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Socioeconomic Advantage or Community Attachment? A Register-Based Study on the Difference in National Lutheran Church Affiliation Between Finnish and Swedish Speakers in Finland
Journal for the scientific study of religion Abstract Secularization theory has been challenged by research showing religious persistence and upswing in contexts across the world. In Europe, particularl
Incommensurability: Vagueness, Parity and other Non-Conventional Comparative Relations
The workshop will focus on how one can account for value incommensurability, its implications for ethical theory and decision theory.
Incommensurability: Vagueness, Parity and other Non-Conventional Comparative Relations
The workshop will focus on how one can account for value incommensurability, its implications for ethical theory and decision theory.
Stefan Svallfors keynote speaker at postdoctoral conference on the future of welfare state studies
The conference Future of Welfare State Studies Conference was held in Umeå for postdoctoral researchers, on May 15–17. It included parallel sessions focusing on the most central aspects in the researc' address had the title .
Big conference on the future of work
What is the future of work in terms of justice and equality? At a big conference at the Institute for Futures Studies which included 17 speakers, this question was discussed by researchers from politi
The Triviality Worry About Gender Terms and Epistemic Injustice
Social Epistemology Abstract According to contextualism, a gender term such as ‘woman’ does not invariantly refer to a specific social orbiological kind. Instead, gender terms have different extensions dincludingexcluding
Interdisciplinary workshop: Contemporary perspectives on conservatism
Conservatism as a distinctive political ideology was born out of Edmund Burke’s critique of the French revolution. Despite its significant influence in society and research, there exists no unified un
Nobel Prize winner Thomas Schelling keynote speaker at the INAS conference
On the 7th and 8th of June, the International Network for Analytical Sociologists, INAS, will meet for its sixth conference, this time in Stockholm hosted by the Institute for Futures Studies. Thomas
A march for science and research!
Alternative facts and fake news. These are phenomenons that March for Science wants to counteract. March for Science will be organized in 400 cities around the World on the 22nd of April, highligting th
Symposium in logic and philosophy
On the 21st of October The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will arrange a seminar with and about The Rolf Schock Laureate in logic and philosophy, professor Derek Parfit. Other speakers include Gusta