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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.

What is extremism? Can some forms of extremism be accepted? In this year's Annual Examen philosophicum lecture, Professor Quassim Cassam presents his philosophical analysis.

You can watch a recording of the lecture here (Norwegian)

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?"

In August 2022, Workshop 3 brought together historical, legal, and philosophical perspectives on Antarctica and the rights of nature.  

This conference explores the view of democracy of those who in the 1790s sought to develop a Kantian legal and political philosophy

This Ph.D. course will focus on the role and implications of generic generalizations in science (e.g. “Low interest rates cause inflation”), ethics (e.g. “Lying is wrong”), and  society (e.g. “Women are submissive”).

Agustín Rayo (MIT) will give a talk titled "Why I'm not an Absolutist"

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.

Talk by Drew Johnson (University of Connecticut)

The workshop explores the topics of Goodattention.

The project on Kantian Foundations of Democracy holds its second workshop on May 20, 2022, in Georg Morgenstiernes hus, room 652 on Blindern Campus. The workshop will not be zoomed.

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. 

Stewart Shapiro (Ohio State University and University of Oslo) will give a talk titled "Does God collapse potential infinity to actual infinity?"

(joint work with Samuel Levey and Øystein Linnebo)

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"

This course will focus on the epistemology of evidence-based medicine (EBM) and of precision medicine (PM)—but seen through the lens of two canonical figures of science studies and historical epistemology: Ludwik Fleck and Georges Canguilhem.

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.

Part of the Oslo Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence talk series