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Ethical Challenges in Using DALYs to Inform Health Interventions: Some Lessons from Population Ethics
Institute for Futures Studies. Working paper 2025:2 From the introduction The Global Burden of Disease Study (GBDS) is an international and interdisciplinary effort to quantify health losses from a wide
Escaping the Impossibility Theorems in Population Ethics
In: Mosquera, J. & O. Torpman (ed.),Studies on Climate Ethics and Future Generations vol. 6. Working Paper Series 2024:10–17 Abstract Decision-makers are in a hurry to find morally justified response
The predictive capacity of the social sciences
This is an initiative to develop principles and methods for a more future-oriented social science, by starting up a discussion among researchers in social sciences, as well in Sweden as abroad.
PostDoc wanted for research on valuing future lives
The Institute for Futures Studies is looking for a postdoc to be part of a research project on valuing future lives. The applicant needs to hold a PhD degree on a relevant philosophical topic when the (Philosophy).
Completed: Valuing future lives
How should we value future lives when making decisions? This question is directly relevant to for example prioritisation in health care, population control, climate change, and existential risk (the survival of animal species and humanity).
Steffen Mau: The Metric We - On the Quantification of the Social
Steffen Mau is Professor of Macrosociology at Humboldt University of Berlin. ABSTRACTThe quantification of the social is a mega-trend transforming social relationships and reformatting social life. Be
