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12 October, 2021

Utilitarianism without Moral Aggregation

Canadian Journal of Philosophy (2021), 51: 4, 256–269 Is an outcome where many people are saved and one person dies better than an outcome where the one is saved and the many die? According to the stan

Type of publication: Journal articles | Gustafsson, Johan E.
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10 April, 2017

A future without Down syndrome? Ethical reflections on the development of technology

Have you used prenatal testing to determine if the fetus you or your partner is carrying has Down’s syndrome? If the answer is yes, you are not alone. The interest in genetic screening for Down’s synd

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04 April, 2025

Is it possible to reduce the number of prisoners without increasing crime? Lessons from California

Venue: The Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm REGISTER > During Chesa Boudin's 2,5 years in office as San Francisco's elected district attorney, incarceration plummeted - the

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10 March, 2016

Review of A World Without Values. Essays on John Mackie’s Moral Error Theory

Joyce, R., and Kirchin, S. (eds.) (Springer, 2010) in International Journal for the Study of Skepticism 5, 2015, 333-337. DOI: 10.1163/22105700-05031197

Type of publication: Journal articles | Tersman, Folke
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14 December, 2022

Fading family lines- women and men without children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren in 19th, 20th and 21st Century Northern Sweden

Advances in Life Course Research, vol. 53 Abstract We studied to what extent family lines die out over the course of 122 years based on Swedish population-level data. Our data included demographic and s

Type of publication: Journal articles | Kolk, Martin , & Vegard Skirbekk
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16 September, 2024

New Arguments for a pure lottery in Research Funding: A Sketch for a Future Science Policy Without Time-Consuming Grant Competitions

Minerva, vol. 62 Abstract A critical debate has blossomed within the field of research policy, science and technology studies, and philosophy of science regarding the possible benefits and limitations opure lottery

Type of publication: Journal articles | Roumbanis, Lambros
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30 October, 2018
Book launch with Andreas Bummel: A world parliament

Book launch with Andreas Bummel: A world parliament

"A world parliament: Governance and democracy for the 21st century" is here presented by one of the authors, Andreas Bummel at the Institute for Futures Studies in October 2018. Adrienne Sörbom and Ha

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11 September, 2020

Are the Natural Numbers Fundamentally Ordinals?

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 99 (3), 564-580 Abstract There are two ways of thinking about the natural numbers: as ordinal numbers or as cardinal numbers. It is, moreover, well‐known that the

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11 November, 2007

Adapting To Globalised Product And Labour Markets: New Models For Apprenticeship in Europe

The paper identifies two distinct models of apprenticeship in Europe: the well-established demand-driven model found and the more recently revived supply-driven model. The paper concludes that countri

Type of publication: Working papers | Hilary Steedman
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15 May, 2015

Disease prioritarianism: A Flawed Principle

Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, May 2015. DOI 10.1007/s11019-015-9649-2 Disease prioritarianism is a principle that is often implicitly or explicitly employed in the realm of healthcare prioritiz

Type of publication: Journal articles | Jebari, Karim
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