@cpshoulu.bsky.social
The Centre for Philosophical Studies of History, based at Uni Oulu, promotes the philosophical study of history and historiography. https://www.oulu.fi/en/university/faculties-and-units/faculty-humanities/centre-for-philosophical-studies-history
Today in two week (26.03), our joint research seminar PHO2 will continue with Manuela Ungureanu speaking on "The Historiography of the Former Soviet Bloc: Historians’ parallel concerns with the totalitarianism framework and their varied normative commitments". Save the date and more info soon!
We proudly present the spring edition of PHO2, our joint research seminar with @centrephilohistory.bsky.social. The seminar will run from March to June with five events in total. For more information, please see below. Save the dates, and come and join us to discuss some philosophy of history!
New video on our Youtube channel! Watch the talk "The Return of Truth in an Age of Post-Truth: What Historical Theorists Can Do" that Herman Paul gave in our joint research seminar here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F1S....
Happy watching!
Tomorrow (29.01, 16h/17h, Central European/Finnish time), Herman Paul will give the talk "The Return of Truth in an Age of Post-Truth: What Historical Theorists Can Do" in our joint research seminar. For more info and the Zoom link, please see here: www.oulu.fi/en/events/re....
All welcome!
Next week in our joint research seminar! (Please note that the title has changed since our last announcement.)
Today in two weeks (29.01), Herman Paul (Leiden University, The Netherlands) will give the talk "Epistemic Success in Historical Studies: Truth, Truthfulness, and 'Truer Than'" in our joined research seminar PHO2. Save the date, and more information to follow soon!
The director of the Centre Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen will also be a keynote at the conference "On Plurality and Relativism in Contemporary Philosophy". The deadline for submission is today in a week. More information below.
New video on our Youtube channel! Watch the talk "Reading in Historiography and Iterative Measurement: Atheism, Forgery, Cannibalism and Deification" that Fons Dewulf gave in our joint research seminar here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7acs....
Happy watching and holidays, everyone!
All welcome!
Tomorrow (18.12, 13/14h, Central European/Finnish time), Fons Dewulf will give the talk "Reading in Historiography and Iterative Measurement: Atheism, Forgery, Cannibalism and Deification" in our joint research seminar. For the Zoom link and the abstract, please see: www.oulu.fi/en/events/re....
Today in a week (18.12, 13/14h, Central European/Finnish time), Fons Dewulf will give the talk "Reading in Historiography and Iterative Measurement: Atheism, Forgery, Cannibalism and Deification" in our joint research seminar. For more info and the abstract, please see: www.oulu.fi/en/events/re....
Check out the newest issue of the Journal of the Philosophy of History! It contains articles by our very own @david-cernin.bsky.social and Eugen Zeleňák, among other great texts: brill.com/view/journal.... David wrote about the philosophy of Big History and Eugen on realism and constructivism.
New video on our Youtube channel! Watch the talk "Is This Real? Two Remarks on the Realism of the Past" that Ephraim Wallach gave in our joint research seminar here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=09mb....
Happy watching!
The next talk in our joint research seminar will be taking place on December 18. Fons Dewulf will be speaking about "Reading in Historiography and Iterative Measurement: Atheism, Forgery, Cannibalism and Deification". See here for more information, and save the date: www.oulu.fi/en/events/re....
A friendly reminder: Tomorrow (2.12, 16/17h, Central European/Finnish time), Ephraim Wallach will give the talk "Is This Real? Two Remarks on the Realism of the Past" in our joint research seminar PHO2. See here for information and the Zoom link: www.oulu.fi/en/events/re....
All welcome!
Today in a week (2.12, 16/17h, Central European/Finnish time), Ephraim Wallach will give the talk "Is This Real? Two Remarks on the Realism of the Past" in our joint research seminar PHO2. For more information and the Zoom link, please see here: www.oulu.fi/en/events/re....
All welcome!
The next talk in our joint research seminar will take place on December 2. Save the date, and more info below!
New video on our Youtube channel! Watch the talk "Existential Historicism: The Rise and Fall of a Sense-Making Framework" that @hhenriikka.bsky.social gave two weeks ago in our joint research seminar here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVZP....
Happy watching!
Recently, I reread Adorno’s “Spengler after the Demise”, published in English as “Spengler Today”, and Neurath’s “Anti-Spengler”. I intended to compare their critiques of Spengler, but in this post, I will only talk about Adorno’s critique. (I’ll focus on Neurath in a follow-up post.) (1/28)
New video on our Youtube channel! Watch the talk “Hermeneutical Philosophy of History: A Program for Research” that Robert Piercey gave last week with the Centre here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZsD...
Happy watching!
The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Philosophy of the Historical Sciences and Big History, edited by our very own Aviezer Tucker and David Černín, has been out for a month now. Here it is in the flesh, next to books of our recent visiting scholar. Get it (for your libraries)! More info: shorturl.at/BjNLi
New video on our Youtube channel! Watch the talk "Archaeology as Historical Science: Centering the Human in Pre-History" that @marilynnjohnson.bsky.social gave last week in our joint research seminar here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTzv....
Happy watching!
A friendly reminder: Tomorrow (30.10, 16h/17h, Central European/Finnish time), @hhenriikka.bsky.social will give the talk "Existential Historicism: The Rise and Fall of a Sense-Making Framework" in our joint research seminar. More info and the Zoom-link: www.oulu.fi/en/events/ex....
All welcome!
Please note that 14h Finnish time equals 13h Central European and 12pm British time.
A friendly reminder: Tomorrow (28.10, 14h, Finnish time), Robert Piercey will give the hybrid talk "Hermeneutical Philosophy of History: A Program for Research" (Tellus Brisk and Zoom). More info and the Zoom-link: www.oulu.fi/en/events/he....
All welcome!
Please note that 14h Finnish time equals 13h Central European and 12pm British time.
Next week Tuesday, we welcome Robert Piercey (University of Regina, Canada) to Oulu! He will give the hybrid talk "Hermeneutical Philosophy of History: A Program for Research" (Tellus Brisk and Zoom, 14h, Finnish time). More info and the Zoom-link: www.oulu.fi/en/events/he....
All welcome!
In a week, I’ll be referencing Dilthey, Ranke, Burckhardt, Heidegger, Troeltsch and Benjamin, all in one talk! From historical contemplation as existential consolation to history as a source of existential Angst. Do join!
A final, friendly reminder: Tomorrow (23.10, 16/17h, Central-European/Finnish time), @marilynnjohnson.bsky.social will give the talk "Archaeology as Historical Science: Centering the Human in Pre-History". The talk will be hybrid (Ostrava & Zoom). More info & Zoom-link: www.oulu.fi/en/events/ar...
That's right! There's one talk this Thursday (23.10) and one talk next Thursday (30.10, both 17h Finnish time) in our research seminar. Come and join us for both if you can!