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 samuli.reijula@helsinki.fi
Coordinated by Luis Mireles Flores (luis.mireles-flores@helsinki.fi), 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 on Mondays from 14 to 16.
Spring 2024
- 15.1.2024 Sofia Blanco Sequeiros & Samuli Reijula:
“Explaining evidential discordance”
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- 12.2.2024 Maria Jimenez-Buedo (UNED):
“Explanation and generality in Analytical Sociology: what is a catalogue of mechanisms?”
(w/ Saúl Pérez-González (Valencia))
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- 11.3.2024 Sam White (University of Helsinki):
“Rabbits, Ducks, and Conceptual Problems in the Environmental History of Late Antiquity.”
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- 8.4.2024 Charlie Kurth (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies; Western Michigan University):
“What is the Place of Emotion AI in Moral Education?”
More info - 29.4.2024 Kármen Kovács
“Is early novelty switching beneficial for consumers? The impact of impatience on the consumer utility derived from innovation from a behavioural economic perspective”
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- 6.5.2024 Mattia Gallotti (London Interdisciplinary School):
“Towards a Framework for Interdisciplinary Integrative Research” - 20.5. Patricia Rich (University of Bayreuth):
TBA
- 10.6.2024 TINT Summer party
Autumn 2023
- 4.9. Teppo Felin (Utah State University):
Generative Rationality and Evolution
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- 18.9. Milutin Stojanovic (University of Helsinki):
Is there a crisis in sustainability research?
More info - 25.9. Aki Lehtinen (Nankai University):
Derivational Robustness and Independence
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- 2.10. Pekka Mäkelä (University of Helsinki) & Raul Hakli (University of Helsinki)
RESPONSIBLE AI: A wee bit of philosophy and an introduction to an approach
More info - 16.10. Svetlana Vetchinnikova (Helsinki Collegium of Advanced Studies)
Disciplinary community as a complex adaptive system
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- 30.10. Miriam Teschl (EHESS, Aix-Marseille School of Economics) & Stéphane Luchini (CNRS, Aix-Marseille School of Economics)
Cognitive Pathways to Complexity
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- 13.11. Luca Ausili (Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan)
Quantification, Transparency, and Epistemic Heterogeneity
27.11. Nancy Cartwright (University of California at San Diego and the University of Durham)Session cancelled
11.12. Jaakko Kuorikoski (University of Helsinki)Session cancelled- 14.12. Uskali Mäki (University of Helsinki)
Homo Economicus – Persona from the past with a bright future (even though perhaps gloomy for Homo Sapiens)?
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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.