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POSTPONED, NEW DATE PENDING: Research seminar: Co-hosted with Rutgers University
THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN POSTPONED, NEW DATE WILL BE ANNOUNCED Place: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm or onlineResearch seminar co-hosted with Rutgers University.ABSTRACTMore i
Rodney Edvinsson: An Economic Philosophy of Production, Work and Consumption
Place: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm or onlineREGISTERResearch seminar with Rodney Edvinsson, professor of economic history, Stockholm University.ABSTRACTThe book An Econom presents a new transhistorical framework of defining production, work and consumption. It shows that they all share the common feature of intentional physical transformation of something external to the agent, at some point in time.
Larry S. Temkin: Assessing the Goodness of Outcomes: Questioning Some Common Assumptions
Larry S. Temkin is Distinguished Professor at Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University.ABSTRACTThis talk explores and challenges several common assumptions regarding the assessment of outcome good
Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen: Affirmative Action: The Key Arguments
Professor Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Department of Political Science, Århus University.Abstract Many think affirmative action is (un)justified. But does it really make sense to have views about affirmat
Jonas Vlachos: Trust-Based Evaluation in a Market-Oriented School System
Jonas Vlachos, Professor, Department of Economics, Stockholm UniversityABSTRACTIn Sweden, a trust-based system of school performance evaluation meets a market oriented school system with liberal entry
Research seminar with Anders Sandberg: Serf’s Up: Law, AI, Singletons and Leviathan
Venue: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, StockholmRegister hereWelcome to this research seminar with Anders Sandberg, Ph.D. in computational neuroscience, researcher at IFFS and Senior
Joakim Kulin: Climate change or social change? Sociological perspectives on citizens’ environmental beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors
Joakim Kulin, Researcher at Department of Sociology, Umeå University.ABSTRACT It is increasingly evident that greenhouse gas emissions and global warming pose serious existential risks to human societi
POSTPONED. NEW DATE PENDING.Nicole J. Hassoun: Aiding the Poor in Present and Future Generation
Postponed. New date pending. Nicole J.Hassoun, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Binghamton University.Abstract This paper discusses and brings together two lines of research on global justice – one
Mårten Schultz: Risk and responsibility (webinar)
Mårten Schultz is professor of law at Stockholm UniversityAbstractLegal responsibility comes in different forms. Private law deals with questions of responsibility for harm that someone causes another.