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ABOAGORA - BETWEEN ARTS AND SCIENCES
Turku, 14. - 16. August 2012

Aboagora is an event that promotes dialogue between the arts, humanities and sciences, and aims at challenging and breaking boundaries between arts and the scholarly world. The programme consists of workshops, keynote lectures and concerts. Aboagora is a joint effort by the Turku Music Festival, the Department of Cultural History at the University of Turku and the Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi University.

“The Power of the Sacred and the Secular”

The theme for 2012 focuses on a process that is fundamental to Western culture, that of separation between sacral and secular culture. This opens a fruitful perspective on the dialogue between the arts and the academia, since the concept of the secular is vigorously debated in both fields. In 2012 Aboagora seeks to turn critical attention to such questions as the role of religion in contemporary society, the return of mysticism and spirituality to public discussion and the so-called post-secular. In special focus are the issues of power and religion in relation to questions of gender and sexuality, sacred and secular love, Medieval inquisition, cinema and architectural space, cognitive science and quantum physics.

Keynote speakers include Gianni Vattimo (Philosophy, Italy), Miri Rubin (History, UK), Marion Bowman (Religious Studies, UK) and Juhani Pallasmaa (Architecture, Finland)

Among the workshop members are Kari Enqvist (Physics), Ilkka Pyysiäinen (Religious Studies), Sabrina Maniscalco (Physics), Andrew Yip (Sociology), Salla Tuori (Gender Studies), Elina Pirjatanniemi (Human Rights), Peter Nynäs (Religious Studies), Benjamin Zeller (Religious Studies), Terhi Utriainen (Religion Studies), Erik Steinskog (Music Studies), Tom Linkinen (Cultural History), Reima Välimäki (Cultural History) and Pekka Tolonen (Religion Studies).

For full programme and online registration please visit www.aboagora.fi.

The registration fee for the symposium is 30 € (for students 20 €). It includes participation for all keynote lectures, admission to all workshops, three lunches at Hus Lindman and coffee/tea with small snacks during coffee breaks. Registration closes on 15. June.

WELCOME!

Contact:
Coordinator Asko Nivala
Cultural History, University of Turku
asko.nivala(at)utu.fi
phone +358 (0)2 333 6294

AESTHETICS OF POPULAR CULTURE

29. November – 1. December, 2012, Academy of Fine Arts and Design Bratislava, Slovakia

We encourage scholars with genuine interest in philosophy of art and popular culture to send a max. 250 word abstract for reviewing no later than July 31, 2012. All schools of philosophy and aesthetic theory (pragmatism, hermeneutics, semiotics, phenomenology, analytic aesthetics, cultural studies, etc.) are accepted.

As keynote speakers we are glad to have two distinguished scholars of contemporary aesthetics, Ted Cohen (University of Chicago) and Jos de Mul (Erasmus University Rotterdam) – both influential across the borders of philosophical schools!

The site will be the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Slovakia (www.vsvu.sk), and the conference is organized in cooperation with Aalto University, Finland (www.aalto.fi).

List of possible topics (which should not be seen as restrictive, but more as an invitation):
– avant-garde popular culture
– art from the point of view of popular culture studies
– aesthetic properties and concepts of popular culture
– popular culture, aesthetic education and art schools
– official popular culture (nazism, socialism, etc.)
– popular culture in post-communist countries
– the relation of aesthetics and cultural studies
– popular culture as a shared outsider (Americanization)
– European aesthetics of popular culture
– kitsch, trash, camp

Please send your abstracts to: popularculture(a)vsvu.sk The conference language is English.

For any further questions, do not hesitate to contact the organizers:
Mr. Jozef Kovalcik (kovalcik(a)vsvu.sk) & Mr. Max Ryynänen (max.ryynanen(a)aalto.fi)

Website (which will be updated): www.vsvu.sk/popularculture

*** Filosoficafét presenterar GYGES RING ***

En dialog inspirerad av Platons Staten framförd av Mats Holmqvist och Simon Häger. Manus av Marcus Prest och Göran Torrkulla. Efter pjäsen följer öppen diskussion med filosoficaféts publik.

Tid: Söndag 20.5.2012 kl. 17.00-19.00
Plats: Restaurang skolan (Historiesalen), Eriksgatan 18, Åbo

FBF:s filosoficafé är en levande tradition i Åbo sedan 1997. Syftet med caféet är att erbjuda en diskussionsglad och samhällsintresserad allmänhet ett ställe att möta intressanta föreläsare och personer som deltar i den offentliga debatten. Med dialogen GYGES RING vill vi föra ut filosoficaféts öppna och kritiska diskussion på ett nytt sätt. Vår avsikt är att skapa ett medborgarforum där idéer från det filosofiska tänkandet och scenkonsten korsbefruktar varandra. I GYGES RING samarbetar professionella skådespelare och filosofer för att åskådliggöra filosofiska och samhälleliga frågeställningar genom ett skådespel inför filosoficaféts publik.

FBF förbehåller sig rätten till ändringar i programmet. FBF arrangerar dialogen GYGES RING med stöd från Konstsamfundet.

Förfrågningar riktas till arrangören:

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Folkets Bildningsförbund r.f.
Hagsgatan 12
20540 Åbo
tel 050 5147297
e-mail fbf (at) kaapeli.fi
www.fbf.fi

Two Lectures on Linguistic and Social Philosophy by Professor John R. Searle

John R. Searle, Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Language, University of California, Berkeley, will present two public lectures in Finland in May 2012:

How To Derive ´Ought´ from ´Is´? on Monday, May 21st, at 10 A.M. and

Language and Social Ontology on Tuesday, May 22nd, at 10 A.M.

at the Small Hall of the Main Building of the University of Helsinki (= Pieni juhlasali,
Fabianinkatu 33, 4th floor).

On Monday and Tuesday starting at 1.30 P.M., there will also be a small seminar on professor Searle´s linguistic and social philosophy, with papers presented by members of the Searle reading circle, to be then commented by professor Searle.

Professor Searle´s visit to Finland is made possible by the grant awarded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation, and his lecture on Tuesday morning will be the 15th Yrjö Reenpää lecture. Professor Searle´s morning lectures are open to public, as are the afternoon seminar sessions. No entrance fee. Welcome!

http://philosophy.berkeley.edu/people/detail/18

More information may be obtained from:

Raimo Siltala
Professor in Jurisprudence,
University of Turku
& Adjunct Professor (Privatdozent) in Jurisprudence,
University of Helsinki
raimo.siltala at utu.fi,
raimo.siltala at helsinki.fi

Vierailuluento ja keskustelutilaisuus: Hayden White

Emeritusprofessori HAYDEN WHITEN vierailuluento "History-Literature-Fiction/Fact-Ideology", keskiviikkona 9.5. klo 15–18 Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seuran juhlasalissa, Hallituskatu 1, Helsinki

Filosoficafé 15.4 - "Om kritikeruppdraget" - Michel Ekman

Tid: Söndag 15.4.2012 kl. 17.00
Plats: Restaurang skolan (Historiesalen), Eriksgatan 18, Åbo
Inledare: Litteraturkritiker och författare Michel Ekman, Helsingfors
Tema: Om kritikeruppdraget

Fritt inträde & alla välkomna!

Synopsis

Michel Ekman kommer att diskutera den personliga läsningens roll som en grundval för litteraturkritiken. Denna personliga läsning står i kontrast till, och ibland även i konflikt med, den offentlighet som kritiken ohjälpligen blir del av genom att den publiceras. Hur förhåller sig den personliga läsningen till denna offentlighet? Vad är relationen mellan att enbart söka bekräftelse och att verkligen försöka närma sig det främmande? Med desa frågor närmar vi oss ett ännu mera grundläggande spörsmål: Vem är det som ger kritikern uppdraget och vad består det i?

Michel Ekman håller enbart en mycket kort inledning om detta tema. Fokus för filosoficafét är på den öppna diskussionen med publiken som följer efter Ekmans inledning.

Michel Ekman är litteraturkritiker vid Hufvudstadsbladet sedan 1986 och vid Svenska Dagbladet sedan 1992. Han är aktuell med boken Utanför tiden (Schildts 2012).
http://www.schildts.fi/forfattare/ekman-michel.html

Filosoficafét ordnas i samband med Åbo Poesidagar 13-15.4. 2012. Poesidagarnas program hittar ni genom följande länk:
http://www.turku.fi/public/default.aspx?contentid=346001&nodeid=4873


Arrangör
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Folkets Bildningsförbund r.f.
Hagsgatan 12
20540 Åbo
tel 050 5147297
e-mail fbf (at) kaapeli.fi
www.fbf.fi

JÄRKI JA TUNTEET 1800-LUVULLA - FÖRNUFT OCH KÄNSLOR PÅ 1800-TALET

CALL FOR PAPERS

Kutsumme 1800-luvusta kiinnostuneita eri alojen tutkijoita osallistumaan 1800-luvun tutkimuksen  verkoston viidenteen vuosiseminaariin

JÄRKI JA TUNTEET 1800-LUVULLA
Turku 31.1. - 1.2.2013

1800-lukua voi luonnehtia luonnontieteen ja teknologian läpimurroksi, mutta samalla se oli moninaisten tunteiden vuosisata. Millaisia ajatuksia ja tunteita 1800-luku herättää? Mitkä tunteet ovat olleet sallittuja ja mitä on pidetty piilossa? Ja mitä niistä on seurannut?

Aihetta voi lähestyä esimerkiksi seuraavista näkökulmista:
-Mitä oli 1800-luvun populaarikulttuuri ja kuinka siinä käsiteltiin
tunteita sekä tuotettiin uudenlaista rationaalisuutta?
-Miten kirjallisuus, kuvataide ja musiikki tuottivat erilaisia
tunneilmaisun tapoja?
-Kuinka järki ja tunteet sukupuolitettiin?
-Kuluttaminen: mikä oli järkevää kuluttamista ja mikä paheksuttavaa
tuhlausta?
-Teollistuminen ja kaupungistuminen tunteiden ja järkeilyn
moottoreina/katalysaattoreina
-1800-luvun verkostot ja kansainvälisyys: mihin esimerkiksi
liikemiesten ja taiteilijoiden verkostoituminen ja keskinäinen
luottamus perustuivat?
-Erilaiset rationaalisuuden muodot: miten käsitykset tiedosta
rakentuivat 1800-luvulla ja mihin ne perustuivat?
-Tunteet tieteen näkökulmasta: miten 1800-luvulla luotiin uusia
luokittelujärjestelmiä ja tapoja jäsentää tunteita?

1800-luku tulkitaan pitkäksi 1800-luvuksi, joka ulottuu Ranskan vallankumouksesta ensimmäisen maailmansodan loppuun. 1800-luvun verkosto ja nyt järjestettävä konferenssi ovat lähtökohdiltaan monitieteisiä: historioitsijat, taiteentutkijat, folkloristit, kulttuurintutkijat, etnologit, uskontotieteilijät jne. ovat tervetulleita osallistumaan konferenssiin ja keskustelemaan tutkimuksestaan.

Konferenssi on maksuton ja kaikille avoin. Konferenssi järjestetään yhteistyössä Turun yliopiston, Åbo Akademin, Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seuran ja Topelius-seuran kanssa.

Pyydämme lähettämään 1 sivun abstraktin 15.10.2012 mennessä (e-mail
).  Abstraktiin tulee liittää yhteystiedot.
Esitelmän (20 min) voi pitää suomeksi, ruotsiksi tai englanniksi.

Terveisin,
järjestelytoimikunta: Anne Ollila (pj anne.ollila at utu.fi), Heidi
Grönstrand (heigro at utu.fi), Kirsi Keravuori
(kirsi.keravuori at finlit.fi), Kirsi Tuohela (kirtuohe at utu.fi),
Ann-Catrin Östman (aostman at abo.fi)

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Transcending Europe

NB. KEYNOTE ADDRESS OF DENIS GUÉNOUN IS CANCELLED

for health reasons !!!!

conference starts on tursday 12 april at 13.00

A conference organised by the University of Helsinki Network for European Studies project “Rethinking Cultural Diversity in Europe”

Date: 12. - 13. april 2012

Place: University of Helsinki

Today's Europe is a unique transnational whole. It results from a history of colonialization in the name of universal reason, and it could ambition to provide a model of political community for future globalization. Today, however, it is at pains with its universality: it appears too universal to satisfy particularistic passions within, and too singular to match the generality of globalization. This is why Europe needs to deal with the problematics of universality and particularity – already on a fundamental conceptual level.

The aim of the colloquium Transcending Europe is to examine Europe as a philosophical paradox of a situated idea. On the one hand, "Europe" stands for an idea of scientific and humanistic universality, that was most importantly articulated by Edmund Husserl (whose texts on Europe have recently been published into Finnish as Uudistuminen ja ihmisyys and Eurooppalaisten tieteiden kriisi ja transsendentaalinen fenomenologia). On the other hand, by definition universality cannot be localized, except when it is understood as a simple project of hegemony, that Europe has given up. The paradoxes of such a situated or a limited universality have recently been adressed in philosophy in particular by Denis Guénoun (Hypothèses sur l'Europe : un essai de philosophie, presently being translated into English) and Rodolphe Gasché (Europe, or the Infinite task. A Study of a Philosophical Concept). They examine Europe as a philosophical concept, idea, or figure, as a kind of a singular universal which is not to be understood as a model, that could be used as a source of identification, but rather as a hypothetical, regulative or a virtual principle that has also ethical and political dimensions. Put in this way, the idea of Europe is not a particular surreptitiously imposing itself as a global universal framework of thought, but a desire of universality that can only be realised as a constant self-transgression and openness towards what is other to it.

The conference Transcending Europe looks for new philosophical articulations of European universality, its way of being supranational without being global and of being ideal without being merely cultural.

The keynote speakers of the conference are Rodolphe Gasché and Denis Guénoun. –

DENIS GUÉNOUN HAS BEEN OBLIGED TO CANCEL HIS CONFERENCE FOR HEALTH REASONS.

conference webpage:

http://blogs.helsinki.fi/culturaldiversity/?page_id=208

Free entrance, no registration.

For further information, contact Susanna Lindberg () or

Tuomas Parsio ()

Program:

thursday 12. april, venue Porthania P III

• 10-12 keynote address Denis Guénoun: Active or passive transcendence?

CANCELLED!!!

•13-14 Sergei Prozorov, What is the Other of Europe

• 14-15 Susanna Lindberg, Uprooted Europe

•15-15.15 coffee

•15.15-16.15 Peter Trawny, Europe and Revolution

•16.15-17.15 Jayne Svenungsson, Christian Europe: Borders and Boundaries of a Mythological Conception

 

friday 13. april, venue University main building (Päärakennus) aud.XIII

• 10-12 keynote address Rodolphe Gasché: Is "Europe" an Idea in the Kantian Sense?

•12-13 lunch

• 13-14 Matthias Flatscher: Different Ways to Europe. Critical Remarks on Habermas and Derrida

• 14-15 Timo Miettinen: Crisis and Utopia

•15-15.15 coffee

15.15-16.15 Mika Ojakangas: European Union: A Polity without Sense

• 16.15 - 17.15 Ari Hirvonen: European Union - "The Nightmare and the Noble Dream".

 

CRAIG BRANDISTIN LUENTO GRAMSCISTA JA HEGEMONIASTA

Professori Craig Brandist luennoi aiheesta "Antonio Gramsci and the Russian debates about Hegemony" Tampereen yliopistossa perjantaina 30.3.2012 klo 13-15 (Linna K103).

Craig Brandist on Sheffieldin yliopiston kulttuuriteorian ja intellektuaalihistorian professori sekä Helsingin yliopiston Aleksanteri-instituutin vieraileva tutkija. Hänen luentonsa keskeinen käsite, hegemonia, on nykyään eräs niin yhteiskuntatieteiden kuin
politiikan ja kulttuurintutkimuksen keskeisiä käsitteitä.

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Craig Brandist was born in Coventry, UK, in 1963. He completed a PhD on the sources of the ideas of the Bakhtin Circle at the University of Sussex in 1995, after which he was Max Hayward Fellow in Russian Literature at St. Antony’s College, Oxford. In 1997 he became Research fellow at the University of Sheffield where, in 2007 he became
Professor of Cultural Theory and Intellectual History and, from 2008, Director of the Bakhtin Centre. Professor Brandist has published widely on Russian literature, intellectual history and critical thought, with his books including Carnival Culture and the Soviet Modernist Novel (1996), The Bakhtin Circle: Philosophy, Culture and Politics (2002), (ed. with David Shepherd and Galin Tihanov) The Bakhtin Circle: In the Master’s Absence (2004)   and (ed. with Katya Chown) Politics and the Theory of Language in the USSR 1917-1938 (2010). He is currently working on a monograph about the entwinement of questions of hegemony and of language in the early years of the USSR based on extensive research in archives and libraries in Russia, Ukraine and Azerbaijan. Professor Brandist is also Vice-President of the lecturer’s union (UCU) at the University of Sheffield, and a photographer.

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

On behalf of the Academy of Finland research project Knowledge Formation and Epistemic Connections it is my great pleasure to invite you to attend the International Symposium Life, Process and Philosophy to be held in Helsinki 11–12 May 2012. The aim of the symposium is both to develop contemporary analyses of the work of A. N. Whitehead (1861–1947) and to introduce his philosophy to a wider academic and
intellectual audience in Finland. Some of the most creative developments in e.g. metaphysics, philosophy of science, aesthetics and social theory in recent years have been inspired by Whitehead’s work, and hence this “introduction” is very timely.

You are warmly welcome to listen to the six internationally acclaimed authorities on Whitehead’s philosophy (Isabelle Stengers, Steven Shaviro...) and their expert commentators (Sami Pihlström, Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen...), and to contribute to the discussions.

Please go to our website to register by the 10th of April:

http://congress.utu.fi/lpp2012/index.php

Yours sincerely,

Judgment and Justification, Conference at the University of Tampere, Finland
24-26 September, 2012
Call for Papers

Plenary Speakers:
Professor Katalin Farkas (CEU)
Professor Maria van der Schaar (Leiden)
Professor Folke Tersman (Uppsala)

Abstract submission deadline: 7 May, 2012.

At least since Kant, the nature of judgment has been one of the central issues in philosophy. According to one view that derives from Frege’s philosophy, judgments are acts in which a propositional content, a thought, is presented as true. Assertions, in turn, can be considered as judgments made public by means of language. By making a judgment, you present yourself as entitled to this act, which means that you have a justification for your judgment. Certain types of contents for judgments, for example ones concerning moral value or taste, raise special questions about the possibility and the nature of justification. More generally, philosophers have addressed issues concerning the sources and the legitimate forms of justification. Such inquiry need not be only descriptive; in fact, it can result in revisionism about justificatory practices, as witnessed for example in Dummett’s philosophy.

The aim of this international conference is to bring together researchers from different fields and orientations in philosophy to discuss the nature of judgments and their justifications from a broadly systematic (not purely historical) point of view. Possible topics for 30-minute presentations include, but are not restricted to, the following:
­- judgment as an act/judging as action
- judgments and their contents
- assertions and assertive force
- justification and the entitlement to judge/assert
- inference and its justification
- moral judgments and their justification
- aesthetic judgments and their justification
- sources of justification.

We invite submissions of 600-word abstracts for max. 30-minute presentations. In addition to the contact information, affiliation, statement of the topic of the presentation and the thesis argued for, the abstracts should also contain an outline of the argument to be given in support of the thesis.
The submissions as a pdf, odt, doc or rtf file should be e-mailed to Dr Jani Hakkarainen (jani.hakkarainen[at]uta.fi) by 7 May, 2012.

The conference is organized by the research project Judgment and Human Rationality funded by the Academy of Finland.

Call for Papers: Kant and Modality, Humboldt University of Berlin, July 5-7 2012

Kant's various modal terms play a central yet to a large extent neglected role throughout his philosophy, from metaphysics, logic and epistemology to ethics, aesthetics and theology. Kant's transcendental method itself is deeply bound to how he understands the necessary conditions of the possibility of some actual features of our cognitive capacities. Although lately the importance of modality to several key-issues of Kant's philosophy has been recognized, his views about modality remain a poorly understood and under-researched area.

The conference "Kant and Modality" seeks to promote important issues of Kant's theory of modality and to exchange ideas by bringing together scholars working on all topics relating to his conception of modality. It takes place at Humboldt University of Berlin on July 5--7 2012. In addition to the invited speakers, two slots are available for presentation of 45 minutes, followed by 45 minutes of discussion. We cover all accommodation costs as well as travelling costs up to 500 Euro.

Those interested in presenting their work on any topic related to Kant's conception of modality should send a max. 1000 word description of their topic along with a CV to t.t.kannisto AT ifikk.uio.no no later than 15th of April. Priority will be given to topics focusing on Kant's theory of modality exclusively rather than in relation to other philosophers or fields of philosophy.

Possible topics include but are not restricted to the following:
-- Kant's conception and theory of modality
-- Logical, real, deontic, epistemic etc. modalities
-- The relationship between different kinds of modality (e.g. logical and real)
-- The relevance of modality to Kant's philosophy (e.g. to metaphysics, ethics, a priori/a posteriori distinction, philosophical method, justification, transcendental idealism, development of Kant's thought etc.)
-- Kant's conception of being and existence
-- Comparison of different interpretations of Kant's philosophy of modality

Organizers:

   Tobias Rosefeldt, Humboldt University of Berlin
   Toni Kannisto, University of Oslo.


List of invited speakers:

*Uygar Abaci* (University of Pennsylvania)

*Ian Blecher* (University of Pittsburgh)

*Ralf Busse* (Universität Regensburg)

*Andrew Chignell* (Cornell University)

*Toni Kannisto* (University of Oslo)

*Jessica Leech* (Cambridge University)

*Markku Leppäkoski* (University of Stockholm)

*Giuseppe Motta* (Universität Trier)

*Tobias Rosefeldt* (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

*Timothy Rosenkoetter* (Dartmouth College)

*Nicholas Stang* (University of Miami)

The Aleksanteri Institute will organize an international symposium on the social theories and utopies of the Enlightenment age in Northern Europe and Russia. The symposium continues the themes of the ”Northern Lights” seminar held in 2009 in collaboration with the St. Petersburg Center for the History of Ideas. At the same time, it relates to the Centre of Excellence project of the Aleksanteri Institute on the modernization processes in Russia by expounding and comparing the role of Enlightenment thought in creating the outlines of a modern society in Scandinavia and in Russia.

The symposium is carried out in collaboration with the Center for History of Ideas (Russian Academy of Sciences) in St. Petersburg and the University of Greifswald. The speakers at the symposium who hitherto have consented are Prof. Tatiana Artemyova (St. Petersburg), Prof. Mikhail Mikeshin (St. Petersburg), Prof. Vesa Oittinen (Helsinki), Dr. Oili Pulkkinen (Jyväskylä/Finland), Dr. Carola Häntsch (Greifswald), Dr. Hartwig Frank (Greifswald). The programme of the symposium will be published in the end of May 2012 on the web page of the Aleksanteri Institute (http://www.helsinki.fi/aleksanteri/).

The publication containing the papers of the previous symposium can be downloaded here: http://ideashistory.org.ru/a36.html.

For further information, please contact Prof. Vesa Oittinen (address: vesa.oittinen AT helsinki.fi). Dead-line for paper proposal submissions is 15th of May.

*** Filosoficafé 18.3 - Kierkegaard och lidandets mening ***

Tid: Söndag 18.3.2012 kl. 17.00
Plats: Restaurang skolan (Historiesalen), Eriksgatan 18, Åbo
Inledare: Filosof Jonna Lappalainen, Södertörns högskola, Stockholm
Tema: Kierkegaard och lidandets mening

Synopsis

Idag kan vi med hjälp av läkemedel lindra inte bara fysisk smärta utan även rent psykiska lidanden. Detta väcker frågan vad vi ska med lidandet till. Kierkegaard är en av de existensfilosofer som har intresserat sig för lidandet och hävdar att det inte bara är oundvikligt utan dessutom nödvändigt för att bli enskild. Jonna Lappalainen tar upp Kierkegaards syn på lidandet och frågar på vilket sätt det skulle kunna vara intressant idag.

Några länkar om Jonna Lappalainen:

Publikationer:
http://webappl.sh.se/p3/ext/content.nsf/aget?openagent&key=sh_personal_p...

Radioprogrammet "Filosofiska rummet" med Jonna Lappalainen:
http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=793&artikel=4715396

Fritt inträde & alla välkomna!

Arrangör
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Folkets Bildningsförbund r.f.
Hagsgatan 12
20540 Åbo
tel 050 5147297
e-mail fbf (at) kaapeli.fi
www.fbf.fi

Etik, emotion, evolution

Symposium om Edvard Westermarck i nutiden

Åbo, Humanistcentret Arken (Fabriksgatan 2)
Auditorium Westermarck (gatuplan, rum C101)

Lö 17.3. 2012 12.00-16.00

I år har det gått 150 år sedan Edvard Westermarcks födelse. Hans arbeten om moral och emotioner, äktenskapets evolution samt religionen i Marocko blev världskända. Westermarcks arbeten har fått ny aktualitet tack vare det förnyade intresset i evolutionära förklaringar av människan. Å andra sidan har man börjar uppmärksamma känslornas roll i moraliska överväganden, något som Westermarcks teori lyfter fram.

Med två gästföreläsningar vill vi lyfta fram sambanden mellan nutidsdebatterna och deras idéhistoriska bakgrund. En fråga gäller vad som ledde till Westermarckskolans undergång, och huruvida kritiken mot Westermarck även träffar nutida förklaringsmodeller på mänskligt beteende och kontroverser kring detta, t ex i fråga om 'natur' resp 'kultur'.

Olli Lagerspetz börjar med en kort inledande översikt.

Juhani Ihanus talar med rubriken "Westermarck, Malinowski and the 'wild things': The interface between anthropology and sexuality research".

Ullica Segerstråle talar med rubriken "The Westermarck hypothesis: a model for reconciliation of 'nature' and 'culture' explanations?".

Symposiet arrangeras med understöd av Svenska Kulturfonden och Konestiftelsen.

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Olli Lagerspetz är docent och akademilektor i filosofi vid Åbo Akademi. Han leder foskningsprojektet Westermarck and Beyond: Evolutionary Approaches to Morality and their Critics.

Juhani Ihanus är docent och lektor i psykologi vid Helsingfors Universitet. Han har bl a gett ut böckerna "Kadonneet alkuperät: Edvard Westermarckin sosiopsykologinen ajattelu" (Helsinki 1990) och "Multiple Origins: Edward Westermarck in Search of Mankind" (Frankfurt am Main 1999).
 
Ullica Segerstråle är en finländsk sociolog och professor vid Illinois Institute of  Technology, Chicago. Hon har skrivit bl a boken "Defenders of the Truth" (Oxford 2000) som analyserar "vetenskapskriget" kring sociobiologin.

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Program

Plats: Auditorium Westermarck, Humanistcentret Arken (gatuplan, rum C101),
Fabriksgatan 2, 20500 Åbo.

12.00 (obs tidpunkt) - 12.30 Olli Lagerspetz: Inledning

12.30-14.00 Juhani Ihanus: "Westermarck, Malinowski, and 'the Wild Things': The interface  between anthropology and sexuality research".

14.15-14.30 Paus

14.30-16.00 Ullica Segerstråle: "The Westermarck hypothesis: a model for reconciliation of 'nature' and 'culture' explanations?"

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Abstract (Juhani Ihanus)
The lecture deals with personal and scientific relations between Westermarck and Malinowski, delineating their agreements and disagreements on the "wild" issues of  sexuality, instincts, drives, incest and the Oedipal complex. The interface between anthropology and sexuality research was constructed by Westermarck and Malinowski in  their own ways, but both of them were in favor of future collaboration between the social sciences and sexuality research (mostly excluding psychoanalysis) through empirical studies on social institutions and cultural "facts" related to the regulation of the "wild things".

Abstract (Ullica Segerstråle)
The explanation of human behavior as an exclusively cultural product - the reigning paradigm after the Second World War - got a serious blow in the last quarter of the 20th century with the rise of sociobiology. The result was a major academic conflict, setting social scientists against biologists. (Meanwhile, solutions already existed to the seeming opposition between nature and culture, and more were emerging). The controversy caused E O Wilson to develop  a new, alternative sociobiological paradigm ("sociobiology 2.0"), attempting to connect nature and culture in Genes, Mind, and Culture. In that and later books one of Wilson’s prime examples of the nature-culture connection was the phenomenon of incest (presented as undesirable for both biological and cultural reasons). But although Wilson’s point always seemed to be exactly the Westermarck effect, Westermarck was typically not cited by name until 1998, when he was made the hero of Wilson’s book Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge. In other words, the Westermarck effect became a sort of glue that kept the various Wilsonian arguments together.The critics of sociobiology, again, seem to have doubted the Westermarck effect, but this was not central for them.

 

 

Hei / Dear all (in English below),

Prof. Philip Kitcher (Columbia) luennoi Helsingin yliopistossa otsikolla "Reconstruction in Philosophy: A Deweyan Program for theTwenty-First Century" 9-11 toukokuuta 2012.

Kurssin järjestää Nordic Pragmatism Network yhteistyössä teoreettisen filosofian
oppiaineen kanssa. Lisätietoa kurssille ilmoittautumisesta, kurssin
suorittamisesta sekä materiaaleista on osoitteessa:

http://www.nordprag.org/nlp2.html

Professor Philip Kitcher (Columbia) will give a set of six lectures with the title "Reconstruction in Philosophy: A Deweyan Program for the Twenty-First Century" at the University of Helsinki in 9-11 May 2012.

The course is organized by the Nordic Pragmatism Network in cooperation with theoretical philosophy at the University of Helsinki. For more information about enrolment, completion and course materials, please see:

http://www.nordprag.org/nlp2.html


Parhain terveisin / Best wishes,
Henrik Rydenfelt

The Nordic Network for Philosophical Anthropology Conference
"Health, Life and the Human Body"
Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
April 13-14, 2012

During the last three decades, medical anthropology has flourished as a branch of research, making strikingly clear how culturally diverse conceptions of such central notions as health, sickness, life, death, personhood, soul, and body in fact are. The aim of the conference and workshop is to reflect on the conceptual, ethical and existential significance of such results.

INVITED SPEAKERS

Margaret Lock (McGill University)
Emily Martin (New York University)
Rebecca Kukla (University of South Florida/Georgetown University)
Uffe Juul Jensen (Aarhus University)
Fredrik Svenaeus (Södertörn University College).

The invited lectures and the panel discussion are open for all interested. In addition, there are workshop sessions for members of The Nordic Network for Philosophical Anthropology.

For more information and registration, please visit
http://www.philosophicalanthropology.org/abo2012

Welcome to Åbo Akademi University in April!

Tervetuloa Aleksanteri-instituutin Visiting Scholars -ohjelman seuraavaan seminaariesitykseen. Torstaina 15.3. klo 14.15-15.45 professori Craig Brandist puhuu hegemonia-käsitteen poliittisista ja kulttuurisista ulottuvuuksista 1920-luvun Neuvostoliitossa esityksessään ”Language and Hegemony in Early Soviet Thought”. Paikka: Aleksanteri-instituutin 2. krs kokoushuone, os. Unioninkatu 33, Helsinki.

 

Seminaari on avoin kaikille aiheesta kiinnostuneille, mutta pyydämme ilmoittautumaan ennakkoon (viimeistään 9.3. mennessä) Eeva Korteniemelle

(eeva.korteniemi at helsinki.fi, p. 09 191 23645). Seminaarisarjan verkkosivuilta löytyy esityksen abstrakti sekä lisätietoa puhujasta:

http://www.helsinki.fi/aleksanteri/english/news/events/2012/visitorseminars_spring_2012.html

 

Tervetuloa!

 

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Welcome to the next meeting of the Aleksanteri Institute Visiting Fellows Research Seminars. On March 15th at 2.15 pm, Professor Craig Brandist will examine the entwinement of the political and cultural dimensions of hegemony in the USSR in the 1920s, presentation is entitled “Language and Hegemony in Early Soviet Thought”.

Venue:Aleksanteri Institute (Unioninkatu 33, Helsinki) 2nd floor meeting room.

 

More information about the speaker and presentation available at:

http://www.helsinki.fi/aleksanteri/english/news/events/2012/visitorseminars_spring_2012.html

Seminar is open to everybody interested in the topic, but please register your participation by 9 March to Eeva Korteniemi (eeva.korteniemi at helsinki.fi, tel +358 9 191 23645).

 

Welcome!

 

For more information, please contact:

Anna Korhonen (anna.korhonen at helsinki.fi) or Eeva Korteniemi

(eeva.korteniemi at helsinki.fi).

AN ECOLOGY OF MIND: A DAUGHTER'S PORTRAIT OF GREGORY BATESON
8th March 2012,  18.00-21.00, Aalto University

Many people regard the anthropologist, biologist and systems thinker Gregory Bateson (1904–1980) as one of the 20th century’s most important thinkers. His youngest daughter, Nora Bateson, will come to present the film An Ecology of Mind at Aalto University.

Nora Bateson, who is a media producer and educator, will personally introduce the film she has made about her father, and be available for questions and discussion afterwards.

The film provides a unique personal view on Gregory Bateson’s original and interdisciplinary angles of research: from cybernetics to communication among dolphins, and from schizophrenia to ecology and the sacred.

The trailer of the film can be seen at www.anecologyofmind.com.
And here is the latest news: www.facebook.com/anecologyofmind
PDF of flyer is downloadable here: http://www.naturearteducation.org/AEOM.htm

Free entrance.

Enter the Arabia factory from the south end (through the glass tube) and walk past the café on the right. Here you find the stairs up and there the bridge to Media Factory.

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

On behalf of the Academy of Finland research project Knowledge Formation and Epistemic Connections it is my great pleasure to invite you to attend the International Symposium Life, Process and Philosophy to be held in Helsinki 11–12 May 2012. The aim of the symposium is both to develop contemporary analyses of the work of A. N. Whitehead (1861–1947) and to introduce his philosophy to a wider academic and
intellectual audience in Finland. Some of the most creative developments in e.g. metaphysics, philosophy of science, aesthetics and social theory in recent years have been inspired by Whitehead’s work, and hence this “introduction” is very timely.

You are warmly welcome to listen to the six internationally acclaimed authorities on Whitehead’s philosophy (Isabelle Stengers, Steven Shaviro...) and their expert commentators (Sami Pihlström, Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen...), and to contribute to the discussions.

Please go to our website to register:

http://congress.utu.fi/lpp2012/index.php

Yours sincerely, Seppo Poutanen

12th International Summer School and Symposium on Humour and Laughter, 2-7th July 2012

Endorsed by the International Society for Humous Studies (ISHS)

Location: University of Eastern Finland, Savonlinna

Interest in both research on humour and practical applications of humour has increased sharply in the past decade. For new research students just beginning their research careers or those already-trained researchers considering a first research project on humour, this course will ensure that they enter the field with a strong foundation in existing theoretical and methodological issues, and are well versed in the pitfalls confronting the scientific study of humour. For those interested in practical applications of humour in a variety of applied settings, the course will introduce them to the kinds of approaches that are being used around the world to put humour to work and to deliver the benefits of humour and laughter.

More information ang programme on website: http://www.humoursummerschool.org/12/index.shtml

Announcement & Call for Papers

The Third International Conference of the Nordic Wittgenstein Society:

Wittgenstein, the Philosophy of Education and the Education of Philosophy

The general theme of the conference is to explore a Wittgensteinian approach to the interplay between philosophical method, pedagogy in general and philosophy of education.

Teaching and various forms of instruction, training and learning are recurrent themes in the writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein, making his philosophy a rich source for our understanding of the relationship between education and learning. Moreover, Wittgenstein’s work is an increasing influence in debates within the philosophy of education, especially in questions concerning the pedagogies of philosophy, therapeutic and dialogical methods in education, the role of practice for learning and discussions of the respective contribution to education from philosophy and empirical research.

 The conference will include three invited speakers as well as a number of smaller presentations organised in sessions according to theme. See below for the Call for Papers.

PhD Session
At least one of the sessions (depending on number of participants) will be reserved for presentations from PHD students. Prof. Paul Standish will participate in the discussions of the presentations.

Invited Speakers
Steinar Bøyum, Associate Professor, University of Bergen, Norway (confirmed)
Anniken Greve, Professor, University of Tromsø (confirmed)
Paul Standish, Professor, University of London, UK (confirmed)

Time: Friday, June 8th, 14-19, and Saturday June 9th, 9-16.30, 2012.
The final programme will be announced later.

Place: Institute of Philosophy, Education and the Study of Religions (IFPR), University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Odense.

More information:
To come on http://www.nordicwittgensteinsociety.org

Organisers: IFPR, SDU and The Nordic Wittgenstein Society.


Call for Papers
We invite researchers and PhD-students, inside and outside of philosophy (e.g. education and pedagogy) to submit abstracts on Wittgenstein-inspired inquiries into questions related to the theme of the conference (max 400 words). All submissions will be subject to a peer review. Each speaker will be allotted 20 minutes for presentation and 20 minutes for discussion.

Possible topics include: The relevance of Wittgenstein’s philosophy for...
-        The pedagogies of philosophy
-        The philosophy of education
-        The role of training and initiation into a practice in education
-        The relationship between education and therapy
-        Moral education
-        Educating for critical thinking
-        Methods in education
-        The distinction between empirical and philosophical research in education

 In case of adequate funding, the conference will reimburse part of the travel expenses for speakers whose papers are accepted.

Submission should be send to Anne-Marie S. Christensen, amsc@ifpr.sdu.dk

Deadlines
Submission of abstracts: April 2nd 2012
Announcement of the result of the peer review: April 16th 2012
For PhD students: Deadline for submission of papers: May 14th 2012

Bedste hilsner
Anne-Marie Søndergaard Christensen
Lektor, Institut for Filosofi, Pædagogik og Religionsstudier, Syddansk Universitet, Odense

SPINOZA IN SOVIET THOUGHT - an international symposium 18th - 19th May 2012

Spinoza is one of the figures who have played a key role in the formation of the Soviet Marxism, and even later many thinkers critical of the official Diamat have repeatedly recurred to Spinozistic arguments.

The Aleksanteri Institute organizes an international symposium on the theme of "Spinoza in Soviet thought" in 18. —19. May, 2012. Keynote speakers will be Prof. Daniela Steila (University of Turin) and Prof. Andrey Maidansky (Institute of Management and Economy, Taganrog). In addition, the anthology Spinoza — pro et contra (in Russian), edited by Prof. Maidansky and published in the beginning of 2012, will be presented and discussed.

VENUE: Aleksanteri Institute meeting room, 2nd floor, entrance via the inner courtyard.

More information and seminar programme: http://www.helsinki.fi/aleksanteri/english/news/events/2012/spinoza.html

*** Filosoficafé i Åbo 19.2 - Populism - Hot eller löfte?  ***

Tid: Söndag 19.2.2012 kl. 17.00
Plats: Restaurang skolan (Historiesalen), Eriksgatan 18, Åbo
Inledare: Statsvetare Ann-Cathrine Jungar, Södertörns högskola, Stockholm
Tema: Populism - Hot eller löfte?

Fritt inträde & alla välkomna!

Synopsis

Populismens framgångar speglar den representativa demokratins och partidemokratins problem. Populismens livsluft är en känsla av utanförskap och ett upplevt avstånd mellan medborgare och deras politiska representanter. Populismens frammarsch är även en reaktion på de omfattade omvandlingar som präglat våra samhällen under den senaste decennierna: globaliseringens och den europeiska integrationens öppnare gränser med fri rörlighet, ökad konkurrens och immigration. De politiska, sociala och ekonomiska skeendena är den mylla där populismen hämtar sin näring, men populismens idémässiga tankegods kan sägas vara demokratins konstanta följeslagare, eller i en mer pessimistisk tolkning dess skuggsida.
    Populismen kan å ena sidan i sina appeller utropa ett demokratins evangelium om mer makt till folket och ett beslutsfattande som ligger närmare det folket önskar. Med sin närvaro kan populismen blottlägga sprickor och tillkortakommanden i de politiska systemen. Populismen kan på så sätt vara ett korrektiv och bidra till en förbättring. Å andra sidan drar populismen upp nya särskiljande gränser i upprätthållandet av majoritetsprincipen och tanken om ett homogent folk. Populismens skuggsida representeras av den bristande tolerans för minoriteter och grundläggande demokratiska värden som kan följa i den vulgära och obegränsade folkmajoritetens spår.
    I vilken utsträckning populismens blir ett hot mot demokratiska värden är beroende av om populistiska partier har tillgång till maktpositioner, samt hur övriga politiska partier agerar. Sist och slutligen är det en öppen fråga om populismen är ett hot eller ett löfte?

Ann-Cathrine Jungar är docent och högskolelektor i statsvetenskap vid Södertörns högskola och är verksam vid Centrum för Östersjö- och Östeuropastudier, CBEES. Hon deltar aktivt i diskussionen om den nordiska populismen som samhällsfenomen. Se dessa länkar för ett urval av hennes senaste artiklar med detta tema:

http://www.svd.se/kultur/understrecket/soini-rider-pa-nordens-tredje-vag-av-populism_6099539.svd

http://www.magma.fi/tema/populismen-en-motkraft-i-finska-konsensuskulturen

http://www.svd.se/kultur/understrecket/med-nationen-och-kulturen-som-retorisk-ide_6668292.svd

Arrangör
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Folkets Bildningsförbund r.f.
Hagsgatan 12
20540 Åbo
tel 050 5147297
e-mail fbf (at) kaapeli.fi
www.fbf.fi

TRANSCENDING EUROPE

A conference organised by the "University of Helsinki Network for European Studies" project "Rethinking Cultural Diversity in Europe"

Date: 12. - 13. april 2012
Venue: University of Helsinki

Europe, today, is at pains with its universality. On the one hand, it appears as a universal construction that cannot satisfy particularistic passions within, and on the other hand, it appears as only a particular culture that cannot match the universality of the global world.

But what is European universality? In the conference "Transcending Europe" it will be studied as a philosophical concept: as the paradox of a "situated universality". Maybe European universality cannot be understood as a model that could be used as a source of identification, but rather as a regulative principle with ethical and political dimensions? Maybe Europe is not a particular idea imposing itself on a global framework of thought, but a desire of universality that can only be realöoised as a constant self-transgression and openness towards what is other to it?

The conference 'Transcending' Europe looks for new philosophical articulations of European universality, its way of being supranational without being global and of being ideal without being merely cultural.

The keynote speakers of the conference are Rodolphe Gasché, who has recently published "Europe, or the Infinite Task. A Study of a Philosophical Concept", and Denis Guénoun, whose "Hypothèses sur l'Europe: un essai de philosophie" will soon be published in English.


Program:
thursday 12. april
·      10-12 keynote adress Denis Guénoun: Active or passive transcendence?
·      12-13 lunch
·      13-14 Sergei Prozorov, What is the Other of Europe
·      14-15 Susanna Lindberg, Uprooted Europe
·      15-15.15 coffee
·      15.15-16.15 Peter Trawny, Europe and Revolution
·      16.15-17.15 Jayne Svenungsson, Christian Europe: Borders and
Boundaries  of a Mythological Conception

friday 13. april
10-12 keynote adress Rodolphe Gasché: "Is "Europe" an Idea in the
·      Kantian Sense?"
·      12-13 lunch
·      13-14 Matthias Flatscher: Different Ways to Europe. Critical
Remarks on Habermas and Derrida
·      14-15 Timo Miettinen: Crisis and Utopia
·      15-15.15 coffee
·      15.15-16.15 Mika Ojakangas: European Union: A Polity without Sense
·      16.15 - 17.15 Ari Hirvonen


For further information, contact Susanna Lindberg
(susanna.lindberg at helsinki.fi) or Tuomas Parsio
(tuomas.parsio at gmail.com)

Metaethics as a Confusion of Tongues

Series abstract
Can fundamental normative notions expressed by words like ‘good’, ‘ought’, and ‘reason’ be analyzed and explained?  Naïve attempts to explain the normative by investigating the conceptual meaning of normative words have been widely scorned and abandoned for several decades.  But successful semantic analyses may now be possible due to developments in our understanding of language and how it is used.  Study of normative words supports the End-Relational theory that things are good, reasons, or ought to be done only in relation to some end.  Many central problems of metaethics arise out of the ways normative language is used in practical contexts in pursuit of our ends, and can be resolved through a better appreciation of these conversational pragmatics.  This includes problems about the relationship between normative judgement and motivation, and the “categorical” character of moral claims.  Special attention is paid to problems concerning the nature and extent of normative disagreement.  A pragmatic solution to these metaethical problems has the virtues of expressivist views without their vices.

Lecture 1, Metaethics: Why and How?
27 februari kl. 13.15 -15, Hörsal E
Ethics or “practical philosophy” seeks to resolve disagreement about how we ought to act.  Questions in Metaethics concerning the metaphysics and semantics of the normative have important implications for the possibility of a method for Ethics.  But what method should we employ for Metaethics?  Traditionally, philosophers offered analyses of the meaning of normative language.  Today this analytic method stands in disrepute as a hopeless failure.  This lecture responds to four challenges: Primitivist, Expressivist, Externalist, and Revisionist.  While they may reveal the analytic method to be naïve, they do not show that it is not the right method for Metaethics.  A presumptive case can be made in its favour.


Lecture 2, The Semantics of ”Ought”
28 februari kl. 13.15 -15, Hörsal F
‘Ought’ is often claimed by moral philosophers to express an irreducibly normative concept.  The correct semantic theory of the word suggests otherwise, however.  The word ‘ought’ is used in a variety of different ways, but a relative of the standard semantics for modals due to Angelika Kratzer can provide a unifying analysis.  This analysis points toward an End-Relational theory of the normative ‘ought’ in terms of comparative probability of certain ends.  Special attention is paid to the meaning of the normative ‘ought’ in instrumental conditionals, which have puzzled many philosophers.  A compositional analysis identifying the instrumental ‘ought’ with the ‘ought’ of prediction generates a plausible reduction.

Lecture 3, The Pragmatics of Normative Disagreement
29 februari kl. 13.15 -15, Hörsal E

Many central problems of metaethics arise from uses of normative language—especially in moral discourse—that appear incompatible with the kind of simple semantics advanced for ‘ought’ in Lecture 2.  The Problem of Disagreement is a conspicuous case in point.  But might these features be explicable by supplementing a simple semantic theory with the right account of conversational pragmatics?  Exploring this idea for disagreement can be motivated by observing that similar problems confront any plausible semantic theory for ‘ought’.  It is argued that when combined with a basic and intuitive Instrumental Principle of pragmatics, the End-Relational theory of ‘ought’ systematically generates correct predictions about when normative claims disagree with each other.  This solution is “quasi-expressivist” in recognizing that normative disagreement does not always consist in a conflict in belief, but it enjoys significant advantages over expressivism proper.


Arrangör:
Institutionen för Idé- och Samhällsstudier, Umeå universitet
http://www.idesam.umu.se/om/amnen/filosofi/

Call for Papers til Slagmark nr. 65

Temaet for dette nummer er ”Helte og skurke”. Hvordan har begreberne ”helt” og ”skurk” historisk formet og reflekteret menneskets selvforståelse? Hvilken rolle spiller disse begreber i og for nutidens samfund? Hvorfor er mennesket så fascineret af helte- og skurkeskikkelser? Disse spørgsmål kan bl.a. diskuteres litterært, filosofisk, idéhistorisk, sociologisk, antropologisk og psykologisk, men bidrag fra alle faglige perspektiver og metoder er velkomne.

Deadline for indsendelse af artikler er 1. maj 2012. Forespørgsler, idéudkast og generelle spørgsmål rettes til Carsten Fogh Nielsen (filoffen1(a)hum.au.dk) eller Carla Birgitte Nielsen (cn(a)teo.au.dk). Artikelforslag sendes til helteogskurke(a)gmail.com.

Slagmark accepterer artikler på dansk, svensk, norsk og engelsk.

Læs det fulde call for papers på forlagets hjemmeside:
http://www.slagmark.dk/sider/CFP/65.pdf

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Tidsskriftet Slagmark har eksisteret siden 1983. Det opstod i miljøet omkring Afdeling for Idéhistorie ved Aarhus Universitet, hvor det stadig har hjemme.

Slagmark dækker hovedområderne indenfor den vestlige idéhistorie: Den filosofiske tænknings historie, de æstetiske ideers historie, de politiske, økonomiske og sociale ideers historie samt naturvidenskabernes idéhistorie. 

Indenfor dette felt har tidsskriftet en ambition om både at kaste nyt lys over klassikere og at introducere et dansk publikum for danske og internationale emner og teoridannelser. Igennem tiden har Slagmark således aktualiseret gamle såvel som introduceret nye tanker og intellektuelle strømninger.

I hvert nummer ligger hovedvægten på temaartikler af førende forskere i ind- og udland, mens der midtvejs er et intermezzo med interviews og artikler udenfor tema. Hvert nummer indeholder til slut en fyldig anmeldelsessektion. Tidsskriftet henvender sig til idéhistorikere, filosoffer, sociologer, politologer, litterater og andre med interesse for den vestlige idéhistorie. Slagmark udkommer 3 gange om året.

Slagmark anser peer review for at være en vigtig del af arbejdet med at sikre tidsskriftets fortsat høje kvalitet. Alle artikler indsendt til Slagmark indgår i denne sammenhæng i en peer review-proces, hvor Slagmark både trækker på et panel af anerkendte danske og internationale forskere.

http://www.slagmark.dk