On the 21st of October The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will arrange a seminar with and about The Rolf Schock Laureate in logic and philosophy, professor Derek Parfit. Other speakers include Gusta

Implicit Mind: Unconscious Logic and the Structure of Thought with Eric Mandelbaum

Recording from the Implicit Mind Workshop at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm, May 2015.

International Journal for the Study of Skepticism Review of Peter Königs,Problems for Moral Debunkers: On the Logic and Limits of Empirically Informed Ethics. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp.: 9783110750171.

in: Analysis, Volume 80, Issue 3 AbstractDaniel C. Dennett has long maintained that the Consequence Argument for incompatibilism is confused. In a joint work with Christopher Taylor, he claims to have

Anandi Hattiangadi

I am a professor of philosophy at Stockholm University and a researcher here at the institute. I received my PhD from the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, at the University of Cambridg

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

Chesa Boudin, former District Attornay in San Francisco, about crime and punishment.

Does the severity of punishment affect crime rates?⁠ ⁠ One common argument for increasing the length of prison sentences for serious crimes is that harsher penalties will deter people from committing

I hold the August Röhss Chair in Political Science at University of Gothenburg, a position established by a donation to the university in 1901. I have also held positions at Oxford University, Blavatn

Nature Human Behaviour, volume 2, pp. 148–155, doi:10.1038/s41562-017-0278-z Abstract Norms about hygiene and violence have both shown a tendency to become increasingly strict, in the sense that the han

The British Journal of Sociology 2019, Volume 70, Issue 2 Abstract Research on privilege and education often focuses on institutions that are elite in a rather traditional way, for example schools that i