Very interesting talk in our joint research seminar. And happy holidays from us too. We'll continue to philosophize history in the new year!

Tomorrow (18.12, 13/14h, Central European/Finnish time), Fons Dewulf will give the talk "Reading in Historiography and Iterative Measurement: Atheism, Forgery, Cannibalism and Deification" in our joint research seminar. For the Zoom link and the abstract, please see: www.oulu.fi/en/events/re....

Today in a week (18.12, 13/14h, Central European/Finnish time), Fons Dewulf will give the talk "Reading in Historiography and Iterative Measurement: Atheism, Forgery, Cannibalism and Deification" in our joint research seminar. For more info and the abstract, please see: www.oulu.fi/en/events/re....

Check out the newest issue of the Journal of the Philosophy of History! It contains articles by our very own @david-cernin.bsky.social and Eugen Zeleňák, among other great texts: brill.com/view/journal.... David wrote about the philosophy of Big History and Eugen on realism and constructivism.

New video on our Youtube channel! Watch the talk "Is This Real? Two Remarks on the Realism of the Past" that Ephraim Wallach gave in our joint research seminar here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=09mb.... Happy watching!

The next talk in our joint research seminar will be taking place on December 18. Fons Dewulf will be speaking about "Reading in Historiography and Iterative Measurement: Atheism, Forgery, Cannibalism and Deification". See here for more information, and save the date: www.oulu.fi/en/events/re....

Our very own Aviezer Tucker and @ggangl.bsky.social will speak tomorrow on "Schlick's Political Philosophy" at the conference "The Legacy of the Vienna Circle a Century On" in Maribor, Slovenia. For more information and the abstract, please see here: philevents.org/event/show/1....

The next event in our joint research seminar will take place tomorrow already. Join us if you can on this timely topic in the philosophy of history!

Today in a week (2.12, 16/17h, Central European/Finnish time), Ephraim Wallach will give the talk "Is This Real? Two Remarks on the Realism of the Past" in our joint research seminar PHO2. For more information and the Zoom link, please see here: www.oulu.fi/en/events/re.... All welcome!

On December 2, Efraim Wallach (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) will give the talk "Is This Real? Two Remarks on the Realism of the Past" in our joint research seminar. There will be more information soon. All welcome and save the date!

Next Monday (24.11), the Centre's director Aviezer Tucker will give the talk "Historiographic Epistemology" at the conference "Apologie pour le métier d'historien: Quoi de neuf? or Historical experience and its epistemological sublimation" in Paris. More information: www.inalco.fr/en/events/ap....

Great talk and discussion. Big recommendation!

Recently, I reread Adorno’s “Spengler after the Demise”, published in English as “Spengler Today”, and Neurath’s “Anti-Spengler”. I intended to compare their critiques of Spengler, but in this post, I will only talk about Adorno’s critique. (I’ll focus on Neurath in a follow-up post.) (1/28)

Our very own Georg Gangl will give the lecture "Introduction to the Philosophy of the Historical Sciences" next week in Ostrava. More info below and all welcome!

New video on our Youtube channel! Watch the talk “Hermeneutical Philosophy of History: A Program for Research” that Robert Piercey gave last week with the Centre here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZsD... Happy watching!

The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Philosophy of the Historical Sciences and Big History, edited by our very own Aviezer Tucker and David Černín, has been out for a month now. Here it is in the flesh, next to books of our recent visiting scholar. Get it (for your libraries)! More info: shorturl.at/BjNLi

New video on our Youtube channel! Watch the talk "Archaeology as Historical Science: Centering the Human in Pre-History" that @marilynnjohnson.bsky.social gave last week in our joint research seminar here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTzv.... Happy watching!

A friendly reminder: Tomorrow (30.10, 16h/17h, Central European/Finnish time), @hhenriikka.bsky.social will give the talk "Existential Historicism: The Rise and Fall of a Sense-Making Framework" in our joint research seminar. More info and the Zoom-link: www.oulu.fi/en/events/ex.... All welcome!

A friendly reminder: Tomorrow (28.10, 14h, Finnish time), Robert Piercey will give the hybrid talk "Hermeneutical Philosophy of History: A Program for Research" (Tellus Brisk and Zoom). More info and the Zoom-link: www.oulu.fi/en/events/he.... All welcome!

This week, we welcomed @marilynnjohnson.bsky.social as a visitor. Next to the talk she gave, which will be uploaded to our Youtube Channel soon, the week was filled with discussions on the philosophy of archaeology, historical reenactment, and Taylor Swift, among other things. Good days!

In a week, I’ll be referencing Dilthey, Ranke, Burckhardt, Heidegger, Troeltsch and Benjamin, all in one talk! From historical contemplation as existential consolation to history as a source of existential Angst. Do join!

A final, friendly reminder: Tomorrow (23.10, 16/17h, Central-European/Finnish time), @marilynnjohnson.bsky.social will give the talk "Archaeology as Historical Science: Centering the Human in Pre-History". The talk will be hybrid (Ostrava & Zoom). More info & Zoom-link: www.oulu.fi/en/events/ar...

After Marilynn Johnson's talk this Thursday, our research seminar will already continue next week (30.10) with @hhenriikka.bsky.social's online talk "Existential Historicism: The Rise and Fall of a Sense-Making Framework". More info and the Zoom link: www.oulu.fi/en/events/ex.... All welcome!

That's right! Join us today in week (23.10, 16h, Central European time) either in Ostrava or on Zoom for @marilynnjohnson.bsky.social's talk "Archaeology as Historical Science: Centering the Human in Pre-History". More info below!

Last week, we had Leonidas Tsilipakos (University of Bristol) with us as visiting scholar. Leonidas gave a talk and we discussed a manuscript of his in our internal seminar, next to all kinds of social events. Our webpage is currently under reconstruction, but contact us if you also want to visit!

Today in two weeks, the autumn edition of our joint research seminar PHO2 will begin with @marilynnjohnson.bsky.social's talk "Archaeology as Historical Science: Centering the Human in Pre-History". The talk will be hybrid (in Ostrava & on Zoom). More info: www.oulu.fi/en/events/ar.... All welcome!

Yesterday, visiting scholar Leonidas Tsilipakos (University of Bristol, UK) gave the talk "Max Weber: philosopher of historiography" with the Centre. It was a great talk with a very interesting discussion. One thing is sure, Weber deserves more attention in the philosophy of history.

A friendly reminder: Tomorrow (7.10, 10h), visiting scholar Leonidas Tsilipakos (University of Bristol, UK) will give the talk "Max Weber: philosopher of historiography" with the Centre. More information below. All welcome!

This summer, I travelled to two places that brought the question of the meaning of history to the fore: Oradour-sur-Glane and Guernica. Both towns were the place of war crimes, and at least Guernica is etched into modern consciousness thanks to Picasso’s painting on the topic. In Oradour...(1/12)

Yesterday, we had the book launch event for The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Philosophy of the Historical Sciences and Big History, edited by our very own Aviezer Tucker and @david-cernin.bsky.social. Check the handbook out here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/bloomsbur.... And get it for your libraries!

Next week, we'll welcome Leonidas Tsilipakos (University of Bristol, UK) as a visiting scholar! During his stay, Leonidas will give the talk "Max Weber: philosopher of historiography" (7.10, 10h). For more information, please see below. All welcome!

Today in a week (30.09), there will be the book lauch event for the Bloomsbury Handbook of the Philosophy of the Historical Sciences and Big History, edited by our very own Aviezer Tucker and @david-cernin.bsky.social. The event will be hybrid (in person and on Zoom). All welcome and more info below

Today in a week (24.09), our very own Aviezer Tucker and @ggangl.bsky.social will be speaking at the workshop Adverse Allies: Logical Empiricism and Austrian Economics in Linz, Austria, on "Schlick's Political Philosophy". More on their talk and the whole workshop here: www.jku.at/institut-fue....

We proudly present the autumn edition of PHO2, the research seminar on the philosophy of history that we run together with @cpshoulu.bsky.social. From October to January, we will have 5 talks. More information below and then also closer to the individual dates. All welcome and save the dates!

Come and join us for the book launch event for The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Philosophy of the Historical Sciences Big History, edited by our very own Aviezer Tucker and @david-cernin.bsky.social! We'll celebrate the publication on September 30, in Ostrava and over Zoom. More info below!

Last week was a busy week for the Centre on the international stage! The Centre’s director gave a keynote at a conference in Chile and our very own @ggangl.bsky.social, @david-cernin.bsky.social, Adam Timmins, and Eugen Zeleňák spoke at EPSA25 in the Netherlands.

Next to our panel on the philosophy of the historical sciences, there will also be a special interest lunch on the topic at EPSA25, taking place on Friday, August 29, at 13.15h. If you're interested in the topic, come and lunch with us!

I am really saddened by the sudden passing of Wulf Kansteiner: www.memorystudiesassociation.org/wulf-kanstei.... Wulf was not only a world-leading memory scholar, he was also one of the foremost postnarrativist philosophers of history, and above all, a really kind and generous person. R.I.P.

We are back from our summer break! Next week our very own Adam Timmins, @david-cernin.bsky.social, and @ggangl.bsky.social will be speaking at EPSA25 in Groningen on a panel on the "Philosophy of the Historical Sciences". For more info, see here: philsci.eu/EPSA25/Progr.... All welcome!

Narrative Competence, History & Responsibility - call for papers @histedresearch.bsky.social: deadline for submitting abstracts 31st of August. journals.uclpress.co.uk/media/journa... #historyeducation

The Centre will go on its summer break now! We will be back in August with more info about our autumn seminar. For the summer, we'll leave you with a timely if not quite historical classic, Tears for Fears’ “Everybody Wants to Rule the World" in Classical Latin: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtt7....

Marnie Binder Marnie Binder On a Pragmatist Philosophy of History, Online Seminar, Thursday 26 Jun 17:30-19:00 UK www.history.ac.uk/events/a-pra... #philosophyofhistory #historicaltheory @ggangl.bsky.social @jmkuukkanen.bsky.social @centrephilohistory.bsky.social @ihrphilosophyhist.bsky.social

We had a great workshop yesterday on "Historical Contingency" with Gregory Radick and Robert Northcott.Now our seminar will go on summer break. But stay tuned, we'll be back in autumn, by necessity, with more events on contingency and else!

A final, friendly reminder: Tomorrow (17.06), we'll hold the hybrid workshop "Historical Contingency" with Gregory Radick (University of Leeds) and Robert Northcott (Birkbeck College) as last event in our joint spring seminar. More information below, and all welcome!

New paper alert! Our very own @david-cernin.bsky.social just published the paper"Hypothesis Testing and Knowledge of the Human Past" in "Organon F. International Journal of Analytical Philosopy", and it's open-access. Get it here: www.organonf.com/journal/orgf....

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!

Today in two weeks (17.06), we'll hold the workshop "Historical Contingency" with Gregory Radick and Robert Northcott as speakers. The event will be hybrid, taking place in person in Ostrava and on Zoom. For more information, see below or here: philevents.org/event/show/1.... All welcome!

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 Dewey’s...(1/23)

New video on our Youtube channel! Watch the talk "Koselleck and the Concept of History" that @arthuralfaixassis.bsky.social gave in our research seminar PHO2 here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNPY.... Happy watching!

With August 21, there is now a publication date for the The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Philosophy of the Historical Sciences and Big History, edited by our very own Aviezer Tucker and @david-cernin.bsky.social. For more information and pre-orders, check here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/bloomsbur....