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ConceptLab (completed)

ConceptLab's purpose is to foster collaborative research on "conceptual engineering" – the critique and improvement of concepts.

Logo for ConceptLab. A laboratory flask filled with mathematical formulas.

We investigate concepts from across philosophy and beyond. The center's remit thus covers all areas of philosophy: theoretical, practical, and historical.

About the project

We organised seminars and talks, collaborated with other philosophical research centres around the world, and we hosted research projects.

The research group worked in close collaboration with Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature (CSMN) until 2017.

The group was led by Herman Cappelen, Øystein Linnebo and Camilla Serck-Hanssen.

Research themes

Project website

For more information go to the project's website (conceptualengineering.info)

Financing

ConceptLab got funding for a 5-year Toppforsk project from The Research Council of Norway

ConceptLab also received support from IFIKK and the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Oslo.

Duration

2016-2022.

Events

Members

Directors

  • Herman Cappelen
  • Øystein Linnebo
  • Rachel Sterken
  • Camilla Serck-Hanssen

Professorial Fellows

  • Josh Dever (University of Texas, Austin)
  • Agustin Rayo (MIT) 

Postdocs

  • Andreas Brekke Carlsson
  • Sam Roberts
  • Joanna Pollock

Research assistants

  • Mathew McKeever

PhD Students

  • Mirela Fus
  • Kim Pedersen
  • Sigurd Jorem

Board

  • Brit Brogaard (The University of Miami and UiO)
  • Herman Cappelen (UiO and St. Andrews)
  • Olav Gjeslvik (UiO)
  • Øystein Linnebo (UiO)
  • Anna-Sara Malmgren(Stanford and UiO)
  • Agustin Rayo (MIT and UiO)
  • Bjørn Ramberg (UiO)
  • Camilla Serck-Hanssen (UiO)
  • Susanna Siegel (Harvard and UiO)
  • Sebastian Watzl (UiO)
  • Timothy Williamson (Oxford)

Research Affiliates 

  • Anna Drożdżowicz
  • Lene Bomann-Larsen
  • Dragana Bozin
  • Peter Fritz
  • Mirja Hartimo
  • Natlaia Waights Hickman
  • Torfinn Huvenes
  • Markus Jerkø
  • Mona Simion
  • Knut Olav Skarsaune
  • Tom Staib
  • Clas Weber
  • Solveig Aasen
  • Yvonne Hütter-Almerigi

Visitors

2020

  • Rami Jreige: 5 February- 30 April
  • Louis deRosset (University of Vermont): January-June
  • Nathaniel Hansen: (University of Reading) 15 March- 4 April
  • Deryn Thomas: (University of St Andrews) 16- 28 March
  • Ethan Landes: (University of St Andrews) 16- 23 March
  • Eleonore Neufeld: (University of Southern California) 15 May- 30 June
  • Matthew Shields:(Georgetown University)  1-30 June
  • David Plunkett: (Darthmouth College) 1-14 June and 22 August- 15 September
  • Christian J. Feldbacher-Escamilla: (University of Düsseldorf)  1-15 August
  • Paul Podosky: (University of Melbourne) 15 August-15 September
  • Hans Solberg: (University of Oxford) 1 August- 15 October
  • Esa Diaz-Leon: (University of Barcelona) 1 August- 30 September
  • Jann Paul Engler: (Stirling) 12 Oct to 18 Dec 2020, 
  • Jeff McMahan: TBA
  • Justin Bledin: TBA
  • Elizabeth Cantalamessa: TBA

2019

  • Luca Zanetti : 7 January- 3 March
  • Steffen Koch (Ruhr Universität Bochum): 1 February - 15 March
  • Alexander Roberts (Oxford University): 11 March - 21 April
  • David Liebesman: (University of Calgary): 13 -23 March
  • Cressida Gaukroger (Oxford University): 15 March - 15 April
  • Robert Schwartzkopff (University of Hamburg): 1 May - 30 May
  • Bashar Haydar (American University of Beirut): 10 May-30 August
  • Ethan Brauer (Ohio State University): 13 May-30 June
  • Vera Flocke (New york University): 15 May- 30 June
  • Natalia Waights-Hickman (Oxford University): 15 May- 15 June
  • Josh Dever (University of Texas, Austin): 19 May-8 June
  • Samia Hesni (MIT): 1-30 June
  • Agustin Rayo (MIT): 15-29 August
  • Daniel Harris: 14-28 June
  • Elmar Unnsteinsson (University College Dublin): 14-28 June
  • Chris Scambler (New York University): 15 July-31 August
  • Viktoria Knoll (Universität Hamburg) 15 August-15 September
  • Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (Århus University): 20 August- 20 November

2018

  • Manuel Gustavo Isaac (ILLC, University of Amsterdam): 15 - 19 January
  • Stewart Shapiro: 7 – 15 March
  • Luca Zanetti: 5 April-31 May
  • Nick Jones (Birmingham): ca. 30 April - 25 May
  • Dan Marshall (Lingnan University, Hong Kong): 3-22 May
  • David Plunkett (Dartmouth): 5 May- 8 August
  • Patrick Greenough (St Andrews): 1o April - 18 May
  • Vera Flocke (New York University):May-June
  • Robert Schwartzkopff (Universität Hamburg): 1-30 June
  • Eliot Michaelson (King`s College London): 11-17 June 
  • Samia Hesni (MIT): 
  • Agustin Rayo: June 4-29
  • David Rodin (Oxford): June
  • Gabriel Rabin (New York University): 13 May- 30 June
  • Wendy Salkin (Harvard): 2 - 22 June 
  • Harvey Lederman (Princeton): June-July
  • Eric Snyder (Ohio State University): May- August
  • Siba Harb (Leuven (RIPPLE)): 1 August- 20 September

2017

  • Matthew McKeever (University of St Andrews): 24 March -19 May
  • Michael Robillard (University of Oxford): 27-29 March and August
  • Susanna Burri (LSE): 27/3-1/4 and 1/8- 3/9
  • Patrick Greenough (University of St Andrews): 23 April - 2 July
  • Vera Flocke (New York University):16 May - 31 August
  • Emily McWilliams (Harvard University): 29 May - 10 July
  • Gabriel Rabin (New York University): June
  • Christoph Kelp: 18 March - 31 August
  • Justin Khoo (MIT): 12 - 17 June
  • Samia Hesni (MIT): 12 -30 June
  • Alexander Steinberg (University of Zurich): 1 June-31 August
  • Katharina Felka (University of Zurich): 1 June-31 August
  • Jon Litland (University of Texas at Austin): July-August
  • Agustin Rayo (MIT): 7-26 August
  • Mark Richard (Harvard): 17-28 June
  • Steward Shapiro (Ohio State University): August
  • Giorgio Sbardolini (Ohio State University): 1 September- 31 October
  • Salvatore Florio (Birmingham): 4-25 September
  • Derek Ball ( University of St Andrews):  9 October- 31 November

2016

  • Andrew Bacon: 3 - 8 June
  • Cian Dorr: 3 - 8 June
  • Salvatore Florio: 6 - 14 June
  • Jeremy Goodman: 3 - 9 June
  • Harvey Lederman: 3 - 9 June
  • Jon Litland: 2 - 7 June
  • Beau Mount: 3 - 9 June
  • Agustin Rayo: 23 May - 17 June
  • Sam Roberts: 1 - 13 June
  • Jeff Russell: 3 - 9 June
  • Stewart Shapiro: 1 - 9 June.
  • Aaron Thomas Bolduc: 3 - 14 or 15 June
  • Dustin Tucker: 3 - 11 June
  • Gabriel Uzquiano: 3 - 9 June
  • Mark Richard (Harvard): 15 - 18 June
  • Patrick Greenough (St. Andrews): 15 - 18 June
  • Ingo Brigandt (Alberta): 15 - 18 June
  • Esther Rosario (Alberta): 15 - 18 June
  • Amie Thomasson (Miami): 15 - 18 June
  • Esa Diaz-Leon (Manitoba): 15 - 18 June
  • David Plunkett (Dartmouth): 15 - 18 June
  • Alejandro Pérez Carballo (Massachusetts, Amherst): 15 - 18 June
  • Delia Belleri (Vienna): 15 - 18 June
  • Timothy Sundell (Kentucky): 15 - 18 June
  • David Braddon-Mitchell (Sydney): 15 - 18 June
  • Matti Eklund (Uppsala): 15 - 18 June
  • Brian Epstein: 3 - 7 September
  • Sam Roberts (University of Bristol), 18 August - 17 September
  • Filippo Costantini (University of Venice), 15 September - 15 December
  • Tolgahan Toy (Turkey), 15 September - 15 December

2015

  • Agustin Rayo (MIT): 25 May - 13 June
  • Stewart Shapiro (Ohio State University): 1 - 14 June
  • Salvatore Florio (Kansas State University): 7 - 14 June
  • James Studd (Oxford): 11 October - 5 December

Impact

  • Our affiliate Micheal Robillard has published an article in The New York Times January 29, 2018: The ‘Killer Robots’ Are Us (nytimes.com)
  • Lars Christie's book-chapter "Fredløse fremmedkrigere?" [on the concept of participation in the Norwegian criminal code] was invoked by the defendant's lawyers in Norwegian Court of Appeals to argue the point that the defendant was not, properly understood, a participant in the IS. 

  • Lars Christie has co-organized a educational seminar for legal practitioners and government employees about recent legal measures to criminalize participation in terrorist organizations. 

 

 

Published Jan. 20, 2016 9:20 AM - Last modified Jan. 15, 2024 10:40 AM

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