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22 January, 2018

Luc Bovens: Secular Hopes in the Face of Death

Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. ABSTRACT We will discuss various questions concerning secular hopes in the face of death, that is, hopes other than the hope for eternal life.  What

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12 December, 2017

Jennifer Saul: Dogwhistles and Figleaves: Techniques of Racist Linguistic Manipulation

Professor Jennifer Saul, Director of Research, Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield.ABSTRACTUntil recently, it was widely believed that explicit expressions of racism would doom a politic

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14 December, 2018

Roger Crisp: Pessimism about the Future

Roger Crisp, Professor of Moral Philosophy, Uehiro Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, St Anne's College, University of Oxford Abstract It is widely believed that one of the main reasons we should seek to d

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15 February, 2017

Legal Power and the Right to Vote: Does the Right to Vote Confer Power?

Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence, 30(1), 5–22. Abstract It is widely believed that voting rights confer power to individual voters as well as to the collective body of the electorate. This pa

Type of publication: Journal articles | Beckman, Ludvig
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20 December, 2024

Never eat a Pigeon with a Pumpkin: a model for the emergence and fixation of unsupported beliefs

This work was presented at the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2023, and a shortened form of the paper is Chapter 30 in Food Rules and Rituals: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Coo

Type of publication: Other | Sandberg, Anders , & Len Fisher
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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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05 March, 2024
Did the COVID-19 pandemic change our social norms?

Did the COVID-19 pandemic change our social norms?

As you might remember, a lot of our social behaviors changed during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how we perceived the behaviors of others. What was once deemed acceptable behavior became scrutinized, wi

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15 February, 2023

AI in healthcare

Venue: The Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm This workshop is open to invitees only. For more information please contact the organizers. The imperative to adopt Artificial Intelligence (AI) has be

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04 July, 2016

Learning to play

In 2007, the Swedish gambling agency ran a simple gambling game called LIMBO. Gamblers were invited to stake 10 kronor on a number of their choice between 1 and 99,999. The person choosing the smalles

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