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26Structural reliabilism: Inductive logic as a theory of justificationHistory and Philosophy of Logic 26 (1): 71-72. 2005.
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26Reversing “Research Exceptionalism”American Journal of Bioethics 10 (8): 66-67. 2010.This Article does not have an abstract
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25Editorial: Belief revision theory today (review)Journal of Logic, Language and Information 7 (2): 123-126. 1998.
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25Radiation Protection—Sorting Out the ArgumentsPhilosophy and Technology 24 (3): 363-368. 2011.This is a response to an article by Wade Allison in which he argues that we should accept drastically higher doses of ionizing radiation than what we currently do. He employs four arguments in defence of his position: comparisons with background radiation, the positive experiences of radiotherapy, the presence of biological defence mechanisms against radiation, and a concession by Swedish authorities that their approach to reindeer meat after the Chernobyl fallout was unnecessarily strict. It is…Read more
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25Changing preferencesis a phenomenonoften invoked but rarely properlyaccounted for. Throughout the history of the social sciences, researchers have come against the possibility that their subjects’ preferenceswere affected by the phenomenato be explainedor by otherfactorsnot taken into accountin the explanation.Sporadically, attempts have been made to systematically investigate these in uences, but none of these seems to have had a lasting impact. Today we are still not much further with respect …Read more
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25Nicolas de Condorcet as a forerunner of John RawlsHistory of European Ideas 48 (1): 97-111. 2022.ABSTRACT John Rawls proposed two criteria for the delimitation of acceptable inequalities. The universal gain principle requires inequalities to be beneficial for all, and the difference principle requires them to be beneficial for the least advantaged. These principles are commonly believed to have originated in Rawls’s work, but they were both clearly expressed in the writings of Nicolas de Condorcet. Contrary to Rawls, Condorcet did not imbed them in the framework of a social contract, but in…Read more
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25In praise of full meet contractionAnálisis Filosófico 26 (1): 134-146. 2006.Full meet contraction, that was devised by Carlos Alchourrón and David Makinson in the early 1980' s, has often been overlooked since it is not in itself a plausible contraction operator. However, it is a highly useful building-block in the construction of composite contraction operators. In particular, all plausible contraction operators can be reconstructed so that the outcome of contracting a belief set K by a sentence p is defined as K ∼ f, where ∼ is full meet contraction and f a sentential…Read more
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25Local ChangeStudia Logica 70 (1): 49-76. 2002.An agent can usually hold a very large number of beliefs. However, only a small part of these beliefs is used at a time. Efficient operations for belief change should affect the beliefs of the agent locally, that is, the changes should be performed only in the relevant part of the belief state. In this paper we define a local consequence operator that only considers the relevant part of a belief base. This operator is used to define local versions of the operations for belief change. Representat…Read more
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25Should Probabilistic Design Replace Safety Factors?Philosophy and Technology 24 (2): 151-168. 2011.Safety is a concern in almost all branches of engineering. Whereas safety was traditionally introduced by applying safety factors or margins to the calculated maximum load, this approach is increasingly replaced with probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) as a tool for dimensioning safety measures. In this paper, the two approaches are compared in terms of what they aim at and what they can, in fact, achieve. The outcome of this comparison suggests that the two approaches should be seen as compleme…Read more
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24The ethics of risk: ethical analysis in an uncertain worldPalgrave-Macmillan. 2013.When is it morally acceptable to expose others to risk? Most moral philosophers have had very little to say in answer to that question, but here is a moral philosopher who puts it at the centre of his investigations.
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24The Ethics of Making Patients ResponsibleCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 27 (1): 87-92. 2018.
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24Outcome level analysis of belief contractionReview of Symbolic Logic 6 (2): 183-204. 2013.The outcome set of a belief change operator is the set of outcomes that can be obtained with it. Axiomatic characterizations are reported for the outcome sets of the standard AGM contraction operators and eight types of base-generated contraction. These results throw new light on the properties of some of these operators
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24How Extreme Is the Precautionary Principle?NanoEthics 14 (3): 245-257. 2020.The precautionary principle has often been described as an extreme principle that neglects science and stifles innovation. However, such an interpretation has no support in the official definitions of the principle that have been adopted by the European Union and by the signatories of international treaties on environmental protection. In these documents, the precautionary principle is a guideline specifying how to deal with certain types of scientific uncertainty. In this contribution, this app…Read more
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24A Theoria Bibliography: Swedish Theses in Philosophy in the Year 2000Theoria 67 (3): 281-285. 2001.
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24Beyond recovery? A reply to TennantErkenntnis 49 (3): 387-392. 1998.In his paper ‘Changing the Theory of Theory Change: Reply to My Critics’, N. Tennant (1997b) reacts to the critical reception of an earlier article of his. The present note rectifies some of the most serious misrepresentations in Tennant's reply.
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24Review of Hans Rott, Change, choice and inference: A study of belief revision and nonmonotonic reasoning (review)Studia Logica: An International Journal for Symbolic Logic 77 145-147. 2004.
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23Defining Disciplines and SubdisciplinesTheoria 88 (2): 273-275. 2022.Theoria, Volume 88, Issue 2, Page 273-275, April 2022.
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22Let Me Save You Some Time... On Valuing Travelers' Time in Urban TransportationEssays in Philosophy 20 (2): 206-229. 2019.Systems of urban transportation are largely shaped through planning practices. In transport economics, the benefits of infrastructure investments consist mainly of travel time savings calculated using monetary values of time. The economic interpretation of the value of travel time has significantly shaped our urban environment and transportation schemes. However, there is often an underlying assumption of transferability between time and money, which arguably does not sufficiently take into acco…Read more
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