Calls for 2 PhD positions in a new research program Transformative Partnerships for Sustainable Development: Assessing synergies, effectiveness and legitimacy of United Nations Multi-stakeholder Partne.

Throughout history, people have consulted everything from oracles to crystal balls in order to predict the future. But it was not until the 1960s that interest developed in a more systematic study of

Gert Helgesson: Dealing with a university’s historical heritage: ethical quandaries

Research seminar with Gert Helgesson, Professor, Stockholm Centre for Healthcare Ethics Abstract In the fall of 2020 a working group was appointed to deal with the historical heritage of Karolinska In

Theoria, Volume 82, Issue 2,p. 166–181,May 2016. DOI: 10.1111/theo.12094 Abstract Recently, in his Rolf Schock Prize Lecture, Derek Parfit has suggested a novel way of avoiding the Repugnant Conclusion

Utilitas, 1–9, doi:10.1017/S0953820819000116 Abstract In this article, I critique the moral theory developed in Philip Pettit’s The Robust Demands of the Good: Ethics with Attachment, Virtue, and Respecvirtue and respect. I argue that Robust-Goods Consequentialism fails because it implies very implausible value judgements.

Rivista Internazionale di Filosfia e Psicologia Abstract This paper focuses on cases of epistemically transformative experiences, as Paul calls them, cases where we have radically different experiences t

Political Science Research and Methods Abstract We experimentally explore the role of institutions imposing collective sanctions in sustaining cooperation. In our experiment, players only observe noisy

Mårten Schultz: Risk and responsibility

Legal responsibility comes in different forms. Private law deals with questions of responsibility for harm that someone causes another. The responsibility requires three things: That someone was harme

The importance of socio-economic background will become increasingly important for school success. But segregation in the school area is steadily growing and inequality is increasing, a development tha

Welcome to a seminar with Thomas Hylland Eriksen about the future of the nation. Main speaker:Thomas Hylland Eriksen, anthropologist and writer at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of O Lisa Pelling, Chief Analys at Arena Idé, and Peter Aronsson, PhD in history, Linneaus University. Göran Rosenberg.