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- Professor, Philosophy, College of Arts and Sciences
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Publications
selected publications
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academic article
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Peterson, M.
(2023).
Value Change, Energy Systems, and Rational Choice: The Expected Center of Gravity Principle. Science and Engineering Ethics.
29(3), 13.
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Peterson, M.
(2022).
Abortion Is Neither Right Nor Wrong. Journal of Value Inquiry.
56(2), 219-240.
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Peterson, M.
(2022).
Moral Rightness Comes in Degrees. Journal of the American Philosophical Association.
8(4), 645-664.
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Peterson, M., & Seidel, C.
(2021).
The Deontic Transfer Principle. Erkenntnis: an international journal of analytic philosophy.
86(5), 1185-1195.
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Froding, B., & Peterson, M.
(2021).
Friendly AI. Ethics and Information Technology.
23(3), 207-214.
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Verheyen, S., & Peterson, M.
(2021).
Can we Use Conceptual Spaces to Model Moral Principles?. Review of Philosophy and Psychology.
12(2), 373-395.
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Jonsson, A., & Peterson, M.
(2020).
Consequentialism in infinite worlds. Analysis.
80(2), 240-248.
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Peterson, M.
(2019).
INTERVAL VALUES AND RATIONAL CHOICE. Economics and Philosophy.
35(1), 159-166.
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Peterson, M.
(2019).
The value alignment problem: a geometric approach. Ethics and Information Technology.
21(1), 19-28.
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Sandin, P., & Peterson, M.
(2019).
Is the Precautionary Principle a Midlevel Principle?. 22(1), 34-48.
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Peterson, M.
(2018).
The Anti-Nihilist Wager. Dialectica: the official journal of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy.
72(4), 597-602.
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Peterson, M.
(2018).
The Ethics of Technology: Response to Critics. Science and Engineering Ethics.
24(5), 1645-1652.
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Peterson, M.
(2017).
Yes, The Precautionary Principle Is Incoherent. Risk Analysis: an international journal.
37(11), 2035-2038.
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Carter, J. A., & Peterson, M.
(2017).
The modal account of luck revisited. 194(6), 2175-2184.
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Peterson, M.
(2017).
What is the Point of Thinking of New Technologies as Social Experiments?. 20(1), 78-83.
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Carter, J. A., Peterson, M., & van Bezooijen, B.
(2016).
Not Knowing a Cat is a Cat: Analyticity and Knowledge Ascriptions. 7(4), 817-834.
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Lowry, R., & Peterson, M.
(2016).
Pure Time Preference: Reply to Johansson and Rosenqvist. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.
97(3), 442-445.
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Peterson, M.
(2016).
Do pragmatic arguments show too much?. European Journal for Philosophy of Science.
6(2), 165-172.
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Carter, J. A., & Peterson, M.
(2016).
On the Epistemology of the Precautionary Principle: Reply to Steglich-Petersen. 81(2), 297-304.
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Peterson, M.
(2016).
The Dimensions of Consequentialism: Reply to Schmidt, Brown, Howard-Snyder, Crisp, Andric and Tanyi, and Gertken. 19(1), 71-82.
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Peterson, M., Sue, .., & Bovay, H. E.
(2016).
Does Moral Rightness Come In Degrees?. Philosopher's Magazine.
34-38.
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Peterson, M.
(2015).
Prospectism and the weak money pump argument. Theory and Decision: an international journal for multidisciplinary advances in decision sciences.
78(3), 451-456.
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Adam Carter, J., & Peterson, M.
(2015).
On the Epistemology of the Precautionary Principle. Erkenntnis: an international journal of analytic philosophy.
80(1), 1-13.
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Peterson, M., & Zwart, S. D.
(2014).
Introduction: Values and norms in modeling. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A.
46, 1-2.
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Hillerbrand, R., & Peterson, M.
(2014).
Nuclear power is neither right nor wrong: the case for a tertium datur in the ethics of technology. Science and Engineering Ethics.
20(2), 583-595.
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Peterson, M.
(2013).
A Generalization of the Pasadena Puzzle. Dialectica: the official journal of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy.
67(4), 597-603.
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Peterson, M. B.
(2013).
New Technologies Should not be Treated as Social Experiments. 16(3), 349-351.
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Vaesen, K., Peterson, M., & Van Bezooijen, B.
(2013).
The Reliability of Armchair Intuitions. Metaphilosophy.
44(5), 559-578.
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Peterson, M., & Sandin, P.
(2013).
The Last Man Argument Revisited. Journal of Value Inquiry.
47(1-2), 121-133.
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Frding, B., & Peterson, M.
(2013).
Why computer games can be essential for human flourishing. Journal of Information Communication and Ethics in Society.
11(2), 81-91.
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Diekmann, S., & Peterson, M.
(2013).
The role of non-epistemic values in engineering models. Science and Engineering Ethics.
19(1), 207-218.
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Selinger, E., Ihde, D., van de Poel, I., Peterson, M., & Verbeek, P.
(2012).
Erratum to: Book Symposium on Peter Paul Verbeeks Moralizing Technology: Understanding and Designing the Morality of Things. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. 25(4), 605-631.
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Frding, B., & Peterson, M.
(2012).
Why virtual friendship is no genuine friendship. Ethics and Information Technology.
14(3), 201-207.
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Lowry, R., & Peterson, M.
(2012).
Cost-benefit analysis and non-utilitarian ethics. Politics, Philosophy and Economics.
11(3), 258-279.
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Espinoza, N., & Peterson, M.
(2012).
How to depolarise the ethical debate over human embryonic stem cell research (and other ethical debates too!). Journal of Medical Ethics.
38(8), 496-500.
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Peterson, M.
(2012).
MULTIDIMENSIONAL CONSEQUENTIALISM. 25(2), 177-194.
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Peterson, M.
(2012).
Massvaccinationen frnuftig men inte rtt. Läkartidningen.
109(11), 570.
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Gustafsson, J. E., & Peterson, M.
(2012).
A computer simulation of the argument from disagreement. Synthese: an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science.
184(3), 387-405.
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Frding, B., & Peterson, M.
(2012).
Virtuous Choice and Parity. 15(1), 71-82.
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Espinoza, N., & Peterson, M.
(2012).
Risk and mid-level moral principles. Bioethics.
26(1), 8-14.
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Peterson, M.
(2011).
Comments and criticism: A new twist to the St. Petersburg paradox. Journal of Philosophy.
108(12), 697-699.
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LOWRY, R., & PETERSON, M.
(2011).
PURE TIME PREFERENCE. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.
92(4), 490-508.
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Peterson, M., & Spahn, A.
(2011).
Can technological artefacts be moral agents?. Science and Engineering Ethics.
17(3), 411-424.
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Kraemer, F., van Overveld, K., & Peterson, M.
(2011).
Is there an ethics of algorithms?. Ethics and Information Technology.
13(3), 251-260.
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Peterson, M.
(2011).
Pandemic influenza and utilitarianism. Bioethics.
25(5), 290-291.
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Peterson, M.
(2011).
The mixed solution to the number problem. Studies in Moral Philosophy.
1, 357-369.
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PETERSON, M.
(2010).
Can Consequentialists Honour the Special Moral Status of Persons?. Utilitas.
22(4), 434-446.
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Peterson, M.
(2010).
Some Versions of the Number Problem Have No Solution. 13(4), 439-451.
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Peterson, M.
(2010).
A Royal Road to Consequentialism?. 13(2), 153-169.
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Peterson, M., & Sandin, P.
(2010).
Guest editors introduction: the philosophy of risk. Journal of Risk Research.
13(2), 135-136.
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Peterson, M.
(2009).
The Mixed Solution to the Number Problem. Journal of Moral Philosophy.
6(2), 166-177.
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Sandin, P., & Peterson, M.
(2009).
Guest Editors Introduction. Philosophy of Management.
8(2), 1-2.
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Espinoza, N., & Peterson, M.
(2008).
Incomplete preferences in disaster risk management. International Journal of Technology Policy and Management.
8(4), 341-341.
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Peterson, M.
(2008).
The moral importance of selecting people randomly. Bioethics.
22(6), 321-327.
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Peterson, M.
(2007).
The precautionary principle should not be used as a basis for decision-making. Talking point on the precautionary principle. EMBO Reports.
8(4), 305-308.
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Peterson, M.
(2007).
Should the precautionary principle guide our actions or our beliefs?. Journal of Medical Ethics.
33(1), 5-10.
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MLLER, N., HANSSON, S. O., & PETERSON, M.
(2006).
Safety is more than the antonym of risk. Journal of Applied Philosophy.
23(4), 419-432.
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Peterson, M.
(2006).
Indeterminate Preferences. Philosophical Studies: an international journal for philosophy in the analytic tradition.
130(2), 297-320.
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Peterson, M.
(2006).
The precautionary principle is incoherent. Risk Analysis: an international journal.
26(3), 595-601.
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Wikman-Svahn, P., Peterson, M., & Hansson, S. O.
(2006).
Principles of protection: a formal approach for evaluating dose distributions. Journal of Radiological Protection.
26(1), 69-84.
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PETERSON, M., & HANSSON, S. O.
(2005).
Equality and Priority. Utilitas.
17(3), 299-309.
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Sjberg, L., Peterson, M., Fromm, J., Boholm, . ., & Hanson, S.
(2005).
Neglected and overemphasized risks: the opinions of risk professionals. Journal of Risk Research.
8(7-8), 599-616.
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Peterson, M.
(2004).
From Outcomes to Acts: A Non-Standard Axiomatization of the Expected Utility Principle. Journal of Philosophical Logic.
33(4), 361-378.
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Peterson, M.
(2004).
Transformative Decision Rules, Permutability, and Non-Sequential Framing of Decision Problems. Synthese: an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science.
139(3), 387-403.
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Peterson, M., & Hansson, S. O.
(2004).
On the application of rightsbased moral theories to siting controversies. Journal of Risk Research.
7(2), 269-275.
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Sandin, P., Peterson, M., Hansson, S. O., Rudn, C., & Juthe, A.
(2002).
Five charges against the precautionary principle. Journal of Risk Research.
5(4), 287-299.
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Peterson, M.
(2002).
An argument for the principle of maximizing expected utility. Theoria: a Swedish journal of philosophy.
68(2), 112-128.
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Peterson, M.
(2002).
The limits of catastrophe aversion. Risk Analysis: an international journal.
22(3), 527-538.
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Hansson, S. O., & Peterson, M.
(2001).
Rights, risks, and residual obligations. Risk, Decision and Policy.
6(3), 157-166.
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Sabat, I., Nault, E., Fortney, S., Peterson, M., & Banerjee, D.
Diversity, inclusion, and equity in the engineering curriculum: Evaluating the efficacy of a new teaching module. Advances in Engineering Education.
11(3),
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Peterson, M., & Grdenfors, P.
How to measure value alignment in AI. 1-14.
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Peterson, M.
(2023).
Value Change, Energy Systems, and Rational Choice: The Expected Center of Gravity Principle. Science and Engineering Ethics.
29(3), 13.
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book
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Peterson, M.
(2023).
Ethics in the Gray Area A Gradualist Theory of Right and Wrong. Cambridge University Press.
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Peterson, M.
(2015).
The Prisoner's Dilemma. Cambridge University Press.
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Peterson, M.
(2013).
The Dimensions of Consequentialism. Cambridge University Press (CUP).
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Roeser, S., Hillerbrand, R., Sandin, P., & Peterson, M.
(2012).
Handbook of Risk Theory. Springer Netherlands.
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Peterson, M.
(2009).
An Introduction to Decision Theory. Cambridge University Press (CUP).
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Peterson, M.
(2023).
Ethics in the Gray Area A Gradualist Theory of Right and Wrong. Cambridge University Press.
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chapter
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Peterson, M.
(2019).
Multidimensional Consequentialism and Population Ethics. Consequentialism.
(pp. 51-70).
Oxford University Press.
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Peterson, M.
(2017).
An Introduction to Decision Theory Second Edition Introduction. INTRODUCTION TO DECISION THEORY, 2ND EDITION.
(pp. 1-16).
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Peterson, M.
(2017).
An Introduction to Decision Theory Second Edition Preface. INTRODUCTION TO DECISION THEORY, 2ND EDITION.
(pp. X-X).
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Peterson, M.
(2017).
An Introduction to Decision Theory Second Edition Preface. INTRODUCTION TO DECISION THEORY, 2ND EDITION.
(pp. IX-+).
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Peterson, M.
(2017).
Bayesianism and Pragmatic Arguments. INTRODUCTION TO DECISION THEORY, 2ND EDITION.
(pp. 174-205).
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Peterson, M.
(2017).
Causal vs. Evidential Decision Theory. INTRODUCTION TO DECISION THEORY, 2ND EDITION.
(pp. 206-219).
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Peterson, M.
(2017).
Decisions under Ignorance. INTRODUCTION TO DECISION THEORY, 2ND EDITION.
(pp. 41-64).
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Peterson, M.
(2017).
Decisions under Risk. INTRODUCTION TO DECISION THEORY, 2ND EDITION.
(pp. 65-96).
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Peterson, M.
(2017).
Game Theory I: Basic Concepts and Zero-sum Games. INTRODUCTION TO DECISION THEORY, 2ND EDITION.
(pp. 234-262).
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Peterson, M.
(2017).
Game Theory II: Nonzero-sum and Cooperative Games. INTRODUCTION TO DECISION THEORY, 2ND EDITION.
(pp. 263-286).
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Peterson, M.
(2017).
Overview of Descriptive Decision Theory. INTRODUCTION TO DECISION THEORY, 2ND EDITION.
(pp. 311-322).
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Peterson, M.
(2017).
Risk Aversion. INTRODUCTION TO DECISION THEORY, 2ND EDITION.
(pp. 220-233).
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Peterson, M.
(2017).
Social Choice Theory. INTRODUCTION TO DECISION THEORY, 2ND EDITION.
(pp. 287-310).
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Peterson, M.
(2017).
The Decision Matrix. INTRODUCTION TO DECISION THEORY, 2ND EDITION.
(pp. 17-40).
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Peterson, M.
(2017).
The Mathematics of Probability. INTRODUCTION TO DECISION THEORY, 2ND EDITION.
(pp. 124-140).
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Peterson, M.
(2017).
The Philosophy of Probability. INTRODUCTION TO DECISION THEORY, 2ND EDITION.
(pp. 141-173).
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Peterson, M.
(2017).
Utility. INTRODUCTION TO DECISION THEORY, 2ND EDITION.
(pp. 97-123).
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Peterson, M.
(2017).
Radical Evaluative Ignorance. Peels, R. (Eds.),
PERSPECTIVES ON IGNORANCE FROM MORAL AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY.
(pp. 134-155).
Taylor & Francis.
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Froding, B., & Peterson, M.
(2016).
How to be a Virtuous Recipient of a Transplant Organ. International Library of Ethics Law and the New Medicine.
ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION IN TIMES OF DONOR SHORTAGE: CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS.
(pp. 89-98).
Springer Nature.
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Peterson, M.
(2016).
THE DECISIONAL VALUE OF INFORMATION. ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF PHILOSOPHY OF INFORMATION.
(pp. 153-163).
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Peterson, M.
(2015).
Introduction. The Prisoner's Dilemma.
(pp. 1-15).
Cambridge University Press.
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Peterson, M.
(2015).
The inner struggle: why you should cooperate with people you will never meet again. The Prisoner's Dilemma.
(pp. 199-218).
Cambridge University Press (CUP).
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Roeser, S., Hillerbrand, R., Sandin, P., & Peterson, M.
(2012).
Introduction to Risk Theory. Handbook of Risk Theory.
(pp. 1-23).
Springer Netherlands.
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Peterson, M.
(2007).
Risk: Philosophical Perspectives. Lewens, T. (Eds.),
Risk: Philosophical Perspectives.
(pp. 68-83).
Taylor & Francis.
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Peterson, M., & Hansson, S. O.
(2005).
Order-Independent Transformative Decision Rules. Uncertainty, Rationality, and Agency.
(pp. 269-288).
Springer Nature.
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Peterson, M.
(2019).
Multidimensional Consequentialism and Population Ethics. Consequentialism.
(pp. 51-70).
Oxford University Press.
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conference paper
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Peterson, M., & Hansson, S. O.
(2005).
Order-Independent Transformative Decision Rules. Synthese: an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science.
323-342.
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Peterson, M., & Hansson, S. O.
(2005).
Order-Independent Transformative Decision Rules. Synthese: an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science.
323-342.
Research
Teaching
teaching activities
- ENGR482 Ethics And Engineering Instructor
- PHIL111 Contemp Moral Issues Instructor
- PHIL251 Hnr-intro To Philosophy Instructor
- PHIL381 Ethical Theory Instructor
- PHIL482 Ethics And Engineering Instructor
- PHIL482 Ethics And Engineering Instructor
- PHIL485 Hnr-directed Studies Instructor
- PHIL662 Sem Ethics & Value Theor Instructor
- PHIL664 Seminar In Applied Phil Instructor
- PHIL684 Professional Internship Instructor
- PHIL685 Directed Studies Instructor
- PHIL691 Research Instructor
- PHIL691 Research: In-ab Instructor
Background
education and training
- Ph.D. in Philosophy, Royal Institute of Technology - (Stockholm, Sweden) 2003
Contact
first name
- Martin
has last name
- Peterson
mailing address
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Texas A&M University
Philosophy & Humanities
4237 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4237
USA
Other
- martinpeterson@tamu.edu