Neuigkeiten & Blog
Amartya Sen’s Opening Remarks for the IPSP’s First Author Meeting in Istanbul this past August
Amartya Sen is is Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, at Harvard University. His research includes economic theory, social choice theory, ethics and political philosophy, theory of measurement, decision theory, development...
Akeel Bilgrami explains the unalienated life
Akeel Bilgrami works as a philosopher on the link between politics and culture. He discusses the difficulty for liberalism to deal with identity politics, invokes Gandhi's critique of modernity, the tension between liberty and equality, and introduces us to the idea...
Sheila Jasanoff introduces science and technology studies
Sheila Jasanoff explains the relevance of the field of science and technology studies to the question of progress, including social progress, and introduces to her own work at the boundary of law on change, on technology controversies, and on how science is being made...
Elke Weber on decision making and social progress
Elke Weber explains the importance of how we make decisions in order to understand the processes by which policies are shaped and institutions are formed and transformed.
Ingrid Robeyns: Impressions From the First IPSP Authors Meeting
Over the last three days, the first meeting of authors of the International Panel of Social Progress (IPSP) was held in Istanbul. The IPSP is to some extent modeled after the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), but one important difference is that it is not...