Sofia Efstathiou

Om

I work in philosophy of science, ethics of technology and art-based approaches to philosophy and responsible research and innovation (RRI). I have worked as an "embedded philosopher" in different interdisciplinary science projects, including in complexity science, systems biology, and biotechnology. I want to stimulate and exercise response-ability in science, through humanities and arts resources.

From Spring 2020 I am leading the four-year KLIMAFORSK project MEATigation : Towards sustainable meat-use in Norwegian food practices for climate mitigation. The project is a collaboration across the Social Sciences Humanities and Arts and Norwegian business and cultural actors with the aim to explore and transform Norwegian food practices towards reducing meat use.
- You can listen to my argument for 'How industrialised meat production is ironically facilitating the end of meat', here --Thank you to my hosts -- CONEF: Configuring Environment and Food: Critical Techno-Scientific Networks and the Agri-food Sector in Greece, and the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
From February 2021 I am also leading part of the three-year HORIZON2020 project ISEED: Inclusive Science and European Democracies. The project joins EU and Latin American partners to explore what we might learn from engaging people in citizen science to engage people in inclusive knowledge-based democratic deliberation in Europe.

At NTNU I coordinate the Research group for APPlied Ethics RAPP.

I hold a first Master of Physics degree in Mathematics and Physics (Warwick, 2000), an MA in Philosophy (2006) and PhD in Philosophy and Science Studies (2009) from University of California, San Diego on The use of race as a variable in biomedical research. My research has received EU, RCN, NSF, Max Planck and White funding.

Publikasjoner

Meat we don’t greet: How ‘sausages’ can save pigs or how effacing livestock makes room for emancipation

I propose that the intensification of meat production ironically makes meat concepts available to be populated by plants. Technologies of effacement facilitate intensification by blocking face-to-face encounters between animals and people.

2021

Efstathiou, Sophia. (2021) Meat we don’t greet: How ‘sausages’ can save pigs or how effacing livestock makes room for emancipation. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
Morris, Carol; Kaljonen, Minna; Aavik, Kadri; Balázs, Bálint; Cole, Matthew; Coles, Ben. (2021) Priorities for social science and humanities research on the challenges of moving beyond animal-based food systems. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Vitenskapelig artikkel

2020

Efstathiou, Sophia; Börjessen, Johan. (2020) Beyond Measure: Art and knowledge in the age of over-measuring. Trondheim Kunstmuseum
Vitenskapelig antologi/Konferanseserie
Efstathiou, Sophia. (2020) Measuring the Everyday in Science: Found Science by analogy to Found Art.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
Swierstra, Tsjalling; Efstathiou, Sophia. (2020) Knowledge repositories. In digital knowledge we trust. Medicine, Health care and Philosophy
Vitenskapelig artikkel

2019

Pérez, Elena; Efstathiou, Sophia; Swierstra, Tsjalling. (2019) Getting our hands dirty with technology -The role of the performing arts in technological development. Peripeti
Vitenskapelig artikkel
Efstathiou, Sophia; Korsnes, Marius; Gabrielsen, Ane Møller; Finstad, Terje; Giæver, Fay; Driessen, Clemens. (2019) lnvestigating the elasticity of meat consumption for climate mitigation: 4Rs for responsible meat use. Wageningen Academic Publishers
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
Efstathiou, Sophia. (2019) Facing animal research: Levinas and technologies of effacement. SUNY Press
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
Efstathiou, Sophia; Nydal, Rune; Lægreid, Astrid; Kuiper, Martin. (2019) Scientific knowledge in the age of computation: Explicated, computable and manageable?. Theoria. An international Journal of Theory, History and Foundations of Science
Vitenskapelig artikkel

2018

Efstathiou, Sophia. (2018) Im Angesicht der Gesichter: Technologien des Gesichtsverlusts in der Tierforschung. Verlag Karl Alber
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
Efstathiou, Sophia; Myskja, Bjørn Kåre. (2018) Appreciation Through Use: How Industrial Technology Articulates an Ecology of Values Around Norwegian Seaweed. Philosophy & Technology
Vitenskapelig artikkel
Murray-Leslie, Alexandra; Efstathiou, Sophia; Teran, Michelle; Haykowsky, Mika; Brunner, Johanna; Einarsdottir, Unnur Andrea. (2018) ALL WOMEN’S NETWORKED JAM SESSION (AWNJS).
Scenekunst

2014

Efstathiou, Sophia; Mirmalek, Zara. (2014) Interdisciplinarity In Action. Oxford University Press
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel

2012

Nydal, Rune; Efstathiou, Sophia; Lægreid, Astrid. (2012) Crossover Research: Exploring a Collaborative Mode of Integration. IOS Press
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
Efstathiou, Sophia. (2012) Beauty and health as medical norms: The case of Nazi medicine. Acumen Publishing
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
Efstathiou, Sophia. (2012) How Ordinary Race Concepts Get to Be Usable in Biomedical Science: An Account of Founded Race Concepts. Philosophy of Science
Vitenskapelig artikkel
Efstathiou, Sophia. (2012) The Nazi Cosmetic: Medicine in the Service of Beauty. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Vitenskapelig artikkel

2011

Cartwright, Nancy; Efstathiou, Sophia. (2011) Hunting causes and using them: Is there no bridge from here to there?. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science
Vitenskapelig artikkel

Tidsskriftspublikasjoner

Morris, Carol; Kaljonen, Minna; Aavik, Kadri; Balázs, Bálint; Cole, Matthew; Coles, Ben. (2021) Priorities for social science and humanities research on the challenges of moving beyond animal-based food systems. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Vitenskapelig artikkel
Swierstra, Tsjalling; Efstathiou, Sophia. (2020) Knowledge repositories. In digital knowledge we trust. Medicine, Health care and Philosophy
Vitenskapelig artikkel
Pérez, Elena; Efstathiou, Sophia; Swierstra, Tsjalling. (2019) Getting our hands dirty with technology -The role of the performing arts in technological development. Peripeti
Vitenskapelig artikkel
Efstathiou, Sophia; Nydal, Rune; Lægreid, Astrid; Kuiper, Martin. (2019) Scientific knowledge in the age of computation: Explicated, computable and manageable?. Theoria. An international Journal of Theory, History and Foundations of Science
Vitenskapelig artikkel
Efstathiou, Sophia; Myskja, Bjørn Kåre. (2018) Appreciation Through Use: How Industrial Technology Articulates an Ecology of Values Around Norwegian Seaweed. Philosophy & Technology
Vitenskapelig artikkel
De Grandis, Giovanni; Efstathiou, Sophia. (2016) Introduction: Grand challenges and small steps. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Leder
Efstathiou, Sophia. (2016) Is it possible to give scientific solutions to Grand Challenges? On the idea of Grand Challenges for life science research. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Vitenskapelig artikkel
Efstathiou, Sophia; De Grandis, Giovanni. (2015) Joint first editors of a Special Section on "Interdisciplinary Integration: The Real Grand Challenge for the Life Sciences?". Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Leder
Efstathiou, Sophia. (2012) How Ordinary Race Concepts Get to Be Usable in Biomedical Science: An Account of Founded Race Concepts. Philosophy of Science
Vitenskapelig artikkel
Efstathiou, Sophia. (2012) The Nazi Cosmetic: Medicine in the Service of Beauty. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Vitenskapelig artikkel
Cartwright, Nancy; Efstathiou, Sophia. (2011) Hunting causes and using them: Is there no bridge from here to there?. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science
Vitenskapelig artikkel

Kunstneriske produksjoner

Murray-Leslie, Alexandra; Efstathiou, Sophia; Teran, Michelle; Haykowsky, Mika; Brunner, Johanna; Einarsdottir, Unnur Andrea. (2018) ALL WOMEN’S NETWORKED JAM SESSION (AWNJS).
Scenekunst

Bøker

Efstathiou, Sophia; Börjessen, Johan. (2020) Beyond Measure: Art and knowledge in the age of over-measuring. Trondheim Kunstmuseum
Vitenskapelig antologi/Konferanseserie

Del av bok/rapport

Efstathiou, Sophia. (2021) Meat we don’t greet: How ‘sausages’ can save pigs or how effacing livestock makes room for emancipation. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
Efstathiou, Sophia. (2020) Measuring the Everyday in Science: Found Science by analogy to Found Art.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
Efstathiou, Sophia; Korsnes, Marius; Gabrielsen, Ane Møller; Finstad, Terje; Giæver, Fay; Driessen, Clemens. (2019) lnvestigating the elasticity of meat consumption for climate mitigation: 4Rs for responsible meat use. Wageningen Academic Publishers
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
Efstathiou, Sophia. (2019) Facing animal research: Levinas and technologies of effacement. SUNY Press
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
Efstathiou, Sophia. (2018) Im Angesicht der Gesichter: Technologien des Gesichtsverlusts in der Tierforschung. Verlag Karl Alber
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
Efstathiou, Sophia. (2017) Performance and Philosophy of Science: Trashfiguring Epistemic Cultures Through the Performance Art of FYTA.
Faglig kapittel
Efstathiou, Sophia. (2016) Genetics and Racial Minorities in the United States. Wiley-Blackwell
Leksikonartikkel
Efstathiou, Sophia; Mirmalek, Zara. (2014) Interdisciplinarity In Action. Oxford University Press
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
Nydal, Rune; Efstathiou, Sophia; Lægreid, Astrid. (2012) Crossover Research: Exploring a Collaborative Mode of Integration. IOS Press
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
Efstathiou, Sophia. (2012) Beauty and health as medical norms: The case of Nazi medicine. Acumen Publishing
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel

Formidling

2021

Faglig foredrag

Efstathiou, Sophia. (2021) Design and Technologies of Effacement. Department of Design NTNU Design Dialogues #2 Designing Sustainable Food Futures 2021-06-14 -
Faglig foredrag

Efstathiou, Sophia; De Grandis, Giovanni. (2021) Two Games for Irresponsible Research and Innovation: -Virtuous and Villainous Designs -Project Demons and Superheroes. ONE AFINO - MANY VALUES How to build a well-integrated network while welcoming diversity 2021-10-18 - 2021-10-19

2019

Faglig foredrag

Efstathiou, Sophia. (2019) A Role for the Arts in RRI - An argument for Science, Humanities and Arts Knowledge Exercises SHAKE . Cornell University Media Studies Colloquium 2019-04-25 -
Vitenskapelig foredrag

Efstathiou, Sophia. (2019) Recognise, Reduce, Replace, Refine: 4Rs for sustainable meat use. Animal Ethics for Sustainability: Clean food, biodiversity and sustainable development 2019-11-28 - 2019-11-29
Vitenskapelig foredrag

Efstathiou, Sophia. (2019) Being an Embedded Philosopher in the Lab. Learning from Empirical Approaches to History and Philosophy of Science , Leibniz University Hannover 2019-07-25 - 2019-07-27
Vitenskapelig foredrag

Efstathiou, Sophia. (2019) Visions of the Natural, Wild and Pure in Nazi Animal Ethics and Policy: An Account of Nazi ‘aesthethics’. GSA German Studies Association Meeting , Portland 2019-10-04 - 2019-10-06
Faglig foredrag

Korsnes, Marius; Efstathiou, Sophia; Giulia, Sonetti. (2019) The Skills you Need to Succeed with Interdisciplinary Teamwork. Helen Gansmo, Tverrfaglige Kulturstudier, NTNU HIP Konferansen , Trondheim 2019-02-06 -

2018

Faglig foredrag

Efstathiou, Sophia. (2018) Acceptance - Being open to new ideas. Sophia Efstathiou and Marius Korsnes Sustainability and Interdisciplinary Research: Skills for Collaboration and Communication , Trondhjem Kunstforening 2018-03-01 - 2018-03-02
Intervju

Efstathiou, Sophia. (2018) Sophia starta oppropet #metooakademia. På Høyden På Høyden [Avis] 2018-01-22
Intervju

Efstathiou, Sophia; Hovdal Moan, Marit; Østli Jakobsen, Hanne. (2018) 20 historier og 661 underskrifter: Tafsing på fagmiddager, trakassering i plenum og faglig baksnakking fra avviste flørtere. #MetooAkademia viser maktmisbruk med bred palett. Morgenbladet Morgenbladet [Avis] 2018-02-23
Vitenskapelig foredrag

Efstathiou, Sophia. (2018) Training response-abilities through performance. ELSA Norway 2018-11-02 - 2018-11-04

2017

Vitenskapelig foredrag

Efstathiou, Sophia; Gabrielsen, Ane Møller. (2017) Key Challenges to RRI: How feminist theory and art matter. Sophia Efstathiou and Elena Perez Response/Ability Exercises in Responsible Research and Innovation from science, humanities and arts perspectives 2017-11-17 - 2017-11-18
Faglig foredrag

Efstathiou, Sophia. (2017) Data, doxa and delta: The metaphysics of the alphabet or facing signs. Athens Biennale; FYTA Documena 2017 , Bagkeion, Athens 2017-04-15 - 2017-04-16

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