Abstract
What are we to make of what is (so far) unobservable yet material, like parallel universes? Are natural numbers and set-theoretical objects invented, and therefore cultural artifacts, or are they discovered, and therefore already there, with all their properties, prior to human conceptions? Are there such things as “memes” that spread through some kind of “self-replication” within human cultures? Are there internal “instructions” and “programs” that direct organisms through their life cycles? To what extent is the world socially constructed rather than mind-independent? Can humans choose freely and act autonomously? Is there an inner structure of reality that the human intellect is able to grasp? In our project we will argue that this kind of questions are metaphysical and yet answerable if one develops the appropriate philosophical methods.
Fellows
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Beyer, Christian
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Friedman, Michael Lee
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Føllesdal, Dagfinn
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Haaparanta, Leila Tuulikki
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Hartimo, Mirja
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Kannisto, Toni Tapio
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Koistinen, Olli
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Linnebo, Øystein
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Parsons, Charles
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Smit, Houston
Previous events
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28 Jun 201614:00 - 16:00Senter for grunnforskning/Centre for Advanced Study (CAS), Drammensveien 78, Oslo. Turret room Senter for grunnforskning/Centre for Advanced Study (CAS), Drammensveien 78, Oslo. Turret room
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07 Jun - 08 Jun 2016(all day)Baroniet Rosendal Baroniet Rosendal
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24 May - 27 May 2016(all day)Kleivstua / The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Kleivstua / The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
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07 Apr 201612:00 - 13:00Turret room, CAS Turret room, CAS
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24 Nov 201512:00 - 13:00Turret rom, CAS Turret rom, CAS
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12 Nov - 13 Nov 2015(all day)DNVA DNVA
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13 Oct 201514:00 - 16:00DNVA DNVA
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26 Aug - 28 Aug 2015
News
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Alumni Spotlight: Camilla Serck-Hanssen
01.09.2018 -
Beyond the limits of science
17.06.2016 -
Two CAS group leaders in the final round for SFF
18.03.2016 -
5 year Toppforsk grant to members of CAS group Metaphysics
27.01.2016
Group leader
Publications
- Føllesdal, D. 2015. “Filosofien i Oslo”.
- Føllesdal, D. (ed.) 2015. “Preface: Logic and Philosophy in Poland.”
- Føllesdal, D. (ed.) 2015. Mathematical Evidence.
- Hartimo, M. 2016. “Husserl’s Scientific Context 1917-1938, a look into Husserl’s private library.”
- Hartimo, M. 2016. “Syntactic Reduction in Husserl’s Early Phenomenology of Arithmetic.”
- Kannisto, T. 2017. “Kant on the Necessity of Causal Relations.”
- Kjosavik, F., F. Beyer & C. Fricke. (ed.) 2018. Husserl’s Phenomenology of Intersubjectivity: Historical Interpretations and Contemporary Applications
- Koistinen, O. 2016. “Conceptual actions and objectivity in Kant.”
- Linnebo, Ø. 2016. “Identity and Two Conceptions of Ontology.”
- Linnebo, Ø. 2016. “Plurals and Modals.”
- Linnebo, Ø. 2017. Philosophy of Mathematics.
- Articles by Beyer, C. & M. Hartimo in Essays on Husserl’s Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics.