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Utilitarianism without Moral Aggregation
Canadian Journal of Philosophy (2021), 51: 4, 256–269 Is an outcome where many people are saved and one person dies better than an outcome where the one is saved and the many die? According to the stan
Effects of Sharing Parental Leave on Pensioners’ Poverty and Gender Inequality in Old Age. A simulation in IFSIM
This paper aims to study the theoretical linkages between the design of the pension system and that of the labor market and their interplay in determining poverty outcomes in old age, particularly fro
Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen: Are stereotypers wronged when stereotyped? On personal, doxastic wrongs and structural, doxastic injustice
Venue:Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, 4th floor, Stockholm Join us on site or online, REGISTER HERE > Research seminar with Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Professor at the Department of
The quality of compliance: investigating fishers’ responses towards regulation and authorities
Fish and Fisheries, Early view: doi:10.1111/faf.12197. Abstract A substantial amount of scientific effort goes into understanding and measuring compliance in fisheries. Understanding why, how and when f
The Complexity of Mental Integer Addition
in: Journal of Numerical Cognition, Volume 6 (1). AbstractAn important paradigm in modeling the complexity of mathematical tasks relies on computational complexity theory, in which complexity is measur
Graham Oddie: What's so good about being happy?
Graham Oddie, Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado at Boulder ABSTRACTHappiness and well-being have both played a rich role in the history of value theory and of ethics, but they also featur
Albert Weale: Democracy Across Time
Albert Weale, Emeritus Professor of Political Theory and Public Policy at University College London. AbstractMany democratically made choices involve commitments across time. International obligations,
John Broome: A Climate Bank to Combat Climate Change
The usual way of thinking about climate change is that the present generation will have to make large sacrifices in order to reduce emissions. For example, by consuming less goods and services. This is one reason why cutting emissions is so hard. But what if there is a way to get climate change under control where no one needs to sacrifice?
Are public decisions made by artificial intelligence democratically okay?
Are public decisions made by artificial intelligence democratically okay?The reason this is an important question is that already AI is being used in public decision-making. For example, in social ser
Towards a new research program
New director – new research focus. That is how it works at the Institute for Futures Studies. This means that the new director Gustaf Arrhenius will also act as a research director and is now creating