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SPiN's research activities take the form of numerous projects, including doctoral and postdoctoral projects, on philosophical or transdisciplinary aspects, research seminars and scientific publications.

SPiN seminars generally take place on Fridays from 11am to 1pm at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. For more information, please contact the coordinators of the seminar you wish to attend.

Promoters (PIs) Thibaut DE MEYER Lecturer, Faculty of Philosophy and LettersFields of interest: Philosophy of ethology; History and philosophy of human and animal sciences; Perspectivism.Thibaut De Meyer in the UNamur directory Team: Dario Galvao Juliette FERRY-DANINI Lecturer, Faculty of InformaticsFields of interest: Philosophy and history of medicine, philosophy of biomedical sciences, bioethics and digital ethicsJuliette Ferry-Danini in the UNamur directoryJuliette Ferry-Danini online Gaëlle PONTAROTTI Lecturer, Faculty of Science, Department of Science, Philosophy and Society.Fields of interest: philosophy of science, philosophy of life and biomedical sciences, philosophy of the environment.Gaëlle Pontarotti in the UNamur directoryGaëlle Pontarotti online Image Olivier SARTENAER Professor of philosophy of science, Faculty of Science, Department of Science, Philosophy and Society.Founder and director of SPiN.Areas of interest: general philosophy of science, epistemology.Fellow NARC 2023-2026Olivier Sartenaer in the UNamur directoryOlivier Sartenaer in PhilPeopleContact: olivier.sartenaer@unamur.be Olivier Sartenaer's team From left to right: Doan Vu Duc, Maxime Hilbert, Charly Mobers, Olivier Sartenaer, Louis Halflants, Andrea Roselli, Gauvain Leconte-Chevillard, Eve-Aline Dubois. Researchers Eve-Aline DUBOIS Doctor of Mathematical Sciences and PhD Assistant - Philosophy of Science, Faculty of Science, Department of Science, Philosophy and SocietyFields of interest: History of Astronomy - Philosophy of Infinity - CosmologyEve-Aline Dubois in the UNamur directory Jérémy Grosman Jérémy Grosman in the UNamur directoryMore info coming soon Geneviève Guillaume Doctor of medicine, clinician (vascular surgeon) and PhD student in philosophy, at the cBUN CenterFields of interest: Clinical ethics, practical philosophy, medical decisionGeneviève Guillaume in the UNamur directory Louis HALFLANTS Assistant at the Faculty of Science, Department of Science, Philosophy and SocietyAreas of interest: general epistemology of science, philosophy of physics, history of science.Louis Halflants in the UNamur directoryLouis Halflants in PhilPeople Maxime HILBERT Doctor at the Faculty of Science, Department of Science, Philosophy and SocietyAreas of interest: Philosophy of Science, History of the Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics, EpistemologyMaxime Hilbert in the UNamur directoryMaxime Hilbert in PhilPeople Nathanaël Laurent Nathanaël Laurent in the UNamur directoryMore info coming soon Gauvain LECONTE-CHEVILLARD Postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Science, Department of Science, Philosophy and Society for the MIS project (FNRS) "Reconfiguring non-reductionist physicalism for the 21st century"Areas of interest: General philosophy of science, history and philosophy of physics, astronomy and cosmologyGauvain Leconte-Chevillard in the UNamur directory Charly MOBERS Doctor at the Faculty of Science, Department of Science, Philosophy and SocietiesFields of interest: General philosophy of science, philosophy of astronomy and cosmologyCharly Mobers in the UNamur directory Andrea ROSELLI Postdoctoral researcher at the SPiN research centerFields of interest: metaphysics, philosophy of science, philosophy of timeAndrea Roselli in the UNamur directory:Andrea Roselli in PhilPeople Doan VU DUC Doctoral fellow at the Faculty of Science, Department of Science, Philosophy and SocietyAreas of interest: philosophy of science, epistemology, naturalized epistemology, science-pseudoscience demarcation.Doan Vu Duc in the UNamur directory:Doan Vu Duc in PhilPeople About SPiN SVG .cls-1 { fill: #323232; stroke-width: 0px; } Search See content SVG .cls-1 { fill: #323232; stroke-width: 0px; } Seminars See content SVG .cls-1 { fill: #323232; stroke-width: 0px; } Press See content SVG .cls-1 { fill: #323232; stroke-width: 0px; } Contact See content

SPiN (Science & Philosophy in Namur) is a research center bringing together philosophers and scientists who question science in all its diversity, crossing epistemological, metaphysical, political and ethical approaches.Pluridisciplinary and open to major contemporary issues, SPiN explores the philosophical challenges of the various disciplines of the natural, social, human and formal sciences.Its work, both academic and engaged, aims to better understand what the sciences are, how they work, how to distinguish them from what they are not, or what roles they play in our society.

The notion of "academic freedom" is often evoked in public debates, but is it really known in its singularity? Where does it come from? What is its history? What decisive role does it play in our democracies and the defense of the university's role as a counter-power? To what extent is it threatened today, particularly by the reforms announced?This morning of reflection, open to all, will explore these questions from a variety of perspectives. Historians, philosophers and jurists will shed light on the subject. Institutional leaders will share their concrete experience and their analysis of the threats that reforms could pose to this essential principle.An organization of the Philosophy Department, the History Department, the ESPHIN Institute in collaboration with the Centre d'Action Laïque Namur.The speakers- Anne-Emmanuelle Bourgaux, Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Mons- Nicolas Offenstadt, Professor of History at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne- Quentin Landenne, Qualified Researcher at the FRS-FNRS at the UCLouvain Saint-Louis Brussels, scientific leader of the ERC BildungLearning project- Susanna Zellini, Research Fellow at the FRS-FNRS at UCLouvain Saint-Louis Brussels- Annick Castiaux, Rector of UNamur- Edouard Delruelle, Professor of political philosophy at ULiège; Chargé de mission by the Rectrice of ULiège on "ULiège facing global conflicts".PracticalitiesThéâtre Jardin Passion 39, rue Marie Henriette - 5000 Namur.Free admission - Welcome from 9amAn organization of the Departments of Philosophy and History of the University of Namur and the ESPHIN Institute in collaboration with the Centre d'Action Laïque Namur with the support of the ERC BildungLearning project. I want to register The ERC BildungLearning project is funded by the European Union (n° 101043433). The views and opinions expressed, however, are those of the authors alone and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

Research seminar co-organized by Louis Carré and Sabina Tortorella as part of the activities of the Esphin Institute, the Department of Philosophy, and the Arcadie Center as well as the Marie Skłodowska-Curie SOCIAL project This seminar sets out to explore contemporary uses of Hegel's practical thought as well as to question its relevance and legacy. Themes central to recent philosophical debates, such as globalization, race, feminism and the Anthropocene, as well as contemporary challenges facing philosophical reflection - such as social justice and ecological transition, state sovereignty in the face of international markets and the emergence of supranational subjects, or the crisis of democracy in the face of the rise of populism and the return of war - may call for a mobilization of Hegelian thought. The aim of this seminar is not necessarily to propose a strictly historical-philosophical reading of Hegelian thought, but rather to seek to take Hegel beyond Hegel himself, by engaging in a reflection on problematics that find their first formulation in him, but that have developed far beyond his conceptual framework, or by questioning his concepts from perspectives that do not necessarily lay claim to Hegelianism. The aim of this approach is to bring Hegel's thought into dialogue with other philosophical traditions and currents of political philosophy, in order to question its ability to shed light on some of the major issues of our time. By questioning its topicality and limitations, this seminar aims to examine what practical Hegelian philosophy can still offer us today, and how it enables us to question our own problems from a renewed angle. While it is unlikely to provide ready-made solutions, it can perhaps help us to ask the right questions and think differently about the tensions of our time.Chiara Magni (Università degli Studi Roma Tre) will speak on the theme: "What rights for the accused and the convicted? Criminal prosecution and human dignity in the light of Hegel's practical philosophy"Link to attend the online seminar Contact: sabina.tortorella@unamur.beThis project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 101150961.

At the end of January 2023, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) returned a real treasure to Belgium: a medieval charter bearing the seal of the Count of Flanders Philippe d'Alsace, formerly kept in the abbey of Messines (West Flanders), which had disappeared at the beginning of the First World War. A look back at the tribulations of this archival document, the restitution of which is the result of a fruitful collaboration between the PraME Centre of UNamur, the General Archives of the Kingdom and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Success for the interfaith and interdisciplinary colloquium organised by the University Chair Our Lady of Peace and the eponymous research centre, in collaboration with the Abbey of Maredsous.

The Department of Art History and Archaeology of UNamur is participating for the first time in an experimental archaeology project, within the framework of a doctoral thesis on the production of glass in the Roman period. Conducted in partnership with Malagne, the Rochefort archaeopark, the Specularia project aims to gain a better understanding of the reality of the gestures and techniques of Gallo-Roman craftsmen and to scientifically validate hypotheses that are still debated today. To carry out this experiment, the Department of Art History and Archaeology is launching its first participatory funding.

Arcadia is the name of an ideal society, a bucolic utopia. But it is also the name chosen by the members of a brand-new research centre at UNamur. This centre, created within the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters and attached to the ESPHIN institute, questions three themes at the heart of our contemporaneity: the Anthropocene, history and utopias.

This is a first at the UNamur: a team of archaeologists will soon be testing an experimental protocol to reproduce the process of shaping glass in Roman times. Entitled Specularia (Latin for "glass"), this project has the support of several associations and companies, including AGC Glass Europe.