Advances in Life Course Research, vol. 53 Abstract We studied to what extent family lines die out over the course of 122 years based on Swedish population-level data. Our data included demographic and s

Synthese 196(7): 2885–2906. doi.org/10.1007/s11229-017-1587-5 Abstract The concept of information has well-known difficulties. Among the many issues that have been discussed is the alethic nature of a se

Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist: Impacts of past climate variability – lessons for the 21st century

The talk summarizes key findings of state-of-the-art research on how climate variability and change have affected different aspects of human history in medieval and early modern Europe (c. 700–1815 CE

I am Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Australian National University, having previously served as Professor of Government at University of Essex. I work on a range of topics in political theor

Synthese Abstract The key characteristic of deep disagreements is that any attempt to resolve them just reveals new points of disagreement that stem from underlying commitments. Many moral disagreementsInformal LogicSemantics and Pragmatics

Place: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm or onlineREGISTERResearch seminar with Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist, Professor of History.ABSTRACT The talk will start with summaris

AbstractThe death of a child affects the well-being of parents and families worldwide but very little is known about the scale of this phenomenon. We provide the first global overview of parental bere

Jason Beckfield, Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. Abstract The Euro-crisis of 2009–2012 and the UK’s 2016 vote to leave the EU vividly demonstrated that EU policies matter for the distribut