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06 March, 2020

Defining Social Housing: A Discussion on the Suitable Criteria

Housing, Theory and Society 36(2): 149–166. doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2018.1459826. Abstract The term social housing has been characterized as a “floating signifier”, i.e. a term with no agreed-upon meanin

Type of publication: Journal articles | Lundgren, Björn , & Granath Hansson, A.
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26 April, 2022

Defining disability and the role of the disability and the medical communities

Theoria Abstract Definitions of disabilityare useful for different purposes and carry normative significance. However, defining disability has proven a difficult task. Communities with different theoreti

Type of publication: Journal articles | Mosquera, Julia
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06 March, 2020

Defining Information Security

Science and Engineering Ethics 25(2): 419–444. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-017-9992-1. Abstract This article proposes a new definition of information security, the ‘Appropriate Access’ definition. Apar

Type of publication: Journal articles | Lundgren, Björn , & Möller, N
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26 January, 2023

Rodney Edvinsson: An Economic Philosophy of Production, Work and Consumption

Place: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm or onlineREGISTERResearch seminar with Rodney Edvinsson, professor of economic history, Stockholm University.ABSTRACTThe book An Econom presents a new transhistorical framework of defining production, work and consumption. It shows that they all share the common feature of intentional physical transformation of something external to the agent, at some point in time.

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10 June, 2008

The Future Landscape

This preliminary study of central actors in the future landscape argues that there is a spectrum from institutions claiming independent expertise and scientific certainty about the future, to those fo

Type of publication: Working papers | Jenny Andersson
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17 November, 2016
Julia Mosquera

Julia Mosquera

I defended my dissertation in philosophy at the University of Reading, UK 2017. My dissertation, Disability, Equality, and Future Generations,is an attempt to answer the question of how egalitarian soc

PhD, Philosophy
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11 September, 2020

Learning the Natural Numbers as a Child

Noûs 53 (1), 3-22 Abstract How do we get out knowledge of the natural numbers? Various philosophical accounts exist, but there has been comparatively little attention to psychological data on how the lea

Type of publication: Journal articles |
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15 February, 2017

Sarah Fine: The outraged conscience of mankind: Asylum, refugees, and a human right to international freedom of movement.

Dr Sarah Fine, Lecturer in Philosophy, King's College London. Abstract Migration is a subject which generates intense debate and disagreement. For example, there is a great deal of debate about whether

Dr Sarah Fine, Lecturer in Philosophy, King's College London.
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11 January, 2016

About futures studies

Interest in the future and the attempt to predict what will happen can be traced back a long way through history. The first attempts at more systematic studies about the future were made in the US def

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11 January, 2016

Completed: The consequences of poverty

How does poverty affect children and adults? We study social relations, social participation, physical and mental health, but also the effect on children's education and income.

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