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Completed: The effects of psychological structures on values and voting behavior
A study of the differences between the voters of the Sweden Democrats, the Social Democrats and the Moderate Party.
Swedish Post-War Economic Development: the Role of Age Structure in a Welfare State
Life cycle patterns exist in practically all human behavior as well as in resources and capabilities; therefore variations in age structure affect all aspects of the aggregate economy. Against this ba
Deep moral disagreements and defective contexts
Synthese Abstract The key characteristic of deep disagreements is that any attempt to resolve them just reveals new points of disagreement that stem from underlying commitments. Many moral disagreementsInformal LogicSemantics and Pragmatics
What Future for Europe? New Perspectives in Post-Industrial Fertility Issues
After years of falling fertility, most countries of the EU have reached stabilization; however, at very different levels across Europe. Examining this difference may help in understanding the underlyi
Transformative Experience and the Shark Problem
Philosophical Studies Abstract In her ground-breaking and highly influential book Transformative Experience, L.A. Paul makes two claims: (1) one cannot evaluate and compare certain experiential outcomes evaluate and compare certain intuitively horrible outcomes (e.g. being eaten alive by sharks) as bad and worse than certain other outcomes even if one cannot grasp what these intuitively horrible outcomes are like. We argue that the conjunction of these two claims leads to an implausible discontinuity in the evaluability of outcomes. One implication of positing such a discontinuity is that evaluative comparisons of outcomes will not be proportionally sensitive to variation in the underlying features of these outcomes. This puts pressure on Paul to abandon either (1) or (2). But (1) is central to her view and (2) is very hard to deny. We call this the Shark Problem.
Moral Realism and the Argument from Skepticism
in International Journal for the Study of Skepticism10 (ISSN: 2210-5697). Abstract:A long-standing family of worries about moral realism focuses on its implications for moral epistemology. The underlyi
Vaccine confidence is higher in more religious countries
Human vaccines and immunotherapeutics Abstract Vaccine hesitancy is a threat to global health, but it is not ubiquitous; depending on the country, the proportion that have confidence in vaccines ranges
The Dynamics of Democracy, Development and Cultural Values
PLoS ONE 9(6): e97856. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0097856 http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0097856 A short summary: Over the past decades many countries have experienced r
Asymmetries in punishment propensity may drive the civilizing process
Nature Human Behaviour, volume 2, pp. 148–155, doi:10.1038/s41562-017-0278-z Abstract Norms about hygiene and violence have both shown a tendency to become increasingly strict, in the sense that the han
“There is total silence here”. Ethical competence and inter-organizational learning in healthcare governance
Journal of Health Organisation and Management. DOI:10.1108/JHOM-05-2019-0130 AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to analyse ethical competence related to healthcare governance and management tasks at t