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Activities in English during Spring term 2015

Below is an overview (latest activities first) of guest lectures, seminars, etc. in the Department of Philosophy in 2015 to be held in English. Open for all!

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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"