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41Soft determinism and how we become responsible for the pastPhilosophical Papers 18 (2): 189-201. 1989.
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53Utilitarianism and informed consentJournal of Medical Ethics 40 (7): 445-445. 2014.Being targeted by Nir Eyal's ingenious argument,1 I am pleased to have the opportunity to respond. It is fairly obvious that my utilitarian argument accomplishes what it is supposed to accomplish, namely a defence of the idea that the notion of informed consent should take roughly the form it takes in Western medicine. But does it fly in the face of commonsense moral thinking? I will argue that it does not.My argument is based on hedonistic utilitarianism.2 This means that it is an instance of t…Read more
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Recension av Bertil Strömberg: "Arbetets pris - Rättvis lön och solidarisk lönepolitik"Norsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift 10 (2): 44. 1989.
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61Why no compromise is possibleMetaphilosophy 38 (2-3). 2007.Adherents of different moral views hold conflicting views on the permissibility of embryonic stem cell research. Pace Ronald Dworkin, no liberal compromise is possible. Whichever way the decision goes, some people will be deeply hurt and feel that basic moral principles are being flouted. And yet, when a majority exists in defence of such research, it should not hesitate to allow it.
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Coercive Care: Ethics of Choice in Health & MedicineRoutledge. 1999.Coercive Care asks probing and challenging questions regarding the use of coercion in health care and the social services. The book combines philosophical analysis with comparative studies of social policy and law in a large number of industrialized countries
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79Utilitarianism or Prioritarianism?Utilitas 27 (2): 240-250. 2015.A simple hedonistic theory allowing for interpersonal comparisons of happiness is taken for granted in this article. The hedonistic theory is used to compare utilitarianism, urging us to maximize the sum total of happiness, with prioritarianism, urging us to maximize a sum total of weighed happiness. It is argued with reference to a few thought experiments that utilitarianism is, intuitively speaking, more plausible than prioritarianism. The problem with prioritarianism surfaces when prudence an…Read more
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127Genetic Technology and Sport: Ethical Questions (edited book)Routledge. 2005.For elite athletes seeking a winning advantage, manipulation of their own genetic code has become a realistic possibility. In Genetic Technology and Sport, experts from sports science, genetics, philosophy, ethics, and international sports administration describe the potential applications of the new technology and debate the questions surrounding its use.
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36Compulsory sterilisation in swedenBioethics 12 (3). 1998.In the Fall of 1997 the leading Swedish newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, created a media hype over the Swedish policy of compulsory sterilisation that had been in operation between 1935 and 1975. In the discussion that followed the moral condemnation of our medical past was unanimous. However, the reasons for rejecting what had gone on were varied and mutually inconsistent. Three strands of criticism were common: the argument from autonomy, the argument from caution, and the argument from biological s…Read more
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22CommentaryJournal of Medical Ethics 31 (2): 113-113. 2005.To resort to hypoxic air machines—would that be to cheat? This clearly depends on whether such machines are prohibited or not. So the important question is this: Should sport authorities prohibit them or not?One way of approaching this question may be to argue casuistically. Erythropoietin is prohibited. Blood doping is prohibited. Training at high altitude is allowed. Does the hypoxic air machine bear more resemblance to training at high altitude than to the use of EPO? If that is the case it s…Read more
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96A realist and internalist response to one of Mackie’s arguments from queernessPhilosophical Studies 172 (2): 347-357. 2015.If there is such a thing as objectively existing prescriptivity, as the moral realist claims, then we can also explain why—and we need not deny that—strong internalism is true. Strong conceptual internalism is true, not because of any belief in any magnetic force thought to be inherent in moral properties themselves, as Mackie argued, but because we do not allow that anyone has ‘accepted’ a normative claim, unless she is prepared to some extent to act on it
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15Ought We to Sentence People to Psychiatric Treatment?Bioethics 11 (3-4): 298-308. 1997.In principle, there seem to be three main ways in which society can react when people commit crimes under influence of mental illness. (1) The standard model. We excuse them. If they are dangerous they are detained in the interest of safety of the rest of the citizens. (2) The Swedish model. We hold them responsible for their criminal offence, we convict them, but we do not sentence them to jail. Instead, we sentence them to psychiatric treatment. (3) My model. We sentence them to jail, but offe…Read more
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36Must We, the Reader and I, Make Great Sacrifices In Order to Save Starving Children?Theoria 66 (1): 115-122. 2000.Peter Unger, Living High and Letting Die. Our Illusion of Innocence (Oxford and New York Oxford University Press, 1996.
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61In Defence of Theory in EthicsCanadian Journal of Philosophy 25 (4). 1995.Particularism is in vogue in ethics today. Particularism is sometimes described as the idea that what is a sufficient moral reason in one situation need not be a sufficient moral reason in another situation. Indeed, it has been held, on particularism, what is a reason for an action in one situation might be a reason against the same type of action, or might not be a reason at all, in another situation. However, this description is insufficient. Even a generalist, such as a utilitarian, may admit…Read more
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37Doom soon? (review)Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 40 (2). 1997.No abstract
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83Conservatism for our timeRoutledge. 1990.1 THE CONSERVATIVE ATTITUDE THE HARD CORE OF THE CONSERVATIVE IDEOLOGY What is conservatism? It may seem a hopeless task to characterize a timeless concept ...
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90Social psychology and the paradox of revolutionSouth African Journal of Philosophy 26 (2): 228-238. 2007.No. South African Journal of Philosophy Vol.26 (2) 2007:228-238
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20A concrete view of intrinsic valueIn Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen & Michael J. Zimmerman (eds.), Recent work on intrinsic value, Springer. pp. 207--211. 2005.
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Recension av Knut Erik Tranøy: Medisinsk etikk i vår tid (review)Norsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift 1. 1993.
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