determinism
Mike Otsuka: Determinism and the value and fairness of lotteries
Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm, and online Note that the speaker will join us online. Research seminar with Mike Otsuka, Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers Universit
Dennett's prime-mammal objection to the consequence argument
Theoria Abstract The Consequence Argument is the classic argument for the incompatibility of determinism and our ability to do otherwise. Daniel C. Dennett objects that the Consequence Argument suffers
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
Effects of Sharing Parental Leave on Pensioners’ Poverty and Gender Inequality in Old Age. A simulation in IFSIM
This paper aims to study the theoretical linkages between the design of the pension system and that of the labor market and their interplay in determining poverty outcomes in old age, particularly fro
Climate change: Life and death
John Broome, White's Professor of Moral Philosophy The international community has agreed on the aim of avoiding dangerous interference with the climate system. Determining what level of interference i
Cumulative exposure to disadvantage and the intergenerational transmission of neighbourhood effects
Journal of Economic Geography (available online) Abstract:Studies of neighbourhood effects typically investigate the instantaneous effect of point-in-time measures of neighbourhood poverty on individual
The normality assumption in coordination games with flexible information acquisition
Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 203, 2022. Abstract Many economic models assume that random variables follow normal (Gaussian) distributions. Yet, real-world variables may be non-normally distributed.

Andreas Diemer
I am a researcher at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University and at the Institute for Futures Studies. I am also part of the Urban Lab network hosted by the Institute
Cooperation, structure and hierarchy in multiadaptive games
2011. Phys. Rev. E. 84:061148. Abstract Game-theoretical models where the rules of the game and the interaction structure both coevolves with the game dynamics —multiadaptive games—capture very flexible
Identification of influential spreaders in complex networks
2010. Nature Physics 6:888-893. AbstractNetworks portray a multitude of interactions through which people meet, ideas are spread, and infectious diseases propagate within a society. Identifying the most