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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.

Tid og sted: , Georg Sverdrups Hus, Undervisningsrom 1

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.

Tid og sted: , Sophus Bugges Hus, Seminarrom 4

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).

Tid og sted: , Blindern, Georg Sverdrups Hus, Grupperom 4 (3. etasje: Rom 3524) / Zoom

Lara Keuck is a historian and philosopher of medicine. She leads the Max Planck Research Group “Practices of Validation in the Biomedical Sciences” at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.

Her research examines the making and changing of knowledge about disease in modern medicine, and has focused on medical classification systems, animal models of human disease, vagueness in psychiatry, and the question of validity. She is particularly interested in so-called borderline cases that in some way or the other fall in-between health and disease and challenge or alter their demarcations.

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Julia Bursten is an associate professor in the department of Philosophy at The University of Kentucky, where she teaches a variety of courses about the relationships between science and society, as well as philosophy of science, logic, and health care ethics.

Her research has centered around building the philosophy of nanoscience, and she is now working on a project on agricultural science, which will complement her work on nanoscience and aims at generating a broader picture of knowledge construction in synthetic and applied sciences.

Tid og sted: , Georg Sverdrups Hus, Undervisningsrom 1, Blindern

Julie Zahle is an associate professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Bergen. Her main area of research is the philosophy of the social sciences. In particular, she works on values and objectivity in the social sciences, the individualism/holism debate, qualitative methods, and social theories of practice.

Tid og sted: , Georg Sverdrups Hus, Grupperom 1 (3. etasje), Blindern

Eva Krick is a social scientist with an orientation towards political sociology, institutional analysis and democratic theory who is currently affiliated with the Political Science Department at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz. She received her PhD from the University of Darmstadt, worked at Humboldt University Berlin and stayed as guest researcher at the Universities of Oslo, Aarhus, Edinburgh, and the National University of Singapore. Her research focuses inter alia on the role of knowledge and expertise in modern societies, citizen and stakeholder participation, the environment-society nexus and group decision-making.

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Sebastian Watzl is an associate professor at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art, and Ideas at the University of Oslo. Among other things, he works in philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, epistemology, and ethics. He has published the book Structuring Mind. The Nature of Attention and how it shapes Consciousness (OUP, 2017), and is co-author of the ExPhil book “Knowing, Being, Doing” (Gyldendal, 2021). He was head of the Center for Philosophy and the Sciences (CPS), and currently is leader of the ERC-funded project GOODATTENTION. Attention norms and their role in practical reason, epistemology, and ethics and project manager for the Norwegian Research Council funded project Salient Solutions. Responding ethically to the attention crisis.

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The Colloquium for Science Studies (Forumet for vitenskapsteori) organizes a seminar where recipients of the Colloquium's scholarship will present results of their works. 

Tid og sted: , Urbygningen / Domus Academica, Karl Johans Gate 47

Offentlig foredrag som markerer åpningen av den 8. norske konferansen i vitenskapshistorie. Mer informasjon her.

Tid og sted: , Georg Sverdrups Hus, Undervisningsrom 1

Gry Oftedal, Senior Lecturer and Head of Centre for Philosophy and the Sciences (CPS), Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo.

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Sophia Efstathiou is a Researcher (Forsker) at the Programme for Applied Ethics, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She is currently leading the international KLIMAFORSK project MEATigation: Towards sustainable meat use in Norwegian food practices for climate mitigation (2020-24), and the Norwegian participation in the H2020 project ISEED: Inclusive Science and European Democracies (2021-24).  

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Philip Kitcher is the John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. His work is highly influential within the philosophy of science and beyond, and some of his research interests lie in the ethical and political constraints on scientific research, the evolution of altruism and morality, and the seeming conflict between science and religion. He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002, and the American Philosophical Association awarded him its inaugural Prometheus Prize in 2006 for lifetime achievement in “expanding the frontiers of science and philosophy.” 
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Emma Vikström has a PhD in education and is currently working as a researcher and lecturer in the teacher training programme at Örebro University, Sweden. Her research interests lie in the fields of the history of education and history of ideas and focus on historical change regarding educational goals and means. She will be presenting some parts of her recently published thesis on eugenics and education in Ellen Key’s work. 

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Dr. Samuel Kelton Roberts, Jr., is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Roberts is Director of Columbia University’s Institute for Research in African American Studies (IRAAS), Associate Professor of History and Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences. He writes, teaches, and lectures widely on African-American history, medical and public health history, urban history, issues of policing and criminal justice, and the history of social movements.

The seminar is open for everyone!

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Craig Callender is Professor of Philosophy and Founding Faculty and Co-Director of the Institute for Practical Ethics at the University of California, San Diego. He also sits on the Freedom and Responsibility in Science Committee of the International Science Council, Paris and the Faculty of The John Bell Institute, Hvar, Croatia. Before moving to San Diego, he worked in the Department of Philosophy, Logic & Scientific Method at the London School of Economics. He works in many areas of philosophy of science. His book What Makes Time Special? (Oxford University Press, 2017) won the 2018 Lakatos Award.

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In Performing Indigenous Health Research in a Multiethnic Landscape: The Population-based Study on Health and Living in Regions with Sami and Norwegian Populations - the SAMINOR Study Ann Ragnhild Broderstad, head of SAMINOR, will be discussing the upcoming third SAMINOR survey, in the broader context of how the modern history of indigenous groups has created both distinct needs for focused health-research and distinct considerations in such research. Prof. Broderstad is academic director of the Centre for Sami Health Research at UiT the Arctic University of Norway, in addition to her role with the Department of Medicine, University Hospital of North Norway.

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I et demokrati er det de folkevalgte som bestemmer, men fagekspertise gir råd og legger mange viktige premisser. Hva vet vi om ekspertkunnskapens rolle i politikken? Hva kjennetegner kretsløpet mellom forskning og politikk i norsk kontekst? Hvordan har forholdet mellom faglige råd og verdimessige vurderinger artet seg under håndteringen av koronapandemien? Sett i lys av erfaringer fra koronakrisen, er det mangler i måten forholdet mellom vitenskap, verdier og politikk fungerer og forstås på? Er det ting som burde ha blitt tenkt og gjort annerledes i norsk koronahåndtering?
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I et demokrati er det de folkevalgte som bestemmer, men fagekspertise gir råd og legger mange viktige premisser. Hva vet vi om ekspertkunnskapens rolle i politikken? Hva kjennetegner kretsløpet mellom forskning og politikk i norsk kontekst? Hvordan har forholdet mellom faglige råd og verdimessige vurderinger artet seg under håndteringen av koronapandemien? Sett i lys av erfaringer fra koronakrisen, er det mangler i måten forholdet mellom vitenskap, verdier og politikk fungerer og forstås på? Er det ting som burde ha blitt tenkt og gjort annerledes i norsk koronahåndtering?
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Liliana Doganova is finally (digitally) visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series, after her scheduled visit last year had to be postponed. Doganova teaches at Ecole des Mines and PSL. Her research lies at the intersection of economic sociology and STS (Science and Technology Studies), and explores market construction processes and valuation devices. She is currently preparing a monograph on the historical sociology of discounting.

The seminar is open for everyone!

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Thomas Pradeu is CNRS Senior Investigator in Philosophy of Science embedded in a biology lab, ImmunoConcept (CNRS & Univ. Bordeaux, France), Co-PI of the Conceptual Biology & Medicine Team, Coordinator of the PhilInBioMed international network, & was PI of the ERC-funded IDEM project (2015-2020). His research is in philosophy of biology, with a focus on biological individuality, immunology, cancer, and the microbiota. His book, The Limits of the Self: Immunology and Biological Identity (OUP, 2012), received the Lakatos Award.

Maël Lemoine is Full Professor in Philosophy of Medical Sciences, Univ. of Bordeaux, France, embedded in a biology lab, ImmunoConcept (CNRS & Univ. Bordeaux, France), Co-PI of the Conceptual Biology & Medicine Team. He is a philosopher of medicine, with a focus on the definition of health and disease, ageing, cancer, and precision medicine.

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Steven Orzack is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Orzack has a B.A. in Biology from The University of Rochester and a Ph.D. in Biology from Harvard University. He is President and Senior Research Scientist at Fresh Pond Research Institute, a non-profit scientific research institute researching pure and applied topics relating to the evolution of insects, demography, population dynamics and ecology, population genetics and evolution, the statistics of sampling for Census 2000, the dynamics of atmospheric gases, and human genetics.

The seminar is open for everyone!

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Arrangementet den 9 desember er desverre avlyst da en paneldeltaker har trukket seg, og vi dermed mangler sentrale perspektiver i panelet.
I høst har det gått debatt i norske medier om kritisk raseteori. Kritisk raseteori er et samfunnsvitenskapelig perspektiv på raserelasjoner med bakgrunn i kritisk teori hvor konvensjonelle juridiske og akademiske konstruksjoner av rase kritiseres og tydeliggjøres. Kritikere med et mer positivistisk vitenskapssyn har på forskjellige måter stilt spørsmål ved vitenskapeligheten i disse perspektivene, og vi har fått en debatt langs linjer kjent fra postmodernismedebattene noen år tilbake, men med tilknytning til dagsaktuelle temaer som postkolonialistisk teori og agenda. Forum for vitenskapsteori har invitert noen av debattantene for å diskutere de vitenskapsteoretiske elementene i debatten. Hva slags vitenskapssyn ligger til grunn for de forskjellige posisjonene, og hvordan skal man vurdere vitenskap i forhold til politisk agenda?
 Etter en innledning fra hver av paneldeltagerne vil det bli åpnet for generell debatt og spørsmål fra publikum.
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Prof. Tone Kvernbekk is visiting the Science Colloquium Series. Kvernbekk is Deputy Head and Head of Studies at UiO's Department of Education. Her professional interests are primarily within philosophy of science, philosophy of education, argumentation and narrative theory, or some combination of them, as exemplified in this talk.