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Joan Rand Moschovakis  (Occidental College, emerita) will give a talk titled "Brouwer's Notion of Choice Sequence and its Descendants"

Bjørn Hofmann (UiO, NTNU Gjøvik) er professor i medisinsk filosofi og etikk ved Senter for medisinsk etikk ved Det medisinske fakultet ved Universitetet i Oslo og ved Institutt for helsevitenskap ved NTNU Gjøvik. Han er utdannet innen teknologifag, idéhistorie, filosofi og etikk. Hofmann forsker og underviser innenfor medisinsk filosofi, helsefaglig etikk, vitenskapsteori, helsetjenesteforskning og teknologivurdering. Han er særlig opptatt av håndtering av teknologi generelt og av etiske aspekter ved helseteknologi spesielt. Hofmann har blant annet skrevet boken Hva er sykdom? i tillegg til en lang rekke vitenskapelige artikler og han deltar aktivt i samfunnsdebatten om ulike sider av helsetjenesten.

The DEVCOM team is organizing a 'Christmas Workshop on Developmental Pragmatics' on December 7th, and everyone is welcome to join! As special guests, we will be joined by Ira Noveck (CNRS, Paris 7) and Filippo Domaneschi (University of Genova). 

This is the fourth workshop on Kantian Foundations of Democracy. KanDem is the first large scale analysis of the democratic theory of the Kantian School in Germany in the 1790s. For more information about the project, please visit the project web page.

Sofie Lekve (IFIKK, UiO) presents "Who is IVF for?"

PhD fellow Mary Beth Neff will present an overview of the proposed research for her article-based dissertation.

Establishing the Nordic Network for Philosophy of Physics

Bahador Bahrami (Ludwig Maximilian Universität) presents to the GoodAttention group on "Inter-personal alignment of belief in decision making under uncertainty"

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"

Ned Block (New York University) presents to the GoodAttention group on "Nonconceptual Colo Perception"

Part of the Oslo Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence talk series

Ole Jacob Madsen (f. 1978) er utdannet psykolog og filosof og jobber som professor i kultur- og samfunnspsykologi ved Psykologisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo. Hans forskning har særlig omhandlet hvordan psykologien utgjør et meningsrammeverk for det moderne menneskets liv. Han har tidligere utgitt bøkene Den terapeutiske kultur (2010/2017), "Det er innover vi må gå" (2014), Generasjon prestasjon (2018), Livsmestring på timeplanen (2020) og Skolevegringsmysteriet (sammen med Gaute Brochmann) (2022). 

Karen Crowther (CPS/IFIKK) will present "Consistency as a guide in scientific theory-development"

Presentation by Austin Baker

Finnur Dellsén is a Professor II at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Lillehammer, in addition to being full-time Professor at the University of Iceland, Reykjavík. Most of his research interests are in philosophy of science and epistemology (including formal and social epistemology), with various related interests in philosophy of logic, metaethics, and the history of philosophy. His most recent work is on scientific and philosophical progress, the social epistemology of science, and how to make explanation-based inferences.

The project on Kantian Foundations of Democracy holds its third workshop on October 11-12 at Voksenåsen hotel, Oslo.

Cathrine Holst (ISS/CPS) presents "Worries about philosopher experts".

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.