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17 May, 2023

Humanity - the biosphere's best hope?

Human activity often has a negative impact on the Earth's ecosystems. However, according to researchers Karim Jebari and Anders Sandberg, humans are still, in the long run, the best and actually the only

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14 June, 2018

Gustaf Arrhenius receives prolonged appointment as director of the institute

What sets the framework for the research at the Institute for Futures Studies is research programs, created by the director. The current one, What future? Challenges and choices in the 21st century(201

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11 September, 2020

Edge Precoloring Extension of Hypercubes

Journal of Graph Theory Abstract We consider the problem of extending partial edge colorings of hypercubes. In particular, we obtain an analogue of the positive solution to the famous Evans' conjecture

Type of publication: Journal articles | Markström, Klas , , Casselgren, Carl Johan & Lan Anh Pham
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21 March, 2016

Mike Otsuka: How to guard against the risk of living too long: the case for collective pensions

Mike (Michael) Otsuka, Professor of Philosophy at London School of Economics ABSTRACTIn this paper, I defend the realization here and now of a type of occupational pension that is collective rather tha

Michael Otsuka, professor i filosofi vid London School of Economics
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12 December, 2017

Jennifer Saul: Dogwhistles and Figleaves: Techniques of Racist Linguistic Manipulation

Professor Jennifer Saul, Director of Research, Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield.ABSTRACTUntil recently, it was widely believed that explicit expressions of racism would doom a politic

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02 May, 2016

Egalitarian Concerns and Population Change

in Ole Frithjof Norheim (ed.) Measurement and Ethical Evaluation of Health Inequalities, Oxford: Oxford University Press. DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199931392.003.0007 We usually examine our considered

Type of publication: Chapters | Arrhenius, Gustaf
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12 December, 2018

The intelligence explosion revisited

Foresight, doi.org/10.1108/FS-04-2018-0042  Abstract PurposeThe claim that super intelligent machines constitute a major existential risk was recently defended in Nick Bostrom’s book Superintelligence and

Type of publication: Journal articles | Jebari, Karim , & Joakim Lundborg
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23 January, 2019

John A. Ferejohn: Political Economy and Immigration: A Seven Nation Study

John A. Ferejohn, Professor of Law, New York University School of Law Abstract In many advanced democracies the major political parties have been disrupted either by the rise of new (populist) parties o

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