Gustaf Arrhenius

Gustaf Arrhenius is the Director of the Institute for Futures Studies. He is also Professor of Practical Philosophy at Stockholm University. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from University of Toronto and his FD in practical philosophy from Uppsala University. His research interests are primarily in moral and political philosophy, and he is especially interested in issues in the intersection between moral and political philosophy and the medical and social sciences (e.g., economics, law, and political science). He is best known for his research on our moral and political obligations to future generations and on issues in democratic theory. His research has also concerned the structure of value and desert, measures of equality and power, and how power can be distributed fairly.

The project

Title: Power as Freedom

Cooperation with Marc Fleurbaey (Paris School of Economics, OSE Chair, PSE), on:

- Democracy and power

- Economics and Philosophy project

- International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP), Rethinking Society for the 21st Century.

Hosting institution: Paris School of Economics

Selective Bibliography

• Population Ethics under Risk,” Social Choice and Welfare, 2023, with H. Orri Stefánsson, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00355-023-01452-8
• Enfranchising All Subjected: A Reconstruction and Problematization,” Politics, Philosophy & Economics, forthcoming 2023, with Robert E. Goodin
• Gustaf Arrhenius, Krister Bykvist, Tim Campell and Elizabeth Finneron-Burns (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Population Ethics, 2022.
• “The Repugnant Conclusion”, in Edward N. Zalta (ed.) The Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, forthcoming 2024, together with Jesper Ryberg and Torbjörn Tännsjö,
•  ”Constructivist Contractualism and Future Generations”  in Gardiner, S.M. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Intergenerational Ethics, Oxford University Press, 2021, together with Emil Andersson.
•  “The Democratic Boundary Problem Reconsidered”, Ethics, Politics & Society. A Journal in Moral and Political Philosophy, N. 1, 2018, pp.89-122.