I am Professor of Analytical Sociology at the Institute for Analytical Sociology, Linköping University. I am also Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College in Oxford. Before coming to Linköping I was

Peter Hedström has been appointed as Consulting Editor for  Sociological Science (see www.sociologicalscience.com).

Do you ever donate money to a charitable cause? If you do, how do you choose what cause to favour? The Scottish philosopher William MacAskill says that we are generally quite bad at regarding donation

If we wish to achieve a more inclusive, sustainable, diverse and equitable world, we urgently need a diversity of perspectives to imagine – and to build – better futures. The problems we face today arBased on experiments made at the Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro, this presentation will show how positive futures can be prototyped to inspire change. Using key techniques, processes, methodologies, mindsets and tools, you too can become an active participant in shaping preferred futures!Welcome to a seminar with Marcela Sabino, a foresight strategist, creative director and innovation designer.This seminar is organized by Positive Future and is free upon registration. .

in: Philosophia 48 (2020) AbstractThis paper argues that decision problems and money-pump arguments should not be a deciding factor against accepting non-transitive better than relations. If the reason

Do good and do it better. Interview with William MacAskill

Gustaf Arrhenius, director at the Institute for futures studies in Stockholm, interviews philosoper William MacAskill about effective altruism, doing good better.

Peter Hedström gave an introductory lecture called "What is analytical sociology all about?" at a theory symposium in December about analytical sociology at NYU's Department of Sociology.

Peter Hedström was elected to the board of the Swedish Research Council (VR) on the 4th of December for the period of 2012–2015. The researcher Christofer Edling was elected to the Scientific Council

Peter Hedström at the Institute for Futures Studies has been granted funding for a project called "Analytical sociology: Theoretical developments and empirical research”. 302 researchers in total were

Peter Hedström has been appointed Associated Sociology Editor of the newly started journal BSP: Behavioral Science & Policy.Read more www.behavioralpolicy.org/bsp_journal.html.