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Lockean views of personal identity maintain that we are essentially persons who persist diachronically by virtue of being psychologically continuous with our former selves. In this article, I present a novel objection to this variant of psychological accounts, which is based on neurophysiological characteristics of the brain. While the mental states that constitute said psychological continuity re
Fifty years have passed since brain death was first proposed as a criterion of death. Its advocates believe that with the destruction of the brain, integrated functioning ceases irreversibly, somatic unity dissolves, and the organism turns into a corpse. In this article, I put forward two objections against this assertion. First, I draw parallels between brain death and other pathological conditio
Machine intelligence already helps medical staff with a number of tasks. Ethical decision-making, however, has not been handed over to computers. In this proof-of-concept study, we show how an algorithm based on Beauchamp and Childress’ prima-facie principles could be employed to advise on a range of moral dilemma situations that occur in medical institutions. We explain why we chose fuzzy cogniti
Many regard conspiracy theorists’ and populists’ struggle against ‘the rulingelite’ as threatening Western liberal democracy. Sometimes this threat isdescribed in apocalyptic images, mirroring the apocalyptic tone in manyconspiracy theories and in much populist rhetoric. In this paper, I propoundconsidering a framework for a critical dialogue about conspiracy theoriesand populism based on the unde
How can justice be socially accomplished when a trial takes place through video links?This video examines remote court proceedings as social and interactional encounters. It explores how justice rituals, shared understanding, mutual focus and courtroom practices may change when participants are not physically present in the same space.
This is a case report of a 54-year-old male, who was admitted twice with transient ischaemic attacks and eventually stroke due to cerebral vasculitis because of an underlying borrelial infection. He did not have any preceding symptoms of neuroborreliosis (Bannwarth syndrome) or erythema migrans. This report underlines the importance of performing a broad neurological evaluation of patients, who pr
The purpose of this article is to reflect on the necessity of incorporating practical and experiential learning modalities in higher education to prepare strategic communication students for functioning in a global business environment characterized by an increasingly diverse, multicultural workforce and socio-cultural environment. It is argued that intercultural sensitivity and communication compe
This article examines why individuals in Kazakhstan continue gambling despite mounting financial losses and growing personal crises. Drawing on qualitative interviews with gamblers and gambling hall staff, it argues that gambling persistence is embedded in a moral economy of debt, in which financial obligations become intertwined with family responsibility, social expectations, and concerns about
This paper explores how a case of collaborative governance between public authorities and civil society organisations (CSOs) in Sweden was affected by political changes and reforms (2014-2024) that eventually contributed to the closing down of the project. The case addresses state-civil society relations in Sweden and how political shifts affect collaborative policy implementation. The collaborati
Business resistance to, negotiation of, and partial compliance with demands for responsibility and accountability in self- regulatory, as well as legal regimes, has been well documented. This chapter further engages with these issues by focusing on the regulation of the pharmaceutical industry – an industry that has attracted substantial scholarly attention, particularly regarding the self- regula
Background: Given the increased likelihood of wildfires in boreal forests due to climate change, the feasibility of current and alternative post-fire forest management strategies needs to be better understood. We assess the acceptability of post-fire management options through a survey experiment aimed at both forest owners and other forest users in Gävleborg county in Sweden—a region that experie
Drought is causing increasingly severe and widespread negative impacts on forest gross primary productivity (GPP), but modelling these impacts over large spatial scales with remote sensing data is challenging. It is especially problematic in forests that have lower spectral sensitivity to drought compared to other ecosystems and where the timing of vegetation index (VI) response may lag GPP. Howev
