Journal Version Physical Review E 99 Abstract A detailed Monte Carlo study of the satisfiability threshold for random 3-SAT has been undertaken. In combination with a monotonicity assumption we find tha

In: Mosquera, J. & O. Torpman (ed.), Studies on Climate Ethics and Future Generationsvol. 6. Working Paper Series 2024:10–17 Abstract A common objection to sufficientarianism is that it allows large

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, published online first. doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2019.1644583 Abstract This paper investigates the relationship between the idea of popula

The purpose of this project is to investigate the relevance of empirical results for the philosophy of mathematics.

2008. Journal of Population Economics 21(3), 521-539. Abstract There are obvious reasons why residential construction should depend on the population’s age structure. We estimate this relation on Swedis

Journal of Applied Philosophy Abstract It is often acknowledged that public policies can constrain people’s procreative opportunities, in some cases even infringing their procreative rights. However, a

Sovereignty and sustainability - friends or foes? Interview with Steven Vanderheiden

To limit the global warming to a maximum of two degrees above pre-industrial levels, much of the coal and oil reserves on earth must stay in the ground. This requires international agreements to limit

2011. Physica A 390:3996-4001. The graph-navigability problem concerns how one can find as short paths as possible between a pair of vertices, given an incomplete picture of a graph. We study the navigab

Ghost Platform: Generating the "Complex Image" of Data, Labour, and Logistics

This project aims to create a platform that makes visible the conflicts in transport logistics that are mostly being concealed from public view.

Overheating. Understanding accelerated change. Thomas Hylland Eriksen, professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo. ABSTRACTThe contemporary world is … too full? Too intense? All of the above, and more. Ours is a world of high-speed modernity where exponential growth can be found in domains as different as the number of cellphones in Africa and the number of international tourist arrivals. The fossil fuel revolution two centuries ago led to the contemporary ‘overheated’ world of exponential growth. The main dilemma of this overheated world is the insight that what was the salvation for humanity for two hundred years, namely fossil fuels, has rapidly become our damnation owing to climate change. This lecture outlines the parameters of ‘overheating’ and describes the main global challenges for our century.