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Challenges and Opportunities of International Migration for the EU, Its Member States, Neighboring Countries and Regions: A Policy Note
Institutet för Framtidsstudiers skriftserie: Framtidsstudier nr 12, 2004 While the EU is a wealthy and politically stable region with an aging and eventually shrinking population, neighboring countries
David Chalmers: From the Matrix to the Metaverse (With a Little Help From AI)
Part of the Problems of Philosophy in VR-conference hosted by the Institute for Futures Studies in May 2023. David Chalmers' book Reality+ takes as its starting point the recent advances in AI and com
Completed: The social forms of intimacy – proximity practice and identity in cohousing, pet relationships and couple dance
How do we find intimacy outside of the nuclear family? This project examines couple dance, the relationship between humans and pets, and cohousing residents.
The Problems of Philosophy in Virtual Reality
Venue:The Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm, and online This event is open to the public.Conference poster. This conference will depart from and engage with the recent and critby Professor David Chalmers.
Homophily and Insularity Dynamics in an Echo Chambers: Computational Models for the Study of the Conspiracy Subculture in Facebook
Social Indicators Research Abstract The research focuses on developing a computational model (agent-based) to describe and analyse the structure and evolution of a conspiracy bubble within Facebook. Thedescriptiveexperimental
Studies on the boundary problem in democratic theory
Working papers 2022:1-11 Editor: Paul Bowman Proximity Principle, Adieu Robert E. Goodin Reconceiving the Democratic Boundary Problem David Miller The Boundary Problem and Platitudes About Democracy: A Conc
Democracy and the Common Good: A Study of the Weighted Majority Rule
Doctoral thesis in practical philosophy, Stockholm: Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University. Abstract In this study I analyse the performance of a democratic decision-making rule: the weighted ma
Lena Halldenius & Moa Petersén: The value of cash. Economic injustice on an increasingly digitized payment market
Research seminar with Lena Halldenius, professor of human rights studies at Lund University, and Moa Petersén, associate professor at Division of ALM and Digital Cultures at Lund University. AbstractThe
Bo Rothstein: A social science dilemma. Is there a contradiction between democracy and quality of government?
Research seminar with Bo Rothstein.AbstractMost definitions of democracy rely on a set of procedural rules for how political power should be accessed legitimately. The basic norm for these procedural ru realized by equal democratic rights. In this understanding of political legitimacy, democracy is a “partisan game” where various interests are given fair possibilities to compete for political power. The concept of “quality of government” relates to the legitimacy in the of political power and is based on the norm of that is the opposite of partisanship. This is to be realized by, for example, the rule of law and a public administration built on meritocracy. Several tensions between these two bases for achieving political legitimacy will be present. For example, a democratically elected government may want to politicize the public administration and may establish public services and benefits directed only to their political supporters. The rule of law includes the principle of equality before the law, but a democratically elected government may take actions that put itself “above” the law. Various empirical measures and philosophical principles for understanding these type of tensions between democracy and the quality of government will be presented in this lecture.
The Future of Human-Machine Cooperation in the Workplace
How will Ai impact the development of human potential? According to several prominent thinkers that have discussed the future of work and automation, there are two main scenarios for how the developmen
