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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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29 May, 2018

Investigating sequences in ordinal data: A new approach with adapted evolutionary models.

Political Science Research and Methods, Volume 6, Issue 3, pp. 449-466. doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2018.9 Abstract This paper presents a new approach for studying temporal sequences across ordinal variables. I

Type of publication: Journal articles | Lindenfors, Patrik , , Fredrik Jansson, Yi-ting Wang and Staffan I. Lindberg.
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10 September, 2020

Sequential Requisites Analysis: A New Method for Analyzing Sequential Relationships in Ordinal Data

Social Science Quarterly, 838-856 Abstract Objectives This article presents a new method inspired by evolutionary biology for analyzing longer sequences of requisites for the emergence of particular outc

Type of publication: Journal articles | Lindenfors, Patrik , , Krusell, Joshua & Lindberg, Staffan I.
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03 September, 2020

Moral Uncertainty

Oxford University Press Very often we're uncertain about what we ought, morally, to do. We don't know how to weigh the interests of animals against humans, how strong our duties are to improve the live

Type of publication: Books | Bykvist, Krister , , MacAskill, William & Toby Ord
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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

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26 April, 2016

Climate change, risk and population ethics - Tore Browaldh-föreläsningen 2016

Gustaf Arrhenius will give the Tore Browaldh-lecture this year in Gothenburg. One of the most important insights to emerge over the past hundred years is that the actions of the current generation – th

Gustaf Arrhenius will give the Tore Browaldh-lecture this year in Gothenburg.
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26 June, 2018

Précis Population Ethics

Ars Vivendi Journal, Special Issue: On Population Ethics, No.8/9, pp.3-6. One of the most important insights to emerge over the past hundred years is that the actions of the current generation could ha

Type of publication: Journal articles | Arrhenius, Gustaf
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22 January, 2021

Consequentialism, ignorance, and uncertainty

in: OUP Handbook on Consequentialism, Doug Portmore, ed., Oxford University Press (2020) Abstract:Act consequentialism provides an answer to the question of what one ought to do, no matter which situat

Type of publication: Chapters | Bykvist, Krister
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26 February, 2018

Moral Skepticism and the Benacerraf Challenge

In: D. Machuca (ed.), “Moral Skepticism: New Essays”, London: Routledge. Moral skepticism is at present a vibrant topic of philosophical inquiry. This collection of original essays will advance the ong

Type of publication: Chapters | Tersman, Folke
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01 September, 2017

Counterfactual Skepticism and Multidimensional Semantics

Erkenntnis, pp. 1-24. Abstract It has recently been argued that indeterminacy and indeterminism make most ordinary counterfactuals false. I argue that a plausible way to avoid such counterfactual skepti

Type of publication: Journal articles | Stefánsson, H. Orri
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