2022
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Bj?rn Hofmann (UiO, NTNU Gj?vik) 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 Gj?vik. Han er utdannet innen teknologifag, idéhistorie, filosofi og etikk. Hofmann forsker og underviser innenfor medisinsk filosofi, helsefaglig etikk, vitenskapsteori, helsetjenesteforskning og teknologivurdering. Han er s?rlig opptatt av h?ndtering 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 s?rlig omhandlet hvordan psykologien utgj?r et meningsrammeverk for det moderne menneskets liv. Han har tidligere utgitt b?kene Den terapeutiske kultur (2010/2017), "Det er innover vi m? g?" (2014), Generasjon prestasjon (2018), Livsmestring p? 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 Milj? (SUM) at UiO. His main academic interests are governance, sustainable development, research and policy, and interdisciplinarity.
?ystein 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.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing our lives. However, modern AI shows remarkable, unpredictable and mysterious non-human behaviour when replacing human activity, and this is not at all understood. Professor Anders Hansen from the University of Cambridge gives a talk on the mysteries of AI.