Partha Dasgupta, professor of economics and member of the Climate Ethics and Future Generations-team at IFFS, and Gustaf Arrhenius at a conference in honour of Dasgupta who is turning 80 in 2023. Dasg

A growing number of voters in Europe abstain from their right to vote in democratic elections. Most of them are citizens with low socio-economic status. The gap in political participation is most pron

Date & Time: Wednesday, June 12 at 10:00-11:45 (CET)Venue: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, 4th floor, Stockholm, or online. Research seminar with Palle Dahlstedt, Professor in In

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Research seminar with Palle Dahlstedt, Professor in Interaction Design at Gothenburg University. In this lecture, Palle Dahlstedt will share a pragmatic, critical, and visionary view of what machine l

Registration: The seminar is free of charge but you need to register: Click here The seminar will be held in English Several studies show that citizens in North America and Europe have strong emotional ti These questions are the focus of two new books: Liberal Nationalism and Its Critics, and Why Nationalism. We have the great honor to bring together the authors of these books on February 5: David Miller, Gina Gustavsson and Yael Tamir. They will together with political philosopher Philippe van Parijs discuss these topics. The evening is moderated by Lars Anell (Frisinnade klubben, former chairman at Swedish Research Council). Gustaf Arrhenius (Professor of Philosophy and Director at the Institute for Futures Studies) and Bengt Westerberg (Frisinnade klubben, former party leader of the Liberal People's Party) says welcome.   : Professor of political theory, Oxford University. The one person most associated with the term “Liberal Nationalism”. Recently published Liberal Nationalism and Its Critics with Gina Gustavsson. : Associate Professor of political science, Uppsala University and Nuffield College, Oxford University. : PhD in political theory, Oxford University. Wrote the much talked about book Liberal Nationalism in 1993. Recently published the book Why Nationalism. Political philosopher from Belgium, one of the world’s most prominent scholars on Universal Basic Income (UBI).

The main purpose of this work is to assist the secretariat in administrative matters including maintaining the web site, the Facebook and the Twitter accounts, organising events, editing the Newslette Fund-raising is a substantial part of our work and the person we’re seeking will also be asked to assist in this work (complete the forms, submit the paperwork and follow up on behalf of the association). All communication will be in English. The person we are looking for will be placed at the Institute for Future studies in the very centre of Stockholm.

Journal of Marriage and Family, Volume 79, Issue 2, pp. 419-436. Abstract Children of immigrant background, despite problems with acculturation, poverty, and discrimination, have better mental health th

If a social scientific observer of the mid-1980s had been presented with a line-up of rich Western countries – say Germany, Sweden, the UK, France, the US – and asked to guess which  of these countrie

Campbell, T. Axiological Retributivism and the Desert Neutrality Paradox. Philosophies 2022, 7, 80. https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies7040080 Abstract: According to axiological retributivism, people canan outcome in which someone gets what she deserves, even if it is bad for her, can thereby haveintrinsic positive value. A question seldom asked is how axiological retributivism should deal withcomparisons of outcomes that differ with respect to the number and identities of deserving agents.Attempting to answer this question exposes a problem for axiological retributivism that parallels awell-known problem in population axiology introduced by John Broome. The problem for axiologicalretributivism is that it supports the existence of a range of negative wellbeing levels such that if adeserving person comes into existence at any of these levels, the resulting outcome is neither betternor worse with respect to desert. However, the existence of such a range is inconsistent with a setof very plausible axiological claims. I call this the desert neutrality paradox. After introducing theparadox, I consider several possible responses to it. I suggest that one reasonable response, thoughperhaps not the only one, is to reject axiological retributivism.

AbstractIs Deliberation an Antidote to Extreme Partisan Polarization? Reflections on “America in One Room” Register here to join the seminar This talk is positioned at the intersectionof two literatures