Introduction Printed from: Hommage à Wlodek. Philosophical Papers Dedicated to Wlodek Rabinowicz. Ed. T. Rønnow-Rasmussen, B. Petersson, J. Josefsson & D. Egonsson, 2007. www.fil.lu.se/hommageawlodek 1 Race and Politics* Dan Egonsson Department of Philosophy, Lund University Dan.Egonsson@fil.lu.se ABSTRACT: Some reflections on Hussein Kassim’s article on the concept of race in A Companion to Genet

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Roger Fjellstrom Printed from: Hommage à Wlodek. Philosophical Papers Dedicated to Wlodek Rabinowicz. Ed. T. Rønnow-Rasmussen, B. Petersson, J. Josefsson & D. Egonsson, 2007. www.fil.lu.se/hommageawlodek Roger Fjellstrom SIGNAL, DEFINITION, FUNCTION, CONSTITUTION OR WHAT? A question about the relation between value and reason-giving in the buck-passing account of value ABSTRACT The so called ‘buck

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WR – cooperation and its cogniive demands Printed from: Hommage à Wlodek. Philosophical Papers Dedicated to Wlodek Rabinowicz. Ed. T. Rønnow-Rasmussen, B. Petersson, J. Josefsson & D. Egonsson, 2007. www.fil.lu.se/hommageawlodek 1 The Cognitive and Communicative Demands of Cooperation Peter Gärdenfors Lund University Cognitive Science Kungshuset, Lundagård S-223 50 Lund, Sweden Peter.Gardenfors@lu

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1 Are There Reasons to Be Rational? Olav Gjelsvik, University of Oslo The thesis. Among people writing about rationality, few people are more rational than Wlodek Rabinowicz. But are there reasons for being rational? This paper explores whether there are, and attempts to defend a limited thesis to the effect that there are reasons to be rational. The thesis that is defended is limited this way: As

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Introduction Printed from: Hommage à Wlodek. Philosophical Papers Dedicated to Wlodek Rabinowicz. Ed. T. Rønnow-Rasmussen, B. Petersson, J. Josefsson & D. Egonsson, 2007. www.fil.lu.se/hommageawlodek 1 Cognition, multimodal interaction and new media1 Jana Holsanova2 Cognitive Science Dept., Lund University jana.holsanova@lucs.lu.se ABSTRACT: From a cognitive perspective, this paper summarises a nu

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Microsoft Word - Priority_Population.doc 1 ON GIVING PRIORITY TO POSSIBLE FUTURE PEOPLE Nils Holtug Philosophy Section Department of Media, Cognition and Communication nhol@hum.ku.dk ABSTRACT: According to prioritarianism, roughly, it is better to benefit a person, the worse off she is. This seems a plausible principle as long as it is applied only to fixed populations. However, once this restrict

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Reasonable Hypocricy and Partial Compliance Printed from: Hommage à Wlodek. Philosophical Papers Dedicated to Wlodek Rabinowicz. Ed. T. Rønnow-Rasmussen, B. Petersson, J. Josefsson & D. Egonsson, 2007. www.fil.lu.se/hommageawlodek PARTIAL COMPLIANCE: SUNDAY SCHOOL MORALITY MEETS GAME THEORY. Magnus Jiborn Magnus.jiborn@fil.lu.se ABSTRACT: There is a striking gap between the moral standards that mo

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Introduction Printed from: Hommage à Wlodek. Philosophical Papers Dedicated to Wlodek Rabinowicz. Ed. T. Rønnow-Rasmussen, B. Petersson, J. Josefsson & D. Egonsson, 2007. www.fil.lu.se/hommageawlodek 1 SUPERIORITY IN VALUE AND THE REPUGNANT CONCLUSION∗ Karsten Klint Jensen Danish Centre for Bioethics and Risk Assessment kkj@foi.dk ABSTRACT: James Griffin has considered a weak form of superiority i

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DELIBERATION DOES CROWD OUT PREDICTION DELIBERATION DOES CROWD OUT PREDICTION Isaac Levi John Dewey Professor of Philosophy Emeritus Columbia University, New York, NY 10027 levi@columbia.edu Wlodek Rabinowicz (2002) has challenged the thesis that deliberation as to what one is to do and prediction as to what one will do cannot be jointly undertaken coherently. He maintains that even if it were tru

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My Choice, Our Choice My Choice, Our Choice Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication Section of Philosophy University of Copenhagen ABSTRACT: Luck-egalitarianism is often formulated as the view that it is in itself bad for some to be worse off than others through no fault or choice of their own. This formulation is surprisingly ambiguous. When these ambiguities ar

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Mongin WR Volume Printed from: Hommage à Wlodek. Philosophical Papers Dedicated to Wlodek Rabinowicz. Ed. T. Rønnow-Rasmussen, B. Petersson, J. Josefsson & D. Egonsson, 2007. www.fil.lu.se/hommageawlodek

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THE CONCEPTS OF HEALTH AND DISEASE REVISITED Printed from: Homage à Wlodek. Philosophical Papers Dedicated to Wlodek Rabinowicz. Eds. T. Rønnow-Rasmussen, B. Petersson, J. Josefsson & D. Egonssson, 2007. www.fil.lu.se/HomageaWlodek UNDERSTANDING THE CONCEPT OF HEALTH Lennart Nordenfelt, Dept of Health and Society, Linköping University, lenno@ihs.liu.se ABSTRACT: Contemporary philosophy of health h

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Rabinowich and Lindström on relation belief revision Printed from: Hommage à Wlodek. Philosophical Papers Dedicated to Wlodek Rabinowicz. Ed. T. Rønnow-Rasmussen, B. Petersson, J. Josefsson & D. Egonsson, 2007. www.fil.lu.se/hommageawlodek Lindström and Rabinowicz on relational belief revision Erik J. Olsson Lund University and University of Constance Abstract: It is usually taken for granted that

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Printed from: Hommage à Wlodek. Philosophical Papers Dedicated to Wlodek Rabinowicz. Ed. T. Rønnow-Rasmussen, B. Petersson, J. Josefsson & D. Egonsson, 2007. www.fil.lu.se/hommageawlodek BOUNDED REVISION: TWO-DIMENSIONAL BELIEF CHANGE BETWEEN CONSERVATISM AND MODERATION Hans Rott Department of Philosophy, University of Regensburg hans.rott@psk.uni-regensburg.de ABSTRACT: In this paper I present th

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Parrondo’s Paradox and Epistemology – combining two faulty strategies to get good results PARRONDO’S PARADOX AND EPISTEMOLOGY – WHEN BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD COGNIZERS (AND CONVERSELY) Fredrik Stjernberg Philosophy, Linköping University frest@irk.liu.se ABSTRACT: According to Parrondo’s Paradox, there will be cases where a subject facing two probabilistically losing strategies has a probabilistic

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Common sense psychology and scientific explanation Common sense psychology and scientific explanation Frederick Stoutland Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University Fred.Stoutland@filosofi.uu.se ABSTRACT: In his recent book, Teleological Realism, Scott Sehon defends a teleological account of explanations in common sense psychology [CSP], arguing that if such explanations were causal, CSP would b

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Future People, the All Affected Principle, and the Limits of the Aggregation Model of Democracy Future People, the All Affected Principle, and the Limits of the Aggregation Model of Democracy 1 Torbjörn Tännsjö Stockholm University Abstract: Contrary from what seems to be the received wisdom in political theory, there is no way that we can affect future people, at least not people who live several

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Fresh Air Fresh Air?* Folke Tersman Stockholm University & University of Auckland 1. Introduction Imagine a closed room where the oxygen is running low. The people in the room are starting to doze off, and some are even on the verge of drifting into unconsciousness. When fresh air is finally let in, some are enlivened and energized, whereas others, who are in a sadder state, are less easily revive

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Introduction 1 ON THE FULFILLMENT OF MORAL OBLIGATION Michael J. Zimmerman Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Greensboro m_zimme2@uncg.edu ABSTRACT: This paper considers three general views about the nature of moral obligation and three particular answers (with which these views are typically associated) concerning the following question: if on Monday you lend me a book that

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In his correspondence with Princess Elizabeth and Queen Christina, as well as in parts of the Passions of the Soul, Descartes provide the beginnings of a theory of ethics. Descartes argues that the supreme good, or the end that one ought to pursue in all of one's actions, is virtue. The latter is understood by Descartes as a matter of using ones absolutely free will as well as one can. In the pape

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