Daniel Naurin, Department of Political Science, Göteborg University Judicial independence is a challenge for courts whose decisions have politically salient consequences. Several tools are available fo

Journal of Applied Philosophy Abstract It is often acknowledged that public policies can constrain people’s procreative opportunities, in some cases even infringing their procreative rights. However, a

This paper provides a detailed investigation of the family income/child health relationship focusing on physical and psychosocial health, parent’s socioeconomic background, and liquidity constraint pr

Iwao Hirose is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Value Theory and the Philosophy of Public Policy. His research areas are normative ethics and the philosophy of social science. AbstractIn order tThis seminar will be held online. The number of people who can join i s limited. You can check in a couple of minutes before the seminar begins. Do you wish to get reminders about our research seminars? 

Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Pages 1-15, Received 11 Dec 2015, Published online: 04 Sep 2016 Abstract This paper defends two related claims about belief: first, the claim that, unlike numerical d

The aim of this study is to explore to what extent housing is a constraint for first births in Sweden 1972-2005. Three characteristics of housing are studied: housing type, tenure, and size of dwellin

Synthese 199 Abstract This article is about the role of factual uncertainty for moral decision-making as it concerns the ethics of machine decision-making (i.e., decisions by AI systems, such as autonomo

Sir Partha Dasgupta, Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Cambridge. ABSTRACT In this lecture I study fertility choice in the face of socio-ecological constraints. I assume that when cho

in Synthese (2020) AbstractWhen an agent learns of an expert’s credence in a proposition about which they are an expert, the agent should defer to the expert and adopt that credence as their own. This

Journal of Adolescence, Vol 66, pp. 21-30, doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2018.04.005. Abstract This study examined socioeconomic differences in risk behaviours according to youth-oriented measures of eco