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20 March, 2019
Interview with Daniel Wikler on what happened after a seminar on ethics and e-cigs

Interview with Daniel Wikler on what happened after a seminar on ethics and e-cigs

Director and Professor of Practical Philosophy Gustaf Arrhenius met up with Daniel at a conference in Kigali and took the opportunity to ask him what happened after his talk on ethics and e-cigs at th

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14 January, 2025

Sufficiency and the Distribution of Burdens

In: Mosquera, J. & O. Torpman (ed.), Studies on Climate Ethics and Future Generationsvol. 6. Working Paper Series 2024:10–17 Abstract A common objection to sufficientarianism is that it allows large

Type of publication: Working papers | Robert Huseby
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20 December, 2024

Never eat a Pigeon with a Pumpkin: a model for the emergence and fixation of unsupported beliefs

This work was presented at the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2023, and a shortened form of the paper is Chapter 30 in Food Rules and Rituals: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Coo

Type of publication: Other | Sandberg, Anders , & Len Fisher
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20 March, 2019

Reactions on a seminar on ethics and e-cigarettes

In 2016 dozens of prominent researchers from around the world came to our institute to work on the ambitious research report "Rethinking society for the 21st century" by the International Panel on Soci. One of the many interesting researchers we had the pleasure of hosting was Daniel Wikler, Professor of Ethics and Population Health.

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19 March, 2020

The coronavirus, mortality and life expectancy

 A demographer calculates how the average life expectancy can be affected In Sweden, we now experience the first pandemic that occurs in a society with modern information technology, and it is also the

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06 February, 2024

Research seminar with Claes Lernestedt: Frankenstein's Heirs

Venue: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, 4th floor, Stockholm, or online.Research seminar with Claes Lernestedt, Professor of Law, Stockholm University.Register hereAbstract This resear, has (at least formally) yet to start. The project might be thought of as interdisciplinary, with a base in law (I’m a criminal law professor),  Thoughts presented will be very tentative, and I welcome any kind of input.

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14 April, 2021
Completed: Social norms, implicit bias and discrimination

Completed: "If you're all egalitarians, how come you're so racist?". Social norms, implicit bias and discrimination

Why are ethnic discrimination and inequality widespread in Sweden when studies suggest that Swedes are among the most egalitarian people in the world? This project analyses implicit biases in relation to social norms.

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31 October, 2023

Dan Wikler: Ethics, E-Cigs, and the Tobacco End Game

Full title: Ethics, E-Cigs, and the Tobacco End Game: Trading off mortality of the world's #1 cause of death in the near term, medium term, and long term future REGISTER HERE > Research seminar with DPlease note the time and that the speaker will join us online.

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11 November, 2021

The climate ethics program: "Interdisciplinary at its best"

"Innovative, ambitious, and extremely well managed." A mid-term evaluation of the research program Climate Ethics and future generations praises it for being interdisciplinary at its best. Riksbankens

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03 September, 2020

Free Traders: Elites, Democracy, and the Rise of Globalization

Oxford University Press Today's global economy was largely established by political events and decisions in the 1980s and 90s, when scores of nations opened up their economies to the forces of globaliz

Type of publication: Books | Fairbrother, Malcolm
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