2019

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Time and place: , Georg Sverdrups hus: Undervisningsrom 3

Suzi Adams is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series.  Adams is currently visiting fellow at the center ”Future of Sustainability” at the University of Hamburg.

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Time and place: , Georg Sverdrups hus Auditorium 2

Alexander Rosenberg is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series.  Rosenberg is the R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy, Duke University.

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Time and place: , Litteraturhuset

Massimo Pigliucci, Professor of Philosophy at CUNY-City College, is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series at a special event in collaboration with Centre for Advanced Study at Litteraturhuset. Pigliucci has a doctorate in genetics from the University of Ferrara, Italy, a PhD in biology from the University of Connecticut, and a PhD in philosophy of science from the University of Tennessee. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.

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Time and place: , Georg Sverdrups hus Undervisningsrom 1

Massimo Pigliucci, Professor of Philosophy at CUNY-City College, is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Pigliucci has a doctorate in genetics from the University of Ferrara, Italy, a PhD in biology from the University of Connecticut, and a PhD in philosophy of science from the University of Tennessee. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.

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Time and place: , Georg Sverdrups hus Undervisningsrom 1

Michael Strevens is visiting the Science Studies Colloqium Series. Strevens is professor in the Philosophy Department at New York University. His academic work is principally concerned with the nature of science, covering topics such as scientific explanation, understanding, complex systems, probability of various sorts, causation, and the social structure of science; he also applies contemporary research in cognitive psychology to explain aspects of both philosophical and scientific thinking.

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Time and place: , Georg Sverdrups hus Undervisningsrom 3

Liv Langfeldt kommer til Forum for vitenskapsteori. Langfeldt er Forsker 1 ved NIFU og leder for Centre for Research Quality and Policy Impact Studies (R-QUEST). Hun har en dr.polit.-grad fra Universitet i Oslo og forsker p? blant annet p? forsknings?politiske virkemidler og fagfellevurdering. P? seminaret vil hun presentere et rammeverk for ? studere forskningskvalitet, som samtidig sikter mot ? forst? skj?ringspunktet mellom politikk og vitenskap. Temaet blir ogs? belyst empirisk, med data fra ulike fagfelt.

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Time and place: , Georg Sverdrups hus Undervisningsrom 1

Ingo Brigandt is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Brigandt is Professor of Philosophy, University of Alberta, and has held various grants and fellowships from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, the University of Hannover, Duke University and the University of Alberta. His work combines the history and philosophy of biology with epistemology and the philosophy of mind and language by attempting to understand scientific practice and concept use (including its historical change) from an epistemological and semantic point of view.

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Time and place: , The University of Oslo Blindern Campus, The University Aula,The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology

The Science Studies Colloquium Series is sponsoring The International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB) Conference 2019, that will take place in Oslo in July. 

Time and place: , Georg Sverdrups hus Undervisningsrom 1

Dr. Holly Andersen, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. 

Time and place: , Georg Sverdrups hus Undervisningsrom 1

Professor Geoffrey Bowker, UCI-Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences, is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series.

Time and place: , Georg Sverdrups hus Auditorium 2

Professor Tom Shakespeare is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Shakespeare is trained in social and political sciences at Cambridge University, and has taught and researched at the Universities of Sunderland, Leeds, Newcastle and East Anglia. From 2008-2013 he was a technical officer at the World Health Organisation. Currently Shakespeare is chair of Light for the World - UK, and vice-chair of Light for the World International, see https://www.light-for-the-world.org/.

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Time and place: , Georg Morgenstiernes hus Seminarrom 204

Professor Susan Owens is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Susan Owens is Emeritus Professor of Environment and Policy at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of the British Academy. She has researched and published widely in the field of environmental governance, focusing on policy processes in modern democracies and in particular on the role of knowledge, evidence, ideas and expertise in policy formation and change.

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Time and place: , Georg Morgenstiernes hus Seminarrom 204

Professor ved TIK Senter for teknologi, innovasjon og kultur ved Universitetet i Oslo, Magnus Gulbrandsen kommer til Forum for Vitenskapsteori! Gulbrandsen jobber blant annet med offentlige forskningsorganisasjoner rolle i innovasjon, prosessen omkring “impact”, kommersialisering av forskning og forholdet mellom universitet og industri.

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Time and place: , Vilhelm Bjerknes' hus Auditorium 2

Sten Ludvigsen, dekan ved Det utdanningsvitenskapelige fakultet og professor ved Institutt for pedagogikk, Universitetet i Oslo kommer til Forum for vitenskapsteori! Ludvigsen ledet utvalget bak utredningen for Kunnskapsdepartementet, ?Fremtidens skole — Fornyelse av fag og kompetanser? (NOU 2015: 8) som har l?ftet fram begrepet ?dybdel?ring?. Denne utredningen har v?rt et viktig utgangspunkt for den p?g?ende fagfornyelsen i norsk skole.

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Time and place: , Rom 652, Georg Morgenstiernes hus

Symposium i anledning 100-?rsdagen for Knut Erik Tran?ys f?dsel.

Time and place: , Georg Sverdrups hus Grupperom 7
Professor David Jones is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Trained in psychiatry and history of science, David Jones is the Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine at Harvard University. His research has focused on the causes and meanings of health inequalities (Rationalizing Epidemics: Meanings and Uses of American Indian Mortality since 1600) and the history of decision making in cardiac therapeutics (Broken Hearts: The Tangled History of Cardiac Care, 2013). He is currently at work on three other histories, of the evolution of coronary artery surgery, of heart disease and cardiac therapeutics in India, and of the threat of air pollution to health. His teaching at Harvard College and Harvard Medical School explores the history of medicine, medical ethics, and social medicine.
 
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