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 the TINT research assistant mirja-leena.zgurskaya@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, unless mentioned otherwise.
Spring 2026
- Thu 15.01.2026 Philippe Huneman (Panthéon-Sorbonne University): Exceptionally on Thursday!
“The concept of organism in the emergence of biology and its relationship to Kantian philosophy”
- 23.02.2026 Robert Northcott (Birbeck, University of London): “Cherry-picking: in history and beyond”
- 02.03.2026 Inkeri Koskinen & Santtu Kauppila (TINT / Helsinki): “Towards a satisfactory social epistemology of AI-based science”
- 16.03.2026 Catarina Dutilh Novaes (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam): “Reason and power in argumentation: the case of conspiracy theories”
- 20.04.2026 Faik Kurtilmuş (Sabancı University): TBA!
- 04.05.2026 Kerry McKenzie (University of California San Diego): TBA!
- 18.05.2026 Magdalena Małecka (University of Copenhagen): TBA!
Autumn 2025
- Fri 10.10.2025 Katherine Furman (University of Liverpool): Note: exceptionally on Friday!
“”Doing your own research” and the Curious Case of Thabo Mbeki: Making implicit cases in philosophical reasoning explicit”
- 13.10.2025 Jan Sprenger (University of Turin):“The Productive Model of Explanation in Psychology and Beyond“
- 27.10.2025 Abigail Nieves Delgado (Utrecht University):
“Beyond Race: Rethinking Population Descriptors in Microbiome Research“
- 3.11.2025 Anna Mudde (Campion College, University of Regina):
“’Neglected Things:’ Rethinking Intellectual Work”
- Thu 27.11.2025 Jan-Willem Romeijn (University of Groningen): Exceptionally on Thursday!
“Overfitting in statistics and machine learning”
- 8.12.2025 Gilles Campagnolo (Panthéon-Sorbonne University):
“Need, Time, and Ignorance: Carl Menger and His Successors”
- 8.12.2025 Gilles Campagnolo (Panthéon-Sorbonne University):
“Need, Time, and Ignorance: Carl Menger and His Successors”
- 15.12.2025 Siska de Baerdemaeker (Stockholm University).
“The pursuitworthiness of Big Science experiments”
Spring 2025
- 13.1.2025 Jaakko Kuorikoski (TINT / Helsinki):
“Structure without foundations? – DSGE, microfoundations, and causality“
- 10.2.2025 Karoliina Pulkkinen (TINT / Helsinki):
“Legitimacy through outputs: how science and technology can contribute to nondemocratic legitimization”
- 10.3.2025 Inkeri Koskinen (TINT / Helsinki):
“Peer Review in Artistic Research: a Case Study“
- 7.4.2025 Jennifer Jhun (Duke):
“Revisiting the question of reduction in economics”
- 5.5.2025 Pekka Syrjänen (Helsinki) and Mark Rubin (Durham):
“Methodological Pluralism and The Replication Crisis“
- 2.6.2025 Diane Coyle (Cambridge). Joint ReSES/TINT session:
“The Measure of Progress“ - 5.6.2025 Lorenzo Casini (Bologna). Joint session with the Philosophy Colloquium:
“Realization Independence and the Epiphenomenalist Revenge“
Autumn 2024
- 9.9.2024 TINT Workshop:
Agency, Preferences, and Welfare
- 23.9.2024 Vincent Lam (Bern):
Anthropocene, planetary boundaries and tipping points: interdisciplinarity and values in Earth system science
- 7.10.2024: Benjamin Santos Genta (Irvine):
The Easy and Hard Problem of Similarity
- 5.11.2024 Ahmad Elabbar (Cambridge):
Trusting scientific advisors as epistemic curators: from error to attention
- 2.12.2024 Guido Caniglia (Helsinki):
Impure evidence for sustainability transformations
- 16.12.2024 TINT Winter fest
For past seminars, please see here.