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Trust and confidence in scientific research

Edited by Göran Hermerén, Kerstin Sahlin and Nils-Eric Sahlin

Trust is hard to earn and easy to lose. This is well-known. Public trust in research is decreasing – why? Is it a problem? Has ghostwriting, salami publications, misconduct and distrust something to do with this loss? Is the reason that contemporary science seems to focus more on productivity than creativity? From different perspectives the papers in this volume focuses on the ways in which factors affecting distrust and trust, including criteria of quality, are identified, measured and dealt with by universities and other institutions. But the papers do not only identify a set of problems but also discuss what is currently being done, and what could and should be done, to deal with the problems.

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Eget ansvar i vården

Bo Ahrén, Nils-Eric Sahlin och Katrin Ståhl, redaktörer

Lund, Media-Tryck, 2010

Vi vill ha mycket vård, god vård och vård i rättan tid. Men våra resurser är begränsade. Varken privata eller offentliga medel räcker för att tillfredsställa alla de behov, förväntningar och önskningar som finns i dagens samhälle. Var går gränserna för det offentligas åtaganden? Vad är rimligt att kräva av vården? Vad kan man kräva av den enskilde? Vilket ansvar har vården? Vilket ansvar har vi som vårdtagare?

Risk & Risici

Johannes Persson och Nils-Eric Sahlin, redaktörer

Nya Doxa 2008.

Risker, faror och hot kantar vår vardag. Hur skall vi hantera dem? Nästan alla möjligheter rymmer risker. Och nästan alla risker rymmer möjligheter. Förnuftiga avvägningar krävs. I stort och i smått. Globalt som lokalt. Av samhället och den enskilde. Denna bok handlar om att välja risker: om hälsorisker, ny teknologi och svåra beslut i vård och omsorg; om jämförbarhet, acceptans och prioriteringar; om osäker kunskap, värden och moral.

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Kreativitetens filosofi

Nils-Eric Sahlin

Nya Doxa 2001

Med sin kreativitet har människan erövrat världen, men också tagit livet av miljoner. Vill vi ha kreativa människor? Och vad är kreativitet? Nils-Eric Sahlin reder ut begreppet och till sin hjälp tar han krigare och matematiker, kockar och höjdhoppare, komponister och filosofer. De kreativa möter de okreativa. Den sanna kreativiteten ställs mot den falska. Ett enkelt recept på hur man skapar kreativa miljöer avslutar boken.

Spinning Ideas

Edited by Sören Halldén, Bengt Hansson, Wlodek Rabinowicz and Nils-Eric Sahlin

Lund 1999

The Value of Life

Edited by Göran Hermerén and Nils-Eric Sahlin

Konferens 46, Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, Stockholm 1999

• Göran Hermerén, Introduction: problems and projects
• Bertil Albrektson, The value of life: Biblical aspects
• David Fetherstonhaugh, Paul Slovic, Stephen M. Johnson and James Friedrich, Insensitivity to the value of human life. A study of psychological numbing
• Göran Flood, The value of life in the insurance world
• Birger Gerhardsson, The value of life according to the Bible
• John Harris, The value of life
• Elisabeth Rynning, Life — a legally protected value among others
• Lennart Sjöberg, Leif-values and the tyranny of unique decisions
• Maurice de Wachter, Valuing the end of human life

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Evidentiary Value

Edited by Peter Gärdenfors and Bengt Hansson

Library of Theoria no 15, CWK Gleerup, Lund, 1983

Contents:

The Evidentiary Value Model: Too Short an Introduction

(this introduction was written 2004 for this site)

The evidentiary value model (EVM) was developed in the early 1970s in papers by the philosophers Martin Edman and Sören Halldén, who were themselves influenced by the work of the Swedish lawyer Per Olof Ekelöf.

The Complexity of Creativity

Edited by Åke. E. Andersson and Nils-Eric Sahlin

Synthese Library, Vol. 258. Kluwer 1996

Future Risks and Risk Management

Edited by Berndt Brehmer and Nils-Eric Sahlin

Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht 1994

Future Risks and Risk Management provides a broad perspective on risk, including basic philosophical issues concerned with values, psychological issues, such as the perception of risk, the factors that generate risks in current and future technological and social systems, including both technical and organizational factors. No other volume adopts this broad perspective. Future Risks and Risk Management will be useful in a variety of contects, both for teaching and as a source book for the risk professional needing to be informed of the broader issues in the field.

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The Philosophy of Sören Halldén

Edited by K. Segerberg and N-E Sahlin

Theoria, Volume LIX (1993), pp. 178-91.

Contents:

Huvudinnehåll: 12 filosofiska uppsatser

Åke E. Andersson och Nils-Eric Sahlin, redaktörer

Nya Doxa, 1993

The Philosophy of F.P. Ramsey

Nils-Eric Sahlin

Cambridge University Press 1990

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(this short introduction was written 2001 for this site)

Frank Plumpton Ramsey (1903-1930), British mathematician and philosopher, best known for his work on the foundations of mathematics. But Ramsey also made remarkable contributions to epistemology, semantics, logic, philosophy of science, mathematics, statistics, probability and decision theory, economics and metaphysics.

Decision, Probability, and Utility: Selected Readings

Edited by Peter Gärdenfors and Nils-Eric Sahlin

Cambridge University Press, New York, 1988