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

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

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

In: Gheaus, Anca, Calder, Gideon, and De Wispelaere, Jurgen, eds. The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Childhood and Children. Milton: Routledge. Introduction The history of democracy is stronglySixty years ago, no European democracy allowed 18-year-olds to vote; today, no European nation denies people aged 18 the vote. The tendency is to lower the age of voting further. Voting from the age of 16 is now allowed in several countries, including Austria, Argentina and Brazil. The general question raised by these developments concerns what the final destination should be: what is the appropriate voting-rights age in a democracy?

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

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

AI & Society Abstract Machine learning algorithms (ML) are increasingly used to support decision-making in the exercise of public authority. Here, we argue that an important consideration has been o

Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 18 (3), 306-323. Abstract Deliberative forms of stakeholder participation have been widely embraced as a key measure for addressing legitimacy deficits and

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, 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