Previous events

Public lecture by Herman Cappelen, University of Hong Kong. All are welcome! 

Robert Aronowitz is Professor, History and Sociology of Science, and the Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.

Philosophy of Self-Assembly and Self-Organisation in Living Systems 

Ulrike Felt is Professor of Science and Technology Studies, and Head of the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna.

Presentation by Pål Fjeldvig Antonsen, IFIKK. All are welcome!

Bendik Hellem Aaby (IFIKK, UiO) does research in philosophy of biology and philosophy of action. His research concerns are, amongst other things, the role behavior plays in evolutionary theory, the attribution of agency to non-human organisms, and to what extent purposiveness can be adequately accounted for by evolutionary theory.

Public lecture by Åsa Wikforss, Stockholm University. All are welcome!

We are delighted to announce the workshop Polysemi, concepts and representation by the Centre for Philosophy and the Sciences, University of Oslo. 

Research Scientist Mikkel Lepperød (Simula) will give a talk entitled "Validating models in NeuroAI".

Ethan Brauer (IFIKK) will give a talk entitled "Poincare on Intuition and the Applicability of Mathematics".

SciDem Research Seminar: Presentation by Antoinette Scherz.

Hedda Hassel Mørch (Høgskolen i Innlandet) will give a talk for the Science Studies Colloquium Series. https://heddahasselmorch.com/research/

SciDem Research Seminar: Presentation by Philippe Stamenkovic.

Tor Egil Førland is Professor of History and Head of Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas (IFIKK) at the University of Oslo. He has published books and articles on strategic export controls during the Cold War; the student revolt of the 1960s; and historical theory, as in his most recent monograph Values, Explanation, and Objectivity in Historiography (Routledge, 2017).

Ole Boye (Department of Public and International Law) will give a talk entitled "Human gene editing – the prohibitions against germ line editing and human enhancement".

Sune Dueholm Müller and Johan Ivar Sæbø are associate professors at the Information Systems research group, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo.

Christian Airikka (IFIKK) will give a talk entitled "On Role Spacetime Functionalism". 

Kristin Gjesdal is professor of philosophy at Temple University. Her scholarship covers philosophy of interpretation (hermeneutics), philosophy of art, and modern European philosophy. She is the co-editor of the recently published Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition (both with Oxford UP). She is the author of three monographs (with Cambridge and Oxford University Presses) and the editor and co-editor of eight volumes in her areas of research. Her present work includes an introduction to the philosophy of Germaine de Staël (under contract with Cambridge UP) and the monograph “How to be a Self? Four Lessons from Germaine de Staël” (under contract with Oxford UP). For more information, see her faculty website or this 3:16 interview.

This event marks the publication of a special issue of the journal Res Publica, vol. 30, issue 1, with Jakob Elster and Cathrine Holst as guest editors. 

Jørn Kløvfjell Mjelva (IFIKK) will give a talk entitled "States and properties in a relativistic quantum theory".

Sara Pernille Jensen (IFIKK) will give a talk entitled "Understanding machine learning models - traditional problems call for traditional solutions".

Associate Professor Koray Çalışkan (The New School, Parsons School of Design) will give a lecture on the occasion of his new book "Data Money: Inside Cryptocurrencies, Their Communities, Markets, and Blockchains" (Columbia, 2023). Drawing on his award winning research, Çalışkan will present a radical insider view of how cryptocurrencies are created and traded on the ground, analyzing the emergence of the third fiat money in world history: Data Money.

Carrie Friese’s research is in medical sociology and science and technology studies, with a focus on reproduction across humans and animals. Her initial research focused on the use of assisted reproductive technologies for human reproduction in the context of infertility. She then explored the development of interspecies nuclear transfer (aka cloning) for endangered species preservation in zoos.

Building on her research, she am currently completing a book entitled “More-than-human Humanitarianism: Care, Science and Inequity.” This book asks what laboratory animals look like through the lens of humanitarianism, and what humanitarianism looks like through the lens of laboratory animals in order to analyse the benefits and limitations of the logics and practices of relating that are not necessarily visible through rights-based discourses.