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Olle Risberg
I am a researcher at the Department of Philosophy at Uppsala University, Sweden, and at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm. I am also a member of the Young Academy of Sweden. My research fo
Richard Bradley: Confidence and probability. Climate change assessments and policy decision making
Richard Bradley, professor at the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics and Political Science ABSTRACTThe periodic assessment reports of the Intergovernment

Richard Bradley on climate change assessments and policy decision making
This is a recording from a research seminar at the Institute for Futures Studies in February 2016. The full name of the seminar is: Confidence and probability. Climate change assessments and policy ma
The future of employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation?
Michael Osborne, Exeter College, Oxford. We examine how susceptible jobs are to computerisation. To assess this, we begin by implementing a novel methodology to estimate the probability of computerisat
Completed: The home care service interviews residents and relatives – two-way communication with vulnerable groups
The spread of COVID-19 has been high among the elderly and risk groups. This study aims to develop methods for knowledge acquisition, focusing on vulnerable groups.
Implicit bias, epistemic injustice, and pragmatic stereotypes
The Philosophical Quarterly Abstract Members of stigmatized social groups are often treated unjustly in conversation. Fricker’s influential work on epistemic injustice addresses this topic, according to
A Weighted Configuration Model and Inhomogeneous Epidemics
2011. Journal of Statistics Physics 145:1368-1384. AbstractA random graph model with prescribed degree distribution and degree dependent edge weights is introduced. Each vertex is independently equipped
Should the probabilities count?
Philosophical Studies, June 2012, Volume 159, Issue 2, pp 205–218. Online first. doi.org/10.1007/s11098-011-9698-1 Abstract When facing a choice between saving one person and saving many, some people ha
Statistical Mechanics of Money, Income, Debt, and Energy Consumption
Victor Yakovenko, University of Maryland By analogy with the probability distribution of energy in statistical physics, I argue that the probability distribution of money in a closed economic system sh, Reviews of Modern Physics 81, 1703 (2009), New Journal of Physics 12, 075032 (2010). This work is currently supported by the Institute for New Economic Thinking,
Speed and Concentration of the Covering Time for Structured Coupon Collectors
Journal of Applied Probability Abstract Let V be an n-set, and let X be a random variable taking values in the power-set of V. Suppose we are given a sequence of random coupons , where the are independe