Frej Klem Thomsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 885423 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frej Klem Thomsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frej Klem |
| FAMILY NAME | Thomsen |
| SIGNATURE | THOMSEN F K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Roskilde University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9626-5115 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
No Disrespect—But That Account Does Not Explain What Is Morally Bad About Discrimination
The article explores one prominent account of what makes discrimination morally bad (when it is)—the disrespect-based account. The article first reviews and clarifies the account, arguing that it is most charitably understood as the claim that discrimination is morally bad when the discriminator gives lower weight to reasons grounded in the moral status of the discriminatee(s) in her decision-making. It then presents three challenges to the accou…
Three Lessons for and from Algorithmic Discrimination
The Teleological Account of Proportional Surveillance
The concepts of surveillance and sousveillance
The concept of surveillance has recently been complemented by the concept of sousveillance. Neither term, however, has been rigorously defined, and it is particularly unclear how to understand and delimit sousveillance. This article sketches a generic definition of surveillance and proceeds to explore various ways in which we might define sousveillance, including power differentials, surreptitiousness, control, reciprocity, and moral valence. It …
Concept, Principle, and Norm—equality Before the Law Reconsidered
Despite the attention equality before the law has received, both laudatory and critical, peculiarly little has been done to precisely define it. The first ambition of this paper is to remedy this, by exploring the various ways in which a principle of equality before the law can be understood and suggest a concise definition. With a clearer understanding of the principle in hand we are better equipped to assess traditional critique of the principl…
Good Night and Good Luck
This article clarifies what a neuroscience challenge to criminal justice must look like by sketching the basic structure of the argument, gradually filling out the details and illustrating the conditions that must be met for the challenge to work. In the process of doing so it explores influential work by Joshua Greene and Jonathan Cohen, and Stephen Morse respectively, arguing that the former should not be understood to present a version of the …
Childhood immunization, vaccine hesitancy, and provaccination policy in high-income countries
Increasing vaccine hesitancy among parents in high-income countries and the resulting drop in early childhood immunization constitute an important public health problem, and raise the issue of what policies might be taken to promote higher rates of vaccination. This article first outlines the background of the problem of increasing vaccine hesitancy. It then explores the pros and cons of 3 types of policy: (a) interventions focused on increasing …
But Some Groups Are More Equal Than Others
In this article I critically examine a standard feature in conceptions of dis crimination: the group-criterion, specifically the idea that there is a limited and definable group of traits that can form the basis of discrimination. I review two types of argument for the criterion. One focuses on inherently relevant groups and relies ultimately on luck egalitarian principles; the other focuses on contextually relevant groups and relies ulti mately …
The concepts of surveillance and sousveillance
The concept of surveillance has recently been complemented by the concept of sousveillance. Neither term, however, has been rigorously defined, and it is particularly unclear how to understand and delimit sousveillance. This article sketches a generic definition of surveillance and proceeds to explore various ways in which we might define sousveillance, including power differentials, surreptitiousness, control, reciprocity, and moral valence. It …
Three Lessons for and from Algorithmic Discrimination
Childhood immunization, vaccine hesitancy, and provaccination policy in high-income countries
Increasing vaccine hesitancy among parents in high-income countries and the resulting drop in early childhood immunization constitute an important public health problem, and raise the issue of what policies might be taken to promote higher rates of vaccination. This article first outlines the background of the problem of increasing vaccine hesitancy. It then explores the pros and cons of 3 types of policy: (a) interventions focused on increasing …
But Some Groups Are More Equal Than Others
In this article I critically examine a standard feature in conceptions of dis crimination: the group-criterion, specifically the idea that there is a limited and definable group of traits that can form the basis of discrimination. I review two types of argument for the criterion. One focuses on inherently relevant groups and relies ultimately on luck egalitarian principles; the other focuses on contextually relevant groups and relies ulti mately …
Good Night and Good Luck
This article clarifies what a neuroscience challenge to criminal justice must look like by sketching the basic structure of the argument, gradually filling out the details and illustrating the conditions that must be met for the challenge to work. In the process of doing so it explores influential work by Joshua Greene and Jonathan Cohen, and Stephen Morse respectively, arguing that the former should not be understood to present a version of the …
Childhood immunization, vaccine hesitancy, and provaccination policy in high-income countries
Increasing vaccine hesitancy among parents in high-income countries and the resulting drop in early childhood immunization constitute an important public health problem, and raise the issue of what policies might be taken to promote higher rates of vaccination. This article first outlines the background of the problem of increasing vaccine hesitancy. It then explores the pros and cons of 3 types of policy: (a) interventions focused on increasing …
Concept, Principle, and Norm—equality Before the Law Reconsidered
Despite the attention equality before the law has received, both laudatory and critical, peculiarly little has been done to precisely define it. The first ambition of this paper is to remedy this, by exploring the various ways in which a principle of equality before the law can be understood and suggest a concise definition. With a clearer understanding of the principle in hand we are better equipped to assess traditional critique of the principl…
The concepts of surveillance and sousveillance
The concept of surveillance has recently been complemented by the concept of sousveillance. Neither term, however, has been rigorously defined, and it is particularly unclear how to understand and delimit sousveillance. This article sketches a generic definition of surveillance and proceeds to explore various ways in which we might define sousveillance, including power differentials, surreptitiousness, control, reciprocity, and moral valence. It …
The Teleological Account of Proportional Surveillance
No Disrespect—But That Account Does Not Explain What Is Morally Bad About Discrimination
The article explores one prominent account of what makes discrimination morally bad (when it is)—the disrespect-based account. The article first reviews and clarifies the account, arguing that it is most charitably understood as the claim that discrimination is morally bad when the discriminator gives lower weight to reasons grounded in the moral status of the discriminatee(s) in her decision-making. It then presents three challenges to the accou…
Three Lessons for and from Algorithmic Discrimination
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