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Kurset vil gi en bred og grundig innføring i den antikke romerske tenkningen med vekt på temaene vennskap, kunst, etisk utvikling og nytelse. Stoikere og epikureere vil være hovedfigurer, men vi vil også ta for oss andre tenkere og forfattere. Kurset finner sted i Roma 3.-12. april.
Deborah Cragun, Zachary M. Salvati, Jennifer L. Schneider, et al. use CNA to identify factors and causal chains associated with optimal implementation of Lynch syndrome tumor screening.
Michael Baumgartner and Christoph Falk published a paper entitled "Quantifying the quality of configurational causal models" in the Journal of Causal Inference. The paper introduces quantitative quality criteria for causal models output by CNA. Thereby, it broadens and sharpens the resources for CNA benchmarking.
Christoph Falk, Mathias Ambühl, and Michael Baumgartner released a new R package called causalHyperGraph on CRAN. It draws causal Hypergraphs from solution formulas of the CNA method.
Martyna Swiatczak and Michael Baumgartner investigate the conditions under which data imbalances are problematic for the performance of Coincidence Analysis (CNA).
Luna De Souter identifies shortcomings of the two main measures for evaluating CNA models, consistency and coverage, and introduces two new evaluation measures.
Alois Pichler har publisert boken “Style, Method and Philosophy in Wittgenstein”, i serien the Cambridge Wittgenstein Elements.
Tim Haesebrouck applied the frscore routine in an exemplary manner to examine the conditions under which populist radical right parties support military deployment decisions in national parliaments: Haesebrouck T. (2023), The populist radical right and military intervention: A coincidence analysis of military deployment votes, International Interactions, doi: 10.1080/03050629.2023.2184815
Laura J Damschroder et al. (2022) conducted a Coincidence Analysis of obesity treatment options within the Veterans Health Administration, which was selected "Editor's Choice" by Translational Behavioral Medicine.
The special issue of Nordicum-Mediterraneum, 17:5 (2023) contains articles based on lectures that were delivered at the conference "Rationality and Positive Political Roles for Emotions: Solidarity and Benevolence".
The data analysis method of Coincidence Analysis has been introduced to the field of medical informatics: Womack DM, Miech EJ, Fox NJ, Silvey LC, Somerville AM, Eldredge DH, Steege LM. (2022), Coincidence Analysis: A Novel Approach to Modeling Nurses' Workplace Experience, Applied Clinical Informatics, (4):794-802. doi: 10.1055/s-0042-1756368.
Martyna Swiatczak is visiting the University of Frankfurt for three months.
UiB har høye ambisjoner for humaniora. Nå kan fagmiljøer fra hele universitetet søke støtte til tiltak for å oppfylle ambisjonene i Humaniorastrategien.
– Det blir dere som skal fylle morgendagens biblioteker, kulturhus, avisspalter, tenketanker og universiteter med innhold, sier HF-alumn Oda Elisabeth Wiese Tvedt til årets masterkandidater.
Veli-Pekka Parkkinen argues that variable relativity is good, in a paper that recently appeared in Synthese: Parkkinen, VP. Variable relativity of causation is good. Synthese 200, 194 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03676-0
The CNA group has the pleasure to welcome Luna de Souter to the team.
Utvalget for examen philosophicum er i 2021 tildelt status som fremragende undervisningsmiljø ved Det humanistiske fakultet.
Den fjerde Aarebrotforelesningen går av stabelen 16. januar 2022 og skal holdes av filosofen Lars Fredrik Händler Svendsen. Tema for forelesningen er frihet.

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