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05 June, 2023

Workshop: Progress in Ethics

PROGRESS IN ETHICS Workshop at the Institute for Future Studies (IFFS), Stockholm, 19-20 June 2023  This is an open workshop, but seats are limited. Interested in attending? Send an e-mail to [email protected]:30 – 11:00: Coffee  11:00 – 12:30: Finnur Dellsén (University of Iceland/Inland Norway University/Oslo), Tina Firing (University of Iceland), and James Norton (University of Iceland), “Understanding Philosophical Progress”  12:30 – 14:00: Lunch  14:00 – 15:30: Joe Roussos (IFFS), “When is agreement between moral models significant?”  15:30 – 16:00: Coffee  16:00 – 17:30: Ylwa Sjölin Wirling (Gothenburg), “A portrait of understanding as a nonfactive state”  

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13 April, 2017

Children of austerity

Nearly ten years after the first financial chock Waves rippled through the world economy, generating a global recenssion, the track record of high income countries in protecting Children from its worsoch .

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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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18 September, 2024

When trusting the state is not enough: broader institutional trust and public support for energy transition policies

Environmental Sociology Abstract Existing research shows that public attitudes toward climate policies reflect political trust. Support for some policies may reflect not only trust in the state and its

Type of publication: Journal articles | Fairbrother, Malcolm , Bjarnadóttir, S., Ólafsdóttir, S. & J. Beckfield
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25 November, 2024

A Paradigm Shift in Plain Sight? AI and the Future of Healthcare in the Nordic States

Nordisk välfärdsforskning | Nordic Welfare Research Abstract All the Nordic states (except for Iceland at the time of analysis) have published a national artificial intelligence strategy (NAIS) document

Type of publication: Journal articles | Tucker, Jason , & Michael Strange
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18 September, 2019

POSTPONED. NEW DATE PENDING. James Fishkin: Democracy When the People Are Thinking: Applications of Deliberative Democracy

Postponed. New date pending. James Fishkin, Professor of Communication, Professor of Political Science (by courtesy) and Director of the Center for Deliberative Democracy, Stanford University. Abstract D

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10 April, 2017

A future without Down syndrome? Ethical reflections on the development of technology

Have you used prenatal testing to determine if the fetus you or your partner is carrying has Down’s syndrome? If the answer is yes, you are not alone. The interest in genetic screening for Down’s synd

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10 March, 2021

Politics for hire. The world and work of policy professionals

Edward Elgar Publishing This ground-breaking book investigates the work of policy professionals. They consist of political actors who, although not elected to office, are nonetheless employed to affect

Type of publication: Books | Svallfors, Stefan
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09 December, 2015

Matthias Matthijs: CANCELLED

Matthias Matthijs, Assistant Professor of International Political Economy at SAIS in Washington, DC Dis-Embedded Markets and Embedded Politics. The Erosion of National Democracy in the Euro Periphery Th

Matthias Matthijs, Assistant Professor of International Political Economy at SAIS in Washington, DC
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07 April, 2016

Matthias Matthijs: Integration at What Price? The Erosion of National Democracy in the Euro Periphery

Matthias Matthijs, Assistant Professor of International Political Economy at SAIS in Washington, DC ABSTRACTThe advent of the euro crisis brought back a gap between North and South in Europe not just i

Matthias Matthijs, Assistant Professor of International Political Economy at SAIS in Washington, DC
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