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Teresa Baron will present "Why-UD? Assessing the requirement to trial an intrauterine device before elective sterilisation is approved in female patients". Teresa is a guest researcher at CPS and a Nottingham Research Fellow working on reproductive ethics and philosophy of parenthood.
Suki Finn is guest researcher at CPS and will give the talk "On the reality of gender" for both the Practical Philosophy Group and The CPS Lunch Forum. The Forum therefore takes place outside its normal time slot for this talk.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change.
CPS is launching a new meeting place for researchers in the humanities/social sciences and natural sciences/medicine who would like to explore the possibility of collaborations across disciplinary boundaries.
Claire Prendergast, postdoc at IFIKK (DEVCOM) presents
"Preliminary Empirical Data from a Sequential Study on Young Children’s Pragmatic Development"
Renata Arruda, guest researcher at CPS, presents "Knowing, doing, and the hypothetical reasoning on the problem of overdiagnosis"
New time: Feb 13 at 12:15. Simon Okholm, guest researcher at CPS, will present "In-between disease theory and normative appeals: Is aging treatable?"
Sofie Lekve (IFIKK, UiO) presents "Who is IVF for?"
Establishing the Nordic Network for Philosophy of Physics
Our actions don’t just shape and transmit the rules, they create in each new generation mental processes that can grasp the rules and put them into action, claims professor Cecilia Heyes of Oxford University.
Matias Slavov (Tampere University, guest researcher at CPS) presents "The one-directionality of time does not entail a unique direction of time"
Karen Crowther (CPS/IFIKK) will present "Consistency as a guide in scientific theory-development"
Cathrine Holst (ISS/CPS) presents "Worries about philosopher experts".
We invite researchers interested in applying to UiO:Democracy to a speed-dating event, where you may meet colleagues with similar research interests.
Neil Barton (IFIKK, UiO) presents "Fusing foundations: How similar are foundational debates in mathematics and science?"
Alejandra Mancilla, Professor in Philosophy at IFIKK, will present ?Colonialism in and through Antarctica?.
Karianne Hagen and Ane Maria D?hl (MA-students in philosophy, UiO) will give a talk in CPS Lunch Forum.
Mai Ha Vu (Postdoc ILN, UiO): "ImmunoLingo: Leveraging linguistic insights to answer immunological questions"
Gry Oftedal, Senior Lecturer and Head of Centre for Philosophy and the Sciences, will present on "Choosing the best level of explanation".
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".
Nicholas Allott (IFIKK/ILOS,UiO) and Terje Lohndal (NTNU) will present on "the Pursuit of the Strong Minimalist Thesis".
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.
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?