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Asymmetry and Non-Identity
Utilitas, Volume 31, Issue 3, pp.213-230. doi.org/10.1017/S0953820818000341 Abstract In this article we distinguish two versions of the non-identity problem: one involving positive well-being and one inv
The Origin of Status Inequality: A Simulation-Based Study
Gianluca Manzo, Sociology Sorbonne Status hierarchies have the characteristic of being increasingly asymmetric distributions that, however, never turn into winner-take-all structures. In this paper we
Asymmetries in punishment propensity may drive the civilizing process
Nature Human Behaviour, volume 2, pp. 148–155, doi:10.1038/s41562-017-0278-z Abstract Norms about hygiene and violence have both shown a tendency to become increasingly strict, in the sense that the han
Is conservative opposition to climate change threat-based? Articulating an integrated threat model of climate change attitudes
British Journal of Social Psychology Abstract Throughout the literature, there are assertions that those endorsing conservative ideologies reject the science and solutions of climate change due to perce

Melinda A. Roberts
I am a professor of philosophy at the College of New Jersey and serve as the coordinating prelaw advisor for the College. Previously, I worked as an associate at the law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb in Ne
Completed: Harm and discrimination
What is it that makes discrimination wrong? We examine the concept of harm and its philosophical relevance, as well as the role it plays in discrimination.
Theron Pummer: Future Suffering and the Non-Identity Problem
Venue:Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, 4th floor, Stockholm, or online. Research seminar with Theron Pummer, Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. Register hereAbstr
Speed and Concentration of the Covering Time for Structured Coupon Collectors
Journal of Applied Probability Abstract Let V be an n-set, and let X be a random variable taking values in the power-set of V. Suppose we are given a sequence of random coupons , where the are independe
Workshop on deontological approaches to population ethics
This workshop is a part of the project Valuing future lives funded by the Swedish Research Council. It will take place at the Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm. If you are int or .
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