Activities in English during Spring term 2015

Wed 17 June, seminar:

Christian Erbacher: The Intellectual History of Editing Wittgenstein - Summary of Research Results

Thu 28 May, guest lecture:

Rico Gutschmidt: Neither Context nor Foundation - Wittgenstein and Cavell on Acknowledgement in Skepticism

Fri 22 May, PhD seminar:

Anders Reiersgaard: Between Scientism and Pragmatism - An Analysis of Some Philosophical Foundations in a Definition of Evidence Based Medicine

Mon 18 - Tue 19 May, 2-day workshop:

Auditory hallucinations and "hearing voices" - common challenges for neuroscience and philosophy?

Thu 7 May, guest lecture:

Alexander Berg: Absolute Knowledge and Ungrounded Certainty in Hegel and Wittgenstein – What Wittgenstein thought of Hegel's philosophy

Thu 30 Apr, guest lecture:

Mauro Dorato: 'Now' from Physics to Psychology

Thu 26 Mar, department seminar:

David G.C. Vogt: Understanding Justice Through Injustice

Tue 24 Mar, guest lecture:

Pascal Nouvel: Modifying the Laws of Nature; the Concept of Neo-Nature

Tue 17 Mar, guest lecture:

Pascal Nouvel: Changing Nature by Technology

Mon 16 Mar, guest lecture:

Nicholas D. Smith: Socrates on the Human Condition

Tue 10 Mar, guest lecture:

Pascal Nouvel: The Origins of the Concept of Nature

Thu 5 Mar, guest lecture:

Aloisia Moser: Picture Theory and Projection Method

Tue 24 Feb, guest lecture:

Pål Fjeldvig Antonsen: Truth in Fiction and Indexicality

Mon 2 Feb, trial lecture for position as Associate Professor in philosophy:

Thomas Land: Belief and Agency

Thu 22 Jan, department seminar:

Ivar Russøy Labukt: Evolutionary debunking arguments: a threat to egoism or impartialism?

Thu 15 Jan, trial lecture for position as Associate Professor in philosophy:

Franz Knappik: Hegel on the Freedom of Thinking

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Previous activities, Fall term 2014:

Fri 5 - Sat 6 Dec, international workshop:

Frege zwischen Dichtung und Wissenschaft

Thu 4 Dec, department seminar:

Hallvard Fossheim: Aristotle on Collective Agency

Thu 20 Nov, department seminar:

Ole Hjortland: The Normativity of Logic

Tue 21 Oct, PhD seminar:

John Barugahare: 'Mode 2' as an Appropriate Framework for Understanding Normative Moral Philosophy

Thu 25 Sep, guest lecture:

Julia Tanney: Subtracting My Arm's Going Up from My Raising My Arm - Wittgenstein and Ryle on the 'Thickness' of Action

Tue 23 Sep, guest lecture:

Julia Tanney: Ryle on Thinking - A Peg for Some Thoughts

Tue 2 Sep, guest lecture:

Peter Hacker: The Nature of Consciousness

Mon 1 Sep, guest lecture:

Peter Hacker: Philosophy and Neuroscience

Wed 20 - Fri 22 Aug, PhD seminar:

Catherine Wilson: Philosophy, History and the History of Philosophy

Tue 12 - Fri 15 Aug, PhD seminar:

Mark Bevir: Philosophy, History and the History of Philosophy

The department seminar will also be held regularly. Dates and speakers for the Fall term are as follows:

Thu 4 Sep, Jørgen Pedersen

Thu 16 Oct, cancelled

Thu 6 Nov, Ole Hjortland

Thu 4 Dec, Hallvard Fossheim

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...and here's what went on in Spring term 2014:

27 Feb, department seminar:

Ragnhild Jordahl, "Possible Worlds, Dispositions and Powers"

17 Mar, workshop:

Roland Bluhm, "Computerised Ordinary Language Philosophy: An Introduction to Using Linguistic Text Corpora for Philosophical Purposes"

18 Mar, guest lecture:

Roland Bluhm, "The Affectivity of Hoping"

20 March, department seminar:

Gro Rørstadbotten, "Reading a Platonic Dialogue: The Protagoras and Hippocrates' Dream of Education"

26 March, guest lecture:

Pascal Nouvel, "The relevance of Spinoza's project analysed through some major contributions in science"

2 April, guest lecture:

Pascal Nouvel, "The relevance of Spinoza's project analysed through some major contributions about the nature of feelings"

9 April, guest lecture:

Pascal Nouvel, "The relevance of Spinoza's project analysed through some major contributions about the nature of “strong feelings” (feelings associated with the use of psychotropic substances)  following the work of the chemist Alexander Shulgin"

10 April, guest lecture:

Hayden Ausland, ""What was the 'Liberal Temper' in Ancient Greek Political Thought? Protagoras and Sophocles on Politics and Cultural Development"

24 April, guest lecture:

Simon Glendinning, "Wittgenstein and Heidegger and the 'Face' of Life in Our Time"

24 April, department seminar:

Alexander Cappelen, "Fairness in the lab"

28 April, guest lecture:

Allan Janik, "The Philosophical Importance of Wittgenstein's War Experiences"

29 April, guest lecture:

Allan Janik, "Wittgenstein at the Brenner Archives"

8 May, guest lecture:

Edmund Dain, "Ethics Without Propositions"

12-14 May, workshop:

Jens Timmermann, workshop on Kant's moral philosophy

22 May, department seminar:

Olof Pettersson, "The Hazards of the Voice: On Human Trust in Discursive Proficiency in Plato"

2 June, talks/lectures:

Talks by Sarah Anna Szeltner, Ragnhild Hogstad Jordahl and Morten Nag Opsal on the Theory of Science (mandatory lectures for PhD candidates)

4-6 June, international conference:

"Poetry and Philosophy in the Light of Plato's Protagoras"

10 June, guest lecture:

Dorit Bar-On, "Transparency, Expression and Self-Knowledge"

11 June, guest lecture:

Ivan Mladenov, "Conceptualizing Peirce"