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09 December, 2024

‘Ukraine’s Cause is Ours!’ Diaspora and Migration in Swedish Parliamentary Debates, 2014–2022

Nordic Journal of Migration Research 2025 vol 15, issue 2 Abstract The annexation of Crimea, the subsequent insurgency of Russian-backed separatists in the Donbas region of Ukraine in 2014 and the curren

Type of publication: Journal articles | Voytiv, Sofia
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16 January, 2025
Cogito Machina

Cogito Machina - Investigating the emergence of artificial general intelligence

Is AGI emergent? In order to know, several questions need to be answered and this project aims to provide the answeres. What is AGI? What is required for a system to have it, and how might we know whether AGI is emergent in a system. 

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14 September, 2022

Significant but inconclusive evidence

Where:Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm Speakers: Richard Dawid (Stockholm), Ulrike Hahn (Birkbeck), Wendy Parker (Virginia Tech), Joe Roussos (IFFS), Karim Thebault (Bristol) and William Wolf II (Oxford). P before October 7.

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09 June, 2023

Qué futuro tiene el futuro? El País reports on our AI research

"We live in an unpredictable time, the leading experts in artifical intelligence tell us. They have no answers and ordinary citizens are not even capable of asking the pertinent questions. We traveled

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12 April, 2019

Asymmetry and Non-Identity

Utilitas, Volume 31, Issue 3, pp.213-230. doi.org/10.1017/S0953820818000341 Abstract In this article we distinguish two versions of the non-identity problem: one involving positive well-being and one inv

Type of publication: Journal articles | Berndt Rasmussen, Katharina , & Per Algander
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07 February, 2017

Do good. And do it better

Do you ever donate money to a charitable cause? If you do, how do you choose what cause to favour? The Scottish philosopher William MacAskill says that we are generally quite bad at regarding donation

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23 January, 2020

Demokratin i klimatkrisens tid

Plats: Hazeliussalen på Hasselbacken, Hazeliusvägen 20, StockholmPris: 100 krKöp biljett här: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/demokratin-i-klimatkrisens-tid-tickets-90980901325 “Även de bästa demokratier f

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19 October, 2017

Time to plan for the worst-case scenario

After two of the most damaging hurricanes in history affected the Gulf of Mexico just a few days apart, the impact of climate-induced catastrophes is finally getting some attention. However, in truth,

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28 March, 2018

The effect of number of siblings on adult mortality: Evidence from Swedish registers for cohorts born between 1938 and 1972

Population Studies, Volume 71, Issue 1, doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2016.1260755 Abstract Demographic research has paid much attention to the impact of childhood conditions on adult mortality. We focus on o

Type of publication: Journal articles | Kolk, Martin , , Anna Baranowska-Rataj, Kieron Barclay
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17 March, 2021

Dennett and Taylor’s alleged refutation of the Consequence Argument

in: Analysis, Volume 80, Issue 3 AbstractDaniel C. Dennett has long maintained that the Consequence Argument for incompatibilism is confused. In a joint work with Christopher Taylor, he claims to have

Type of publication: Journal articles | Gustafsson, Johan E.
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