Nancy Cartwright is Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, University of Durham and at the University of California, San Diego ABSTRACTRCTs are valuable tools whose use is spreading i

European Economic Review Abstract Islam (2019) reports results from a cluster randomized field experiment in Bangladesh that examines the effects of parent–teacher meetings on student test scores in pri

Katie Steele, Associate Professor, Australian National University. Abstract It is a feature of our ordinary moral talk that some acts are supererogatory, or beyond what is required. But ‘beyond’ in what

Judgment abd Decision Making Abstract Prior research using the Moral Foundations Questionnaire (MFQ) has established that political ideology is associated with self-reported reliance on specific moral f

Welcome to a workshop on the non-identity problem and population ethics at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm. The workshop will focus on the evaluative and moral significance of acts that

Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Volume 51, 2017 Abstract The popularity of research into categories has grown in recent decades and shows no sign of abating. This introductory article takes

Elizabeth Finneron-Burns

I am a post doc working with Krister Bykvist and Gustaf Arrhenius on the Valuing Future Lives project. I submitted my DPhil thesis at Oxford University in September 2015. Before studying at Oxford I wo

International Journal for the Study of Skepticism Review of Peter Königs,Problems for Moral Debunkers: On the Logic and Limits of Empirically Informed Ethics. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp.: 9783110750171.

Rae Langton, Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University ABSTRACTWhat we do with words can help or hinder justice in ways that exploit rules of accommodation: a process of adjustment that tends to

Intrinsic motivation and outer sanctions as drivers of prosocial behaviour

Why do we cooperate? This project studies drivers of cooperation, generosity and pro social behaviour.