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26 November, 2024

Why Morality and Other Forms of Normativity are Sometimes Dramatically Directly Collectively Self-Defeating

Arbetsrapport 2024:3Del av Studies in the Ethics of Coordination and Climate Change Abstract In a prisoner’s dilemma, if everyone follows the strategy of self-interest, then everyone is certain to be wo

Type of publication: Working papers | Budolfson, Mark |
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11 April, 2016

Completed: The social forms of intimacy – proximity practice and identity in cohousing, pet relationships and couple dance

How do we find intimacy outside of the nuclear family? This project examines couple dance, the relationship between humans and pets, and cohousing residents.

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29 January, 2019

Augusto Lopez-Claros: Equality for Women = Prosperity for All

Augusto Lopez-Claros, International Economist AbstractGender discrimination is often seen from a human rights perspective; it is a violation of women’s basic human rights, as embedded in the Universal

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13 November, 2024

“Time to Abandon Swedish Women”: Discursive Connections Between Misogyny and White Supremacy in Sweden

International Journal of Communication 18(2024) Abstract This article explores the discursive linkages between violent misogyny and violent rightwingextremism in the popular Swedish online discussion foranonymous and relatively unmoderated commenting. Empirically, it focuses on thearticulations of misogyny and anti-feminism mapped onto extreme right ideology includingwhite supremacism in user comments posted across 16 Flashback threads. To analyze theextensive data set, we first drew on a collocation analysis of user comments (N = 20,359)scraped from a strategic selection of threads. From this sample we chose 36 combinationsto be considered for a closer reading. In the second analytical step, critical discourseanalysis coupled with the Essex School’s logics approach helped us unpack the logics ofconspiracy and male entitlement, as well as the fantasmatic projections of Swedish womenas both “race traitors” and “victims” at the heart of extreme right discourse in and beyondSweden today.

Type of publication: Journal articles | Askanius, Tina , Maria Brock, Anne Kaun & Anders Olof Larsson
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01 February, 2017

We welcome Berit Högman to our board

The Swedish government has appointed Berit Högman to the board of the Institute for Futures Studies during 2017–2022. Berit Högman is Deputy Group Leader (SocDem) in the Swedish Parliament and has been

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18 December, 2023

Age Discrimination: Is It Special? Is it Wrong?

In Bognar, G & A. Gosseries (red.) Ageing without Ageism? Conceptual Puzzles and Policy Proposals. Oxford Academic. Abstract This chapter examines the moral status of age discrimination by bringing t

Type of publication: Chapters | Berndt Rasmussen, Katharina
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24 April, 2015

Policy Professionals in Swedish Politics

For three years, three researchers and two research assistants have surveyed and interviewed a group of people who are remarkably invisible in research. it's remarkable since it is a category of peopl (in Swedish).

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15 September, 2017
Åsa Burman

Åsa Burman

I am Reader (Docent) in Practical Philosophy at Stockholm University. My book Nonideal Social Ontology: The Power View(Oxford University Press, 2023) argues for the use of nonideal theory in the resear, which deals with the concept of power. In 2007, I did my dissertation at Lund University. After my defense I worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company and with social entrepreneurship. I currently work as a project manager for the Forum for doctoral students at Stockholm University. I am an affiliated researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies.

Reader (Docent), Practical Philosophy
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15 December, 2023
Progress in Ethics

Progress in Ethics

This is an international network of researchers from a variety of disciplines, providing a forum for discussions on what progress have been made in the field of ethics.

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26 February, 2018

Moral Skepticism and the Benacerraf Challenge

In: D. Machuca (ed.), “Moral Skepticism: New Essays”, London: Routledge. Moral skepticism is at present a vibrant topic of philosophical inquiry. This collection of original essays will advance the ong

Type of publication: Chapters | Tersman, Folke
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