The dangers of excessive ambitions within the social sciences - Tore Ellingsen

www.iffs.se Part 2: Comment by Tore Ellingsen In this lecture Jon Elster diagnoses this flaw and discusses possible remedies. He argues that actual agents are intrinsically less sophisticated than

Gustaf Arrhenius will give the Tore Browaldh-lecture this year in Gothenburg. One of the most important insights to emerge over the past hundred years is that the actions of the current generation – th

European Journal of Criminology Abstract Building and expanding on contemporary research where desistance is increasingly conceived of asa fragile and liminal experience, this paper examines the early dof ambivalence – an undertheorised concept in life course criminology. This paper employs qualitativeinterviews from a total of 10 participants who participated in SIG, a voluntary defector programmein Sweden. Despite having formulated a clear resolve to desist, the participantsnonetheless experienced feelings of ambivalence in relation to the desistance process. In theseinstances, the aspiring desisters were bordering between the prospects of a better, crime-freelife and the pains, losses, struggles and frustrations accompanying the early stages of desistance.It is argued that this liminal position, where the old life is to be discarded and a new, better lifeis yet to be built, may constitute a breeding ground for ambivalence – a state which needs tobe grounded in the precarious social position of marginalised youth which aspiring desisters typicallyoccupy.

Oxford University Press Very often we're uncertain about what we ought, morally, to do. We don't know how to weigh the interests of animals against humans, how strong our duties are to improve the live

A seminar on the future of social sciences. Main speaker: Jon Elster.Commentators: Tore Ellingsen and Bengt Hansson. Read more in the invitation (pdf)

Moral uncertainty

Participants: Krister Bykvist, Toby Ord and William MacAskill. Very often we are uncertain about what we ought, morally, to do. We do not know how to weigh the interests of animals against humans, how

The dangers of excessive ambitions within the social sciences - Jon Elster replies

www.iffs.se Part 4: Jon Elster answers to comments from Tore Ellingsen and Bengt Hansson. In this lecture Jon Elster diagnoses this flaw and discusses possible remedies. He argues that actual age

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JYGrjBCoog Kommentar av Tore Ellingsen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoEOLED0Q4U Kommentar av Bengt Hansson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYWoqMrIq6M Jon Elster svarar på

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The dangers of excessive ambitions within the social sciences - Jon Elster

www.iffs.se Part 1: In this lecture Jon Elster diagnoses this flaw and discusses possible remedies. He argues that actual agents are intrinsically less sophisticated than the models assume them to