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A new theory about the relation between cognitive ability and moral opinions
Why is it that people with higher cognitive ability tend to have more liberal opinions on moral issues? This project will try to offer an explanation.
Discontinuous and continuous stochastic choice and coordination in the lab
Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 206, 2022. Abstract We experimentally test theoretical predictions on equilibrium selection in a two-player coordination (investment) game. Through a minimal visual vari
Cultural systems
The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution, red. Jamshid J. Tehrani et al. Abstract Many cultural phenomena cannot be understood by studying traits in isolation. Instead, they are embedded in webs of rel
The making of an egalitarian elite: school ethos and the production of privilege
The British Journal of Sociology 2019, Volume 70, Issue 2 Abstract Research on privilege and education often focuses on institutions that are elite in a rather traditional way, for example schools that i
Is conservative opposition to climate change threat-based? Articulating an integrated threat model of climate change attitudes
British Journal of Social Psychology Abstract Throughout the literature, there are assertions that those endorsing conservative ideologies reject the science and solutions of climate change due to perce
Arne Jarrick & Maria Wallenberg Bondesson: The cultural dynamics of law-making – A world history
Prof. Arne Jarrick and PhD. Maria Wallenberg Bondesson, Centre for the study of Cultural Evolution at Stockholm University and Institute for Futures Studies.ABSTRACTOur presentation gives significant hig
Julia Cage: Rethinking Democracy - Steps to Political Equality and Social and Environmental Justice
Research seminar with Julia Cage, Associate Professor of Economics, Sciences Po Paris Register Abstract Electoral democracies are in crisis. Turnout is at its lowest point in the history of universal sufand argue that the solution involves a radical rethinking of our system of political finance, participation and representation.
Stable and unstable choices
Economics and Philosophy, DOI:10.1017/S0266267119000026 Abstract This paper introduces a condition for rational choice that states that accepting decision methods and normative theories that sometimes en
In defense of value incomparability: A reply to Dorr, Nebel, and Zuehl
Noûs Abstract Cian Dorr, Jacob Nebel, and Jake Zuehl have argued that no objects are incomparable in value. One set of arguments they offer depart from a principle they call ‘Strong Monotonicity’, which
Moral Realism and the Argument from Skepticism
in International Journal for the Study of Skepticism10 (ISSN: 2210-5697). Abstract:A long-standing family of worries about moral realism focuses on its implications for moral epistemology. The underlyi
