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– om nya mediavanor, ökad polarisering och förändrade maktförhållanden Idag präglas det offentliga samtalet inte sällan av en aggressiv åsiktskultur färgad av polarisering. En debatt har uppkommit

H. Orri Stefánsson

I am Professor of Practical Philosophy and Wallenberg Academy Fellow at Stockholm University, and Researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies. My current research mostly concerns how one should cho uncertainty, including situations where one suspects that the outcome of one’s actions (or inaction) could be catastrophic.

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Magnus Bygren

I am professor in Sociology at Department of Sociology, Stockholm University. My research currently aligns with three overlapping themes: (1) the existence and degrees of discrimination within differen

Stéphane Zuber

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Bayesian and non-Bayesian epistemic attitudes and existential risk

In this talk Olle Häggström will sketch and contrast two different epistemic attitudes that roughly correspond to Bayesianism and Popperian falsificationism. He will argue that they both have virtues

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