Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm, or online. Research seminar with Joe Roussos, researcher in philosophy at the Institute for Futures Studies. He completed his PhD at

Mind, Volume 125, Issue 499, Pp. 691-725. Abstract The Desire-as-Belief thesis (DAB) states that any rational person desires a proposition exactly to the degree that she believes or expects the proposit

(This is a closed workshop) Program: Karen Douglas, 10.00-11.15, “The psychology of conspiracy theories”. Daniel Cohnitz, 11.15-12.30, “Conspiracy Theory Reconsidered: Generalism vs Particularism” Sandwic

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

Anandi Hattiangadi, Professor of Philosophy at Stockholm University. ABSTRACT Recent empirical work on implicit cognition has revealed that many of us display biases in behaviour which are unavailable t

Expertise in crises

Governments are now reevaluating their post-pandemic preparedness. The project analyzes how society can use expertise to develop science-based policies in times of crisis.

Completed: Can the implementation of artificial intelligence in the recruitment process enhance the inclusion of disadvantaged groups? A study of Swedish companies

The use of AI in job recruitment is said to make the process both more efficient and less discriminatory. But is this really true? This project will study the effects of using this new tool.

Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 45(7), 1294-1308. Abstract Indicators of social and economic status are important health determinants. However, evidence for the influence of family socioeconomic statu

in Synthese (2020) AbstractWhen an agent learns of an expert’s credence in a proposition about which they are an expert, the agent should defer to the expert and adopt that credence as their own. This

Politics & Policy Abstract Although the literature widely discusses the role of academics as experts in public policy making, empirical case studies on ethical problems related to the production and