Hein Duijf

Biographic Data

ID5996143
NAMEHein Duijf
GIVEN NAMESHein
FAMILY NAMEDuijf
SIGNATUREDUIJF H
AFFILIATIONSVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
ORCID0000-0001-6936-306X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS6
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Diversity and Expertise in Binary Classification Problems

    Open AccessHein DuijfARTICLEPhilosophy of Science2026

    Democratic theorists and social epistemologists often celebrate the epistemic benefits of diversity. One of the cornerstones is the “diversity trumps ability” result by Hong and Page (2004). Ironically, the interplay between diversity and ability is rarely studied in radically different frameworks. In particular, the diversity–expertise trade-off has not been studied systematically for small, deliberative groups facing binary classification probl…

  • A Logical Study of Moral Responsibility

    Open AccessHein DuijfARTICLEErkenntnis2025

    This paper proposes a logical framework for studying the structure of moral responsibility for outcomes. The analysis incorporates two vital features: an agency condition and a negative condition of an alternative possibility. The logical language allows us to identify and disambiguate seven plausible criteria for moral responsibility. To accommodate interdependent decision contexts, the semantics are given in terms of so-called responsibility ga…

  • When should one be open-minded

    Open AccessHein DuijfARTICLEPhilosophical Studies2024

    It is widely believed among philosophers and educated people that it is virtuous to be open-minded. Instead of thinking of open-mindedness as universally or unconditionally epistemically valuable, I argue that it is vital to explicate the conditions that must obtain if open-mindedness is to be epistemically valuable. This paper critically evaluates open-mindedness given certain realistic cognitive limitations. I present and analyse a simple mathe…

  • The problem of no hands

    Open AccessHein Duijf, Frederik Van De PutteARTICLESocial Choice and Welfare2022

    The problem of no hands concerns the existence of so-called responsibility voids: cases where a group makes a certain decision, yet no individual member of the group can be held responsible for this decision. Criteria-based collective decision procedures play a central role in philosophical debates on responsibility voids. In particular, the well-known discursive dilemma has been used to argue for the existence of these voids. But there is no con…

  • Ethics of digital contact tracing and Covid-19

    Open AccessMichael Klenk, Hein DuijfARTICLEEthics and Information Technology2021

    Digital tracing technologies are heralded as an effective way of containing SARS-CoV-2 faster than it is spreading, thereby allowing the possibility of easing draconic measures of population-wide quarantine. But existing technological proposals risk addressing the wrong problem. The proper objective is not solely to maximise the ratio of people freed from quarantine but to also ensure that the composition of the freed group is fair. We identify s…

  • Cooperation, fairness and team reasoning

    Open AccessHein DuijfARTICLEEconomics and Philosophy2021

    This paper examines two strands of literature regarding economic models of cooperation. First, payoff transformation theories assume that people may not be exclusively motivated by self-interest, but also care about equality and fairness. Second, team reasoning theorists assume that people might reason from the perspective of the team, rather than an individualistic perspective. Can these two theories be unified? In contrast to the consensus amon…

  • An impossibility result on methodological individualism

    Open AccessHein Duijf, Allard Tamminga et al.ARTICLEPhilosophical Studies2021

    Methodological individualists often claim that any social phenomenon can ultimately be explained in terms of the actions and interactions of individuals. Any Nagelian version of methodological individualism requires that there be bridge laws that translate social statements into individualistic ones. We show that Nagelian individualism can be put to logical scrutiny by making the relevant social and individualistic languages fully explicit and ma…

  • Expressivity results for deontic logics of collective agency

    Open AccessAllard Tamminga, Hein Duijf et al.ARTICLESynthese2021References: 16

    We use a deontic logic of collective agency to study reducibility questions about collective agency and collective obligations. The logic that is at the basis of our study is a multi-modal logic in the tradition of stit (‘sees to it that’) logics of agency. Our full formal language has constants for collective and individual deontic admissibility, modalities for collective and individual agency, and modalities for collective and individual obliga…

  • Should one trust experts

    Open AccessHein DuijfARTICLESynthese2021Cited by: 4References: 29

    Should one trust experts? My answer to this question is a qualified ‘no’ (and a qualified ‘yes’). In this paper I explore the conditions under which it is rational to trust and defer to experts, and those under which it may be rational to refrain from doing so. I draw on two important factors for an actor’s trust in a partner: trust depends on the partner’s competence and on the partner’s interests (and benevolence). I propose that the conditions…

  • Responsibility Voids and Cooperation

    Open AccessHein DuijfARTICLEPhilosophy of the Social Sciences2018Cited by: 2References: 27

    Do responsibility voids exist? That is, are there situations in which the group is collectively morally responsible for some outcome although no member can be held individually morally responsible for it? To answer these questions, I draw a distinction between competitive and cooperative decision contexts based on the team-reasoning account of cooperation. Accordingly, I provide a reasoning-based analysis of cooperation, competition, moral respon…