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Therese Lindahl: Swedish policy for global climate: what is it and how can we get there?
ONLINE SEMINAR Therese Lindahl, Programme Director, PhD, Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics. Abstract This presentation will first summarize the main findings of the SNS Economic Policy Council Rep

The Institute for Futures Studies - What we do
The Institute for Futures Studies is an independent foundation that conducts research on important questions that shape our future society. Based on four themes, we investigate critical issues for the
Desire, Expectation, and Invariance
Mind, Volume 125, Issue 499, Pp. 691-725. Abstract The Desire-as-Belief thesis (DAB) states that any rational person desires a proposition exactly to the degree that she believes or expects the proposit
Mistake is to Myth What Pretense is to Fiction: A Reply to Goodman.
Philosophia 45(3): 1275–1282. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-017-9812-5. Abstract In this reply I defend Kripke’s creationist thesis for mythical objects (Reference and Existence, 2013) against Jeffrey Go). I argue that Goodman has mistaken the basis for when mythical abstracta are created. Contrary to Goodman I show that, as well as how, Kripke’s theory consistently retains the analogy between creation of mythical objects and creation of fictional objects, while also explaining in what way they differ.
General Assembly of the World Values Survey meets in Qatar
General Assembly of the World Values Survey Associationwill meet in Doha, Qatar, March, 18–22 at the World Conference on “The Rise of Public Engagement, in the region and in the World”. The conference , (Social and Economic Survey Research Institute and the Arab Barometer.

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
Dual Climate Change Responsibility: on the moral divergences between mitigation and adaptation
in: Paul G. Harris (ed.) Ethics, Environmental Justice, and Climate Change, Chelthenham: Edward Elgar. Climate change cannot be fully understood or effectively mitigated without considering its ethical
The Affirmative Answer to the Existential Question and the Person Affecting Restriction
in: Weighing and Reasoning. Themes from the Philosophy of John Broome, Eds.Iwao Hirose and Andrew Reisner, Oxford University Press. The person affecting restriction states that one outcome can only be
Climate ethics and future generations
Workshop within the research project "Climate ethics and future generations", 27–29 September. Audience members admitted by invitation only. 1st Day – 27th September 8:45 – 9:15 Coffee/Breakfast 9.1