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10 March, 2016

Tourism and the Globalization of Emotions. The Intimate Economy of Tango.

[Reissue] New York: Routledge. Throughout the chapters, the author assesses how, in an explosive economic and political context, people's emotional lives intermingle with a tourism industry that has fo

Type of publication: Books |
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22 November, 2022

Rule-consequentialism, procreative freedom, and future generations

Ratio Abstract In this paper I analyse how procreative freedom poses a challenge for rule-consequentialism. First, I reconstruct the rule-consequentialist case for procreative freedom. Second, I argue t

Type of publication: Journal articles | Mosquera, Julia
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11 March, 2021

“I just want to be the friendly face of national socialism” The turn to civility in the cultural expressions of neo-Nazism in Sweden

in: Nordicom Review, Volume 42: Issue S1This article is based on a case study of the media narratives of the neo-Nazi organisation Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM) and situates this particular actor w

Type of publication: Journal articles | Askanius, Tina
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15 January, 2025

Joe Roussos: Should experts be open and honest? 

Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm, or online. Research seminar with Joe Roussos, researcher in philosophy at the Institute for Futures Studies. He completed his PhD at

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31 October, 2016

Gender as an Employment Criterion?

As other fields, the academic sector is gender-segregated. While some disciplines are dominated by female students and researchers (especially in the humanities), others are dominated by male students

As other fields, the academic sector is gender-segregated. Which strategies are currently employed to deal with gender segregation? Are they working, and can we think of better strategies?
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14 June, 2023

Universal procreation rights and future generations

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

Type of publication: Journal articles | Campbell, Tim , Kolk, Martin , Mosquera, Julia
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17 December, 2015

Using big data to achieve better public health - new project

How can we in a systematic way understand what is causing better health in people? And how can we most efficiently use the resources of the public sector to turn around the development towards greater

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05 June, 2019
Melinda A. Roberts

Melinda A. Roberts

I am a professor of philosophy at the College of New Jersey and serve as the coordinating prelaw advisor for the College. Previously, I worked as an associate at the law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb in Ne

Professor, Philosophy
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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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