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Worldviews, Ethics and Philosophy

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Two female muslims walking down the street.
Department of Sociology

Immigrants who experience discrimination are less likely to vote

Immigrants who are active in religious organizations in Sweden are less likely to participate in politics compared to immigrants who are not active in such organizations, a new PhD study from Stockholm University shows. Those who have experienced societal discrimination based on religion are even less likely to participate in politics or to vote. The greatest impact is seen among Muslims in Sweden.

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Society, Democracy and Welfare - Theme page Worldviews, Ethics and Philosophy - Theme page International Relations and Migration - Theme page
Department of Social Anthropology

Collecting, saving and securing seeds has become a global concern

Seedways - The circulation, control and care of plants in a warming world is a book about seeds and why and how seeds matter today, as in the past. In a historical perspective the co-evolution of plants and humans can be traced through myths, rituals and cultural practices. In our present-day world of accelerating climate change, expansion of monocultural plantations and loss of biodiversity, collecting, saving and securing seeds has become a global concern.

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Worldviews, Ethics and Philosophy - Theme page Climate and Environment - Theme page
Åsa Wikforss is one of the speakers at Good Research Practice from Different Perspectives.

Hear Åsa Wikforss talk about the researcher’s role in a democracy

On Friday May 28th Åsa Wikforss, professor of theoretical philosophy at Stockholm University and a member of the Swedish Academy, is one of the speakers at the webinar Good Research Practice from Different Perspectives. The webinar is organized by Stockholm Trio and open to all who are interested in research integrity and ethics – students, PhD students, researchers, administrative staff and leadership.

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Department of Culture and Aesthetics

"Entangled memories of violence", new article by Victoria Fareld

In a new article in the journal Memory Studies (16/2 2021), Victoria Fareld, associate professor in History of Ideas, Stockholm University, analyzes how the Austrian writer Jean Améry formulates his memories of the Holocaust in the contemporaneous situation of decolonisation.

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History, Archeology and Cultural Heritage - Theme page Worldviews, Ethics and Philosophy - Theme page Culture and Media - Theme page
Helen Frowe

Heading a Swedish center for research on the ethics of war

The view of the ethics of war that dominates public, legal and political discourse dates back to the Middle Ages. Helen Frowe, who is a professor of philosophy, has incorporated new and challenging perspectives in her research. Among other things, she is studying the moral responsibility of the individual in war, and whether humanitarian interventions can be morally justified.

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Research projects

Bioethics and Political Philosophy: Nordic Perspectives

Bioethics and Political Philosophy: Nordic Perspectives is a workshop series that brings together philosophers, bioethicists, and other researchers from Nordic and Baltic countries whose work is at the intersection of bioethics and political philosophy.

Causation as a secondary quality

In spite of its centrality, the notion of causation has resisted unified treatment. Attempts at general theories of causation have failed to account for some range of cases of causation. The project investigates whether causation can be understood as a “secondary" relation, identifying means to ends has as its function to track.

EXTREMUM

The goal of thid cross-disciplinary collaboration is to design and implement a novel data management and analytics framework for medical data sources. The focus is on explainable machine learning methods as well as on legal and ethical aspects of the predictive models.

Anatomic model of a heart
Ethics and Values in educational data-driven practices

This project explores the growing datafication of the education sector in the Nordic countries. Our exploration is concretized through a workshop series. We focus on dimensions of ethics and values embedded in emerging sociotechnical imaginaries of education and learning.

Genre photo: Three students sitting by their laptops.
Ethics of coordination

As the recent fiery debates about ‘flight shame’ and ‘meat shame’ illustrate, there is no clear and convincing ethical account of who has a duty to do exactly what with respect to climate change.

Health Bank de-identification tool and its practical use

The aim of this project is to enable the practical use of methods for de-identification of clinical free text written in Swedish. The HB Deid tool will be tested on textual patient data from Region Stockholm and not only in a laboratory environment at Stockholm University.

Genre photo: Stethoscope, pen and paper. Photo: Teerawut Masawat/Mostphotos.
Knowledge Resistance: Causes, Consequences and Cures

The main objective of this ambitious cross-disciplinary program is to investigate the nature and causes of knowledge resistance, the tendency not to accept available knowledge. This represents the first concerted effort to provide a unified framework within which to investigate knowledge resistance, going beyond the state of the art on several levels.

The Foundations of Epistemic Normativity

Many of us think that we ought to believe in anthropogenic climate change, that our belief is justified given the evidence and that climate-change skepticism is not rationally permitted. The project aims at clarifying normative claims concerning what we ought, are justified, or are permitted to believe.

The Moral Demands of Equality in Aging Societies

The aim of the project is to understand the demands of equality in aging societies. Aging will change substantially the age composition of the populations of developed countries, and it raises challenges for maintaining and promoting equality between age groups and generations.

The Stat Sovereignty and Its Limits – a Legal Genetic Study

Dissertation project aimed at examining the relationship between the two legal principles (qui iure and sic utere) which are usually considered to define 1. territorial state sovereignty and 2. the limits to this sovereignty imposed by the international law of borders.

Research
When punishment is drifting: A rights-based account of parental imprisonment

The research project focuses on the ethics of imprisonment. I critically examine prisoners right to privacy, the harm caused to families and children of prisoners, prisoners voting rights and medical treatment for prisoners with ADHD. My thesis has already received important international recognition among researchers as well as practioneers.

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Research groups

Children, Migration and Integration

In 2016, the Human Science Academic Area (HSAA) introduced a specific interdisciplinary initiative directed towards the themes of Children, Migration and Integration (CMI), an initiative to which the Vice-Chancellor had granted funds.

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