Research
We work on research methodology and value, theory confirmation in fundamental physics, the philosophy of cosmology and astrophysics, decision-making under severe uncertainty, catastrophic risk, well-being, behavioural economics, and the methodology of philosophy itself.
Publications
Publications by members of the group, as registered in DiVA, Stockholm University's publication database. The list is updated automatically.
- Erik Angner (Forthcoming) What Is a Nudge?, Social Philosophy & Policy
- Richard Dawid (Forthcoming) Does the No Alternatives Argument Need Gerrymandering to Be Significant?, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
- Tommy Andersson and Erik Angner (2026) A 250-Year-Old Theorem Walks into a Courtroom, The Mathematical Intelligencer
- Siska De Baerdemaeker (2026) A Tale of Two Dark Matter Concepts: The Relation Between Cosmology and High-Energy Physics in the Context of Dark Matter Research, in Astronomy and Philosophy: Conceptual and Methodological Foundations and Challenges, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 325–336
- Joe Roussos and H. Orri Stefánsson (2026) Continuity, Catastrophic Risk, and Severe Uncertainty, Philosophical Studies
- Erik Angner (2026) Därför går det inte att skilja på tro och vetande, EFN
- Erik Angner (2026) Därför spelar var du promenerar roll, EFN
- Richard Dawid and Karim P. Y. Thébault (2026) Decoherence and Probability, Philosophy of Science, 93(1), pp. 143–169
- Mac Willners and H. Orri Stefánsson (2026) Does Global Justice Demand Solar Geoengineering?, Environmental Ethics, 48(2), pp. 209–233
- Tushar Menon, Richard Dawid, and Siska De Baerdemaeker (2026) Establishing the Philosophy of Supersymmetry Introduction to the Topical Collection, Synthese, 207(4)
- H. Orri Stefánsson (2026) Ocean-Based Salmon Farming: A Case Study of “Irreversible Damage”, Environmental Ethics, 48(1), pp. 93–107
- Joe Roussos (2026) Survey Article: When and What Is the “Hinge of History”?, Political Philosophy
- Erik Angner (2025) 'Lappa och laga' räddar inte friskolesystemet
- Erik Angner (2025) ”Allt är skit utom piss”-landet vinner igen!
- Richard Dawid and James D. Wells (2025) A Bayesian Model of Credence in Low Energy Supersymmetry, Synthese, 206(4)
- Björn Lundgren and H. Orri Stefánsson (2025) Can the Normic De Minimis Expected Utility Theory Save the De Minimis Principle?, Erkenntnis, 90(3), pp. 1255–1263
- Richard Bradley and H. Orri Stefánsson (2025) Fairness, Ambiguity and Dynamic Consistency, Theory and Decision
- Johannes Nyström (2025) How to Estimate the Success Chance of a Scientific Theory? On the No Miracles Argument and the Base Rate Fallacy, European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 15(4)
- Erik Angner (2025) Livet kan vara gott – trots barn
- H. Orri Stefánsson (2025) Longtermism and Social Risk-Taking, in Essays on Longtermism: Present Action for the Distant Future, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 511–528
- Pablo Ruiz de Olano, Richard Dawid, and C. D. McCoy (2025) Non-Empirical Physics from a Historical Perspective: New Pathways in History and Philosophy of Physics, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 110, pp. 13–16
- Erik Angner (2025) Okunnighet är inte problemet
- Siska De Baerdemaeker (2025) Philosophy of Cosmology and Astrophysics, Cambridge Elements in the Philosophy of Physics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
- Gustaf Arrhenius and H. Orri Stefánsson (2025) Population Ethics Under Risk, Social Choice and Welfare, 65(4), pp. 829–852
- Roman Frigg and James Nguyen (2025) Stabilising Understanding, Philosophical Studies
- Johannes Nyström (2025) Theoretical Stability and Scientific Realism, Philosophy of Science, 92(4), pp. 900–921
- H. Orri Stefánsson (2024) A Trilemma for the Lexical Utility Model of the Precautionary Principle, Philosophical Studies, 181, pp. 3271–3287
- James Nguyen (2024) Confidence in Covid-19 Models, Synthese, 203(4)
- H. Orri Stefánsson (2024) Identified Person Bias as Decreasing Marginal Value of Chances, Noûs, 58(2), pp. 536–561
- Gustaf Arrhenius and H. Orri Stefánsson (2024) Incommensurability, the Sequence Argument, and the Pareto Principle, Philosophical Studies, 181(12), pp. 3395–3411
- Dean Spears and H. Orri Stefánsson (2024) What Calibrating Variable-Value Population Ethics Suggests, Economics and Philosophy, 40(3), pp. 673–684
- Richard Dawid (2024) Who Am I in the Multiverse? Everettian Quantum Mechanics and the Mental, in Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Institute of Physics
- Erik Angner (2024) 経済学者のすごい思考法: 子育て、投資から臓器移植、紛争解決まで (How Economics Can Save The World), Tankobon
- Erik Angner (2023) A Economia Pode Salvar o Mundo: Ideias Simples para Resolver Grandes Problemas, Actual Editora
- James Nguyen (2023) Aesthetic Cognitivism, Experimental Shielding, and Explanatory Reasoning, in The Aesthetics of Scientific Experiments, New York: Routledge
- Jacob M. Nebel and H. Orri Stefánsson (2023) Calibration Dilemmas in the Ethics of Distribution, Economics and Philosophy, 39(1)
- Andrea Asker Svedberg and H. Orri Stefánsson (2023) Climate Change and Decision Theory, in Handbook of the Philosophy of Climate Change, Springer, pp. 267–286
- Erik Angner (2023) Come l'economia può salvare il mondo: Idee semplici per risolvere grandi problemi, Milano: Hoepli
- Mike D. Schneider and Siska De Baerdemaeker (2023) Cosmology and Empire, Nature Astronomy, 7(4), pp. 368–370
- Roman Frigg and James Nguyen (2023) DEKI and the Mislocation of Justification: A Reply to Millson and Risjord, in Scientific Understanding and Representation: Modeling in the Physical Sciences, New York: Routledge
- Erik Angner (2023) En bättre värld är möjlig, Stockholm: Fri tanke förlag
- Richard Bradley and H. Orri Stefánsson (2023) Fairness and Risk Attitudes, Philosophical Studies, 180(10-11), pp. 3179–3204
- H. Orri Stefánsson (2023) How a Pure Risk of Harm Can Itself Be a Harm: A Reply to Rowe, Analysis, 84(1), pp. 112–116
- Erik Angner (2023) How Economics Can Save the World: Simple Solutions to Our Biggest Problems, London: Penguin
- H. Orri Stefánsson (2023) In Defence of Pigou-Dalton for Chances, Utilitas, 35(4), pp. 292–311
- Vera Matarese, Siska De Baerdemaeker, and Nora Mills Boyd (2023) Introduction, in Philosophy of Astrophysics: Stars, Simulations, and the Struggle to Determine What Is Out There, Springer, pp. 1–10
- James Nguyen and Roman Frigg (2023) Maps, Models, and Representation, in Scientific Understanding and Representation, New York: Routledge
- Nora Mills Boyd, Siska De Baerdemaeker, Kevin Heng, and Vera Matarese (eds.) (2023) Philosophy of Astrophysics: Stars, Simulations, and the Struggle to Determine What Is Out There, Synthese Library, Cham: Springer
- Erik Angner (2023) Teaching Economics as Though Values Matter, Fiscal Studies, 44(2), pp. 161–169
- Richard Dawid and Casey McCoy (2023) Testability and Viability: Is Inflationary Cosmology “Scientific”?, European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 13(4)
- Peter Galison et al. (2023) The Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration: History, Philosophy, and Culture, Galaxies, 11(1)
- H. Orri Stefánsson (2023) The Tragedy of the Risk Averse, Erkenntnis, 88(1), pp. 351–364
- H. Orri Stefánsson and Mac Willners (2023) Why Offsetting Is Not Like Shaking a Bag: A Reply to Barry &Amp; Cullity, Ethics, Policy & Environment, 26(1), pp. 144–148
- Erik Angner (2023) 選擇經濟學: 如何做對決策，讓人生更富足、幸福、美好, Tianxia
- Siska De Baerdemaeker and Mike D. Schneider (2022) Better Appreciating the Scale of It: Lemaître and De Sitter at the BAAS Centenary, HOPOS, 12(1), pp. 170–188
- H. Orri Stefánsson and Björn Lundgren (2022) Can a Knowledge Threshold Save the De Minimis Principle?, Journal of Risk and Reliability, 236(6), pp. 1164–1167
- H. Orri Stefánsson (2022) Continuity and Catastrophic Risk, Economics and Philosophy, 38(2), pp. 266–274
- Richard Dawid and Simon Friederich (2022) Epistemic Separability and Everettian Branches: A Critique of Sebens and Carroll, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 73(3), pp. 711–721
- Richard Dawid (2022) Meta-Empirical Confirmation: Addressing Three Points of Criticism, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 93, pp. 66–71
- Siska De Baerdemaeker and Richard Dawid (2022) MOND and Meta-Empirical Theory Assessment, Synthese, 200(5)
- James Nguyen (2022) Scientific Modeling, in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan
- James Nguyen and Roman Frigg (2022) Scientific Representation, Cambridge Elements. Elements in Philosophy of Science, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
- H. Orri Stefánsson (2022) Should I Offset or Should I Do More Good?, Ethics, Policy & Environment, 25(3), pp. 225–241
- Katie Steele and H. Orri Stefánsson (2022) Transformative Experience, Awareness Growth, and the Limits of Rational Planning, Philosophy of Science, 89(5), pp. 939–948
- Michael Hannon and James Nguyen (2022) Understanding Philosophy, Inquiry, 69(4), pp. 2042–2078
- Erik Angner (2021) A Course in Behavioral Economics, London: Palgrave Macmillan
- Dean Spears and H. Orri Stefánsson (2021) Additively-Separable and Rank-Discounted Variable-Population Social Welfare Functions: A Characterization, Economics Letters, 203
- H. Orri Stefansson (2021) Ambiguity Aversion Behind the Veil of Ignorance, Synthese, 198, pp. 6159–6182
- Katie Steele and H. Orri Stefánsson (2021) Belief Revision for Growing Awareness, Mind, 130(520), pp. 1207–1232
- Katie Steele and H. Orri Stefánsson (2021) Beyond Uncertainty: Reasoning with Unknown Possibilities, Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press
- Andrea S. Asker and H. Orri Stefánsson (2021) Collective Responses to Covid-19 and Climate Change, Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 14(1), pp. 152–166
- Anandi Hattiangadi and H. Orri Stefánsson (2021) Radical Interpretation and Decision Theory, Synthese, pp. 6473–6494
- Richard Dawid (2021) String Theory, in The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Physics, Routledge
- Richard Dawid (2021) The Role of Meta-Empirical Theory Assessment in the Acceptance of Atomism, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 90, pp. 50–60
- Stéphane Zuber, Torbjörn Tännsjö, H. Orri Stefánsson, Dean Spears, and Geir B. Asheim (2021) What Should We Agree on About the Repugnant Conclusion?, Utilitas, 33(4), pp. 379–383
- Richard Dawid (2021) Why Moritz Schlick’s View on Causality Is Rooted in a Specific Understanding of Quantum Mechanics, in Logical Empiricism and the Physical Sciences: From Philosophy of Nature to Philosophy of Physics, Routledge, pp. 283–295
- Björn Lundgren and H. Orri Stefánsson (2020) Against the De Minimis Principle, Risk Analysis, 40(5), pp. 908–914
- H. Orri Stefánsson (2020) Catastrophic Risk, Philosophy Compass, 15(11), pp. 1–11
- Richard Dawid (2020) Chronic Incompleteness, Final Theory Claim and the Lack of Free Parameters in String Theory, in Beyond Spacetime: The Foundations of Quantum Gravity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 237–256
- Erik Angner (2020) Epistemic Humility—Knowing Your Limits in a Pandemic, Behavioral Scientist
- H. Orri Stefánsson (2020) Gambling with Death, Topoi, 39(2), pp. 271–281
- H. Orri Stefánsson (2020) Is Risk Aversion Irrational? Examining the “Fallacy” of Large Numbers, Synthese, 197(10), pp. 4425–4437
- Radin Dardashti, Richard Dawid, Sean Gryb, and Karim Thebault (2020) On the Empirical Consequences of AdS/CFT Duality, in Beyond Spacetime: The Foundations of Quantum Gravity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 284–303
- H. Orri Stefánsson (2019) On the Limits of the Precautionary Principle, Risk Analysis, 39(6), pp. 1204–1222
- Richard Dawid (2019) The Significance of Non-Empirical Confirmation in Fundamental Physics, in Why Trust a Theory? Epistemology of Fundamental Physics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 99–119
- Erik Angner (2019) We're All Behavioral Economists Now, Journal of Economic Methodology, 26(3), pp. 195–207
- H. Orri Stefánsson and Richard Bradley (2019) What Is Risk Aversion?, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 70(1), pp. 77–102
- Radin Dardashti, Richard Dawid, and Karim Thebault (eds.) (2019) Why Trust a Theory? Epistemology of Fundamental Physics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
- Erik Angner (2019) 行为经济学教程 (A Course in Behavioral Economics), Beijing: SDX Publishing Co.
- H. Orri Stefánsson (2018) Counterfactual Skepticism and Multidimensional Semantics, Erkenntnis, 83(5), pp. 875–898
- Richard Dawid (2018) Delimiting the Unconceived, Foundations of Physics, 48(5), pp. 492–506
- Erik Angner (2018) Det lätta och det rätta, Filosofisk Tidskrift, pp. 3–10
- Sara Helms McCarty, Erik Angner, Brian Scott, and Sarah Culver (2018) Mandated Volunteering: An Experimental Approach, Applied Economics, 50(27), pp. 2992–3006
- Richard Dawid (2018) No-Miracles argumentet utan vetenskaplig realism, Filosofisk Tidskrift
- H. Orri Stefánsson (2018) On the Ratio Challenge for Comparativism, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 96(2), pp. 380–390
- Richard Dawid and Stephan Hartmann (2018) The No Miracles Argument Without the Base Rate Fallacy, Synthese, 195(9), pp. 4063–4079
- Erik Angner (2018) What Preferences Really Are, Philosophy of Science, 85(4), pp. 660–681
- Richard Dawid (2017) A Philosophical Look at the Higgs Boson, Synthese, 194(2), pp. 253–257
- Richard Bradley and H. Orri Stefánsson (2017) Counterfactual Desirability, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 68(2), pp. 485–533
- Erik Angner (2017) Economia Comportamentale: Guida alla Teoria della Scelta, Milano: Hoepli
- Krister Bykvist and H. Orri Stefánsson (2017) Epistemic Transformation and Rational Choice, Economics and Philosophy, 33(1), pp. 123–136
- Richard Dawid (2017) Non-Empirical but Scientific: Richard Dawid, Reply by George Ellis, in Response to: “Physics on Edge” (Vol. 3, No. 2), Inference, 3(3)
- H. Orri Stefánsson (2017) Reply, Risk Analysis, 39(6), pp. 1227–1228
- Richard Dawid (2017) Scientific Realism and High Energy Physics, in The Routledge Handbook of Scientific Realism, Routledge
- Richard Dawid (2017) String Dualities and Empirical Equivalence, Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 59, pp. 21–29
- H. Orri Stefánsson (2017) What Is 'Real' in Probabilism?, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 95(3), pp. 573–587
- Erik Angner (2016) A Course in Behavioral Economics, London: Palgrave Macmillan
- Richard Bradley and H. Orri Stefánsson (2016) Desire, Expectation, and Invariance, Mind, 125(499), pp. 691–725
- Richard Dawid (2016) Theoretical Physics: The Emperor's New Physics: Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe, by Roger Penrose, Nature, 538(7623), pp. 36–37
- Katie Steele and H. Orri Stefánsson (2015) Decision Theory, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- H. Orri Stefánsson and Richard Bradley (2015) How Valuable Are Chances?, Philosophy of Science, 82(4), pp. 602–625