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Utrecht UniversityThe ARENA - Episode 4: Their Vietnam momentHow do academics find their way into the rooms where decisions are made and policies are changed? And once they're there, how do they push for real change?
In this fourth episode of The Arena, we follow Lauren Gould and her colleagues as they try to use their research on civilian harm to navigate discussions with the Dutch Ministry of Defense. The goal? To push for more transparency and accountability in the military domain.
We also explore how scholars use Community Engaged Learning to teach students how to collaborate with societal partners and address global challenges. And reflect how universities...2025-03-2637 minUtrecht UniversityThe ARENA - Episode 1: That first dominoThrough conversations with historians, philosophers, and researchers, episode one of The Arena explores the rise of open science, and the shifting relationship between academia and the public.
From student protests to budget cuts, from academic freedom to public distrust—universities are at the heart of some of today's most pressing societal debates. How has Utrecht University responded to the growing demand for socially engaged research? What does ‘impact’ really mean in academia? And how do scholars collaborate with communities beyond the university walls?
The show is written and produced by Isa Zoetbrood. The producers from Utrecht University are Lauren Gould and Sa...2025-03-2626 min
MCMP – History of PhilosophyTheories of Order in Carnap's AufbauPaul Ziche (Utrecht) gives a talk at the MCMP workshop "Influences on the Aufbau" (1-3 July, 2013) titled "Theories of Order in Carnap's Aufbau". Abstract: "Order" is a key term in debates in, and between, fields such as logic, philosophy of mathemat- ics, theoretical biology and philosophy of science around 1900. In § 3 of the "Aufbau", Carnap refers af- firmatively to a number of relevant authors: Whitehead and Russell, Driesch, Ostwald, Husserl, and many more. This list already indicates how broad and, from today's point of view, internally heterogeneous the discourse on order has been in this period. This paper will motivate why t...2013-10-2059 min