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Finnur Dellsén is a Professor II at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Lillehammer, in addition to being full-time Professor at the University of Iceland, Reykjavík. Most of his research interests are in philosophy of science and epistemology (including formal and social epistemology), with various related interests in philosophy of logic, metaethics, and the history of philosophy. His most recent work is on scientific and philosophical progress, the social epistemology of science, and how to make explanation-based inferences.

Cathrine Holst (ISS/CPS) presents "Worries about philosopher experts".

Desmond McNeill, political economist, is Professor emeritus and the former director of Senter for Utvikling og Miljø (SUM) at UiO. His main academic interests are governance, sustainable development, research and policy, and interdisciplinarity.

Øystein Linnebo is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo. His main research interests are in the philosophies of logic and mathematics, metaphysics and the philosophy of science. He is particularly interested in questions concerning ontology, individuation, essence, reference (especially to abstract objects), necessity and of necessary truths. He has recently published two books, Philosophy of Mathematics (Princeton University Press, 2017) and Thin Objects: An Abstractionist Account (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Neil Barton (IFIKK, UiO) presents "Fusing foundations: How similar are foundational debates in mathematics and science?"

Lara Keuck is a historian and philosopher of medicine. She leads the Max Planck Research Group “Practices of Validation in the Biomedical Sciences” at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.

Her research examines the making and changing of knowledge about disease in modern medicine, and has focused on medical classification systems, animal models of human disease, vagueness in psychiatry, and the question of validity. She is particularly interested in so-called borderline cases that in some way or the other fall in-between health and disease and challenge or alter their demarcations.

Julia Bursten is an associate professor in the department of Philosophy at The University of Kentucky, where she teaches a variety of courses about the relationships between science and society, as well as philosophy of science, logic, and health care ethics.

Her research has centered around building the philosophy of nanoscience, and she is now working on a project on agricultural science, which will complement her work on nanoscience and aims at generating a broader picture of knowledge construction in synthetic and applied sciences.

Alejandra Mancilla, Professor in Philosophy at IFIKK, will present ´Colonialism in and through Antarctica´.

Karianne Hagen and Ane Maria Døhl (MA-students in philosophy, UiO) will give a talk in CPS Lunch Forum. 

Julie Zahle is an associate professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Bergen. Her main area of research is the philosophy of the social sciences. In particular, she works on values and objectivity in the social sciences, the individualism/holism debate, qualitative methods, and social theories of practice.

Medicine torn apart? Medical practice between EBM, PM, IT companies and consumer agency.

Mai Ha Vu (Postdoc ILN, UiO): "ImmunoLingo: Leveraging linguistic insights to answer immunological questions"

Eva Krick is a social scientist with an orientation towards political sociology, institutional analysis and democratic theory who is currently affiliated with the Political Science Department at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz. She received her PhD from the University of Darmstadt, worked at Humboldt University Berlin and stayed as guest researcher at the Universities of Oslo, Aarhus, Edinburgh, and the National University of Singapore. Her research focuses inter alia on the role of knowledge and expertise in modern societies, citizen and stakeholder participation, the environment-society nexus and group decision-making.

Gry Oftedal, Senior Lecturer and Head of Centre for Philosophy and the Sciences, will present on "Choosing the best level of explanation".

Sebastian Watzl is an associate professor at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art, and Ideas at the University of Oslo. Among other things, he works in philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, epistemology, and ethics. He has published the book Structuring Mind. The Nature of Attention and how it shapes Consciousness (OUP, 2017), and is co-author of the ExPhil book “Knowing, Being, Doing” (Gyldendal, 2021). He was head of the Center for Philosophy and the Sciences (CPS), and currently is leader of the ERC-funded project GOODATTENTION. Attention norms and their role in practical reason, epistemology, and ethics and project manager for the Norwegian Research Council funded project Salient Solutions. Responding ethically to the attention crisis.

Katharine Browne (IFIKK/Langara) will present on "Vaccination and the Freedom to Choose" at CPS Lunch Forum. 

Jack Wright (University of Cambridge, guest researcher at CPS, UiO) will present on "The new demarcation problem".

The Colloquium for Science Studies (Forumet for vitenskapsteori) organizes a seminar where recipients of the Colloquium's scholarship will present results of their works. 

Offentlig foredrag som markerer åpningen av den 8. norske konferansen i vitenskapshistorie. Mer informasjon her.

Public lecture at the opening of the 8th Norwegian Conference on the History of Science. Language: Norwegian. More info in Norwegian here.

Nicholas Allott (IFIKK/ILOS,UiO) and Terje Lohndal (NTNU) will present on "the Pursuit of the Strong Minimalist Thesis". 

Gry Oftedal, Senior Lecturer and Head of Centre for Philosophy and the Sciences (CPS), Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo.

Sophia Efstathiou is a Researcher (Forsker) at the Programme for Applied Ethics, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She is currently leading the international KLIMAFORSK project MEATigation: Towards sustainable meat use in Norwegian food practices for climate mitigation (2020-24), and the Norwegian participation in the H2020 project ISEED: Inclusive Science and European Democracies (2021-24).  

Salvatore Florio (Professor II CPS/ IFIKK) will present on "Singularism, Pluralism, and Definitional Equivalence".