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23 June, 2016

William MacAskill: Should I donate now, or invest and donate later?

William MacAskill, Associate Professor in Philosophy at Lincoln College, Oxford ABSTRACTSuppose you are a philanthropist, and want to help others by as much as possible with your money. Should you dona

William MacAskill, Associate Professor in Philosophy at Lincoln College, Oxford
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19 December, 2016

Hilary Greaves: The collectivist critique of effective altruism

Hilary Greaves: Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and a Tutorial Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford.  The previous topic "Reductionism about personal identity, prudential value and

Hilary Greaves: Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and a Tutorial Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford.
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22 January, 2018

Lea Ypi: On dominated dominators

Professor in Political Theory in the Government Department, London School of Economics. ABSTRACT This paper explores the case of dominated dominators as a way of understanding structural domination. I s

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07 February, 2017

Do good. And do it better

Do you ever donate money to a charitable cause? If you do, how do you choose what cause to favour? The Scottish philosopher William MacAskill says that we are generally quite bad at regarding donation

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14 August, 2023

Julia Nefsky: Expected Utility, the Pond Analogy and Imperfect Duties

Plats: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, StockholmResearch seminar with Julia Nefsky, Associate Professor of Philosophy at University of Toronto. Register hereAbstractThis talk brings to

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28 March, 2014

The Multiple Burdens of Foreign-Named Men—Evidence from a Field Experiment on Gendered Ethnic Hiring Discrimination in Sweden

European Sociological ReviewFull text Abstract Scholars have documented ethnic and gender discrimination across labour markets since the 1970s by using field experiments (correspondence tests) in which

Type of publication: Journal articles | Bursell, Moa
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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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26 March, 2018
Completed: How do human norms form and change?

Completed: How do human norms form and change?

Many societies are dominated by norms that are, in the long run, harmful to their members. How can these norms change?

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11 July, 2019

Explosive violence: A near-repeat study of hand grenade detonations and shootings in urban Sweden.

European Journal of Criminology. doi.org/10.1177/1477370818820656 Abstract Hand grenade attacks have increasingly been reported in Sweden. However, to date no research on the topic exists. The present st

Type of publication: Journal articles | Rostami, Amir , & M. Gerell
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11 July, 2019

The choice of new private and benefit cars vs. climate and transportation policy in Sweden

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 69, pp. 276-292, doi: 10.1016/j.trd.2019.02.008 Abstract Dedicated to show climate leadership, Sweden has committed to cut 70% of greenhouse-gas

Type of publication: Journal articles | Engström, Emma , , Staffan Algers & Muriel Beser Hugosson
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