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Luke Russell: What is Forgiveness?
Luke Russell, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, The University of Sydney. Abstract There are many contexts in which people are encouraged to forgive. Forgiveness is praised by Christians, b

Luke Russell - What is forgiveness? On the philosophical disagreements of what forgiveness is
In this episode we are going to talk about forgiveness. Recently Luke Russel, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Sidney, held a research seminar here at the institute titled What i

Reasoning like good lawyers or bad philosophers?
22 November, Institute for Futures Studies. A Multidisciplinary Look at Knowledge Resistance ’Knowledge Resistance: Causes, Consequences, and Cures' is a multidiciplinary research program, comprised o
The lure of power. Career paths and considerations among policy professionals in Sweden
Working paper 2019 nr 12. This paper analyses career paths and career considerations among policy professionals in Sweden. It builds on a longitudinal data set in which the professionals’ careers are m
Incommensurability: Vagueness, Parity and other Non-Conventional Comparative Relations
The workshop will focus on how one can account for value incommensurability, its implications for ethical theory and decision theory.
Incommensurability: Vagueness, Parity and other Non-Conventional Comparative Relations
The workshop will focus on how one can account for value incommensurability, its implications for ethical theory and decision theory.

Futures: Climate policies and public support in the US - the way forward
Many agree that some aggressive policy changes need to be put in place when it comes to climate change. Megan Mullin, associate professor of environmental politics at Duke University’s Nicholas School
Policy and the public in a polarized country
In order to reach the goals in the Paris Agreement on how to combat climate change, some aggressive policy changes need to be put in place. Apart from creating policies, policy makers also need to gai
POSTPONED: Matthew Adler: Person-Affecting Consequentialism: Equity-Regarding, Desert-Neutral, Repugnant
Research seminar with Matthew Adler, Duke UniversityREGISTERAbstract The philosophical literature on consequentialism regularly distinguishes between “person-affecting” and “impersonal” moral justifica
Geoffrey Brennan: On exchange and its gains
Geoffrey Brennan is an Australian philosopher. He is a professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a professor of political science at Duke University. This seminar was su