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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.

Cand. philol. i samfunnsgeografi Helena Nynäs ved TIK Senter for Teknologi, innovasjon og kultur vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden Ph.D.: Sublime Fossefall - et bidrag til de høye fossenes kulturhistorie i Norge.

Seminar on "the good economy" at SPIRAL, Liège Université Cité 

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.

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). 

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Public lecture at the opening of the 8th Norwegian Conference on the History of Science. Language: Norwegian. More info in Norwegian here.

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.

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).  

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. 

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!

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.

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.