Very interesting talk in our joint research seminar—recommendation! And our seminar will continue on May 7, with Vasso Kindi speaking about "Is Historiography a Science?".
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Tomorrow (16.04, 16h/17h, Central European/Finnish time), Michael Woundy will give the talk "Truthmakers for Historiographic Counterfactuals" in our joint research seminar PHO2. For the abstract and Zoom link, please see here: www.oulu.fi/en/events/tr...
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A final, friendly reminder: Coming Monday (13.04, 14h), Florian Ruttner (Collegium Carolinum Prague) will give the talk "Between Early Critical Theory, Unified Science and Sociology of Knowledge. Josef Doppler’s Critique of Oswald Spengler" in Ostrava. More info below, and all welcome!
Next week will be busy! On Monday, we'll have the in-person talk "Between Early Critical Theory, Unified Science and Sociology of Knowledge. Josef Doppler’s Critique of Oswald Spengler", and on Thursday, there will be the online talk "Truthmakers for Historiographic Counterfactuals".
A friendly reminder: Next Monday (13.04, 14h), Florian Ruttner (Collegium Carolinum Prague) will give the talk "Between Early Critical Theory, Unified Science and Sociology of Knowledge. Josef Doppler’s Critique of Oswald Spengler" in Ostrava. More info below, and all welcome!
Very much looking forward to the next session in our research seminar! Counterfactuals are a central and fascinating topic in the philosophy of historiography.
Very much looking forward to this event! The critique of destructive histomyths is as timely as ever. Plus, I am going to learn loads about interwar Central European intellectual history. If you can, come and join us in Ostrava!
We had a very interesting talk and discussion yesterday. You can watch it back below.
The spring edition of our joint research seminar kicks off tomorrow with Manuela Ungureanu speaking about the "The Historiography of the Former Soviet Bloc". For more info and the Zoom link, please see below.
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Our joint research seminar continues today in a week,. Please note that the talk will take place at 16 Central European and 17h Finnish time.
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That's right! Check out our revamped webpage and contact us if you're interested in coming to Ostrava to do some philosophy of history.
We'll kick of our spring seminar with a very interesting and timely topic. Save the date, and more info soon!
Great event with great people!
Very much looking forward to our spring seminar! Great topical breadth again. Come and join us to discuss some philosophy of history!
I am very much looking forward to next week's conference in Ružomberok! I will be arguing that the different positions in the philosophy of history should turn themselves into competing (Lakatosian) research programmes to make headway on the central questions of the field.
That's right! Always a pleasure to teach the philosophy of the historical sceinces.
A very good week indeed. And get in touch if you also want to come and visit us in Ostrava!
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....
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This is going to be a very interesting talk! Herman Paul is one of the leading theorists of history and the topic is very timely. Come and join us tomorrow!
Indeed, we have a busy week ahead of us. Looking forward!
Today in a week (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....
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Come and join us today in a week in Ostrava on an unfortunately very timely topic ,with the renewed rise of populism and populist neofascism.
Very much looking forward to this talk. Historiographic truth is currently a hot topic and Herman Paul is a leading figure in the philosophy of history. Come and join us today in two weeks (29.01), if you have time!
Very happy to be involved in this. The other keynote, next to Aviezer Tucker, is Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen.
Very interesting talk and cool overall project and a great listen for the holidays, imho. Happy holidays!
Tomorrow! Join us if you can.
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.
Check out the cfp for EENPS 6, the 6th biannual conference of the East European Network for Philosophy of Science, which will take place in September 26 in Bucharest, Romania: eenps2026.sciencesconf.org. And spread the word! (I am on the programme committee.)
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!