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09 July, 2019

Democratic legitimacy does not require constitutional referendum. On ‘the constitution’ in theories of constituent power

European Constitutional Law Review, Volume 14, Issue 3, pp. 567-583, doi.org/10.1017/S1574019618000287 Abstract Constitutional referendum – Popular sovereignty – Constituent power – Democratic legitimac

Type of publication: Journal articles | Beckman, Ludvig
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25 January, 2022

The value of values in climate science

Nature Climate Change To date, values are not widely acknowledged or discussed within physical climate science. Yet, effective management of values in physical climate science is required for the benef

Type of publication: Journal articles | Roussos, Joe , Pulkkinen, K., S. Undorf, F. Bender, P. Wikman-Svahn, F. Doblas-Reyes, C. Flynn, G. Hegerl, A. Jönsson, G-K. Leung, T. Shepherd, E. Thompson
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22 October, 2013

Research Assistant

We are looking for a research assistant for the project “Consequences of poverty”. The position requires good knowledge of Swedish. See the announcement (in Swedish).

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07 October, 2016

Nancy Cartwright: Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trials

Nancy Cartwright is Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, University of Durham and at the University of California, San Diego ABSTRACTRCTs are valuable tools whose use is spreading i

Nancy Cartwright is Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, University of Durham and at the University of California, San Diego
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22 January, 2024

Theron Pummer: Future Suffering and the Non-Identity Problem

Venue:Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, 4th floor, Stockholm, or online. Research seminar with Theron Pummer, Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. Register hereAbstr

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30 September, 2024

Katherine Puddifoot: Stress, Trauma, Memory and Injustice: How Policies Wrong Rememberers

Venue: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, 4th floor, Stockholm, or online. Research seminar with Katherine Puddifoot, Associate Professor in Philosophy at Durham University. Her recent mnemonic form epistemic injustice

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08 May, 2018

Katie Steele: The real paradox of supererogation

Katie Steele, Associate Professor, Australian National University. Abstract It is a feature of our ordinary moral talk that some acts are supererogatory, or beyond what is required. But ‘beyond’ in what

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10 March, 2016

How Valuable are Chances?

Philosophy of Science, Vol. 82, No. 4, p. 602-625. DOI: 10.1086/682915 Abstract Chance Neutrality is the thesis that, conditional on some proposition being true (or being false), its chance of being true

Type of publication: Journal articles | Stefánsson, H. Orri , , Richard Bradley
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13 March, 2014

Educational institutions as mating markets: The case of Sweden

Juho Härkönen, Stockholm University Schools are considered efficient mating markets--that is, structured social settings in which partners meet--and feature prominently in explanations for patterns in

Juho Härkönen, Stockholms Universitet
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07 March, 2014

Homophily and segregation in adolescent friendships - A social network perspective

Per Block, Nuffield college, Oxford Homophily the tendency of individuals to be friends with other that are similar in some respect, is one of the most pervasive regularities in social networks. It is

Per Block, Nuffield college, Oxford
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