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26 January, 2021

Catastrophic risk

in Philosophy Compass (2020) Abstract:Catastrophic risk raises questions that are not only of practical importance, but also of great philosophical interest, such as how to define 'catastrophe' and wha

Type of publication: Journal articles | Stefánsson, H. Orri
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09 September, 2020

Why Inflicting Disability is Wrong: The Mere Difference View and The Causation Based Objection

I The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Disability, Adam Cureton and David Wasserman (eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press (2020) Abstract This Handbook introduces philosophers, as well as other scholars

Type of publication: Chapters | Mosquera, Julia
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26 April, 2016

Climate change, risk and population ethics - Tore Browaldh-föreläsningen 2016

Gustaf Arrhenius will give the Tore Browaldh-lecture this year in Gothenburg. One of the most important insights to emerge over the past hundred years is that the actions of the current generation – th

Gustaf Arrhenius will give the Tore Browaldh-lecture this year in Gothenburg.
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08 May, 2024
Anandi Hattiangadi: A Skeptic's Guide to Virtual Worlds - A response to David Chalmers

Anandi Hattiangadi: A Skeptic's Guide to Virtual Worlds - A response to David Chalmers

Are virtual worlds "real"? Or are they merely "virtual"? In a recent book by David Chalmers, "Reality + - Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy", he argues that if we in fact were already livi

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16 April, 2019

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

Type of publication: Chapters | Campbell, Tim
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30 September, 2014

Climate change: Life and death

John Broome, White's Professor of Moral Philosophy The international community has agreed on the aim of avoiding dangerous interference with the climate system. Determining what level of interference i

John Broome, White's Professor of Moral Philosophy
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11 September, 2020

Paul's Reconfiguration of Decision-problems in the Light of Transformative Experiences

Rivista Internazionale di Filosfia e Psicologia Abstract This paper focuses on cases of epistemically transformative experiences, as Paul calls them, cases where we have radically different experiences t

Type of publication: Journal articles | Bykvist, Krister
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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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31 August, 2022
Completed: Longtermism

Completed: Longtermism

What happens to moral philosophy, decision theory, and our real-life decisions, if we consider that in fact many of the decisions we make should take into account the consequences in a very far future?

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07 December, 2021

Democracy

In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. 2021 Democracy is a term that is used to denote a variety of distinct objects and ideas. Democracy describes either a set of political institutions or an idea

Type of publication: Chapters | Beckman, Ludvig
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