A final, friendly reminder: Tomorrow (17.04, 16/17h, Central European/Finnish time), Jamee Elder will give the talk "Astronomy, Cosmology, and the Distant Past" in our joint research seminar PHO2. For the abstract and Zoom link, please see: oulu.fi/en/events/astr… All welcome!

New video on our Youtube channel! Watch the talk "Astronomy, Cosmology, and the Distant Past" that Jamee Elder recently gave in our joint research seminar PHO2 here: youtube.com/watch?v=FqddXC…. Happy watching!

The work of Leon J. Goldstein is currently not much in vogue in the philosophy of history. While he and his (rather unorthodox) antirealism are sometimes mentioned in the ongoing discussion on realism, his distinct (metaphilosophical) approach to the philosophy of...(1/26)

On June 17, we will organize the workshop "Historical Contingency" with Gregory Radick (University of Leeds) and Robert Northcott (Birkbeck College). The event will be hybrid (in-person and Zoom). For more information, please see here: philevents.org/event/show/136…. All welcome!

A friendly reminder: Our joint research seminar continues today in a week (May 29, 16/17h, Central European/Finnish time) with Arthur Alfaix Assis giving the talk "Koselleck and the Concept of History". More info and the Zoom link oulu.fi/en/events/kose…. All welcome!

Check out my new review of Ian Hesketh's A History of Big History: link.springer.com/article/10.100…. In short, Hesketh does a good job of discerning a doubtful speculative philosophy of history and science in Big History, but the judgment about it as a research programme is still out.

In our dark and demented times, questions about the relationship of historiography and politics come to the fore again. The renowned historian Joan W. Scott recently contributed to this discussion, with her text "A Guesser in the Vale of Tears": onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/,...(1/26)

A final, friendly reminder: Tomorrow (29.05, 16/17h, Central European/ Finnish time), Arthur Alfaix Assis will give the talk "Koselleck and the Concept of History" in our joint research seminar PHO2. See here for the abstract and Zoom link: oulu.fi/en/events/kose…. All welcome!

New video on our Youtube channel! Watch the talk "Koselleck and the Concept of History" that Arthur Alfaix Assis gave in our research seminar PHO2 here: youtube.com/watch?v=JNPYE7…. Happy watching!

In the received view, Anglophone philosophy of history begins with Hempel’s famous paper from 1942. However, already 4 years before that, in 1938, a book came out that had substantial things to say about history and historiography, and that from a non-Hempelian standpoint: John..

Today in two weeks (17.06), there will be the workshop "Historical Contingency" with Gregory Radick and Robert Northcott as conclusion to our spring seminar. The event will be hybrid, taking place in person in Ostrava and on Zoom. For more information, see below. All welcome!

A friendly reminder: Today in a week (17.06), we'll hold the hybrid workshop "Historical Contingency" as last event in our joint spring seminar. More information below, and all welcome!