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22 September, 2020

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

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15 December, 2021

Self-Driving Vehicles — an Ethical Overview

Philosophy & Technology 34: 1383–1408 Abstract The introduction of self-driving vehicles gives rise to a large number of ethical issues that go beyond the common, extremely narrow, focus on improbabl

Type of publication: Journal articles | Lundgren, Björn , Hansson, S. O. & M. Belin
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01 December, 2020
Bayesian and non-Bayesian epistemic attitudes and existential risk

Bayesian and non-Bayesian epistemic attitudes and existential risk

In this talk Olle Häggström will sketch and contrast two different epistemic attitudes that roughly correspond to Bayesianism and Popperian falsificationism. He will argue that they both have virtues

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21 January, 2021

Richard Arneson: Should we reward the deserving? Some puzzles

Richard Arneson is a political philosopher with a special interest in theories of social justice.  AbstractDo plausible fundamental principles of justice incorporate the idea of rewarding the deserving?

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24 August, 2020

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

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20 September, 2022

Emily Klancher Merchant: Challenging Overpopulation

Place: Holländargatan 13, Stockholm, or online.Research seminar with Emily Klancher Merchant, Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies, University of California, Davis. Emily is anhistorian

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