Voting behavior, policy responsiveness and democratic anger. Interview with Armin Schäfer

European citizens with low socio-economic status are staying away from the polls in disproportionate numbers. Some of them say it is because politicians don't care about them anyway. Are they right? P

Luke Russell - What is forgiveness? On the philosophical disagreements of what forgiveness is

In this episode we are going to talk about forgiveness. Recently Luke Russel, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Sidney, held a research seminar here at the institute titled What i

Claim-based distributive theories

The overarching purpose of this project is to present a framework for claim-based distributive theories. Since scarcity is a ubiquitous societal problem, the project has wide-reaching relevance for society.

Basic Income Studies, 11 (1), 61–74. https://doi.org/10.1515/bis-2016-0013 Abstract A widespread argument in the basic income debate is that the unconditional entitlement to a secure income floor improve

in: Weighing and Reasoning. Themes from the Philosophy of John Broome, Eds.Iwao Hirose and Andrew Reisner, Oxford University Press. This chapter discusses the question of whether we can make it better

Law, Ethics and Philosophy vol. 7, 102-126 Abstract Boonin endorses reasoning that leads to what he calls the Implausible Conclusion regarding when future-directed choices that at first glance seem to i

in: Synthese 2020 Abstract Just as we can be more or less certain that there is extraterrestrial life or that Goldbach’s conjecture is correct, we can be more or less certain about normative matters, su

Thomas Christiano, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona ABSTRACTI argue we can make a great deal of progress in understanding the promise and the perils of voluntary exchange by elabora

Malcolm Fairbrother is professor of sociology at Umeå University and researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies. In this seminar he presents the paper How Much Do People Value Future Generations? C

The importance of socio-economic background will become increasingly important for school success. But segregation in the school area is steadily growing and inequality is increasing, a development tha