Ask the philosopher: Philosophy business

My commercial website "Spør Filosofen" [Ask the philosopher] is back online, now based on a Wordpress template. In Norwegian.

UiS workshop on agency in health care scheduled for April 15th

The last few months I have been in contact with Stephen Cowley (University of Hertfordshire), Paul Thibault (University of Agder) and more recently Febe Friberg (University of Stavanger) and Sissel Husebø (UiS) concerning a workshop which is to be held at University of Stavanger's Department of Health Studies. The workshop, which is titled "Agency in Health Care: Phenomenology and Experience", has now been scheduled for April 15th. 

All four mentioned above will present, with the visiting professors Stephen Cowley and Paul Thibault given most time. I am more of a coordinator. Stephen (who is the coordinator of the Distributed Language Group) will further give a public lecture at the department on April 16th. My head of department Kari Vevatne has helped making these events possible by offering the necessary funding. The workshop will be part of the department's doctoral seminar, for which Febe is one of the coordinators.

Abstracts and other details will follow shortly.

Nov. 12: Arne Næss symposium with Lawrence Buell, George Monbiot and others

The webpage of arnei100.no, dedicated to celebration of the 100-year anniversary of the birth of Norwegian deep ecologist philosopher Arne Næss (1912-2009), has been updated with an announcement concerning this year's Arne Næss symposium. The event «Thinking Dutifully, Acting Beautifully» – Our Responsibility for a Sustainable Future, which takes place November 12th in Oslo, includes a lecture by Harvard scholar Lawrence Buell and key-note speeches by Jostein Gaarder, Eva Joly and George Monbiot.

Business

My one man-company Spør Filosofen Tønnessen has now launched a new site, SpørFilosofen.no, where offers of lectures, readings, Q&A sessions etc. are described (in Norwegian).

Yesterday I was in a meeting with the event bureau Kjentfolk in Oslo, and agreed to start working with them.