The institute is primarily funded through a grant from the state budget and external research funding from government and private research financiers, awarded in competition with other research organi

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2017.1390661 Abstract The prevailing view is that democratic procedures are unable to confer democrati

Venue: Humanistiska teatern, Uppsala University Professor Ayelet Shachar (University of Toronto) is one of the world’s leading authorities on migration and citizenship. In this lecture, delivered as par

Completed: Waiting for Life

A minitour with screening of the film "Waiting for Life" and a panel discussion including three former life-sentenced men, two criminologists and a documentary filmmaker will be made in San Fransisco, Washington DC and Stockholm. How can culture and meaningful content change life in prison?

Last week the institute was granted 8 million SEK by the Wallenberg Foundations for two research projects that will go on for four years. The boundary problem in democratic theory. Gustaf Arrhenius was g

Minerva, vol. 62 Abstract A critical debate has blossomed within the field of research policy, science and technology studies, and philosophy of science regarding the possible benefits and limitations opure lottery

This study investigates how stabile the ranking system of Swedish universities is in relation to future incomes of their alumni. Amongst the findings, the ranking of colleges varies both across method

Creating happy animals in order to eat them: Jeff McMahan and Tim Campbell

In recent debates about the ethics of eating animals, some have advanced the claim that if people cause animals to exist and give them good lives in order to be able to eat them, then even if the anim

Sweden has just experienced some unusually warm weeks in June. In Spain, yet another heat wave is causing alarm. In a text published in the Spanish newspaper El País, philosopher Julia Mosquera descri

Synthese, doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-01929-5 Abstract A moderately risk averse person may turn down a 50/50 gamble that either results in her winning $200 or losing $100. Such behaviour seems rational i