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Activation in Integrated Services? Bridging Social and Employment Services in European Countries
This paper studies how the new, integrated employment and social services look like with respect to government structures, e.g. shifts of responsibility upwards or downwards for both groups and how en
Avia Pasternak: Violent Protests and the Proportionality Test
Research seminar with Avia Pasternak, Associate Professor in Political Theory at University College London. REGISTER HERE TO GET A MEETING LINK AbstractViolent protestors against state injustice typical
Debunking and Disagreement
Noûs, (Early View), DOI: 10.1111/nous.12135. Introduction A familiar way of supporting skeptical doubts about the beliefs in some area, such as ethics orreligion, is to provide a “debunking argument” agaiway is to appeal to the disagreement that occurs in the area.2 These types of challenge areoften treated separately and there is not much overlap in the literature they have given rise to.Yet, as they pursue the same conclusion—that the target beliefs are not (fully) justified andthat we should reduce our confidence in them—one might well wonder how they are related.Are they entirely independent or do they interact in non-trivial and interesting ways? That isthe question I shall explore.

How to solve the climate crisis together
This projects aims to solve ideological conflicts when it comes to climate politics, by suggesting climate work that aligns with the different ideologies' values.
Backcasting the Future of Food: A Technology-Oriented Path to Sustainable Production in 2100
Institute for Futures Studies Working Paper 2024:18 Abstract We stipulate a normatively desirable scenario for food production in 2100 and identify a technology-centered path to attain it. The target ou
Why Canada should rethink their Net-Zero act
Considering the recent wildfires in Canada, the harmful effects of climate change are undeniably evolving faster than previously expected. It is now imperative for leaders in government, business and
Wayne Sumner: The Harms of Hate Speech
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

Workshop talk: Who attacks cultural heritage in war, and what effects does it have on subsequent violence?
Joakim Kreutz, Political Science, Stockholm University: "Who attacks heritage in war, and what effect does it have on subsequent violence? Findings from global research on attacks on sacred spaces, 19
Pathlength scaling in graphs with incomplete navigational information
2011. Physica A 390:3996-4001. The graph-navigability problem concerns how one can find as short paths as possible between a pair of vertices, given an incomplete picture of a graph. We study the navigab
Modeling the Evolution of Creoles
Language Dynamics and Change, 5(1), 1-51. DOI: 10.1163/22105832-00501005 Abstract Various theories have been proposed regarding the origin of creole languages. Describing a process where only the end res