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TODAY 13.10. Perspectives on Science Seminar: Jan Sprenger with a talk titled "The Productive Model of Explanation in Psychology and Beyond". All are very welcome! More details here: tint-helsinki.fi/2025/10/08/1...

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For our first Fall 2025 PoS Seminar this Friday 10.10., Katherine Furman will give a talk titled ““Doing your own research” and the Curious Case of Thabo Mbeki: Making implicit cases in philosophical reasoning explicit”. More details here: tint-helsinki.fi/2025/10/02/1...

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Mitä tekemistä tutkimusrahoituksella on akateemisen vapauden kanssa? Anita Välikangasin (@anikangas.bsky.social) kritiikki Suomen Perustan tuoreesta "Tutkimusta vai ideologiaa" -pamfletista TINTin blogissa: tint-helsinki.fi/2025/10/01/h...

New TINT blog post by Tatu Nuotio. A book review of @judithfavereau.bsky.social and @ustagan10.bsky.social: ”Field Experiments in Economics” tint-helsinki.fi/2025/09/25/f...

Mark your calendars: our Perspectives on Science Seminar schedule for Autumn 2025 is up! The topics of the talks will be posted a week before each talk. tint-helsinki.fi/2025/09/22/a... All are warmly welcome! #philsci #philsky

Institutional Epistemology 2025 workshop poster

Second day of Institutional Epistemology 2025 workshop ahead, keynotes are streamed live, link at the workshop website: www.institutionalepistemology.net

Tomorrow! (And it’s early, 9am Finnish time)

Institutional Epistemology Workshop 2025, June 18-19 at the University of Helsinki. Our keynotes are Helen Beebee, Jessica Brown and Kevin Zollman. Keynotes will be streamed online. Program and IE resources here: www.institutionalepistemology.net #philsky #philsci

”Epiphenomenalist revenge” by the excellent Lorenzo Casini in Perspectives on Science seminar / Helsinki Philosophy Colloquium

In the next Perspectives on Science seminar (organized with The ReSES project) on Monday, June 2, Diane Coyle (University of Cambrige) will give a lecture based on her book “The Measure of Progress”. #philsci. More here: tint-helsinki.fi/2025/05/28/2.... All are welcome!

In the next Perspectives on Science seminar on Monday, May 5, Pekka Syrjänen (University of Helsinki) will give a talk on his co-authored paper with Mark Rubin (Durham University) titled “Methodological Pluralism and the Replication Crisis”. #philsci. More here: tint-helsinki.fi/2025/04/30/5...

Anita Välikangas successfully defended her doctoral dissertation (link below). Many thanks David Ludwig for coming to 'oppose' (but finally accept) it!
hdl.handle.net/10138/593305

In the next Perspectives on Science seminar on Monday, April 7, Jennifer Jhun (Duke University) will give a (remote) talk titled “Revisiting the question of reduction in economics”. #philsci. Read more about this and join the seminar here: tint-helsinki.fi/2025/03/27/7...

In the next Perspectives Science seminar on Monday, March 10, Inkeri Koskinen (TINT/Helsinki) will give a talk titled “Peer Review in Artistic Research: a Case Study” #philsci Find more about it here: tint-helsinki.fi/2025/03/03/1...

Institutional Epistemology Workshop 2025, June 18-19, University of Helsinki. Our invited speakers this year are Helen Beebee, Jessica Brown, and @kevinzollman.com . We look forward to receiving your abstracts by March 10. More information here: www.institutionalepistemology.net #philsci #philsky

Today! Tänään!
#Helsinki #Complexity #Economics
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In the next Perspectives Science seminar on Monday, Feb 10, Karoliina Pulkkinen (TINT/Helsinki) will give a talk titled “Legitimacy through outputs: how science and technology can contribute to nondemocratic legitimization.” #philsci tint-helsinki.fi/2025/02/03/1...

Institutional Epistemology Workshop 2025, June 18-19, University of Helsinki. Our invited speakers this year are Helen Beebee, Jessica Brown, and @kevinzollman.com . Find the call for abstracts here: www.institutionalepistemology.net #philsci #philsky

Michiru Nagatsu's (@ustagan10.bsky.social) inaugural lecture, "Practical Philosophy in Practice: Thinking, Feeling, Imagining and Acting at the End of the World" is now on the TINT Blog:
tint-helsinki.fi/2025/01/23/i...

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Teemu Lari's summary and comments of the recent interview with Ha-Joon Chang now also in English in TINT Blog.
tint-helsinki.fi/2025/01/21/c...

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Institutional Epistemology 2025 CFA is out now, join us in June in Helsinki! Keynotes from Helen Beebee, Jessica Brown and Kevin Zollman: blogs.helsinki.fi/institutiona...

In the next Perspectives Science seminar on Monday, Jan 13, Jaakko Kuorikoski (TINT / Helsinki) will give a talk titled “Structure without foundations? – DSGE, microfoundations, and causality”. Find more details and join the seminar via tint-helsinki.fi/2025/01/07/1...

TINT Blogissa @teemulari.bsky.social tekee suomenkielistä yhteenvetoa Ha-Joon Changin pluralismista ja nostaa esiin haastattelussa avoimeksi jääneitä kysymyksiä.

(English version of the blog post on Ha-Joon Chang's pluralism will appear soon)
tint-helsinki.fi/2024/12/19/p...

@teemulari.bsky.social interviewed Professor Ha-Joon Chang as he visited us in Helsinki. The interview is now out in Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics.

Issues covered: Pluralism in economics, role of economists in politics, advice for young scholars

doi.org/10.23941/ejp...
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Collective Responsibility ​This book demonstrates how the concept of collective obligation is relevant to ongoing normative debates in social and political philosophy.

Really happy about how this book turned out, great contributions on collective responsibility from leading and upcoming names in social ontology: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

The inaugural lectures of the new professors | University of Helsinki As they take up their new role, each professor at the University of Helsinki holds a public inaugural lecture. Inaugural lectures are held twice a year close to the end of each term, usually in May an...

Professor Jaakko Kuorikoski's inaugural lecture tomorrow! 🥳 www.helsinki.fi/en/about-us/...

In the next Perspectives on Science seminar, Guido Caniglia (University of Helsinki) will give a talk titled “Impure evidence for sustainability transformations”. Find more details and join the seminar via tint-helsinki.fi/2024/11/25/2...
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🔥Tomorrow!
ReSES Argumenta Distinguished Lecture by Professor Mariana Mazzucato: "A New Approach to Industrial Strategy"
💻 Join the webinar: helsinki.zoom.us/j/6733955913...
ℹ️More info: reses-argumenta.fi?p=1091
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In the next Perspectives on Science seminar on 5.11., Ahmad Elabbar (University of Cambridge) will give a talk titled “Trusting scientific advisors as epistemic curators: from error to attention”. Find more details and join the seminar via tint-helsinki.fi/2024/10/29/5... #philsci

@inkerikoskinen.bsky.social and Päivi Seppälä argue that the competency assessment tests in University of Helsinki's renewed PhD application process do not promote fairness, objectivity or transparency and violate principles of responsible researcher evaluation. tint-helsinki.fi/2024/10/21/c...