TINT - Centre for Philosophy of Social Science

12/05/2026

Welcome to our next week's Perspectives on Science Seminar on Monday, May 18, Magdalena Małecka (University of Copenhagen) will give a talk titled “Theories of decision-making in economics from the perspective of integrated history and philosophy of science in practice”. All welcome! More here:

Dear All, In our next week’s Perspectives on Science Seminar, Magdalena Małecka (University of Copenhagen) will give a talk titled “Theories of decision-making in economics from the perspective of integrated history and philosophy of science in practice”. The seminar will take place in M...

28/04/2026

In our next week's Perspectives on Science Seminar on Monday, May 4, Kerry McKenzie (University of California San Diego) will give a talk titled “Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: From Arguments to Aesthetics”. All welcome! More here:

Dear All, In our next week’s Perspectives on Science Seminar, Kerry McKenzie (University of California, San Diego) will give a talk titled “Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: From Arguments to Aesthetics”. The seminar will take place online on Zoom and in Metsätalo room 10 fr...

13/04/2026

In our next week's Perspectives on Science Seminar on Monday, April 20, Faik Kurtulmus (Sabancı University) will give a talk titled "Justice in the Distribution of Knowledge". All are welcome! Abstract of the talk, and more here:

Dear All, In our next week’s Perspectives on Science Seminar, Faik Kurtulmus (Sabancı University) will give a talk titled “Justice in the Distribution of Knowledge” on his joint work with Gürol Irzik. The seminar will take place online on Zoom and in Metsätalo room 10 from 14:15 to 15:45 on...

23/03/2026

Welcome to our next week's Perspectives on Science Seminar on Monday, March 30, where Panu Raatikainen (University of Tampere) will give a talk titled “Consciousness, Materialism, and Explanation”. All welcome! Abstract of the talk, and more here:

Dear All, In our next week’s Perspectives on Science Seminar, Panu Raatikainen (University of Tampere) will give a talk titled “Consciousness, Materialism, and Explanation”. The seminar will take place in Metsätalo room 10, and online on Zoom from 14:15 to 15:45 on Monday, March 30, 2026. Per...

13/03/2026

“Reason and Power in Argumentation: The Case of Conspiracy Theories” by Catarina Dutilh Novaes (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), an in-person only seminar on Monday, March 16, in Helsinki. The event is organized together with the Helsinki Philosophy Colloquium. All welcome! More information here: https://tint-helsinki.fi/2026/03/09/16-3-perspectives-on-science-helsinki-philosophy-colloquium-seminar-with-catarina-dutilh-novaes/

24/02/2026

In our next week's Perspectives on Science Seminar on Monday, March 2, Inkeri Koskinen & Santtu Kauppila (TINT / Helsinki) will give a talk titled “Towards a Satisfactory Social Epistemology of AI-based Science: Forward-looking trust in collective pursuit”. Abstract, and more here:

In our next week’s Perspectives on Science Seminar, Inkeri Koskinen and Santtu Kauppila (TINT / Helsinki) will give a talk titled “Towards a Satisfactory Social Epistemology of AI-based Science: Forward-looking trust in collective pursuit”. The seminar will take place in Metsätalo room 10, an...

18/02/2026

Welcome to our next week's Perspectives on Science Seminar on Monday, February 23rd, where Robert Northcott (Birkbeck, University of London) will give a talk titled “Cherry-picking – in history and beyond”. Abstract of the talk, and more here:

In our next Perspectives on Science Seminar, Robert Northcott (Birbeck, University of London) will give a talk titled “Cherry-picking – in history and beyond”. The seminar will take place online on Zoom, and in Metsätalo room 10 from 14:15 to 15:45 on Monday, February 23, 2026. The speaker wi...

03/02/2026

Our Perspectives on Science Seminar schedule for Spring 2026 is here. All are warmly welcome!

11/12/2025

For our last event of the year 2025, next week's Perspectives on Science Seminar on Monday, December 15th, where Siska De Baerdemaeker (Stockholm University) will give a talk titled “The pursuitworthiness of Big Science experiments”. More here:

In the next Perspectives on Science Seminar, Siska De Baerdemaeker (Stockholm University) will give a talk titled “The pursuitworthiness of Big Science experiments”. The seminar takes place in Metsätalo (room 10), andonlinevia Zoom from 14:15 to 15:45 on Monday the 15th of December 2025. Please...

01/12/2025

In the next week's Perspectives on Science Seminar on Monday, December 8th, Gilles Campagnolo (Panthéon-Sorbonne University) will give a talk titled “Need, Time, and Ignorance: Carl Menger and His Successors”. More here:

In the next Perspectives on Science Seminar, Gilles Campagnolo (Panthéon-Sorbonne University) will give a talk titled “Need, Time, and Ignorance: Carl Menger and His Successors”.  The seminar takes place in Metsätalo (room 10), and online via Zoom from 14:15 to 15:45 on Monday....