Events - Page 10

Practical Philosophy Seminar with Patrik Baard and Alejandra Mancilla. 

How do states and other political actors make use of attention?

Elena Dahlberg (Uppsala University)

In this lecture, Matthew Fuller (Goldsmiths University) will discuss "investigative aesthetics", or the role of sensing and sense-making in investigative practices in art, journalism and law.

Talk by Brad Saad, Implications of Simulations for Catastrophic Risks

"On the functional role of feasibility discourse"

Jon Røyne Kyllingstad (f.1966) er historiker og har jobbet med vitenskapshistorie og akademiske institusjoners historie i perioden ca. 1870-2000. Han har i mange år vært opptatt av ideer om rase, etnisitet, kultur og nasjon innen fag som antropologi, genetikk, arkeologi, historie. Siden 2017 har han arbeidet ved Kulturhistorisk museums avdeling Museum for universitets- og vitenskapshistorie, og har tidligere vært førstekonservator ved Norsk Teknisk Museum der han sammen med Ageliki Lefkaditou sto bak utstillingen FOLK – fra rasetyper til DNA-sekvenser.

PhD fellow Biu Huntington-Rainey will present an overview of their research on innovation and acquisition at the syntax-pragmatics interface.

Visa A. J. Kurki (University of Helsinki) will present his article 'Can nature hold rights?: It's not as easy as you think'

In this DynamiTE lunchtime seminar, Visa A. J. Kurki will be presenting his paper ‘Can Nature Hold Rights? It’s not as Easy as you Think’.

Reading Armenian History as a Socially Symbolic Act

Nicholas S.M. Matheou (University of Edinburgh)

Juan Christian Pellicer (University of Oslo)

Master Christopher James Masterman at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas will defend his dissertation Ways of Talking about Worlds: Papers on the Metaphysics and Logic of Modality for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Philosophical Seminar with Jens Timmermann (St Andrews)

Einar Duenger Bøhn (b. 1977) is Professor of philosophy at the University of Agder. Main research areas: metaphysics, the philosophy of technology, aesthetics, the philosophy of religion, and ethics. Bøhn has published many international articles and several books, e.g. “God and Abstract objects” (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and “Teknologiens Filosofi” (Cappelen Damm, 2022). Bohn is also an active voice on behalf of philosophy outside of academia, with many radio appearances and philosophy podcasts on his conscience. Other than that, he seems to experience some meaning from driving his motorcycle, drawing with charcoal, and hanging out with his cat and his kids.

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?"

In this lecture, art historian Mechtild Widrich (Chicago) will review recent debates about contemporary monuments in light of overwhelming experiences of a world in crisis.

Cat Saint-Croix (University of Minnesota) presents to the GoodAttention group

"Valuing Animals" 

Anastasia Maravela (University of Oslo)

Sara Negri (University of Genoa) will give a talk titled:

"The development of Gentzen sequent calculus: Ketonen's discovery of invertible rule systems"

Ege Yumusak (Harvard) presents to the GoodAttention group.

Talk by Drew Johnson, (At)tending to your needs: The function of attention and the evolution of sophisticated cognition