Previous events

SciDem Research Seminar by Paal Fredrik Skj?rten Kvarberg (IFIKK, UiO)

Adam Toon (University of Exeter) will discuss his book Mind as Metaphor: A Defence of Mental Fictionalism.

An Exploration of Biochemical Structure

SciDem Research Seminar by Zeynep Pamuk (Nuffield College, University of Oxford). 

What is Collective Attention?

Carline Julie Francis Klijnman will give a research seminar at SciDem. She is a postdoctoral research fellow at University College Dublin. Her research interests include epistemic democracy, moral and epistemic responsibility, social epistemology, expert testimony, vice and virtue epistemology and epistemic injustice.

Salvatore Florio and ?ystein Linnebo on ¡®The Many and the One¡¯ (interviewed by Guendalina Righetti).

Join us to explore the diverse research strands within CPS and discuss our common denominator.

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.