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Kristian Bjørkdahl er førsteamanuensis i retorikk ved Institutt for lingvistiske og nordiske studier, UiO. Han jobber med politisk retorikk i bred forstand, og er engasjert i prosjekter om norske og nordiske selvbilder, byråkratisk tekstproduksjon, sosiale bevegelsers ytringskultur, organisering av forskningskommunikasjon, m.m.

Han leder forskergruppen Tekst og retorikk, og deltar dessuten i UiO:Demokrati-gruppen Voicing Democracy. Han er styremedlem i Nordisk Retorikkforening og medredaktør av retorikkmagasinet Kairos.

SciDem Research Seminar: Presentation by Paal Fredrik Skjørten.

Arnoldo Frigessi (UiO, INTEGREAT) is department head at the Oslo University Hospital and professor of statistics at the University of Oslo. He is director of the Oslo Center for Biostatistics and Epidemiology. He leads the centre for research based innovation BigInsight (https://www.biginsight.no/), a consortium of partners from academia and the public and private sectors. From 2023, he will be the director of the centre of excellence Integreat- The Norwegian centre for knowledge-driven machine learning, funded by the Research Council of Norway.

Maja Hagerman is a Swedish writer and filmmaker based in Stockholm. She is currently finalizing a PhD on race biology and photography at the Centre for Nordic Studies, Helsinki university, Finland. She has previously written two monographs on racial research in Sweden in the 19th and 20 ^th century, published as independent research in archives and literary sources within the field of history of ideas.  She was promoted honorary doctor at Uppsala university in 2012 and is today also a senior lecturer in arts at Dalarna Audiovisual Academy, Dalarna University, Sweden, where her focus is on historical documentary film production.

Hallvard Fossheim is Committee leader for the National Committee for Research Ethics in Science and Technology (NENT) and Professor of philosophy at UiB. 

Neil Barton (IFIKK) will give a talk entitled "Multiverses and Fine-Tuning". 

Tone Druglitrø is a researcher at the TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture at the University of Oslo. She has over several years been concerned with experimenting with care as an approach and tool for studying values in science and policy with a specific focus on animal research. Based upon a combination of archive studies, laboratory ethnographies, and document-oriented studies, her work has traced the historical development of “skilled care” as an expertise in science, and analyzed the convergence of biological standardization, conservation and technical care in public health. She has also published on “procedural care” in licensing systems. She is currently exploring versions of care in cod immunology together with Kristin Asdal (TIK).

Senior lecturer Bendik Hellem Aaby (IFIKK) will give a talk entitled "Conceptual Issues Surrounding Plant Behavior".

Professor Svend Davanger (IMB) will give a talk entitled "Aristotle on memory, time, and the brain".

Timothy Williamson (Wykeham Professor of Logic, University of Oxford) will give a talk entitled "Heuristics in Philosophy".

Silje Langvatn (University of Bergen) will give a presentation. 
All are welcome!

The CPS annual lecture 2023 will feature Samir Okasha, Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Bristol. 

Professor Cathrine Holst (IFIKK) will give a talk entitled "Democratization of expertise?".

Mubalegh will give a talk entitled "Some epistemological and ontological questions arising with the meeting of economics and evolutionary biology: the case study of the marsh warbler Acrocephalus palustris and its song".

Professor Elin Lerum Boasson was a lead author in the sixth assessment report cycle of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Working Group III Mitigation and is a member of the Swedish Climate Policy Council. She has published extensively on climate policy and politics, particularly on policy entrepreneurship, business influence, political steering, policy diffusion and the EU. Her work is primarily comparative and contributes to climate governance studies as well as to historical and sociological institutionalism. Boasson is deputy head of the Political Science Department at the University of Oslo and is also affiliated with CICERO, Center for International Climate Research. Her fifth book was published in 2021. The research project Accelerating Climate Action and the State: Getting to Net Zero (ACCELZ) - Institutt for statsvitenskap (ISV) (uio.no) is led by Boasson.

The first CPS Lunch Forum of the semester will feature Associate Professor Salvatore Florio (IFIKK, UiO).

Trym Nohr Fjørtoft (University of Oslo) will give a presentation. 
All are welcome!

This PhD course will focus on the phenomenon of entanglement and non-locality in quantum mechanics, with the aim of deepening the understanding of their philosophical implications.

Yael Friedman is a PhD fellow at the Centre for Philosophy and the Sciences (CPS), Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas. Her dissertation explores the concept of medical holism and its relation to pluralism ‘in’ science and ‘with’ science.

Mikkel Gerken (University of Southern Denmark) will give a presentation. All are welcome!

Keith Wilson, (IFIKK, UiO), will give a talk entitled "A Minimally Unified View of Hallucination" (joint work with Roberta Locatelli, University of Tübingen).

Philippe Huneman is a Professor at the IHPST (Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques), Université Paris 1. He focuses on the philosophy of evolutionary biology and ecology. His
main interests are: the variety of evolutionary explanations; the relations between variation, selection, and drift; the issue of individuality in biology related to the “evolutionary transitions” program and the formal definitions of emergence; the philosophy of ecology and especially neutral theories in community ecology. Last books published: Why? The philosophy behind the question (Stanford University Press) and Death. Perspectives from the Philosophy of Biology (Palgrave-McMillam). 

Note that exceptionally, the session will be held on a Friday, between 11:15 and 12:30. 

Kian Salimkhani and Niels Linnemann are both guest researchers at CPS and work with philosophy of physics, on which they will present for the Lunch Forum.