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31 May, 2018

Personhood and legal status: reflections on the democratic rights of corporations

Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy 47:1, pp. 13-28., doi: 10.5553/NJLP/.000068. Introduction Corporations are regularly ascribed rights and duties, yet few believe they should have the right to part

Type of publication: Journal articles | Beckman, Ludvig
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28 November, 2014

Political Philosophy Mini-Workshop

This is an open event with pre-circulated papers, including a presentation of the first paper but not the second. See abstracts below. Schedule 13.15 Coffee 13.30 “Legitimate Authority and Social OntologAuthor: Laura Valentini, LSECommentator: Aaron Maltais, Stockholm University

Workshop on two papers, "Practices and Principles: On the Methodological Turn in Political Theory" and "Practices and Principles: On the Methodological Turn in Political Theory".
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21 February, 2020
Karim Jebari: The social impact of AI - Inspirations on what to explore and how to avoid the hype

Karim Jebari: The social impact of AI - Inspirations on what to explore and how to aviod the hype

Karim Jebari, PhD in Philosophy and researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies talks about some tools for finding interesting things to study in the field of the social impact of artificial intelligence. And also, advice on how to avoid some of the hype surrounding AI. From the workshop “Why we need research on AI impact now”, that was held at the Institute for Futures Studies on January 21st 2020.

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10 March, 2016

Debunking and Disagreement

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.

Type of publication: Journal articles | Tersman, Folke
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20 March, 2019

Reactions on a seminar on ethics and e-cigarettes

In 2016 dozens of prominent researchers from around the world came to our institute to work on the ambitious research report "Rethinking society for the 21st century" by the International Panel on Soci. One of the many interesting researchers we had the pleasure of hosting was Daniel Wikler, Professor of Ethics and Population Health.

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15 June, 2012

Socioeconomic Persistence Across Generations: Cognitive and Noncognitive Processes

Kapitel 3. http://www.russellsage.org/publications/parents-to-children Abstract This chapter analyses the role of cognitive ability, personality traits, and physical characteristics in transmission of so

Type of publication: Chapters | Mood, Carina , , Erik Bihagen Jonsson, Jan O. , , Erik Bihagen
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12 March, 2014

Peter Hedström leaves the Institute for Futures Studies to start new research center for analytical sociology

Peter Hedström, Director of the Institute for Futures Studies, will leave the Institute in August 2014. Peter will then be Professor of Sociology at Linköping University, where he will build a new rese

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15 January, 2014

From grasshoppers to human group behavior – interview with David Sumpter

On January 12th, Dagens Nyheter published an interview with David Sumpter, professor of applied mathematics. David , who is currently working at both Uppsala University and the Institute for Futures St

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03 September, 2015

The dilemma of human enhancement

Would you cut off your legs and replace them with prostheses which can take you places faster? Would you take drugs to enhance your cognitive skills? Perhaps you are already doing that? In the latest

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07 April, 2016

Completed: The boundary problem in democratic theory

What decisions should be made with the democratic method? The core question of this project is: Who should have a right to take part in which decisions?

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