publications

peer reviewed articles and book chapters

Katharina Berndt (2025) “Bias and Wisdom of Crowds”, Philosophical Psychology (online first). https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2025.2506540.

Katharina Berndt Rasmussen & Nicolas Olsson Yaouzis (2024) “The Tyranny of Political Correctness? A Game-Theoretic Model of Social Norms and Implicit Bias”, Journal of Applied Philosophy, 41:1 Special Issue:Society for Applied Philosophy Annual Lecture 2023 Symposium, pp. 122-144. https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.12690.

Katharina Berndt Rasmussen (2023) “Age Discrimination: Is It Special? Is It Wrong?”, in: Axel Gosseries & Greg Bognar (eds.) Aging without Agism? Conceptual Puzzles and Policy Proposals, OUP. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192894090.003.0002.

Katharina Berndt Rasmussen (2023) “Implicit Gender Bias”, in: Duarte, M., K. Losleben, and K. Fjørtoft (eds.) Gender Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Academia: A Conceptual Framework for Sustainable Transformation. Gender Series. Routledge.  https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003363590.

Katharina Berndt Rasmussen (2020) “Implicit Bias and Discrimination”, Theoria86:Special Issue: Women in Philosophy – Voices from Scandinavia, pp. 727-748, https://doi.org/10.1111/theo.12227.

Katharina Berndt Rasmussen & Nicolas Olsson Yaouzis (2020) “#MeToo, Social Norms, and Sanctions”, The Journal of Political Philosophy, 28:3, pp. 273-295, https://doi.org/10.1111/jopp.12207.

Per Algander & Katharina Berndt Rasmussen (2019) “Asymmetry and Non-Identity”, Utilitas, 31:3, pp. 213–230. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0953820818000341.

Katharina Berndt Rasmussen (2019) “Harm and Discrimination”, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 22:4, pp. 873-891. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-018-9908-4.

Katharina Berndt Rasmussen (2012) “Should the Probabilities Count?” Philosophical Studies, 159: 2, pp. 205-218. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-011-9698-1.

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encyclopedia entries

Katharina Berndt (2025) #MeToo, in: Kassner, J.J., Chatterjee, D.K. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Global Justice. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27828-0_10009-1.

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monograph

Katharina Berndt Rasmussen (2013) Democracy and the Common Good: A Study of the Weighted Majority Rule, Doctoral thesis in practical philosophy, Stockholm: Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University.

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other articles

Katharina Berndt Rasmussen (2024). “Discrimination and Future Generations”, Studies on Climate Ethics and Future Generations: Vol. 6. Working paper 2024: 12. Editors: Julia Mosquera & Olle Torpman. Stockholm: Institute for Futures Studies.

Katharina Berndt Rasmussen (2022) “The Rae-Taylor Theorem and the Weighted Majority Rule”, in: Paul Bowman (ed.) Studies on the boundary problem in democratic theory, Institute for Futures Studies, Working paper series 2022:1-11.

Katharina Berndt Rasmussen & Nicolas Olsson Yaouzis (2019) “#metoo: Upprop, uthängningar och sociala normer”, Tidskrift för politisk filosofi, 2019: 3, 9-32.

Katharina Berndt Rasmussen & Åsa Burman (2019) “Människans mörka materia: Om implicit bias och moraliskt ansvar”, Filosofisk Tidskrift, 40:4, 3-26.

Katharina Berndt Rasmussen (2018) “Replikskifte: Replik till Marcus Agnafors”, Tidskrift för politisk filosofi, 2018: 1: 27-31.

Katharina Berndt Rasmussen (2017) “Replik till Marcus Agnafors”, Tidskrift för politisk filosofi, 2017: 3: 37-45.

Katharina Berndt Rasmussen (2015) “Replik till Torbjörn Tännsjö”, Tidskrift för politisk filosofi 2015:1, 45-54.

Katharina Berndt Rasmussen (2011) “Recension av G.A. Cohens Rescuing Justice and Equality”, Tidskrift för politisk filosofi 15: 2, 40-55.

Katharina Berndt Rasmussen (2011) “Är sannolikheter moraliskt relevanta?” Filosofisk tidskrift 32: 4, 27-40.

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scientific talks, keynotes

December 2024: Presentation “Tiny bias, huge effect: How collective decision-making amplifies hiring discrimination”, Final conference, research project on implicit bias, social norms and discrimination, Institute for Futures Studies, 2024-06-06.

October 2024: Presentation Bridging Divides: A Theory of Discrimination” , Research seminar, Institute for Futures Studies, 2024-10-16.

August 2024: Invited lecture “Tiny Bias, Huge Effect: How Collective Decision Making Amplifies Hiring Discrimination”, CEPDISC summer retreat, Aarhus University /CEPDISC, 2024-08-21.

July 2024: Keynote “Modelling with Social Norms”, International conference Taking Social Norms Seriously, Hamburg University, 2024-07-06.

June 2024: Presentation “Structural Dimensions of Discrimination”, Filosofidagarna, Gothenburg University, 2024-06-08.

May 2024: Presentation “The Wisdom and Bias of Crowds”, PPE-seminar, Institute for Futures Studies, 2024-05-30.

May 2024: Invited lecture “Discrimination and Future Generations”, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy/Zoom (host: Davide Pala, Postdoc in Political Theory), 2024-05-14.

December 2023: Keynote “Analysing Epistemic Discrimination”, 8th Stockholm Graduate Conference 2023, Philosophy Department, SU, 2023-12-08.

November 2023: Presentation “Structural Dimensions of Discrimination”, Higher Seminar in Practical Philosophy, Philosophy Department, SU, 2023-11-28.

October 2023: Presentation “Structural Dimensions of Discrimination”, Workshop on Structural Discrimination at Aarhus University /CEPDISC, 2023-10-27.

October 2023: Presentation “Epistemic Discrimination Reconsidered”, Workshop med Jennifer Lackey, Philosophy Department, Gothenburg University, 2023-10-18.

September 2023: Presentation “Discrimination and Future Generations”, Final conference of the Climate Ethics and Future Generations program, Stockholm, 2023-09-06.

April 2023: Presentation “Bias of Crowds vs. Wisdom of Crowds: New Perspectives”, Higher Seminar in Theoretical and Practical Philosophy, Philosophy Department, Gothenburg University, 2023-04-19.

April 2023: Presentation “Bias of Crowds vs. Wisdom of Crowds: New Perspectives”, Higher Seminar in Practical Philosophy, Philosophy Department, SU, 2023-04-04.

January 2023: Presentation “Bias of Crowds vs. Wisdom of Crowds”, Project workshop on implicit bias, social norms, and discrimination, IFFS /Zoom, 2023-01-20.

October 2022: Presentation “Bias of Crowds vs Wisdom of Crowds: New Perspectives”, CEPDISC’22 annual conference, CEPDISC/Aarhus University, 2022-10-25.

July 2022: Presentation (with Nicolas Olsson Yaouzis) “The tyranny of political correctness? A game theoretic model of social norms and implicit bias”, Society for Applied Philosophy, Annual Conference 2022, University of Edinburgh, 2022-07-02.

June 2022: Presentation (with Nicolas Olsson Yaouzis) “The tyranny of political correctness? A game theoretic model of social norms and implicit bias”, Game Theory Workshop, IFFS, 2022-06-08.

November 2021: Presentation (with Nicolas Olsson Yaouzis), “The tyranny of political correctness? A game theoretic model of social norms and implicit bias” Joint Stockholm/Uppsala Seminar in Practical Philosophy, Uppsala University 2021-12-19.

October 2021: Presentation “Egalitarian Norms and Implicit Bias”, Final workshop of the Boundary project, IFFS/Zoom 2021-10-12.

September 2021: Invited lecture “Implicit Bias and Discrimination”, International Science Programme (ISP) 60th Anniversary Workshop: “Gender, diversities and unconscious bias: how to master the playground rules in Academia”, Uppsala University/Zoom 2021-09-09.

June 2021: Invited lecture “Implicit Gender Bias”, Workshop IV for the Guidebook for Gender Balance in Higher Education, UiT The Arctic University of Norway/Zoom 2021-06-15

May 2021: Keynote “Implicit Bias and Discrimination”, Workshop of the Feminist Philosophy research group, UiT The Arctic University of Norway/Zoom 2021-05-28.

November 2020: Presentation “The Non-Identity Problem in Democratic Theory”, Workshop: Democracy and Future Generations, IFFS/Zoom, 2020-11-17.

October 2020: Presentation “Social Norms, Implicit Bias, and Discrimination”, Conference: Research on Racism and Discrimination, Vetenskapsrådet/Zoom, 2020-10-15.

November 2019: Presentation “The Non-Identity Problem in Democratic Theory”, at the workshop of the Boundary project, IFFS, 2019-11-21.

September 2019: Presentation ”Some Thoughts on the Ethics of Doing Climate Ethics”, at the second annual conference of the research project Climate Ethics and Future Generations, IFFS, 2019-09-27.

May 2019: Presentation “The Rae-Taylor Theorem and the Weighted Majority Rule”, at the Boundary Project workshop, IFFS, 2019-05-10.

April 2019: Presentation “Age Discrimination: Is it Special? Is it Wrong?” at the 6th workshop of the research project “Taking Age Discrimination Seriously” (PI: Axel Gosseries) in Madrid (via videolink), 2019-04-05

March 2019: Invited lecture ”Implicit bias and discrimination”, at the annual department day of the Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, 2019-03-20.

February 2019: Presentation (with Niklas Olsson-Yaouzis) “#metoo, social norms, and sanctions”, at the research seminar of the Philosophy Department, Uppsala University, 2019-02-01.

January 2019: Presentation (with Niklas Olsson-Yaouzis) “#metoo, social norms, and sanctions”, at the PPE-seminar at IFFS, 2019-01-24.

December 2018: Presentation “How Rae’s Argument for Simple Majority Rule Really Supports the Weighted Majority Rule”, Workshop of the Boundary project, IFFS, 2018-12-11.

November 2018: Presentation “The Weighted Majority Rule with Less than Fully Competent Voters”, Conference “The Will of the People” (SSRC, Anxieties of Democracy), Columbia University, New York City, 2018-11-16.

October 2018: Presentation (with Åsa Burman) “Implicit Bias, Discrimination, and Moral Responsibility”, Research seminar, IFFS, 2018-10-17.

June 2018: Presentation “Implicit Bias and Discrimination”, Workshop ”Non-Ideal Social Ontology III”, IFFS, 2018-06-11.

May 2018: Presentation (with Åsa Burman) “Människans mörka materia: Om implicit bias och dess filosofiska implikationer”, Workshop on implicit bias, IFFS, 2018-05-05.

February 2018: Presentation “Implicit bias and discrimination”, Workshop with Jennifer Saul, IFFS, 2018-02-20.

August 2017: Invited keynote speaker for the section on political philosophy at the Swedish Philosophy Conference (Filosofidagarna), Uppsala; title: ”Discrimination, Harm, and Meritocracy”.

May 2017: Invited keynote speaker at the Prague workshop for the TADS-project (Taking Age Discrimination Seriously, PI: Axel Gosseries); title: ”Harm and Age Discrimination”.

October 2011: Workshop presentation for the Nordic Network on Political Ethics’ meeting at SCAS, Uppsala; title: “Some Notes on the Weighted Majority Rule”.

October 2010: Invited talk at the James Martin Faculty of Philosophy Advanced Research Seminar, Oxford University; title: “Should the Probabilities Count?”

October 2010: Workshop presentation at the annual meeting of the Nordic Network on Political Theory in Oslo; title: “A Benthamite Model of Representative Democracy”.

October 2009: Workshop presentation at the annual meeting of the Nordic Network on Political Theory in Copenhagen; title: “On the Weighted Majority Rule”.

June 2009: Presentation at the peer reviewed international interdisciplinary conference “Two Centuries of Utilitarianism” in Rennes, France; title: “The Proportionality Principle and the Weighted Majority Rule”.