News

Books about research practice, coworking and social philosophy of science were acquired out of the project's budget. They can be borrowed from the Library of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka. The list of books acquired can be found here.

We are inviting you to attend the press conference which will be held on Thursday, September 29th 2016 starting at 10.00 AM at the premises of the Infocentre of the city of Rijeka RI INFO at Korzo. To find out more about the press conference, click here.

We are inviting you to attend the lecture about the influence of cooperation on young researchers' work, which will be held at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka, on Monday, September 26th 2016 in lecture hall 412, starting at 10.00 AM. To find out more about the lecture, click here.

We are inviting you to attend the lecture about international graduate student exchange within the Erasmus Programme, which will be held at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka, on Tuesday, September 20th 2016 in lecture hall 106, starting at 11.00 AM. To find out more about the lecture, click here.

Project team member Dijana Magđinski will participate in the 2016 Summer Institute: Reconceiving and Explaining the Success of Science, which will be held on 1-12th August, 2016 in Basel, Switzerland. [link]

Project team members will present their papers at the conference Contemporary Philosophical Issues: Society, Agency and Knowledge, which will be held on 24-25th May, 2016 in Rijeka, Croatia. Smilja Cukrov and Daria Jadreškić will present their paper "On the difference of Reichenbach's contexts", Zdenka Brzović will present her paper "Natural kinds: toning down the realist hype", and Dijana Magđinski will present her paper "Cooperation, communication and groups". [programme]

Project team members Martina Blečić, Smilja Cukrov, Daria Jadreškić and Dijana Magđinski are going to a 1-month study visit to the Institute of Philosophy, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany on April 10th, 2016. [link]

Project team member Dijana Magđinski will participate in the Third MCMP Summer School on Mathematical Philosophy for Female Students, where she will present her paper "Climate change as a game with 7.4 billion players". The summer school will be held on 24-30th July, 2016 in Munich, Germany. [link] [programme]

Project team member Smilja Cukrov will participate in the summer school Science, Democracy, and Values?, which will be held on 4-15th July, 2016 in Vienna, Austria. [link] [syllabus]

We are inviting you to our project presentation and conference Mladi istraživači – perspektive i izazovi, which will be held at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka, on Monday, March 21st, 2016 in lecture hall 006, starting at 9.00 AM. To find out more about the conference, click here. [programme, in Croatian]

The paper "The place for conversational implicatures in doctor-patient interaction" by project team member Martina Blečić has been accepted for the conference Communication, Medicine and Ethics, which will be held on 4-6th July, 2016 at the Aalborg University, Denmark. [link] [programme]

Project team member Daria Jadreškić will present her paper "Some social aspects of the discovery, synthesis and production of cortisone in the 1930s-1950s" at the conference MuST 9: Evidence, Inference, and Risk, which will be held on March 31st-April 2nd, 2016 in Munich, Germany. [link] [programme]

The paper "Natural and Social Kinds: Overlaps and Distinctions" by project team members Zdenka Brzović and Predrag Šustar has been accepted for the conference Philosophy of Science Between the Natural Sciences, the Social Sciences, and the Humanities, which will be held on 8-11th March, 2016 in Düsseldorf, Germany. [link] [programme]

Project team members Predrag Šustar and Smilja Cukrov are going to a 10-day study visit to Univeristies in Utrecth and Amsterdam (Utrecht Science Park and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) on November 10th, 2015. They will also attend the ASTP-Proton conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands. [conference programme]

Project team member Dijana Magđinski will present her paper "Who's afraid of uncertainty? Climate change as a collective-risk social dilemma" at the conference Climate justice: perspectives from the natural and social sciences, which will be held on November 13th, 2015 in Zagreb, Croatia. [programme]