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04 September, 2020

False Choices: A Response to Michael Ignatieff's The Ordinary Virtues

King's Law Journal 30, 356-362 Abstract Part political journalism, travel memoir, political theory, sociology, anthropology, and moral psychology, Michael Ignatieff’s The Ordinary Virtues defies easy de

Type of publication: Journal articles |
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10 June, 2015

Value and Time

in: The Oxford Handbook of Value Theory, Eds. Iwao Hirose and Jonas Olson, Oxford University Press. This chapter discusses time and value. The two main questions are: What is the time of value? and Wha

Type of publication: Chapters | Bykvist, Krister
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19 June, 2019

Consequentialism and Robust Goods

Utilitas, 1–9, doi:10.1017/S0953820819000116 Abstract In this article, I critique the moral theory developed in Philip Pettit’s The Robust Demands of the Good: Ethics with Attachment, Virtue, and Respecvirtue and respect. I argue that Robust-Goods Consequentialism fails because it implies very implausible value judgements.

Type of publication: Journal articles | Andric, Vuko
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27 February, 2025

Climate Change, Historical Emissions, and Unjust Benefits: A Comment on Axel Gosseries’ Account of Climate Justice

Journal of Practical Ethics Abstract One of the claims Axel Gosseries makes in What is Intergenerational Justice? is that greenhouse gas emissions produced before 1990 are morally unimportant for presen

Type of publication: Journal articles | Duus-Otterström, Göran
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08 November, 2017

Benefiting from Injustice and the Common-Source Problem

Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, pp 1-15, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-017-9845-7. Abstract According to the Beneficiary Pays Principle, innocent beneficiaries of an injustice stand in a special mora

Type of publication: Journal articles | Duus-Otterström, Göran
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20 June, 2019

Towards a Theory of Pure Procedural Climate Justice

Journal of Applied Philosophy, published online first, doi.org/10.1111/japp.12357 Abstract A challenge for the theorising of climate justice is that even when the agents whose actions are supposed to be r

Type of publication: Journal articles | Brandstedt, Eric , & Bengt Brülde
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20 November, 2023
Hidden convergence in ethics

Hidden convergence in ethics

Ethics has for a long time been dominated by several competing traditions. But is it entirely true that these traditions have not moved closer with time. That is what this project aims to investigate.

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15 August, 2022

Stephen Gardiner: Generationally Parochial Geoengineering - A Threat to the Young and Other Future Generations

Place:At the Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm, or online. REGISTERAbstract'Geoengineering' has come to refer to massive, deliberate technological interventions into fundamentis Professor of Philosophy and Ben Rabinowitz Endowed Professor of the Human Dimensions of the Environment at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he is also Director of the Program on Ethics. His research focuses on global environmental problems, future generations and virtue ethics.Join the seminar online or at the Institute for Futures Studies. If you will join on site, please check the box in the 

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17 April, 2023

Klemens Kappel: The Epistemic Significance of Convergence in Ethical Theory

Venue: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, 4th floor, StockholmResearch seminar with Klemens Kappel, Professor at the Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen.Join us on sit

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16 January, 2025
Ambivalence: A new unified theory

Ambivalence: A new unified theory about its nature, grounds, and application to normative conflicts

Having mixed feelings about something can help us to deal with conflicts. Since this view on ambivalence challenges traditional approaches that see ambivalence as a flaw, this project aims to develop a new theory of ambivalence.

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