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19 October, 2017

Time to plan for the worst-case scenario

After two of the most damaging hurricanes in history affected the Gulf of Mexico just a few days apart, the impact of climate-induced catastrophes is finally getting some attention. However, in truth,

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05 May, 2021

Following the Science: Pandemic Policy Making and Reasonable Worst-Case Scenarios

LSE Public Policy Review, 1(4), p.6. 2021 Abstract The UK has been ‘following the science’ in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in line with the national framework for the use of scientific advice in as

Type of publication: Journal articles | Roussos, Joe , & R. Bradley
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18 September, 2018

Completed: The worst lie is the documentary – what role does the subjective documentary film play in a post-truth era?

How can artistic narration, based on subjective perspectives, develop the documentary film? The project will spread knowledge and reach new arenas where artistic research is usually not portrayed.

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06 October, 2022

Prioritarianism, timeslices, and prudential value

Australasian Journal of Philosophy ABSTRACT This paper shows that versions of prioritarianism that focus at least partially on well-being levels at certain times conflict with conventional views of prud

Type of publication: Journal articles | Herlitz, Anders , Andric, Vuko
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22 January, 2021

Persson's merely possible persons

in: Utilitas 32 (4): 1-9 (2020) Abstract:All else being equal, creating a miserable person makes the world worse, and creating an ecstatic person makes it better. Such claims are easily justified if it

Type of publication: Journal articles | Bykvist, Krister , & Tim Campbell
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19 August, 2022

Persson’s Merely Possible Persons

Bykvist, K., & Campbell, T. (2020). Persson's Merely Possible Persons. Utilitas,32(4), 479-487. doi:10.1017/S0953820820000199 AbstractAll else being equal, creating a miserable person makes the worl

Type of publication: Journal articles | Bykvist, Krister , Campbell, Tim
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16 May, 2019

The Affirmative Answer to the Existential Question and the Person Affecting Restriction

in: Weighing and Reasoning. Themes from the Philosophy of John Broome, Eds.Iwao Hirose and Andrew Reisner, Oxford University Press. The person affecting restriction states that one outcome can only be

Type of publication: Chapters | Arrhenius, Gustaf
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20 November, 2018

Against lifetime QALY prioritarianism

Journal of Medical Ethics 44: 109-113. doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2017-104250 Abstract Lifetime quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) prioritarianism has recently been defended as a reasonable specification o

Type of publication: Journal articles | Herlitz, Anders
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14 March, 2018

An Egalitarian Argument Against Reducing Deprivation

Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Volume 20, Issue 5,  pp 957–968, doi.org/10.1007/s10677-017-9842-x. Abstract Deprivations normally give rise to undeserved inequality. It is commonly thought that one

Type of publication: Journal articles | Mosquera, Julia
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26 November, 2024

Why Morality and Other Forms of Normativity are Sometimes Dramatically Directly Collectively Self-Defeating

Arbetsrapport 2024:3Del av Studies in the Ethics of Coordination and Climate Change Abstract In a prisoner’s dilemma, if everyone follows the strategy of self-interest, then everyone is certain to be wo

Type of publication: Working papers | Budolfson, Mark |
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