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How Valuable are Chances?
Philosophy of Science, Vol. 82, No. 4, p. 602-625. DOI: 10.1086/682915 Abstract Chance Neutrality is the thesis that, conditional on some proposition being true (or being false), its chance of being true
Victor Galaz: AI and climate change – the Good, the Bad, the Ugly
Venue: Institute for Futures Studies,Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm or online Research seminar with Victor Galaz, Associate Professor in Political Science at the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm
Victor Galaz: AI and Climate Change – the Good, the Bad, the Ugly
Artificial intelligence (AI) is often discussed as a potential “game changer” for climate change action. One key issue in this conversation focuses on the growing energy, water and carbon footprint of
Shlomi Segall: Should Egalitarians Care about Chances?
Shlomi Segall is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ABSTRACTTelic egalitarianism is the view that equality matters for its own sake. Equality
Chapter 26: The evolution of legal positivism: Reflections on continuity and discontinuity in the positivist tradition
In Zaluski, W., Bourgeois-Gironde, S. & A. Dyrda (eds.) Research Handbook on Legal Evolution. Elgar Abstract This chapter maps the evolution of legal positivism (LP) with an eye to both continuous and
IPSP: Daniel Wikler on demographic changes and challenges
Short interview with Daniel Wikler, professor of ethics and population health, on the chapter "The contours of human life" in the IPSP-report. Daniel Wikler's visit to Stockholm was made possible t
Chapter 14 Collaborative Future-Making: Bridging the Everyday and the Global Political Economy of Automated Health
Fors, Vaike, Berg, Martin and Brodersen, Meike. The De Gruyter Handbook of Automated Futures: Imaginaries, Interactions and Impact, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2024. Abstract Health services and medical
Does your name impact your chances to get a job? Short answer: Yes
What significance does your name have for your chances of getting a job? We ask Moa Bursell, a sociologist and research leader at the Institute for Futures Studies, who has researched discrimination i
The Demography of Sweden's Transgender Population: A Research Note on Patterns, Changes, and Sociodemographics
Demography Abstract We examine the prevalence of gender transitions in Sweden over time and document the sociodemographic characteristics of people transitioning in different periods. Using administrati
Biased grades? Changes in grading after a blinding of examinations reform
in: Journal of Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education 45, 292-303. AbstractGroup differences in average grades prior to and after a step-wise introduction of blinded examinations at Stockholm Un