Wlodek Rabinowicz (Włodzimierz Rabinowicz, born on 14 January 1947) is a Polish-Swedish philosopher and Professor Emeritus at

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ativity,

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and

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. From 1995 to 1998, he was

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''.

Biography

He began his undergraduate studies at the

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,Wlodek Rabinowicz's profile at the website of Lund University
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1968 Polish political crisis The Polish 1968 political crisis, also known in Poland as March 1968, Students' March, or March events ( pl, Marzec 1968; studencki Marzec; wydarzenia marcowe), was a series of major student, intellectual and other protests against the ruling Poli ...

he moved to the

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, where he graduated in 1970. He received his doctorate in 1979.

Bibliography

*''Universalizability. A study in morals and metaphysics'', D.Reidel Publ. Comp., Dordrecht 1979. *''Logic for a Change, Festschrift for Sten Lindström'', redakcja, wraz z Svenem Ove Hanssonem, Uppsala Prints and Preprints in Philosophy 1995. *''Preference and Value - Preferentialism in Ethics'', redakcja, Studies in Philosophy, Lund 1996. *''Value and Choice – Some Common Themes in Decision Theory and Moral Philosophy'', redaktor, Lund Philosophy Reports 2000:1 *''Value and Choice – Some Common Themes in Decision Theory and Moral Philosophy'', vol. 2, redaktor, Lund Philosophy Reports 2001:1. *''Patterns of Value – Essays on Formal Axiology and Value Analysis'', vol. 2, redaktor, wraz z Toni Rønnow-Rasmussenem, Lund Philosophy Reports 2004:1,

References

External links

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Wlodek Rabinowicz
s profile at the website of Lund University *
W. Rabinowicz's CV
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', ed. Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen, Björn Petersson, Jonas Josefsson & Dan Egonsson, 2007. 1947 births Living people Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Analytic philosophers Utilitarians 20th-century Polish philosophers 21st-century Swedish philosophers Writers from Warsaw Polish emigrants to Sweden Academic staff of Lund University {{Sweden-philosopher-stub