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14 January, 2025

Productive Justice in the 'Post-Work Future'

In: Mosquera, J. & O. Torpman (ed.), Studies on Climate Ethics and Future Generations vol. 6. Working Paper Series 2024:10–17 Abstract Justice in production is concerned with ensuring the benefits and

Type of publication: Working papers | Finneron-Burns, Elizabeth , , Caleb Althorpe
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06 March, 2020

Mistake is to Myth What Pretense is to Fiction: A Reply to Goodman.

Philosophia 45(3): 1275–1282. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-017-9812-5. Abstract In this reply I defend Kripke’s creationist thesis for mythical objects (Reference and Existence, 2013) against Jeffrey Go). I argue that Goodman has mistaken the basis for when mythical abstracta are created. Contrary to Goodman I show that, as well as how, Kripke’s theory consistently retains the analogy between creation of mythical objects and creation of fictional objects, while also explaining in what way they differ.

Type of publication: Journal articles | Lundgren, Björn
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20 April, 2021
Richard Arneson: Should we reward the deserving? Some puzzles

Richard Arneson: Should we reward the deserving? Some puzzles

Do plausible fundamental principles of justice incorporate the idea of rewarding the deserving? Utilitarianism is famously indifferent between a world in which saints fare badly and scoundrels fare we

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24 October, 2016

Desire, Expectation, and Invariance

Mind, Volume 125, Issue 499, Pp. 691-725. Abstract The Desire-as-Belief thesis (DAB) states that any rational person desires a proposition exactly to the degree that she believes or expects the proposit

Type of publication: Journal articles | Stefánsson, H. Orri , & Richard Bradley
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10 July, 2015

Åsa Knaggård: Stakeholder interaction – what do we mean and how can we do it?

Åsa Knaggård, Phd in political science at Lund University. ABSTRACTThat scientific knowledge should be useful and that policies should be based on knowledge, are believes that today are increasingly en

Åsa Knaggård, Phd in political science at Lund University.
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21 January, 2021

Richard Arneson: Should we reward the deserving? Some puzzles

Richard Arneson is a political philosopher with a special interest in theories of social justice.  AbstractDo plausible fundamental principles of justice incorporate the idea of rewarding the deserving?

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22 October, 2013

Charles Manski: Seminar with a skeptic

Charles F. Manski On the 21st and 22nd of January this year Charles F Manski was in Stockholm, invited by the Institute for Futures studies to hold three lectures on his newly published book Public Poli.

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20 December, 2023

Three tips for researchers who want to provide advice in a crisis

Anders Tegnell at Folkhälsomyndigheten became one of the most well-known experts during the covid 19-pandemic in Sweden. Photo: Frankie Fouganthin/Wikimedia. In crises, politicians often turn to expert

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09 June, 2023

Qué futuro tiene el futuro? El País reports on our AI research

"We live in an unpredictable time, the leading experts in artifical intelligence tell us. They have no answers and ordinary citizens are not even capable of asking the pertinent questions. We traveled

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14 December, 2018

Roger Crisp: Pessimism about the Future

Roger Crisp, Professor of Moral Philosophy, Uehiro Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, St Anne's College, University of Oxford Abstract It is widely believed that one of the main reasons we should seek to d

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