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Different Populations Agree on Which Moral Arguments Underlie Which Opinions
Frontiers in Psychology AbstractPeople often justify their moral opinions by referring to larger moral concerns (e. g., “It isunfairif homosexuals are not allowed to marry!” vs. “Letting homosexuals matraditions!”). Is there a general agreement about what concerns apply to different moral opinions? We used surveys in the United States and the United Kingdom to measure the perceived applicability of eight concerns (harm, violence, fairness, liberty, authority, ingroup, purity, and governmental overreach) to a wide range of moral opinions. Within countries, argument applicability scores were largely similar whether they were calculated among women or men, among young or old, among liberals or conservatives, or among people with or without higher education. Thus, the applicability of a given moral concern to a specific opinion can be viewed as an objective quality of the opinion, largely independent of the population in which it is measured. Finally, we used similar surveys in Israel and Brazil to establish that this independence of populations also extended to populations in different countries. However, the extent to which this holds across cultures beyond those included in the current study is still an open question.
The Demos and Its Critics
The Review of Politics, 81(3), 435-457. doi:10.1017/S0034670519000214 Abstract The “demos paradox” is the idea that the composition of a demos could never secure democratic legitimacy because the composi
CANCELLED Robert B. Talisse: The Problem of Polarization
Robert B. Talisse is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee Abstract Democracy is such an important social good that it seems natural to think that more i

A monster in the making. Interview with Matthias Matthijs on the euro crisis and democracy
What started off as a political project aimed at strengthening democracies has become an economic project in crisis that undermines democracy. We are of course talking about the european union and the
A more plausible collapsing principle
Theoria, Volume 84, Issue 4. doi.org/10.1111/theo.12166 Abstract In 1997 John Broome presented the Collapsing Argument that was meant to establish that non‐conventional comparative relations (e.g., “par
Retributivism and Public Opinion: On the Context Sensitivity of Desert
Criminal Law and Philosophy, Volume 12, Issue 1, pp 125-142. Abstract Retributivism may seem wholly uninterested in the fit between penal policy and public opinion, but on one rendition of the theory, h
The long shadow of lobbying: ideational power of lobbying as illustrated by welfare profits in Sweden
Interest Groups & Advocacy volume 10, pp.47–67 AbstractThe weak correlation between lobbying and policy outcomes is puzzling. The main argument developed here is that the puzzle is partly caused by
Usability of climate information: Toward a new scientific framework
WIREs Climate Change Abstract Climate science is expected to provide usable information to policy-makers, to support the resolution of climate change. The complex, multiply connected nature of climate c
Authority and Coercion Beyond the State? The Limited Applicability of Legitimacy Standards for Extraterritorial Border Controls
Jus Cogens, vol. 6, p.141–160 Abstract Extraterritorial border controls prevent migrants from arriving at the territory of the state and effectively undermine rights to apply for asylum and protections
‘Humans think outside the pixels’ – Radiologists’ perceptions of using artificial intelligence for breast cancer detection in mammography screening in a clinical setting
Health Informatics Journal Abstract This study aimed to explore radiologists’ views on using an artificial intelligence (AI) tool named ScreenTrustCAD with Philips equipment) as a diagnostic decision su