Isabela Hazin

I have a bachelor’s degree in Biology from the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, and a master’s degree in Human Evolution and Biology from the University of Coimbra, Portugal. At the Institute , led by and . This project is concerned with the question of how people's opinions on moral issues change over time. More specifically, if this change is mediated by arguments based on Moral Foundations – in a nutshell, whether moral positions (e.g., "against the death penalty") that are more strongly linked to harm and fairness arguments (e.g., "otherwise someone is hurt") spread more easily than those less strongly linked to such arguments. My main job is to help collect, clean, and analyze moral opinion data.

in: Utilitas 32 (4): 1-9 (2020) Abstract:All else being equal, creating a miserable person makes the world worse, and creating an ecstatic person makes it better. Such claims are easily justified if it

Bykvist, K., & Campbell, T. (2020). Persson's Merely Possible Persons. Utilitas,32(4), 479-487. doi:10.1017/S0953820820000199 AbstractAll else being equal, creating a miserable person makes the worl

Åsa Wikforss: Bad Beliefs and Knowledge Resistance

Research seminar with Åsa Wikforss, professor of theoretical philosophy at Stockholm University and member of the Swedish Academy. Her research involves topics such as the philosophy of language, the

Diagnoses for psychiatric disorders such as ADHD and various depressive disorders are steadily climbing in Sweden and other developed nations. This is particularly worrisome in populations of school chil

Equality seems like a simple enough notion. It is about everybody having the same amount of whatever resources we care about. But is it really that simple? The American philosopher Larry Temkin tells

Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 22, 873–891. doi:10.1007/s10677-018-9908-4 Abstract Many legal, social, and medical theorists and practitioners, as well as lay people, seem to be concerned with the h

Venue:Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, 4th floor, Stockholm, or online.Research seminar with Moa Bursell, Associate Professor of Sociology and research leader at the Institute for Fu

Employment Discrimination Based on Gender and Ethnicity

The study contributes to knowledge about the process behind gender segregation in the labor market. Segregation may be seen as generated by the combined outcome of decisions located at the supply side

Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm, or online. Research seminar with Åsa Wikforss, professor of theoretical philosophy at Stockholm University and member of the Swedish