Poverty and welfare among children and their families 1968–2010

Research report 2014/2, 78 p. This report studies child poverty, and changes in such poverty both by analyzing the family economy, and directly by using surveys with children themselves. It also compar

Noûs, (Early View), DOI: 10.1111/nous.12135. Introduction A familiar way of supporting skeptical doubts about the beliefs in some area, such as ethics orreligion, is to provide a “debunking argument” agaiway is to appeal to the disagreement that occurs in the area.2 These types of challenge areoften treated separately and there is not much overlap in the literature they have given rise to.Yet, as they pursue the same conclusion—that the target beliefs are not (fully) justified andthat we should reduce our confidence in them—one might well wonder how they are related.Are they entirely independent or do they interact in non-trivial and interesting ways? That isthe question I shall explore.

Kay Axhausen, ETH Zürich Transport planning has studied social networks as central element behind the location choice for residential locations and for leisure activities. The talk will introduce the o

"Power and future people’s freedom:intergenerational domination, climate change, and constitutionalism", Journal of Political Power, Volume 9,  Issue 2, 2016, pp 289-307. Abstract Intergenerational domina

The History of the Family Abstract In pre-industrial Taiwan, an uxorilocal marriage, in which a man moved in with his bride’s family, was a familial strategy used to continue family lineage and to enhan

The Institute for Future Studies is looking for three highly qualified postdocs to be part of an ambitious interdisciplinary research program on modeling social processes. The program is directed by P

Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Abstract This is a paper about the methodology of normative ethics. I claim that much work in normative ethics can be interpreted as modelling, the form of inquiry fami

Albert Weale, Emeritus Professor of Political Theory and Public Policy at University College London.  AbstractMany democratically made choices involve commitments across time. International obligations,

Place:At the Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm, or online.  Research seminar with Bob Goodin Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Social and Political theory at the Austra for his "acuity and success endeavored to blend political philosophy with empirical political science to increase the understanding of how decent and dignified societies can be shaped.wherehowmechanismsJoin the seminar online or at the Institute for Futures Studies. If you will join on site, please check the box in the .

Bob Goodin: Structural injustice - its mechanisms and how to disrupt them

Injustices that are, in the first instance, brute acts of clearly identifiable individuals are often perpetuated, more subtly, through seemingly innocent workings of anonymous and innocuous social str