This informal workshop focuses on four papers dealing with a variety of ethical questions associated with the use of age limits, especially in health care. Time: Wednesday, November 23, 14:00 - 18:00Plac The Institute for Futures Studies (IFFS), Holländardgatan 13, Stockholm According to Jeff McMahan, we ought to save an individual, A, from dying as a young adult (e.g., at age 30) rather than save some other individual, B, from dying as a newborn, even if the latter intervention would give B twice as many years of full-quality life as the former intervention would give A.  Call this claim .  I argue that if we accept , then we must reject at least one of three other claims:

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Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Zürich.More information will be announced. No registration is needed. Welcome to the Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockh

Here you will find different texts written by researchers that are working for the Institute. All texts are not the result of research within the Institute's research program but are by theme and auth

Professor Olli Kangas, direktör för samhällsrelationer vid FPA, Finland More information to be announced. No registration is needed. Welcome to the Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13! Do yo

Prof. Dr. Steffen Mau, Macrosociology at Humboldt University More information to be announced. No registration is needed. Welcome to the Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13! Do you wish to g

Katharina Berndt Rasmussen, Ph.D. in Philosophy and Åsa Burman, Ph.D. in Practical Philosophy at Institute for Futures Studies. More information will be announced. No registration is needed. Welcome to t

Wayne Sumner, University Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto. ABSTRACTFew people doubt that hate speech is capable of harming the minorities that it targets. This talk will explore the various ki

Torbjörn Andersson, Professor at Department of Law, Uppsala University.The presentation will deal with the developing and potential use of AI in court proceedings (concerning both civil and criminal m

Anna Dreber Almenberg, Professor of Economics, Stockholm School of EconomicsAbstractWhy are there so many false results in the published scientific literature? And what is the actual share of results