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17 April, 2023

Klemens Kappel: The Epistemic Significance of Convergence in Ethical Theory

Venue: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, 4th floor, StockholmResearch seminar with Klemens Kappel, Professor at the Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen.Join us on sit

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23 September, 2022
Stina Björkholm

Stina Björkholm

My research interests broadly concern evaluative and normative aspects of linguistic communication. I defended my PhD thesis The Duality of Moral Language: On Hybrid Theories in Metaethicsat Stockholm U

PhD, Philosophy
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24 October, 2016
The dangers of excessive  ambitions within  the social sciences - Jon Elster

The dangers of excessive ambitions within the social sciences - Jon Elster

www.iffs.se Part 1: In this lecture Jon Elster diagnoses this flaw and discusses possible remedies. He argues that actual agents are intrinsically less sophisticated than the models assume them to

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25 October, 2022

The normality assumption in coordination games with flexible information acquisition

Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 203, 2022. Abstract Many economic models assume that random variables follow normal (Gaussian) distributions. Yet, real-world variables may be non-normally distributed.

Type of publication: Journal articles | Rigos, Alexandros
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01 March, 2015

Being and Well-Being

in: Weighing and Reasoning. Themes from the Philosophy of John Broome, Eds.Iwao Hirose and Andrew Reisner, Oxford University Press. This chapter discusses the question of whether we can make it better

Type of publication: Chapters | Bykvist, Krister
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24 October, 2016
The dangers of excessive  ambitions within  the social sciences - Tore Ellingsen

The dangers of excessive ambitions within the social sciences - Tore Ellingsen

www.iffs.se Part 2: Comment by Tore Ellingsen In this lecture Jon Elster diagnoses this flaw and discusses possible remedies. He argues that actual agents are intrinsically less sophisticated than

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24 October, 2016
The dangers of excessive  ambitions within  the social sciences - Jon Elster replies

The dangers of excessive ambitions within the social sciences - Jon Elster replies

www.iffs.se Part 4: Jon Elster answers to comments from Tore Ellingsen and Bengt Hansson. In this lecture Jon Elster diagnoses this flaw and discusses possible remedies. He argues that actual age

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24 October, 2016
The dangers of excessive  ambitions within  the social sciences - Jon Elster Q&A

The dangers of excessive ambitions within the social sciences - Jon Elster Q&A

www.iffs.se Part 5: Questions from the audience In this lecture Jon Elster diagnoses this flaw and discusses possible remedies. He argues that actual agents are intrinsically less sophisticated th

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24 October, 2016
The dangers of excessive  ambitions within  the social sciences - Bengt Hansson

The dangers of excessive ambitions within the social sciences - Bengt Hansson

www.iffs.se Part 3: Comment by Bengt Hansson In this lecture Jon Elster diagnoses this flaw and discusses possible remedies. He argues that actual agents are intrinsically less sophisticated than

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09 September, 2014

Gustaf Arrhenius appointed as new director of the Institute for Futures Studies

Gustaf Arrhenius, Professor of Practical Philosophy at Stockholm University, is known for his research on our moral obligations to future generations and on issues in democratic theory. On November th

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