Starting from autumn 2022, PoS seminars are organized in hybrid format. The seminar will take place in-person and over Zoom, an application supported by University of Helsinki. Conference calls can be joined from Chrome browser or from a desktop application.
JOINING THE SEMINARS: For location info or to get a link for joining the seminars in Zoom, please contact our research assistant jessica.north@helsinki.fi.
Coordinated by Michiru Nagatsu (michiru.nagatsu@helsinki.fi), Karoliina Pulkkinen (karoliina.pulkkinen@helsinki.fi) and Samuli Reijula (samuli.reijula@helsinki.fi).
Perspectives on Science seminar is held primarily on Mondays from 14 to 16.
Spring 2023
- 16.1. Vanessa Seifert (University of Athens):
The periodic table as law(s) of nature
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- 30.1. Brian Nosek (University of Virginia):
Shifting incentives from getting it published to getting it right
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- 13.2. Marion Godman (Aarhus University)
The Nordic Racial Hygiene Studies: How Science becomes a Force for Cultural Domination
More info - 27.2. Markus Eronen (University of Groningen)
Causal complexity and psychological measurement
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- 13.3. Anita Välikangas (University of Helsinki)
What makes research relevant? – A literature synthesis, and its implications on the IPCC’s policy relevance
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- 27.3. Peter Vickers (Durham University):
Identifying Future-Proof Science
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- 3.4. Luca Ausili & Carlo Martini (Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan)
Demarcation for Dummies: Using epistemology and experiments to contrast scientific disinformation
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- 17.4. David Ludwig (Wageningen University)
What Has Epistemic Diversity Ever Done for Us? Promises and Disappointments of Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research
More info - 8.5. Inkeri Koskinen (University of Helsinki)
Unifying the notion of objectivity
More info - 19.5. Carl F. Craver (Washington University)
Memory and Time: Perspectives from Neuropsychology
More info - 5.6. Lukas Beck (Mercator Institute for Climate Change and Global Commons) & Henrik Thorén (Lund University)
Performativity, Transparency, and the Science-policy Interface: lessons from climate economics
Autumn 2022
- 19.9. Adrian Blau (King’s College London):
The Logic of Inference of Thought Experiments in Moral and Political Philosophy: Scientific Parallels
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- 3.10. Mary Morgan (LSE):
Narrative: A General Purpose Technology for Science
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- 17.10. Emrah Aydinonat (University of Helsinki):
The puzzle of model-based explanations
More info - 26.10. Seminar on the Economics Nobel Prize 2022:
“The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2022”
Refet Gürkaynak (Bilkent University)
“Why this year’s Prize is interesting from a modelling perspective”
Hannu Vartiainen (University of Helsinki)
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- 31.10. Corey Dethier (Leibniz Universität Hannover):
How should the IPCC present uncertainty?
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- 14.11. Pekka Syrjänen (University of Helsinki):
Novel prediction and the selectionist challenge
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- 5.12. Säde Hormio & Samuli Reijula (University of Helsinki):
Universities as anarchic knowledge institutions
- 12.12. Carlo Martini (Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan) & Mason Majszak (University of Bern):
Values within boundaries – Climate science and tipping points
For past seminars, please see here.