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12 April, 2022

The triumph of secular individualism – A new mathematical model offers clear-cut answers to how morals will change over time

Irina Vartanova, Kimmo Eriksson and Pontus Strimling at the Institute for Futures Studies have created a model to predict changes in moral opinion. –Ourmodel did considerably better than all known methPontus Strimling.

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17 October, 2019

Completed: Numbers: The relevance of empirical results for philosophy

The purpose of this project is to investigate the relevance of empirical results for the philosophy of mathematics.

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27 February, 2024
Per Molander

Per Molander

I have a PhD in control engineering and hold a Bachelor's degree in mathematics, literature, etc. Throughout my career, I have worked on applying research in the political decision-making process with

PhD, Control Engineering
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12 January, 2016
Fredrik Jansson

Fredrik Jansson

Senior Lecturer, Mathematics/Applied Mathematics I am a senior lecturer in mathematics/applied mathematics at Mälardalen University and a research affiliate at the Centre for Cultural Evolution at Stockho.

Associate Professor in Mathematics
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10 March, 2016

Group differences in broadness of values may drive dynamics of public opinion on moral issues

Mathematical Social Sciences, 77, 1-8. Abstract Here we propose the idea that the success of an argument in favor of an issue position should depend on whether the argument resonates with the audience’s

Type of publication: Journal articles | Strimling, Pontus , Eriksson, Kimmo
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11 December, 2013

Positive online emotions

Is it possible to study emotions using mathematical models? Frank Schweizer is one of the resesarchers who have tried and he finds for example that we are quite nice to each other online. He came to te

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07 March, 2016
Olle Häggström

Olle Häggström

I am a professor of mathematical statistics at Chalmers University of Technology and a board member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA) and of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Science

Professor, Mathematical Statistics
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11 September, 2020

Are the Natural Numbers Fundamentally Ordinals?

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 99 (3), 564-580 Abstract There are two ways of thinking about the natural numbers: as ordinal numbers or as cardinal numbers. It is, moreover, well‐known that the

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19 March, 2021

The Complexity of Mental Integer Addition

 in: Journal of Numerical Cognition, Volume 6 (1).  AbstractAn important paradigm in modeling the complexity of mathematical tasks relies on computational complexity theory, in which complexity is measur

Type of publication: Journal articles |
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24 April, 2018
How do social norms change?

How do social norms change?

Social norms change all the time, in all societies. But what determines which norms change and which norms do not?

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