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08 June, 2017

The Generational Welfare Contract: Justice, Institutions and Outcomes.

Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (Forthcoming, Publication in August 2017). This groundbreaking book brings together perspectives from political philosophy and comparative social policy to discuss generational

Type of publication: Books |
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05 October, 2021
Completed: Social contract theory and future generations

Completed: Social contract theory and future generations

How should principles of justice be applied to a constantly changing society, where new types of injustices emerge, and dynamic decision making affects potential future generations?

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29 April, 2021

CUSP: Controlling Corruption. The Social Contract Approach

Welcome to the first lecture in the new series CUSP - Critically Urgent Societal Problems - that we arrange in collaboration with the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS) in Uppsala. At this first

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11 January, 2016
Anders Ekholm

Anders Ekholm

I have had the position as vice president and advisor at the Institute for Futures Studies and before that I worked as head of analysis at the Ministry of Social Affairs, with research concerning our

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12 April, 2017

A march for science and research!

Alternative facts and fake news. These are phenomenons that March for Science wants to counteract. March for Science will be organized in 400 cities around the World on the 22nd of April, highligting th

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24 June, 2015

We are all prejudiced. You and me both

At the Institute for Futures Studies, we treat discrimination as an import issue for the future. We are studying how it manifests itself, but we are also trying to understand how and why discriminatio

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12 May, 2020

POSTPONED. NEW DATE PENDING. Moa Bursell: Can implicit bias be reduced through training? (Webinar)

Online seminar Can implicit bias be reduced through training? Individual and group-level effects among Swedish social workers Moa Bursell is postdoctoral researcher in sociology. Her research concerns im

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01 September, 2017

Counterfactual Skepticism and Multidimensional Semantics

Erkenntnis, pp. 1-24. Abstract It has recently been argued that indeterminacy and indeterminism make most ordinary counterfactuals false. I argue that a plausible way to avoid such counterfactual skepti

Type of publication: Journal articles | Stefánsson, H. Orri
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19 March, 2021

Accelerating the Evolution of Nonhuman Primate Neuroimaging

The PRIMatE Data Exchange (PRIME-DE) Global Collaboration Workshop and Consortium 2020. Accelerating the evolution of nonhuman primate neuroimaging, Neuron, 105:600-P603.Nonhuman primate neuroimaging

Type of publication: Journal articles | Lindenfors, Patrik , , et al.
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23 June, 2016

Matthew Adler: Prioritarianism and climate change

Matthew Adler, Richard A. Horvitz Professor of Law and Professor of Economics, Philosophy and Public Policy ABSTRACTPrioritarianism is the equitable counterpart to utilitarianism. Rather than merely ad

Matthew Adler, Richard A. Horvitz Professor of Law and Professor of Economics, Philosophy and Public Policy
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