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New book to further the legacy of Derek Parfit
In the new book “Ethics and Existence - The legacy of Derek Parfit”, several of the most prominent scholars on the issues rai...
New study: This is why Italians are so unwilling to pay taxes
In Western Europe, Italy is at the top when it comes to tax evasion. In 2013, an estimated 27 percent of the entire tax reven...
Shame or hope? How should we feel about climate change?
Is it okay to enjoy warmer summers, given they are caused by climate change? Should we feel shame when we fly? Is anxiety an ...
Population growth - how great are the risks and what factors affect risk levels?
The global population has increased dramatically since the year 1900 from approximately 1,6 billion to today's 8 billion. The...
The Oxford Handbook of Population Ethics - Interview with the editors
If we can affect how many people will be born in the future, what does that mean for our decisions today? Would it be bad if ...
Vox: Hilary Greaves is the world's leading philosopher of the long-term future
Hilary Greaves, professor of philosophy at Oxford and researcher at IFFS, is the world's leading philosopher of the long-term...
Josef Hien receives prize for his paper on culture and tax avoidance
Why are Italians so reluctant to pay taxes? This is what Josef Hien explores in his paper "Culture and tax avoidance: the Ita...
Can AI be used to avoid discrimination during recruitment?
More and more businesses use AI – artificial intelligence – in recruitment. But what happens when they do so? The research pr...
In memory of Geoffrey Brennan
The staff of the Institute for Futures Studies is deeply saddened to learn that our friend and colleague Geoffrey Brennan has...
The triumph of secular individualism – A new mathematical model offers clear-cut answers to how morals will change over time
Irina Vartanova, Kimmo Eriksson and Pontus Strimling at the Institute for Futures Studies have created a model to predict cha...
