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29 June, 2018

Climate ethics and future generations

Workshop within the research project "Climate ethics and future generations", 27–29 September. Audience members admitted by invitation only. 1st Day – 27th September 8:45 – 9:15       Coffee/Breakfast 9.1

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24 October, 2024

Conference: Philosophical Perspectives on Social Injustice

Location: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm If you plan to attend all or parts of the conference, please register by sending an e-mail to [email protected] Thursday Decem

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25 April, 2018

Non Ideal Social Ontology III

PROGRAM Printable program as pdf-file. 11th of June: Implicit bias Room: Meeting room, Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm 09.00 Welcome 09.15–10.30 Robin Zheng (Yale-NUS College) “Re” 11.00–12.15 Åsa Burman (Stockholm University & Institute for Futures Studies) ””

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19 September, 2023

Ethics of Coordination

This is a hybrid workshop. If you wish to join, get in touch with Olle Torpman, [email protected] more information about the workshop, including abstracts, visitthe project website Agenda Wednesd10.00–11:45 Julia Nefsky: Expexted Utility, the Pond Analogy and Imperfect Duties13.30–14.30 Anne Schwenkenbecher: We-mode reasoning about our environmental obligations14.45–15.45 Vuko Andric: 

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06 April, 2018

Non Ideal Social Ontology III

By 'non-ideal social ontology', we have in mind social ontology that starts with difficult, complicated cases of immediate importance to social theory, rather than starting from simplified or abstractOur thinking is that just as critical philosophers of race such as Charles Mills have made a case for the importance of non-ideal political philosophy, non-ideal social ontology could play an important role in advancing emancipatory social theory. 09.00 Welcome 09.15–10.30 Robin Zheng (Yale-NUS College) “Responding to Bias: Oughts, Ideals, and Appraisals” 11.00–12.15 Åsa Burman (Stockholm University & Institute for Futures Studies) ”Collective responsibility for implicit bias” 12.15–13.30 Lunch 13.30–14.45 Katharina Berndt Rasmussen (Institute for Futures Studies) ”Implicit bias and discrimination” 15.15–16.30 Alex Madva (California State Polytechnic University), ”Responsibility for Interpreting Implicit Bias” 19.00 Workshop dinner 09.00–10.15 Rebecca Mason (University of San Francisco) ”Oppression and Incredulity” 10.30–11.45 Johan Brännmark (Malmö University) ”Institutions, Ideology, and Non-Ideal Social Ontology” 11.45–13.15 Lunch 13.15–14.30 Staffan Carlshamre (Stockholm University) ”Natural kinds, social kinds, mixed kinds” 14.45–16.00 Katharine Jenkins (University of Nottingham) ”Sex and gender, grounding and anchoring” Organized by Åsa Burman & Katharina Berndt Rasmussen. Sponsored by Jane and Dan Olsson Foundation, Institute for Futures Studies, and the Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University Questions? Please contact:

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30 January, 2025

Interdisciplinary workshop: Contemporary perspectives on conservatism

Conservatism as a distinctive political ideology was born out of Edmund Burke’s critique of the French revolution. Despite its significant influence in society and research, there exists no unified un

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15 May, 2018

Individual and Collective Duties to Rescue

The ongoing refugee crisis in Europe, along with calls for intervention in conflicts in Syria and elsewhere, has pushed discussion of duties to rescue into the political spotlight. At the same time, t

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13 February, 2018

Money of the future

Most of this seminar will be in Swedish. One of the presentations, however, will be in English. In Sweden the amounts of payments made with cash are decreasing and it has been claimed that in 2030 we w

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19 January, 2017

Basic income – the key to a free society and a sane economy?

It may sound crazy to pay people an income whether or not they are working or looking for work. But today, with the traditional welfare state creaking under pressure, the idea of a basic income has be

With the traditional welfare state creaking under pressure, the idea of a basic income has become one of the most widely debated social policy proposals in the world. Welcome to a seminar whith one of the most well-known advocates of this old idea, Philippe Van Parijs.
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23 January, 2018

Frukostseminarium: Kan man planera för framtiden?

De senaste decennierna har flera politiskt tillsatta framtidskommissioner och utredningar sett dagens ljus för att snart falla i glömska eller drunkna i allt som redan händer här och nu. Men vilka behoVi har bjudit in Katarina Engberg, fil. dr. i Freds- och konfliktforskning samt tidigare departementsråd i Regeringskansliet, att berätta om sin erfarenhet av strategisk planering i Statsrådsberedningen (Kansliet för strategi- och framtidsfrågor och EU-kansliet), Försvarsdepartementet och Försvarsmakten. Tid: Torsdag, 15 februari 08.30–10.00 med enklare frukost från kl. 08.00Plats: Institutet för Framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13 i Stockholm

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