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12 March, 2018

Chris Armstrong: Decarbonisation and World Poverty

Professor of Political Theory at the University of Southampton. ABSTRACT If dangerous climate change is to be avoided, it is clear that the majority of the world’s fossil fuel supplies cannot be burned.

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28 September, 2022

Money-Pump Arguments

Elements in Decision Theory and Philosophy, red. Martin Peterson. Cambridge University Press Abstract Suppose that you prefer A to B, B to C, and C to A. Your preferences violate Expected Utility Theory

Type of publication: Books | Gustafsson, Johan E.
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15 January, 2014

From grasshoppers to human group behavior – interview with David Sumpter

On January 12th, Dagens Nyheter published an interview with David Sumpter, professor of applied mathematics. David , who is currently working at both Uppsala University and the Institute for Futures St

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27 September, 2022

Can AI be used to avoid discrimination during recruitment?

More and more businesses use AI – artificial intelligence – in recruitment. But what happens when they do so? The research project Can the implementation of artificial intelligence in the recruitment p, led by sociologist Moa Bursell, can give us some answers.

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25 October, 2024

The Triviality Worry About Gender Terms and Epistemic Injustice

Social Epistemology Abstract According to contextualism, a gender term such as ‘woman’ does not invariantly refer to a specific social orbiological kind. Instead, gender terms have different extensions dincludingexcluding

Type of publication: Journal articles | Björkholm, Stina
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31 October, 2022

Bo Rothstein: Populism, Epistemic Democracy and the Quality of Government

Place: At the Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm, or online. REGISTER for on site or online participation Abstract A special branch of political philosophy deals with the issue of

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25 November, 2022

A conversation on democracy and freedom with Lea Ypi, author of "Free"

(Lunch sandwich will be served from 12:00, the conversation starts at 12:30).Place: The Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, StockholmRegister here >What is it like growing up in a systWelcome to this conversation between Lea Ypi and Gustaf Arrhenius, Director of the Institute for Futures Studies and professor of Practical Philosopy. has been nominated to several prizes, and named best book of the year by The Sunday Times, Financial Times, TLS, New Statesman and Spectator.

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12 December, 2022
A conversation on democracy and freedom with Lea Ypi, author of "Free"

A conversation on democracy and freedom with Lea Ypi, author of "Free"

What is it like growing up in a system that is breaking down? Lea Ypi, born in Albania in 1979, is professor of political theory at London School of Economics and in 2021 her widely acclaimed memoar F

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13 January, 2023
Populism, Epistemic Democracy and the Quality of Government

Populism, Epistemic Democracy and the Quality of Government

Research seminar with Bo Rothstein, Professor of Political Science, and affiliated researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies. A special branch of political philosophy deals with the issue of the

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04 August, 2022

In memory of Geoffrey Brennan

The staff of the Institute for Futures Studies is deeply saddened to learn that our friend and colleague Geoffrey Brennan has recently passed away. Geoff was a most distinguished scholar and a very val

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