Säde Hormio
@sadehormio.bsky.social
Collective responsibility, social epistemology, political philosophy, social ontology, climate ethics
Academy Research Fellow and University Lecturer, Practical Philosophy, University of Helsinki
https://shormio.wordpress.com
Academy Research Fellow and University Lecturer, Practical Philosophy, University of Helsinki
https://shormio.wordpress.com
🌟 Call for Applications: Small Grants for Workshops in Social Ontology 🌟 The International Social Ontology Society is excited to announce the opening of our Small Grants program for 2026! We fund innovative workshops that advance research in social ontology: isos.wildapricot.org/page-18190
International Social Ontology Society - Applying for Small Grants for Workshops
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October 3, 2025 at 6:21 AM
🌟 Call for Applications: Small Grants for Workshops in Social Ontology 🌟 The International Social Ontology Society is excited to announce the opening of our Small Grants program for 2026! We fund innovative workshops that advance research in social ontology: isos.wildapricot.org/page-18190
My paper on Newsmax and Fox News is very topical again. Epistemic institutions like them present a special case for the responsibility of collective agents: www.fqpjournal.com/Article/Arch...
Newsmax Will Pay $67 Million to Settle Dominion Defamation Lawsuit www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/b...
Newsmax Will Pay $67 Million to Settle Dominion Defamation Lawsuit www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/b...
Newsmax Will Pay $67 Million to Settle Dominion Defamation Lawsuit
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August 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM
My paper on Newsmax and Fox News is very topical again. Epistemic institutions like them present a special case for the responsibility of collective agents: www.fqpjournal.com/Article/Arch...
Newsmax Will Pay $67 Million to Settle Dominion Defamation Lawsuit www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/b...
Newsmax Will Pay $67 Million to Settle Dominion Defamation Lawsuit www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/b...
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First keynote of Social Ontology 2025, delivered by Bill Wringe, speaking on Non-Agential Groups in Political Philosophy. #SocialOntology2025
August 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
First keynote of Social Ontology 2025, delivered by Bill Wringe, speaking on Non-Agential Groups in Political Philosophy. #SocialOntology2025
Second day of Institutional Epistemology 2025 workshop ahead, keynotes are streamed live, link at the workshop website: www.institutionalepistemology.net
June 19, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Second day of Institutional Epistemology 2025 workshop ahead, keynotes are streamed live, link at the workshop website: www.institutionalepistemology.net
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Institutional Epistemology Workshop 2025, June 18-19 at the University of Helsinki. Our keynotes are Helen Beebee, Jessica Brown and Kevin Zollman. Keynotes will be streamed online. Program and IE resources here: www.institutionalepistemology.net #philsky #philsci
Institutional Epistemology – INES2025
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June 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Institutional Epistemology Workshop 2025, June 18-19 at the University of Helsinki. Our keynotes are Helen Beebee, Jessica Brown and Kevin Zollman. Keynotes will be streamed online. Program and IE resources here: www.institutionalepistemology.net #philsky #philsci
When the world is crazy, this is the only song that makes sense
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Sesame Street: Happy Furry Monsters Song with R.E.M
YouTube video by Sesame Street
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April 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM
When the world is crazy, this is the only song that makes sense
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9G1...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9G1...
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@sadehormio.bsky.social n ja minun mielipide: #perintövero a koskevasta keskustelusta puuttuu oikeudenmukaisuusnäkökulma www.hs.fi/mielipide/ar...
Lukijan mielipide | Perintöveron poistaminen veisi kohti epätasa-arvoisempaa Suomea
Perintöverolla tasataan varallisuuden ja vallan kertymistä harvojen käsiin.
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March 7, 2025 at 11:24 AM
@sadehormio.bsky.social n ja minun mielipide: #perintövero a koskevasta keskustelusta puuttuu oikeudenmukaisuusnäkökulma www.hs.fi/mielipide/ar...
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Institutional Epistemology Workshop 2025, June 18-19, University of Helsinki. Our invited speakers this year are Helen Beebee, Jessica Brown, and @kevinzollman.com . We look forward to receiving your abstracts by March 10. More information here: www.institutionalepistemology.net #philsci #philsky
Institutional Epistemology – INES2025
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February 25, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Institutional Epistemology Workshop 2025, June 18-19, University of Helsinki. Our invited speakers this year are Helen Beebee, Jessica Brown, and @kevinzollman.com . We look forward to receiving your abstracts by March 10. More information here: www.institutionalepistemology.net #philsci #philsky
Institutional Epistemology 2025 CFA is out now, join us in June in Helsinki! Keynotes from Helen Beebee, Jessica Brown and Kevin Zollman: blogs.helsinki.fi/institutiona...
Institutional Epistemology – INES2025
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January 16, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Institutional Epistemology 2025 CFA is out now, join us in June in Helsinki! Keynotes from Helen Beebee, Jessica Brown and Kevin Zollman: blogs.helsinki.fi/institutiona...
International Social Ontology Society has extended its small grants for workshops deadline to 12 January 2025. So please get thinking about how you could use the grants to hold an event! All relevant information, including details of how to apply, can be found at isos.wildapricot.org/page-18190
International Social Ontology Society - Applying for Small Grants for Workshops
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December 18, 2024 at 10:26 AM
International Social Ontology Society has extended its small grants for workshops deadline to 12 January 2025. So please get thinking about how you could use the grants to hold an event! All relevant information, including details of how to apply, can be found at isos.wildapricot.org/page-18190
Really happy about how this book turned out, great contributions on collective responsibility from leading and upcoming names in social ontology: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Collective Responsibility
This book demonstrates how the concept of collective obligation is relevant to ongoing normative debates in social and political philosophy.
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December 10, 2024 at 12:30 PM
Really happy about how this book turned out, great contributions on collective responsibility from leading and upcoming names in social ontology: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Symposium on Henry Shue’s "The Pivotal Generation: Why We Have a Moral Responsibility to Slow Climate Change Right Now" (Princeton University Press, 2021) is out now in Philosophy and Public Issues. Here is a link to my contribution: tuhat.helsinki.fi/ws/portalfil...
November 5, 2024 at 7:38 AM
Symposium on Henry Shue’s "The Pivotal Generation: Why We Have a Moral Responsibility to Slow Climate Change Right Now" (Princeton University Press, 2021) is out now in Philosophy and Public Issues. Here is a link to my contribution: tuhat.helsinki.fi/ws/portalfil...
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@inkerikoskinen.bsky.social and Päivi Seppälä argue that the competency assessment tests in University of Helsinki's renewed PhD application process do not promote fairness, objectivity or transparency and violate principles of responsible researcher evaluation. tint-helsinki.fi/2024/10/21/c...
Competency assessment tests in the application process for salaried PhD positions do not promote fairness, objectivity, or transparency / Inkeri Koskinen & Päivi Seppälä – Centre for Philosophy of Soc...
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October 22, 2024 at 8:50 AM
@inkerikoskinen.bsky.social and Päivi Seppälä argue that the competency assessment tests in University of Helsinki's renewed PhD application process do not promote fairness, objectivity or transparency and violate principles of responsible researcher evaluation. tint-helsinki.fi/2024/10/21/c...
The call for abstracts is now open for Social Ontology 2025, an interdisciplinary conference, this time in Dublin.
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International Social Ontology Society - Social Ontology 2025
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October 31, 2024 at 12:18 PM
The call for abstracts is now open for Social Ontology 2025, an interdisciplinary conference, this time in Dublin.
isosonline.org/Social-Ontol...
isosonline.org/Social-Ontol...
"It’s not that scientists aren’t capable of creative, exciting, ambitious work — they’ve just been forced to bend to a grant system that favors short, risk-averse projects. And if the grant system changes, odds are science will too."
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Science has a short-term memory problem
Scientists are trapped in an endless loop of grant applications. We’re wasting time and resources, when academia could be making breakthrough discoveries.
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September 13, 2024 at 8:08 AM
"It’s not that scientists aren’t capable of creative, exciting, ambitious work — they’ve just been forced to bend to a grant system that favors short, risk-averse projects. And if the grant system changes, odds are science will too."
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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Very happy to host the second international workshop of the Ethics of Coordination project in Helsinki later this week:
www.ethics-of-coordination.net/events/secon...
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Second International Workshop — Ethics of Coordination
This two-day conference brings together leading international researchers
to present their latest results on issues related to the ethics of
coordination and climate change.
www.ethics-of-coordination.net
September 2, 2024 at 2:08 PM
Very happy to host the second international workshop of the Ethics of Coordination project in Helsinki later this week:
www.ethics-of-coordination.net/events/secon...
www.ethics-of-coordination.net/events/secon...
The Moral and Political Philosophy seminar will kick off its Autumn season on Wednesday 4 September with Garrett Cullity (Australian National University) talking about discriminatory attitudes. The full seminar schedule can be found at: blogs.helsinki.fi/mpp-seminar/events
August 29, 2024 at 1:36 PM
The Moral and Political Philosophy seminar will kick off its Autumn season on Wednesday 4 September with Garrett Cullity (Australian National University) talking about discriminatory attitudes. The full seminar schedule can be found at: blogs.helsinki.fi/mpp-seminar/events
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(2/2) Sivistys tarvitsee sinua! -paneelissa oli Niiniluodon lisäksi akatemiatutkija @timomiettinen.bsky.social ja @sadehormio.bsky.social sekä @jaljillapodcast.bsky.social'in väitöskirjatutkija #LottaVuorio. Filosofoiva toimittaja #JakkeHolvas juonsi. Koko komeus nähtävissä: areena.yle.fi/1-71292055
August 12, 2024 at 7:37 PM
(2/2) Sivistys tarvitsee sinua! -paneelissa oli Niiniluodon lisäksi akatemiatutkija @timomiettinen.bsky.social ja @sadehormio.bsky.social sekä @jaljillapodcast.bsky.social'in väitöskirjatutkija #LottaVuorio. Filosofoiva toimittaja #JakkeHolvas juonsi. Koko komeus nähtävissä: areena.yle.fi/1-71292055
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Different studies attempting to answer the same question don't always reach the same conclusion. Sometimes it's error, sometimes noise, but on some occasion, the discordance between the findings persists. How can that be? www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #metasci
Persistent evidential discordance | The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science: Vol 0, No ja
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August 5, 2024 at 7:28 AM
Different studies attempting to answer the same question don't always reach the same conclusion. Sometimes it's error, sometimes noise, but on some occasion, the discordance between the findings persists. How can that be? www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #philsci #metasci
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The ISOS Election results are in!
Let's welcome our wonderful new team:
President: Åsa Burman
Vice-president: Glenda Satne
Steering Committee: Ásta, Thomas Brouwer, Peter Fioncchiaro, Säde Hormio, Kirk Ludwig, Asya Passinsky, Kenneth Silver, Leonie Smith.
Congratulations, all! 👏👏👏
Let's welcome our wonderful new team:
President: Åsa Burman
Vice-president: Glenda Satne
Steering Committee: Ásta, Thomas Brouwer, Peter Fioncchiaro, Säde Hormio, Kirk Ludwig, Asya Passinsky, Kenneth Silver, Leonie Smith.
Congratulations, all! 👏👏👏
July 29, 2024 at 11:51 AM
The ISOS Election results are in!
Let's welcome our wonderful new team:
President: Åsa Burman
Vice-president: Glenda Satne
Steering Committee: Ásta, Thomas Brouwer, Peter Fioncchiaro, Säde Hormio, Kirk Ludwig, Asya Passinsky, Kenneth Silver, Leonie Smith.
Congratulations, all! 👏👏👏
Let's welcome our wonderful new team:
President: Åsa Burman
Vice-president: Glenda Satne
Steering Committee: Ásta, Thomas Brouwer, Peter Fioncchiaro, Säde Hormio, Kirk Ludwig, Asya Passinsky, Kenneth Silver, Leonie Smith.
Congratulations, all! 👏👏👏
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#Sivistys2024 -teema XIV #Puistofilosofia -viikolla huipentuu pe 19.7. #SuomenAkatemia 'n kanssa järjestettävään ohjelmaan. Mukana #IlkkaNiiniluoto,
@timomiettinen.bsky.social, @sadehormio.bsky.social ja #LottaVuorio. #JakkeHolvas juontaa. 😊🙏❤
Katso #YleAreena 'ssa. 😍
areena.yle.fi/1-71292055
@timomiettinen.bsky.social, @sadehormio.bsky.social ja #LottaVuorio. #JakkeHolvas juontaa. 😊🙏❤
Katso #YleAreena 'ssa. 😍
areena.yle.fi/1-71292055
July 6, 2024 at 6:32 AM
#Sivistys2024 -teema XIV #Puistofilosofia -viikolla huipentuu pe 19.7. #SuomenAkatemia 'n kanssa järjestettävään ohjelmaan. Mukana #IlkkaNiiniluoto,
@timomiettinen.bsky.social, @sadehormio.bsky.social ja #LottaVuorio. #JakkeHolvas juontaa. 😊🙏❤
Katso #YleAreena 'ssa. 😍
areena.yle.fi/1-71292055
@timomiettinen.bsky.social, @sadehormio.bsky.social ja #LottaVuorio. #JakkeHolvas juontaa. 😊🙏❤
Katso #YleAreena 'ssa. 😍
areena.yle.fi/1-71292055
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Akatemiatutkija @sadehormio.bsky.social 'n haastattelu #SuomenAkatemia 'n #TietystiFI -sivustolla #sivistys 'stä.
Säde on mukana XIV #Puistofilosofia -viikolla alustajana ja Sivistys tarvitsee sinua! -paneelissa, joka näytetään livenä #YleAreena 'ssa. 😍
#Sivistys2024
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Säde on mukana XIV #Puistofilosofia -viikolla alustajana ja Sivistys tarvitsee sinua! -paneelissa, joka näytetään livenä #YleAreena 'ssa. 😍
#Sivistys2024
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July 8, 2024 at 6:30 AM
Akatemiatutkija @sadehormio.bsky.social 'n haastattelu #SuomenAkatemia 'n #TietystiFI -sivustolla #sivistys 'stä.
Säde on mukana XIV #Puistofilosofia -viikolla alustajana ja Sivistys tarvitsee sinua! -paneelissa, joka näytetään livenä #YleAreena 'ssa. 😍
#Sivistys2024
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Säde on mukana XIV #Puistofilosofia -viikolla alustajana ja Sivistys tarvitsee sinua! -paneelissa, joka näytetään livenä #YleAreena 'ssa. 😍
#Sivistys2024
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"If we are to have any hope for a better, more peaceful, more equitable future, we need world leaders who unite us, rather than continue to seek ways to divide us."
www.nytimes.com/2024/06/17/o...
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Opinion | U.N. Humanitarian Chief: World Leaders Are Failing Us
They are breaking the compact between ordinary people and those in whom power is vested.
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June 18, 2024 at 6:26 AM
"If we are to have any hope for a better, more peaceful, more equitable future, we need world leaders who unite us, rather than continue to seek ways to divide us."
www.nytimes.com/2024/06/17/o...
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Some think that democracy cannot cope with the challenges posed by climate change. I argued otherwise in my talk at the International Philosophy Olympiad, an annual philosophy competition for high school students from around the world: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xocb...
IPO 2024 Lecture: Säde Hormio - Climate Change and Democracy
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May 31, 2024 at 10:11 AM
Some think that democracy cannot cope with the challenges posed by climate change. I argued otherwise in my talk at the International Philosophy Olympiad, an annual philosophy competition for high school students from around the world: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xocb...
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Säde Hormio and Samuli Reijula. 2024. “Ideal Institutional Epistemology.” SERRC 13 (5): 51–58. wp.me/p1Bfg0-8Q.
May 27, 2024 at 12:45 PM
Säde Hormio and Samuli Reijula. 2024. “Ideal Institutional Epistemology.” SERRC 13 (5): 51–58. wp.me/p1Bfg0-8Q.