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Eli Cook: Choose Your Own Captivity: Choice Architects and the Analog Origins of Digital Capitalism
Venue: Holländargatan 13, Stockholm, or online Research seminar with Eli Cook, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Haifa. Abstract Based on my forthcoming book with Penguin-Random House, seeks to redefine how we understand freedom and power in a choice-saturated world.
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A future without Down syndrome? Ethical reflections on the development of technology
Have you used prenatal testing to determine if the fetus you or your partner is carrying has Down’s syndrome? If the answer is yes, you are not alone. The interest in genetic screening for Down’s synd
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H. Orri Stefánsson
I am Professor of Practical Philosophy and Wallenberg Academy Fellow at Stockholm University, and Researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies. My current research mostly concerns how one should cho uncertainty, including situations where one suspects that the outcome of one’s actions (or inaction) could be catastrophic.
Do good. And do it better
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
Four decisions that actually matter for climate change
Did you take part in Earth Hour last month? On the 24th of March each year a big part of the earth’s population in the most energy consuming countries turn the lights off for one hour to stress the en
Declining birth rates - should we worry?
Are declining birth rates one of the biggest threats to humanity? Among others, Elon Musk and Donald Trump's vice-presidential candidate JD Vance seem to think so. But Karim Jebari disagrees. In the p, he explains why we don't need to worry so much.