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Christian Rostbøll: Why Struggles for Recognition Can Harm Democracy: On Populism, Respect, and Esteem
Venue:Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm Research seminar with Christian Rostbøll, professor of political theory at the University of Copenhagen. Register here > AbstractIt (Cambridge University Press, 2023).
James Fishkin: Is Deliberation an Antidote to Extreme Partisan Polarization? Reflections on “America in One Room”
AbstractIs Deliberation an Antidote to Extreme Partisan Polarization? Reflections on “America in One Room” Register here to join the seminar This talk is positioned at the intersectionof two literatures
Jenny Andersson: What is futures studies?
Jenny Andersson, Researcher at Sciences Po & Co-Director of MaxPo in Paris. ABSTRACTAt this seminar, Jenny will present her new book The future of the world. Futurology, futurists and the struggle f
Resilient privatization: the puzzling case of for-profit welfare providers in Sweden
Socio-Economic Review, 2018. Vol 00, No. 0, 1–21. DOI: 10.1093/ser/mwy005 AbstractIn this article, we analyse the striking resilience of for-profit care and service provision in what has often been see
Thomas Christiano: The Tension between the Nature and the Norm of Voluntary Exchange
Thomas Christiano, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona ABSTRACTI argue we can make a great deal of progress in understanding the promise and the perils of voluntary exchange by elabora
A popular misapplication of evolutionary modeling to the study of human cooperation
Evolution and Human Behavior, Volume 38, Issue 3, Pages 421–427. Abstract To examine the evolutionary basis of a behavior, an established approach (known as the phenotypic gambit) is to assume that the b
Mike Otsuka: How to guard against the risk of living too long: the case for collective pensions
Mike (Michael) Otsuka, Professor of Philosophy at London School of Economics ABSTRACTIn this paper, I defend the realization here and now of a type of occupational pension that is collective rather tha
Karsten Klint Jensen: Future Generations in Democracy
Karsten Klint Jensen, Associate Professor, Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO), University of Copenhagen. ABSTRACTIn this talk I ask whether the genuine representation of future generation
POSTPONED! - New date November 25 - Olle Häggström: Bayesian and non-Bayesian epistemic attitudes (webinar)
THIS SEMINAR IS POSTPONED - New date November 25 Olle Häggströmis professor of mathematical statistics at Chalmers University of Technology, researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies and a board
Olle Häggström: Bayesian and non-Bayesian epistemic attitudes, with applications to the atomic bomb, artificial intelligence, covid-19 and existential risk (webinarium)
Olle Häggströmis professor of mathematical statistics at Chalmers University of Technology, researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies and a board member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences