Nature Climate Change To date, values are not widely acknowledged or discussed within physical climate science. Yet, effective management of values in physical climate science is required for the benef

Institutes, companies and organizations connected to futures studies or future aligned consultancy. The Institute for Futures Studies is not responsible for the content of these web sites and many of t

Population Research and Policy Review 41, p. 1619–1639 Abstract Modern fertility techniques allow parents to carry out preimplantation sex selection. Sex selection for non-medical purposes is legal in m

in: Analysis (2020) Volume 80:3. AbstractA notorious problem that has recently received increased attention in axiology, normative theory and population ethics is the apparent ubiquity of what can be g. This paper illustrates how nondeterminacy can spawn cyclical rankings. So, accepting that practical reasons can admit of nondeterminacy challenges the widely held idea that ‘better than’ is transitive. As a result, standard approaches to rational choice under nondeterminacy fail to be action-guiding, since in some situations all options are dominated, that is, impermissible according to standard rational choice criteria.

Pp. 47-74 in Bo Bengtsson, Per Strömblad and Ann-Helén Bay, (Eds.), Diversity, Inclusion and Citizenship in Scandinavia. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Abstract This chapter suggests

Professor Jennifer Saul, Director of Research, Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield.ABSTRACTUntil recently, it was widely believed that explicit expressions of racism would doom a politic

Roger Crisp, Professor of Moral Philosophy, Uehiro Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, St Anne's College, University of Oxford Abstract It is widely believed that one of the main reasons we should seek to d

Mind Abstract Candice Delmas’ A Duty to Resist arrives, fittingly, in a world of increasing authoritarianism, and the caged children and burning forests left in its wake. Widely diagnosed as a failure t

Synthese, vol. 204, 86 Abstract How is someone who seeks a reflective equilibrium to respond upon learning that others disagree with her? Regrettably, not much attention has been devoted to that questio

Politics & Policy Abstract Although the literature widely discusses the role of academics as experts in public policy making, empirical case studies on ethical problems related to the production and