• Will carbon taxes help address climate change? 

  Kian Mintz-Woo (Centre de recherche en éthique de l’Université de Montréal, 2021-07)

  The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis ought to serve as a reminder about the costs of failure to consider another long-term risk, climate change. For this reason, it is imperative to consider the merits of policies ...
• Towards a wide approach to improvisation 

  Krueger, Joel; Salice, Alessandro (Routledge, 2021-06-01)

  This paper pursues two main aims. First, it distinguishes two kinds of improvisation: expert and inexpert. Expert improvisation is a (usually artistic) practice that the agent consciously sets as their goal and is evaluated ...
• Public values in the right place 

  Mintz-Woo, Kian (Taylor & Francis, 2021-06-30)

  I am sympathetic to Avner de Shalit’s position that a political philosophy should incorporate public values, but I see their role differently. Philosophers of science standardly distinguish between values being introduced ...
• A philosopher’s guide to discounting 

  Mintz-Woo, Kian (Oxford University Press, 2021-04)

  This chapter introduces several distinctions relevant to what is called the “discounting problem”, since the issue is how (future) costs and benefits are discounted to make them comparable in present terms. The author ...
• The interdependence of nature and nurture in the establishment and maintenance of mind: an eco-dynamic paradigm 

  Greenberg, Ira N. (University College Cork, 2021-05)

  This dissertation makes the case that the human mind is established and maintained by the interdependence or enmeshment of multiple complex, dynamic systems; biological, social, and technological. These are not merely ...

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