Institute for Futures Studies. Working paper 2025:2 From the introduction The Global Burden of Disease Study (GBDS) is an international and interdisciplinary effort to quantify health losses from a wide

In: Mosquera, J. & O. Torpman (ed.),Studies on Climate Ethics and Future Generations vol. 6. Working Paper Series 2024:10–17 Abstract Decision-makers are in a hurry to find morally justified response

The predictive capacity of the social sciences

This is an initiative to develop principles and methods for a more future-oriented social science, by starting up a discussion among researchers in social sciences, as well in Sweden as abroad.

The Institute for Futures Studies is looking for a postdoc to be part of a research project on valuing future lives. The applicant needs to hold a PhD degree on a relevant philosophical topic when the (Philosophy).

How should we value future lives when making decisions? This question is directly relevant to for example prioritisation in health care, population control, climate change, and existential risk (the survival of animal species and humanity).

Risk Analysis, Published online first, doi.org/10.1111/risa.13265 Abstract The precautionary principle (PP) is an influential principle of risk management. It has been widely introduced into environmental

Theoria, Volume 84, Issue 4. doi.org/10.1111/theo.12166 Abstract In 1997 John Broome presented the Collapsing Argument that was meant to establish that non‐conventional comparative relations (e.g., “par

"Knowing the Game: Motivations and Skills Among Partisan Policy Professionals", Journal of professions and organizations, Advance Access published September 21, 2016, doi: 10.1093/jpo/jow008 Abstract This

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

Journal of Applied Philosophy, published online first, doi.org/10.1111/japp.12357 Abstract A challenge for the theorising of climate justice is that even when the agents whose actions are supposed to be r