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    Kernel contraction
    Journal of Symbolic Logic 59 (3): 845-859. 1994.
    Kernel contraction is a natural nonrelational generalization of safe contraction. All partial meet contractions are kernel contractions, but the converse relationship does not hold. Kernel contraction is axiomatically characterized. It is shown to be better suited than partial meet contraction for formal treatments of iterated belief change
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    In praise of full meet contraction
    Análisis 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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    Individuals and collective actions
    Theoria 52 (1-2): 87-97. 1986.
  •  48
    Maximal and perimaximal contraction
    Synthese 190 (16): 3325-3348. 2013.
    Generalizations of partial meet contraction are introduced that start out from the observation that only some of the logically closed subsets of the original belief set are at all viable as contraction outcomes. Belief contraction should proceed by selection among these viable options. Several contraction operators that are based on such selection mechanisms are introduced and then axiomatically characterized. These constructions are more general than the belief base approach. It is shown that p…Read more
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    Local Change
    with Renata Wassermann
    Studia 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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  •  89
    Logic of belief revision
    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2008.
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    Informed Consent Out of Context
    Journal of Business Ethics 63 (2): 149-154. 2006.
    Several attempts have been made to transfer the concept of informed consent from medical and research ethics to dealing with affected groups in other areas such as engineering, land use planning, and business management. It is argued that these attempts are unsuccessful since the concept of informed consent is inadequate for situations in which groups of affected persons are dealt with collectively (rather than individually, as in clinical medicine). There are several reasons for this. The affec…Read more
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    Learning from History
    Theoria 67 (1): 1-3. 2001.
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    Index of Swedish Theses in Philosophy 2007–2016
    Theoria 83 (3): 273-293. 2017.
  •  43
    Iterated Descriptor Revision and the Logic of Ramsey Test Conditionals
    Journal of Philosophical Logic 45 (4): 429-450. 2016.
    Two of the major problems in AGM-style belief revision, namely the difficulties in accounting for iterated change and for Ramsey test conditionals, have satisfactory solutions in descriptor revision. In descriptor revision, the input is a metalinguistic sentence specifying the success condition of the operation. The choice mechanism selects one of the potential outcomes in which the success condition is satisfied. Iteration of this operation is unproblematic. Ramsey test conditionals can be intr…Read more
  •  48
    Formal Philosophy – A Guarded Defence
    Theoria 79 (4): 287-289. 2013.
  •  4
    Levi's ideals
    In Erik J. Olsson (ed.), Knowledge and Inquiry: Essays on the Pragmatism of Isaac Levi, Cambridge University Press. 2006.
  •  71
    Local change
    with Renata Wassermann
    Studia Logica 70 (1). 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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    Den moralfilosofiska traditionen har sina begränsningar. De frågor som stått i centrum för den moralfilosofiska diskussionen har ofta varit helt andra än de som människor i det praktiska livet har uppfattat som centrala moraliska problem. En viktig begränsning är att moralfilosofin, liksom beslutsteorin, nästan uteslutande har handlat om hur man hanterar välavgränsade problem där handlingsalternativen är givna. I det verkliga livet löser vi ofta moraliska problem genom att finna på nya handlings…Read more
  •  68
    Is Philosophy Just a Set of Empty Ideas?
    Theoria 81 (1): 1-3. 2015.
  • Isaac Levi: The Fixation of belief and its undoing (review)
    Theoria 58 (1): 87. 1992.
  •  3
    Is Anthroposophy Science?
    Conceptus: Zeitschrift Fur Philosophie 25 (64): 1991. 1991.
  •  61
    Great Uncertainty about Small Things
    Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 8 (2): 26-35. 2004.
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    Editorial: Theoria Goes Quarterly
    Theoria 71 (1): 1-2. 2005.
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    Ethical Expertise
    Theoria 82 (4): 299-301. 2016.
  •  32
    Hypothetical Retrospection
    Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 10 (2): 145-157. 2007.
    Moral theory has mostly focused on idealized situations in which the morally relevant properties of human actions can be known beforehand. Here, a framework is proposed that is intended to sharpen moral intuitions and improve moral argumentation in problems involving risk and uncertainty. Guidelines are proposed for a systematic search of suitable future viewpoints for hypothetical retrospection. In hypothetical retrospection, a decision is evaluated under the assumption that one of the branches…Read more
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    Clear-cut cases of decision-making under risk (known probabilities) are unusual in real life. The gambler’s decisions at the roulette table are as close as we can get to this type of decision-making. In contrast, decision-making under uncertainty (unknown probabilities) can be exemplified by a decision whether to enter a jungle that may contain unknown dangers. Life is usually more like an expedition into an unknown jungle than a visit to the casino. Nevertheless, it is common in decision-suppor…Read more