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

The project on Kantian Foundations of Democracy holds its first workshop on February 11, 2022, in Georg Morgenstiernes hus, room 652 on Blindern Campus. The workshop will not be zoomed.

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. 

The workshop, co-organized with Pluricourts and KU Leuven, took place online, on the 27th and 28th January 2022.

Jon Erling Litland  (University of Texas at Austin) will give a talk titled "Generating Propositions"

A workshop dedicated to Hermann Weyl's Philosophy of Mathematics

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. 

On the 2nd and 3rd December, Workshop 1 was successfully conducted on a hybrid mode, at the University of Oslo and in zoom.

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.

Sara Negri (University of Genoa) will give a talk titled "Bridges between classical and constructive reasoning for infinitary logic"

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

Countabilism is the view according to which every infinite collection is countable. We discuss this view in an online workshop.

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".

Philip Kitcher (Columbia University, NY) will give the CPS Annual Lecture 2021.

Dag Normann (UiO) will give a talk titled "Generalising the concept of being finite"

Emma Vikström has a PhD in education and is currently working as a researcher and lecturer in the teacher training programme at Örebro University, Sweden. Her research interests lie in the fields of the history of education and history of ideas and focus on historical change regarding educational goals and means. She will be presenting some parts of her recently published thesis on eugenics and education in Ellen Key’s work. 

This workshop explores how modern notions of ‘heritage’ can be applied to the study of premodern societies and their views on cultural preservation and transmission.

It is tempting to think that the answer to the question ‘what is reproduction?’ can be found through studying biology. But is this really the case? And if not, how do we answer such a question, and what are the consequences of choosing one way over another?