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.

Nature Human Behavior, one of the most influential social science journals, is now publishing a groundbreaking study from a Swedish team of researchers that answers several critical questions on how public opinion changes on moral issues, such as: How come today’s conservatives are more liberal than yesterday’s liberals? Why has the public opinion in large parts of the world shifted so rapidly in favor of gay and lesbian rights, but been virtually unchanged on other contested issues such as abortion rights? And is it possible to create a scientific model that can predict public opinion changes on moral issues?

Throughout history, people have consulted everything from oracles to crystal balls in order to predict the future. But it was not until the 1960s that interest developed in a more systematic study of

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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