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Michael Baumgartner published an article introducing the main theories of causation to political scientists in the SAGE Handbook of Political Science.

The authors of "Philosophy as Drama" show that any interpretation of these works must include the literary and narrative dimensions of each text, as much as serious the attention given to the progression of the argument in each piece.

Mark Young, who defended his PhD thesis in the department recently, has been awarded the prestigious Marie Curie Postdoctoral EU Fellowship. The primary objective of his project is: to develop a new philosophical approach to the study of automation that recognizes the essential role played by human operators.

Filosofene Pål Antonsen og Ole Hjortland får Det humanistiske fakultets formidlingspris 2019, for deres arbeid med logikksjekk av den offentlige debatten.

Michael Baumgartner and Christoph Falk, Boolean Difference-Making: A Modern Regularity Theory of Causation, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

Forskergruppen i logikk og NFR-prosjektet `Anti-Exceptionalism About Logic' organiserte konferansen The Normativity of Logic, 14.-16. juni 2017 (UiB).

UiB planlegger å etablere et tverrfaglig senter for humanistisk forskning. I den anledning lyses det ut midler til to grunnforskningsprosjekt med søknadsfrist 15. mars.