Tidligere arrangementer

Bendik Hellem Aaby (IFIKK, UiO) does research in philosophy of biology and philosophy of action. His research concerns are, amongst other things, the role behavior plays in evolutionary theory, the attribution of agency to non-human organisms, and to what extent purposiveness can be adequately accounted for by evolutionary theory.

Hedda Hassel Mørch (Høgskolen i Innlandet) will give a talk for the Science Studies Colloquium Series. https://heddahasselmorch.com/research/

Tor Egil Førland is Professor of History and Head of Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas (IFIKK) at the University of Oslo. He has published books and articles on strategic export controls during the Cold War; the student revolt of the 1960s; and historical theory, as in his most recent monograph Values, Explanation, and Objectivity in Historiography (Routledge, 2017).

Sune Dueholm Müller and Johan Ivar Sæbø are associate professors at the Information Systems research group, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo.

Kristin Gjesdal is professor of philosophy at Temple University. Her scholarship covers philosophy of interpretation (hermeneutics), philosophy of art, and modern European philosophy. She is the co-editor of the recently published Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition (both with Oxford UP). She is the author of three monographs (with Cambridge and Oxford University Presses) and the editor and co-editor of eight volumes in her areas of research. Her present work includes an introduction to the philosophy of Germaine de Staël (under contract with Cambridge UP) and the monograph “How to be a Self? Four Lessons from Germaine de Staël” (under contract with Oxford UP). For more information, see her faculty website or this 3:16 interview.

Associate Professor Koray Çalışkan (The New School, Parsons School of Design) will give a lecture on the occasion of his new book "Data Money: Inside Cryptocurrencies, Their Communities, Markets, and Blockchains" (Columbia, 2023). Drawing on his award winning research, Çalışkan will present a radical insider view of how cryptocurrencies are created and traded on the ground, analyzing the emergence of the third fiat money in world history: Data Money.

Carrie Friese’s research is in medical sociology and science and technology studies, with a focus on reproduction across humans and animals. Her initial research focused on the use of assisted reproductive technologies for human reproduction in the context of infertility. She then explored the development of interspecies nuclear transfer (aka cloning) for endangered species preservation in zoos.

Building on her research, she am currently completing a book entitled “More-than-human Humanitarianism: Care, Science and Inequity.” This book asks what laboratory animals look like through the lens of humanitarianism, and what humanitarianism looks like through the lens of laboratory animals in order to analyse the benefits and limitations of the logics and practices of relating that are not necessarily visible through rights-based discourses.

Kristian Bjørkdahl er førsteamanuensis i retorikk ved Institutt for lingvistiske og nordiske studier, UiO. Han jobber med politisk retorikk i bred forstand, og er engasjert i prosjekter om norske og nordiske selvbilder, byråkratisk tekstproduksjon, sosiale bevegelsers ytringskultur, organisering av forskningskommunikasjon, m.m.

Han leder forskergruppen Tekst og retorikk, og deltar dessuten i UiO:Demokrati-gruppen Voicing Democracy. Han er styremedlem i Nordisk Retorikkforening og medredaktør av retorikkmagasinet Kairos.

Arnoldo Frigessi (UiO, INTEGREAT) is department head at the Oslo University Hospital and professor of statistics at the University of Oslo. He is director of the Oslo Center for Biostatistics and Epidemiology. He leads the centre for research based innovation BigInsight (https://www.biginsight.no/), a consortium of partners from academia and the public and private sectors. From 2023, he will be the director of the centre of excellence Integreat- The Norwegian centre for knowledge-driven machine learning, funded by the Research Council of Norway.

Maja Hagerman is a Swedish writer and filmmaker based in Stockholm. She is currently finalizing a PhD on race biology and photography at the Centre for Nordic Studies, Helsinki university, Finland. She has previously written two monographs on racial research in Sweden in the 19th and 20 ^th century, published as independent research in archives and literary sources within the field of history of ideas.  She was promoted honorary doctor at Uppsala university in 2012 and is today also a senior lecturer in arts at Dalarna Audiovisual Academy, Dalarna University, Sweden, where her focus is on historical documentary film production.

Hallvard Fossheim is Committee leader for the National Committee for Research Ethics in Science and Technology (NENT) and Professor of philosophy at UiB. 

Tone Druglitrø is a researcher at the TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture at the University of Oslo. She has over several years been concerned with experimenting with care as an approach and tool for studying values in science and policy with a specific focus on animal research. Based upon a combination of archive studies, laboratory ethnographies, and document-oriented studies, her work has traced the historical development of “skilled care” as an expertise in science, and analyzed the convergence of biological standardization, conservation and technical care in public health. She has also published on “procedural care” in licensing systems. She is currently exploring versions of care in cod immunology together with Kristin Asdal (TIK).

Professor Elin Lerum Boasson was a lead author in the sixth assessment report cycle of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Working Group III Mitigation and is a member of the Swedish Climate Policy Council. She has published extensively on climate policy and politics, particularly on policy entrepreneurship, business influence, political steering, policy diffusion and the EU. Her work is primarily comparative and contributes to climate governance studies as well as to historical and sociological institutionalism. Boasson is deputy head of the Political Science Department at the University of Oslo and is also affiliated with CICERO, Center for International Climate Research. Her fifth book was published in 2021. The research project Accelerating Climate Action and the State: Getting to Net Zero (ACCELZ) - Institutt for statsvitenskap (ISV) (uio.no) is led by Boasson.

Yael Friedman is a PhD fellow at the Centre for Philosophy and the Sciences (CPS), Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas. Her dissertation explores the concept of medical holism and its relation to pluralism ‘in’ science and ‘with’ science.

Philippe Huneman is a Professor at the IHPST (Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques), Université Paris 1. He focuses on the philosophy of evolutionary biology and ecology. His
main interests are: the variety of evolutionary explanations; the relations between variation, selection, and drift; the issue of individuality in biology related to the “evolutionary transitions” program and the formal definitions of emergence; the philosophy of ecology and especially neutral theories in community ecology. Last books published: Why? The philosophy behind the question (Stanford University Press) and Death. Perspectives from the Philosophy of Biology (Palgrave-McMillam). 

Note that exceptionally, the session will be held on a Friday, between 11:15 and 12:30. 

Rose Trappes is a postdoctoral research fellow at Egenis, the Centre for the Study of Life Sciences at Exeter University, UK. Rose works in philosophy of biology and feminist philosophy. Her research currently focuses on concepts and research practices in ecology and related disciplines, exploring topics such as individuality, ecological niches, ecological mechanisms, animal tracking technology, data synthesis, and citizen science. Together with Sabina Leonelli, Rose is also working on conceptualisations of research environments.

Dr Bonnie Evans is a Senior Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London, and author of The Metamorphosis of Autism (Manchester University Press). She has a PhD from the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University, and has held a research fellowship at King’s College, London's Centre for Medical Humanities. She has lectured in the international history of child sciences, psychology and eugenics. In addition to her academic work, she writes for popular publications such as Aeon Magazine, and has appeared on BBC television. 

Eric Turkheimer is a psychologist and behavioral geneticist, known for his research on the complex interplay between genetics and environmental factors in human behavior. His work has challenged the traditional nature vs. nurture dichotomy, demonstrating instead that genetic and environmental factors interact in complex and dynamic ways to shape human development and behavior. His influential "Three Laws of Behavior Genetics" have become a cornerstone of the field, guiding researchers and shaping public understanding of the interplay between genes and environment. He is currently the Hugh Scott Hamilton Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia.

Dr Suki Finn is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Royal Holloway University of London and a visiting fellow with the CPS at the University of Oslo. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Southampton and has held other visiting fellowships at the University of Vienna (2023), Australian National University (2019), New York University (2018), and City University of New York Graduate Center (2014). Her areas of research span the philosophy of logic, metaphysics, philosophy of science, feminism, and epistemology. She has published a number of articles on these topics in Synthese, Bioethics, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, European Journal of the Philosophy of Science, Australasian Journal of Logic, Philosophia, and more. She is the author of What’s in a Doughnut Hole? And other philosophical food for thought (Icon, 2024) and editor of Women of Ideas (Oxford University Press, 2021). Dr Finn. is a University and College Union representative, and is on the Executive Committee for the Society for Women in Philosophy UK and the Council for the Royal Institute of Philosophy. For more information on her research, see: www.sukifinn.com  

Geoffrey Galt Harpham is the author of thirteen books and over one hundred articles and essays in the fields of literary studies, philosophy, linguistics, and intellectual history.  His recent books are Scholarship and Freedom (Harvard Univ. Press) and Citizenship on Catfish Row:  Race and Nation in American Popular Entertainment (Univ. of South Carolina Press).  His Theories of Race 1684-1900, an anthology of scientific and philosophical discussions of the race concept, will be online in early summer 2023.  He has taught at Tulane University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Duke University, and from 2002-15, he was director of the National Humanities Center. 

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.

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.

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.