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Josef Hien receives prize for his paper on culture and tax avoidance
Why are Italians so reluctant to pay taxes? This is what Josef Hien explores in his paper "Culture and tax avoidance: the Italian case" - for which he has now been awarded the2022 Herbert Gottweis Prize for Best Paper of 2021 by the Critical Policy Studies awards committee.
David Sumpter: Reasons why we should NOT worry about fake news, echo chambers, filter bubbles and Cambridge Analytica
David Sumpter, Professor of Applied Maths at Uppsala University Abstract Much of the recent media reporting about social media has revolved around the potential dangers. Terms such as fake news, filter
Using Models to Predict Cultural Evolution From Emotional Selection Mechanisms
Emotion Review Abstract Cultural variants may spread by being more appealing, more memorable, or less offensive than other cultural variants. Empirical studies suggest that such “emotional selection” is
Fernando Filgueira: Latin America`s left shift: why, what it did, for how long and what comes after.
Fernando Filgueira, Senior researcher at CIPPEC (Argentina) and CIESU (Uruguay), and lead author for the UN-Women Gender Progress Report for Latin America and the Caribbean. ABSTRACT As countries in Lat
Chapter 26: The evolution of legal positivism: Reflections on continuity and discontinuity in the positivist tradition
In Zaluski, W., Bourgeois-Gironde, S. & A. Dyrda (eds.) Research Handbook on Legal Evolution. Elgar Abstract This chapter maps the evolution of legal positivism (LP) with an eye to both continuous and
Personal Identity and Impersonal Ethics
Tim Campbell, Personal Identity and Impersonal Ethics In: Principles and Persons: The Legacy of Derek Parfit. Edited by: Jeff McMahan, Tim Campbell, James Goodrich, and Ketan Ramakrishnan, Oxford Unive
How to Feel About Climate Change? An Analysis of the Normativity of Climate Emotions
International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Vol. 30, Issue 3: Ethics and the Emotions Abstract Climate change evokes different emotions in people. Recently, climate emotions have become a matter of normativization of climate emotionsaffective dilemmas
Katie Steele: The real paradox of supererogation
Katie Steele, Associate Professor, Australian National University. Abstract It is a feature of our ordinary moral talk that some acts are supererogatory, or beyond what is required. But ‘beyond’ in what
International Climate Policy in the Post Paris Era
I Nordic Economic Policy Review, 2019 Abstract The aim of this article is to assess the efficacy of the Paris Agreement to generate policies and incentivize actions that can contribute to halt climate cha
Nondeterminacy, cycles and rational choice
in: Analysis (2020) Volume 80:3. AbstractA notorious problem that has recently received increased attention in axiology, normative theory and population ethics is the apparent ubiquity of what can be g. This paper illustrates how nondeterminacy can spawn cyclical rankings. So, accepting that practical reasons can admit of nondeterminacy challenges the widely held idea that ‘better than’ is transitive. As a result, standard approaches to rational choice under nondeterminacy fail to be action-guiding, since in some situations all options are dominated, that is, impermissible according to standard rational choice criteria.