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The triumph of secular individualism – A new mathematical model offers clear-cut answers to how morals will change over time
Irina Vartanova, Kimmo Eriksson and Pontus Strimling at the Institute for Futures Studies have created a model to predict changes in moral opinion. –Ourmodel did considerably better than all known methPontus Strimling.
Mike Otsuka: How to pool risks across generations
Research seminar with Michael Otsuka, Professor of Philosophy, London School of Economics. Full title: How to pool risks across generations: A reciprocity-based case for an unfunded pay as you go (PAY
Michael Otsuka: How to pool risks across generations
Full title: How to pool risks across generations: A reciprocity-based case for an unfunded pay as you go (PAYG) pension Research seminar with Michael Otsuka, Professor of Philosophy, London School of E
Wlodek Rabinowicz: Aggregation of value judgments differs from aggregation of preferences
Wlodek Rabinowicz, Senior Professor of Practical Philosophy at Lund university and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics ABSTRACTIn this talk I focus on a contrast between aggregation
Tourism and the Globalization of Emotions. The Intimate Economy of Tango.
[Reissue] New York: Routledge. Throughout the chapters, the author assesses how, in an explosive economic and political context, people's emotional lives intermingle with a tourism industry that has fo
Family Policy, Perceived Stress and Work-Family Conflict. A Comparative Analysis of Women in 20 Welfare States
Individual- and country-level factors are brought together in simultaneous analyses of their relationships with perceived stress and work-family conflict for women. The hypotheses predicting higher st
Making confident decisions with model ensembles
Philosophy of Science 88(3) 2021 Abstract Many policy decisions take input from collections of scientific models. Such decisions face significant and often poorly understood uncertainty. We rework the s
The dangers of excessive ambitions within the social sciences - Jon Elster
www.iffs.se Part 1: In this lecture Jon Elster diagnoses this flaw and discusses possible remedies. He argues that actual agents are intrinsically less sophisticated than the models assume them to
AI4People or People4AI? On human adaptation to AI at work
Ai & Society. Curmudgeon paper Abstract There is a disturbing discrepancy between the AI ethics frameworks that highlight the technology’s ability to promote the social good and the relationship bet
Cultural systems
The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution, red. Jamshid J. Tehrani et al. Abstract Many cultural phenomena cannot be understood by studying traits in isolation. Instead, they are embedded in webs of rel
