Research Team

Prof Gustaf Arrhenius

Principal Investigator (PI)

Arrhenius is the director of the Institute for Futures Studies (IF) and Professor of practical philosophy at the Dept. of Philosophy, Stockholm University. His research interests are primarily in moral and political philosophy, and he is especially interested in issues at the intersection between moral and political philosophy and the medical and social sciences.

Prof Krister Bykvist

CO-PI

Bykvist is Professor of Practical Philosophy at the Dept. of Philosophy, Stockholm University and a Research Fellow at IF, Stockholm. His primary interests are in normative ethics, including consequentialism, utilitarianism, population ethics, prudence, and wellbeing. 

 

Dr Göran Duus-Otterström

CO-PI

Duus-Otterström is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg and Research Fellow at IF. He is a political theorist with a background in the theory of justice, both distributive and retributive. 

Prof Karin Bäckstrand

CORE TEAM MEMBER

Bäckstrand is Professor in Environmental Social Science at the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University. Her research revolves around global environmental politics, the role of science in environmental decision-making, non-state actors in climate change diplomacy  and the democratic legitimacy of global governance. Karin is a member of the Swedish Government’s Climate Policy Council (Klimatpolitiska rådet) 

Dr Ralf Bader

Core team member

Bader is Tutorial Fellow & Associate Professor in Philosophy, Oxford. His research primarily focuses on value theory , contemporary metaphysics, and Kant.

Dr Katharina Berndt Rasmussen

Core Team Member

Berndt Rasmussen is a Postdoctoral researcher in Philosophy, IF, Stockholm. Her main research interests are within moral, political and feminist philosophy. She currently focuses on the issues of democracy and of discrimination.

Prof John Broome

core team member

Broome is Emeritus White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford, Visiting Professor at Stanford and Adjunct Professor at the ANU. He has done extensive work on population ethics, health ethics, environmental ethics, decision theory, and equality.

Dr Tim Campbell

Core team member

Campbell is a Postdoctoral researcher in Philosophy, IF, Stockholm. Tim is exploring the implications of different views of personal identity for population ethics, focusing on normative questions relating to future generations.

Prof Simon Caney

core team member

Caney is Professor of Political Theory, University of Oxford. He has published widely on liberalism, global justice, and climate ethics.

Prof Erik Carlson

core team member

Carlson is Professor of Practical Philosophy at Uppsala University. His work is mainly in normative ethics, value theory, and measurement theory.

Prof Roger Crisp

core team member

Crisp is a Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford and an Uehiro Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, St Anne s College, Oxford. His main interests are in ethics, political philosophy, and ancient philosophy.

Prof Partha Dasgupta

core team member

Disgupta is Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Cambridge. He has written extensively on topics such as welfare and development economics, population, optimal resource use, and the economics of climate change.

Prof Malcolm Fairbrother

core team member

Fairbrother is Professor at the Department of Sociology at Umeå University. A political sociologist, his most recent work has used survey experiments and large cross-national datasets to identify conditions under which people are more or less concerned about environmental problems and supportive of policy responses to them.

Dr Elizabeth Finneron-Burns

core team member

Finneron-Burns holds a BA in Political Studies from Queen’s University in Canada and an MSc in Political Theory from the LSE. Her primary research interest is our obligations to future generations, including who and how many people we create, and what kind of lives we leave them.

Prof Marc Fleurbaey

core team member

Fleurbaey is Robert E. Kuenne Professor in Economics and Humanistic Studies, Professor of Public Affairs and the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University. His research on normative and public economics and theories of distributive justice has focused in particular on the analysis of equality of opportunity, fairness principles, health priority setting, income taxation, and climate policy.

Prof Hilary Greaves

core team member

Greaves is Professor in Philosophy at the University of Oxford and a Tutorial Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford. Her research interests include foundational issues in consequentialism, aggregation, moral psychology and selective debunking arguments.

Dr Johan Gustafsson

core team member

Gustafsson is lecturer in philosophy, University of York. He has written on decision theory, value theory, consequentialism, moral aggregation, personal identity, and indeterminacy in ethics.

Dr Anders Herlitz

core team member

Herlitz is a Research Fellow at IFFS. His research interests are moral and political philosophy and he is especially interested in value conflicts and comparability problems

 

Prof Clare Heyward

core team member

Heyward is Professor in Philosophy at UiT: The Arctic University of Norway. Her research has centred on questions of global and intergenerational justice raised by climate change.

Prof Robert Huseby

core team member

Huseby is Professor in Political Science, and affiliated researcher at the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature (CSMN) at the University of Oslo. He has written about distributive justice, climate ethics, population ethics, nonconsequentialism, and democratic theory.

Dr Karim Jebari

Core team member

Jebari is a Postdoctoral researcher in Philosophy at IFFS, Stockholm. His main interests are in transhumanism, rational philanthropy and existential risks. His research concerns the risk of global collapse of civilisations, due to the increase of average temperatures.

Dr Martin Kolk

core team member

Kolk is Associated Professor in Demography at the Department of Sociology, Stockholm University and at IFFS. His research focuses on intergenerational issues in demography.

 

Dr Julia Mosquera

Core team member

Mosquera is a Postdoctoral researcher in Philosophy at IFFS in Stockholm. Among other things, she studies issues related to the evaluation of trade-offs between inequality and equality that arise from changes in the composition of populations.

 

Dr Edward Page

core team member

Page is Associate Professor of Political Theory, University of Warwick. His research focuses on justice between generations, global distributive justice, and global climate change justice.

Prof Wlodek Rabinowicz

Core team member

Rabinowicz is Professor Emeritus of Practical Philosophy, Lund University. His areas of research are moral philosophy, value theory, decision theory, and philosophical logic.

Prof Melinda Roberts

core team member

Roberts is Professor of philosophy at the College of New Jersey. She works mainly in population and procreative ethics and is interested in developing a person-affecting form of consequentialism that functions well for both deontological and teleological purposes.

Dr Joe Roussos

Core Team Member

Roussos is a postdoctoral researcher in Philosophy, IFFS, Stockholm. His main research interests are within decision theory, philosophy of science, and philosophy of climate science. He focuses on policy decision-making that uses uncertain scientific evidence.

 

Dr Dean Spears

CORE TEAM MEMBER

Spears is Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin in the Economics Department and the Population Research Center and is a visiting economist at the Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi. He studies economic demography, especially the health and well-being of children in developing countries

Dr Katie Steele

core team member

Steele is Associate Professor at the Australian National University. She works on rational choice and inference, and issues concerning the science-policy interface.

Dr H. Orri Stefánsson

core team member

Stefánsson is Associate Professor in Philosophy at Stockholm University and Research Fellow at the Institute for Futures Studies. His current research mostly concerns what decisions to make and what beliefs to hold when one has evidence of objective probabilities. He also works on the philosophy of risk, chance and counterfactuals, and formal ethics.

Dr Olle Torpman

Core team member

Olle Torpman has a Ph.D in practical philosophy from Stockholm University. His interests include principles of just allocation of climate responsibility, as well as environmental and animal ethics. He is currently studying what climate action can be recommended on the basis of conservative ideology.

Prof Stéphane Zuber

core team member

Zuber is Chargé de Recherche at CNRS, affiliated with CES. His primary research topics are economic theory, welfare theory and environmental economics.

Associated researchers
Dr Emil Andersson (Philosophy, McGill) 
Dr Vuko Andrić (Philosophy, Bayreuth)
Dr S.J. Beard (Philosohy, Cambridge)
Prof Ludvig Beckman (Political Theory, IFFS)
Prof Charles Blackorby (Economics, British Columbia)
Prof Walter Bossert (Economics, Montreal)
Prof Nick Bostrom (Philosophy, Oxford)
Dr Paul Bowman (Philosophy)
Dr Koen Decancq (Economics, Deleeck Centre for Social Policy, Antwerp)
Prof Franz Dietrich (Economics, Senior research fellow, CNRS)
Prof David Donaldson, (Economics, British Columbia)
Prof Ottmar Edenhofer (Economics, Potsdam Institute for Climate Change Impact)
Dr Karin Enflo (Philosophy, Luleå)
Prof Stephen Gardiner (Philosophy, University of Washington)
Prof Robert 'Bob' Goodin (Philosophy, Australian National University)
Prof Axel Gosseries (Political Theory, Louvain)
Prof Iwao Hirose (McGill)
Dr Jens Johansson (Philosophy, Uppsala)
Prof Wolfgang Lutz (Demography, Vienna Institute of Demography)
Dr William Macaskill (Philosophy, Oxford)
Prof Catriona McKinnon (Political Theory, Reading)
Prof Lukas Meyer (Philosophy, Universität Graz)
Prof Darrel Moellendorf (Political Theory, Goethe-Universität-Frankfurt am Main)
Prof Serena Olsaretti (Philosophy, ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
Dr Toby Ord (Philosophy, Oxford)
Prof Ingmar Persson (Philosophy, Gothenburg)
Dr Gregory Ponthiere (Economics, CNRS, Paris)
Dr Emilie Prattico (Philosophy)
Mr Daniel Ramöller (Philosophy, Stockholm)
Prof Bo Rothstein (Political Science, Oxford/IFFS)
Prof Julian Savulescu (Philosophy, Oxford)
Dr Nicholas Southwood (Philosophy, Australian National University)
Prof Larry Temkin (Philosophy, Rutgers)
Prof Torbjörn Tännsjö (Philosophy, Stockholm)
Prof Bertil Tungodden (Economics, Oslo)
Prof John Weymark (Economics, Vanderbilt)

Researchers in spin-off/related projects
Dr Henrik Andersson (Philosophy, IFFS)
Dr Giulia Andrighetto (Philosophy, Mälardalens University, IFFS)
Lars Bergström (Artist, Bigert & Bergström, IFFS)
Mats Bigert (Artist, Bigert & Bergström, IFFS)
Dr Erik Brandstedt (Philosophy, IFFS)
Dr Kirsti Jylhä (Psychology, IFFS)