Why do we need social progress? On July of 2014 a monumental task began as hundreds of the world's leading academics came together to set new standards for a just, secure and healthy global society. T has been tirelessly forming a non-partisan report addressed to all social actors, movements, organizations, politicians, and decision-makers in order to provide an architecture for present and future global issues and crises.

2012. Social Forces, 90:795-816. Abstract Using Swedish panel data, we assess whether the gender gap in supervisory authority has changed during the period 1968–2000, and investigate to what extent the g

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 224, £25. Ratio. doi:10.1111/rati.12151 What does being disabled mean for the disabled individual’s life? Does being a disabled individual have inherent negatregarding disability.

in: Social ForcesAbstractWe know that parenthood has different consequences for men’s and women’s careers. Still, the research remains inconclusive on the question of whether this is mainly a conseque

in: Utilitas 32 (4): 1-9 (2020) Abstract:All else being equal, creating a miserable person makes the world worse, and creating an ecstatic person makes it better. Such claims are easily justified if it

Bykvist, K., & Campbell, T. (2020). Persson's Merely Possible Persons. Utilitas,32(4), 479-487. doi:10.1017/S0953820820000199 AbstractAll else being equal, creating a miserable person makes the worl

Venue: Institute for Futures Studies,Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm or online  Research seminar with Anandi Hattiangadi, professor of philosophy at Stockholm University and a researcher at the Institute

Anandi Hattiangadi: Artificial General Intelligence - A Manifesto

The race is on to produce artificial general intelligence (AGI)—machines that are at least as intelligent as humans—despite widespread concern that an AGI would pose an existential threat to humankind

Exhibition of Tipping Point:Opening 1 June Galärparken, Djurgåren (close to Junibacken) at 5 pm (preview at 4:30 pm). Therafter daily 2-19 June, opens 11 am, last showing 3 pm every day.Seminar series3, 4, 9 and 14 June, see below.

Cappelen, H. & R. Sterken (eds.) Communicating with AI: Philosophical Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press Abstract In this paper, we offer a simple argument for the conclusion that the outp