Previous events
The epistemic role of chemical spontaneity in biology
Nick Huggett and Christian Wuthrich on ‘Out of Nowhere: the emergence of spacetime in theories of quantum gravity’.
SciDem Research Seminar by Zsolt Kapelner (IFIKK, UiO).
The Pre-History of the Iterative Conception of Set
Angela Potochnik on ‘Idealization and the Aims of Science’ (interviewed by Sara Pernille Jensen).
Ethics and autonomy in medical AI
SciDem Research seminar by Nick Hughes (UiO): "How 'Ought' Implies 'Can' in Epistemology".
Jim Tabery on 'Tyranny of the Gene - Personalized Medicine and Its Threat to Public Health' (interviewed by Yael Friedman).
American democracy is in crisis, and we present updated analysis about the root causes of the disenchantment with US politics, the role of social media and why it matters for scandinavian citizens.
Public lecture by Herman Cappelen, University of Hong Kong. All are welcome!
Presentation by P?l Fjeldvig Antonsen, IFIKK. All are welcome!
Public lecture by ?sa 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 Lepper?d (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.
SciDem Research Seminar: Presentation by Philippe Stamenkovic.
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".
Christian Airikka (IFIKK) will give a talk entitled "On Role Spacetime Functionalism".
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.
J?rn Kl?vfjell 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".
Gard Paulsen (IFIKK) will give a talk entitled "New use for old weather: Histories of collective empiricism and the maritime modernities".
SciDem Research Seminar: Presentation by Paal Fredrik Skj?rten.