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11 April, 2023
Wicked problem governance

Wicked problem governance

By investigating the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change on the interaction between science, policy and the public, this project aims to solve how public governance can better deal with severe crises in the future.

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01 August, 2006

The Sustainable Society in Swedish Politics – Renewal and Continuity

The article studies how the ideas of a sustainable society have developed and adapted to Swedish politics between the years 1988-2004. Social democratic welfare ideology seems to have given its imprin

Type of publication: Working papers | Torbjörn Lundqvist
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12 October, 2021

Utilitarianism without Moral Aggregation

Canadian Journal of Philosophy (2021), 51: 4, 256–269 Is an outcome where many people are saved and one person dies better than an outcome where the one is saved and the many die? According to the stan

Type of publication: Journal articles | Gustafsson, Johan E.
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07 March, 2022
Gert Helgesson: Dealing with a university’s historical heritage: ethical quandaries

Gert Helgesson: Dealing with a university’s historical heritage: ethical quandaries

Research seminar with Gert Helgesson, Professor, Stockholm Centre for Healthcare Ethics Abstract In the fall of 2020 a working group was appointed to deal with the historical heritage of Karolinska In

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17 March, 2021

A patch to the possibility part of Gödel’s Ontological Proof

in Analysis, Volume 80, Issue 2 AbstractKurt Gödel’s version of the Ontological Proof derives rather than assumes the crucial (yet controversial) Possibility Claim, that is, the claim that it is possib

Type of publication: Journal articles | Gustafsson, Johan E.
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09 September, 2020

Why Inflicting Disability is Wrong: The Mere Difference View and The Causation Based Objection

I The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Disability, Adam Cureton and David Wasserman (eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press (2020) Abstract This Handbook introduces philosophers, as well as other scholars

Type of publication: Chapters | Mosquera, Julia
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15 February, 2022

Gert Helgesson: Dealing with a university’s historical heritage: ethical quandaries

Research seminar with Gert Helgesson, Professor, Stockholm Centre for Healthcare EthicsTitle: Dealing with a university’s historical heritage: ethical quandaries. RegisterAbstractIn the fall of 2020 a wo

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16 April, 2018

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

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19 January, 2017

Symposium on basic income

The basic income proposal has received increasing attention in the past few years. Several ambitious basic income experiments are currently being planned in different parts of the world and the very f

This symposium is intended to stimulate a more well-informed and research-driven discussion of basic income.
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31 August, 2018

Jason Beckfield: Unequal Europe: Regional Integration and the Rise of European Inequality

Jason Beckfield, Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. Abstract The Euro-crisis of 2009–2012 and the UK’s 2016 vote to leave the EU vividly demonstrated that EU policies matter for the distribut

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