal articles | Bursell, Moa , & David Grobgeld
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20 November, 2018

Microlevel Prioritizations and Incommensurability

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 27: 75-86. doi.org/10.1017/S096318011700041X Abstract This article addresses the prioritization questions that arise when people attempt to institutionalize reaso

Type of publication: Journal articles | Herlitz, Anders
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26 September, 2008

Education and Citizenship in the Knowledge Society – Towards the Comparative Study of National Systems of Education

This paper proposes that education systems can be studied in relation to the welfare state and knowledge society in the global age through discussing the aims of education in relation to core values o

Type of publication: Working papers | Hrvoje Kap
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18 October, 2023
Using impure altruism to promote pro-environmental behavior

Using impure altruism to promote pro-environmental behavior

Is it possible to nudge people into more environmentally friendly behaviour using impure altruism as a driver?

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15 February, 2021

Competition: Your vision of a positive future

The Paris Institute for Advanced Study and the 2100 Fondation in partnership with the Institute for Futures Studiesare launching the first Positive Future competition in order to encourage the elaboration

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10 March, 2016

Group differences in broadness of values may drive dynamics of public opinion on moral issues

Mathematical Social Sciences, 77, 1-8. Abstract Here we propose the idea that the success of an argument in favor of an issue position should depend on whether the argument resonates with the audience’s

Type of publication: Journal articles | Strimling, Pontus , Eriksson, Kimmo
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17 April, 2019

A more plausible collapsing principle

Theoria, Volume 84, Issue 4. doi.org/10.1111/theo.12166 Abstract In 1997 John Broome presented the Collapsing Argument that was meant to establish that non‐conventional comparative relations (e.g., “par

Type of publication: Journal articles | Herlitz, Anders , & Henrik Andersson
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26 April, 2022

Defining disability and the role of the disability and the medical communities

Theoria Abstract Definitions of disabilityare useful for different purposes and carry normative significance. However, defining disability has proven a difficult task. Communities with different theoreti

Type of publication: Journal articles | Mosquera, Julia
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05 September, 2022

Climate anxiety: Conceptual considerations, and connections with climate hope and action

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

Type of publication: Journal articles | Jylhä, Kirsti , Julia Sangervo, Panu Pihkala
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