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HEALTH, MORTALITY, AND INEQUALITY Symposium in memory of Professor Juha Sihvola http://www.helsinki.fi/
An international symposium organized by the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, in collaboration with the Academy of Finland, the Philosophical Society of Finland, and the Argumenta Project, “Human Mortality”, funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation
Time: June 17-18, 2013 Venue: Tieteiden talo (House of Sciences and Letters), Kirkkokatu 6, Helsinki
Free admission. Welcome!
PROGRAMME
Monday 17 June 2013
12:45-13:15 Registration
13:15 Welcome, Professor Sami Pihlström, Director of HCAS
13:30 Keynote lecture
· Professor Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago): The Fear of Death: Incomplete Arguments and Questionable Consolations
15:00 Coffee
15:30-17:00 Session 1
· Alejandro Lorite Escorihuela (HCAS): Trading in Mercy: On the Global Law and Politics of Animal Sacrifice · Jonathan Wolff (University College London): Social Policy and the Social Gradient in Health · Sami Pihlström (HCAS): Does Death Make Us Equal?
17:30 Reception at Tieteiden talo (House of Sciences and Letters)
Tuesday 18 June 2013
10:00 Session 2
· Mikko Salmela (HCAS): Emotional Encounter with the Dying · Pekka Sulkunen (HCAS): Who is well? A Critique of the Medicalisation Thesis · Erika Kiss (Princeton University): The Problem of Sustainability as the Crisis of Liberal Education in the Global Digital Economy
11:30 lunch break
13:00 Session 3
· Jan-Werner Müller (Princeton University): Fear of Death and Fear of Cruelty: Judith Shklar's Liberalism Revisited · Michael Puett (Harvard University): tba · Ville Päivänsalo (University of Helsinki): Pluralist Collaboration for Health and Dignity
14:30 coffee
15:00 Session 4
· Nils Weidtmann (Tübingen University): Mortality and responsibility - some intercultural remarks · Sara Heinämaa (HCAS): Phenomenological Insights into Death and Dying: Time, Selfhood and Gender · Terhi Utriainen (University of Helsinki): Death, Dying and Vulnerability in the Culture of Re-enchantment?
16:30 Closing of the symposium
Further information: http://www.helsinki.fi/
21.05.2013
Kansainvälisesti tunnettu Heidegger-asiantuntija professori Daniel Dahlstrom, Boston Universitystä pitää filosofian tutkijaseminaarissa luennon "Heidegger's Experience of Language".
Ajankohta ke 29.5. klo 13-15, sali Pinni B 4113, Tampereen yliopisto Tilaisuus on kaikille avoin. Aboagora - Between Arts and Sciences
Turku, Finland, 13 - 15 August 2013 Registration is now open, and closes on May 31, 2013. For full programme, online registration and conference tickets, please visit www.aboagora.fi. "The Human Machine" 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. Aboagora 2013 discusses the complex relationships between man and machine. The human being itself can be viewed as a corporeal machine, an assemblage of forces, actions and mechanisms, from the optics of the eye to the processes of cognition. It is also possible to interpret the machine as an extension of human senses. The boundaries between man and machine can be blurred by using technological devices as integral parts of the human body. The theme 'The Human Machine' can also pay attention on all those practices that create humanness in a machine: How we assume machines to feel and think? What kind of personal qualities do they have? Machines have also served as the vehicles of human creativity, as tools but also as the expressions of abstract thoughts. Aboagora wishes to address this fascinating area that has been a fertile ground for artistic and scientific explorations during recent decades. Keynote speakers include Bruce Sterling (Science Fiction Author, USA), Kevin Warwick (Professor of Cybernetics, UK), Mia Consalvo (Research Chair of Game Studies and Design, Canada), Timo Airaksinen (Philosopher, Finland). Among the workshop members are Tuomas Lukka (Zenrobotics Corporation), Timo Kaitaro (Philosophy & Neuropsychology), Kathleen Richardson (Social Anthropology), Mika Pantzar (Consumer Research Centre), Alf Rehn (Chair of Management and Organization), Jussi Parikka (Media Theory), John Armitage (Media Arts), Samuli Torssonen (Film director), Veijo Hietala (Media Studies), Mia Lövheim (Sociology of Religion), Susanna Paasonen (Media Studies), Johanna Sumiala (Media Studies), André Jansson (Media & Communication Studies), and Alice Della Penna (Biology). The registration fee for the symposium is 45 € (for students and post-graduate students 25 €). It includes participation for all keynote lectures, admission to all workshops, three lunches and coffee/tea, and conference reception. WELCOME! Contact: Coordinator Asko Nivala Cultural History, University of Turku asko.nivala(at)utu.fi phone +358 (0)2 333 6294 27.04.2013
BIOETIIKAN TUTKIMUKSEN TILA JA TULEVAISUUS SUOMESSA
Kansallinen monitieteinen seminaari, Helsingin yliopisto 26.–27.9. 2013 Bioetiikan instituutti Suomeen -työryhmä järjestää syksyllä tilaisuuden, joka kokoaa yhteen alan suomalaiset toimijat ja avaa keskustelun kansallisen bioetiikan tilasta ja tulevaisuudesta. Seminaarissa keskitytään tarkastelemaan bioetiikan tutkimusta eri tahoilla kuten yliopistoissa, tutkimuslaitoksissa, virastoissa ja toimikunnissa. Tilaisuus on tarkoitettu kaikille, jotka ovat kiinnostuneet bioetiikan tutkimuksesta ja sen kehittämisestä. Seminaarin kansainvälisenä pääpuhujana on professori Norman Daniels Harvardin yliopistosta. Hän esitelmöi terveydenhuollon resurssikysymyksistä sekä yleisemmin oikeudenmukaisuudesta nyky-yhteiskunnissa. Seminaari huipentuu paneelikeskusteluun, jossa tarkastellaan erityisen bioetiikan instituutin perustamisesta Suomeen. Instituutin tarkoituksena olisi kehittää bioetiikkaa akateemisena tieteenalana Suomessa ja luoda viitekehys kansalliselle bioetiikan tutkimukselle. Seminaariin osallistuminen on maksutonta, ja sen kielinä ovat suomi ja englanti. Seminaari alkaa 26.9. noin klo 13 ja päättyy 27.9. noin klo 13. Ilmoittautumiset 31.5. mennessä: a) Esitelmöimään omasta tutkimusaiheestasi (15+5 min, noin 300 sanan abstrakti.) Kerrothan samalla, esitelmöitkö mieluummin suomen vai englannin kielellä. b) Osallistujaksi seminaariin, jotta voimme lisätä sinut seminaarin tiedottamiseen tarkoitetulle sähköpostilistalle. Esitelmän pitäjiin otetaan yhteyttä kesäkuussa ja seminaarin tarkemmasta ohjelmasta tiedotetaan elokuun loppuun mennessä. Seminaariin liittyviä ajankohtaisia asioita voi seurata myös osoitteessa http://blogs.helsinki.fi/bioet Ilmoittautumiset ja abstraktit pyydetään lähettämään osoitteeseen: johanna.ahola-launonen at helsink Bioetiikan instituutti Suomeen -työryhmä: Professori Matti Häyry, bioetiikan ja oikeusfilosofian professori, Manchesterin yliopisto, Englanti FT Tuija Takala, dosentti, akatemiatutkija, Helsingin yliopisto FM Heikki Saxén, tohtorikoulutettava, Tampereen yliopisto VTM, LuK Johanna Ahola-Launonen, tohtorikoulutettava, Helsingin yliopisto ---- BIOETHICS RESEARCH IN FINLAND – ITS STATE AND FUTURE National multidisciplinary seminar, University of Helsinki 26 – 27 September 2013 The Bioethics Institute to Finland Task Force organises an event that will draw together all interested parties to discuss the current state and future directions of bioethics in Finland. The focus is investigative rather than pragmatic, and emphasis will be placed on bioethical research conducted in universities, research institutes, ministries, non-governmental organisations, and committees. Our international keynote speaker will be Professor Norman Daniels from Harvard University, with presentations on resource allocation in health care and justice more generally. The seminar will culminate in a panel discussion on the possibility of founding a national institute of investigative bioethics. The institute would stimulate the progress of academic bioethics in Finland and provide a framework for further developments in the field. Participation in the seminar is free – there is no admission fee. The languages of the event are Finnish and English. The seminar runs from 1 pm on Thursday 26 September to 1 pm on Friday 27 September. The deadline for registrations is 31 May. Please let us know if a) you wish to present a paper on your research in bioethics in the seminar (15+5 minutes) – in this case, please send us an abstract of max. 300 words, or if b) you want to participate and be added on our seminar mailing list. The speakers will be contacted in June, and the detailed program will be completed and publicised by the end of August. Seminar news can be followed at http://blogs.helsinki.fi/bioet Please send abstracts and registrations to: johanna.ahola-launonen at helsink The Bioethics Institute to Finland Task Force are: Professor Matti Häyry, Professor of Bioethics and Philosophy of Law, University of Manchester, UK Dr Tuija Takala, Adjunct Professor and Academy of Finland Research Fellow, University of Helsinki MA Heikki Saxén, Doctoral Researcher, University of Tampere MSSc Johanna Ahola-Launonen, Doctoral Researcher, University of Helsinki Westermarck-muistoluento 15.5.2013 / The Westermarck Memorial Lecture 15.5.2013
EDVARD WESTERMARCK -MUISTOLUENTO 15.5.2013 KLO 18 Professori Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen) pitää 31. Edvard Westermarck -muistoluennon keskiviikkona 15.5. klo 18 Helsingissä. Luennon otsikko on "Anthropology Beyond Humanity". Aika: keskiviikko 15. toukokuuta klo 18.00 Paikka: Tieteiden talo, sali 104 (Kirkkokatu 6, Helsinki) Tilaisuuteen on vapaa pääsy. Tervetuloa! THE EDVARD WESTERMARCK MEMORIAL LECTURE 15.5.2013 AT 6 PM Professor Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen) will give the 31st annual Westermarck Memorial Lecture on Wednesday, May 15 at 6 pm in Helsinki. His lecture is titled "Anthropology Beyond Humanity". Time: Wednesday, May 15 at 6 pm Location: Tieteiden talo, room 104 (Kirkkokatu 6, Helsinki) The event is free of charge. Welcome! Tim Ingold is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, and a Fellow of both the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Following 25 years at the University of Manchester, Ingold moved in 1999 to Aberdeen, where he went on to establish the UK's newest Department of Anthropology. Ingold has carried out ethnographic fieldwork among Saami and Finnish people in Lapland, and has written on comparative questions of environment, technology and social organisation in the circumpolar North, as well as on the role of animals in human society, on issues in human ecology, and on evolutionary theory in anthropology, biology and history. More recently, he has been exploring the links between environmental perception and skilled practice, with a view to replacing traditional models of genetic and cultural transmission with a relational approach focusing on the growth of skills of perception and action within socio-environmental contexts of development. These ideas are presented in his book The Perception of the Environment (2000). Ingold's latest research pursues three lines of inquiry that emerged from his earlier work, concerning the dynamics of pedestrian movement, the creativity of practice, and the linearity of writing. These all came together in his book Lines (2007), along with three edited collections: Creativity and Cultural Improvisation (with Elizabeth Hallam, 2007), Ways of Walking (with Jo Lee Vergunst, 2008) and Redrawing Anthropology (2011), and in his collected essays, Being Alive (2011). Ingold is currently writing and teaching on issues on the interface between anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture. His latest book, Making, was published by Routledge in March 2013. 27.04.2013
International and Interdisciplinary Conference: Culture, Values and Justice University of Vaasa, Finland, 21–23 May 2014
This conference creates and facilitates new research openings and cooperation in the interdisciplinary field of comparative cultural studies by bringing together scholars from different countries and universities worldwide to discuss and debate a range of topics.
The theme of the conference draws increased international attention: the issues of cultural encounters are increasingly addressed in terms of values and justice. This trend is related to the growing awareness of universal social problems, including uneven income distribution, increasing health gaps between rich and poor, constant gender inequality, and the ideological roots of environmental problems. These are among the issues being discussed in this conference.
The keynote speaker is Professor Kisor Chakrabarti, a distinguished expert in classical Indian philosophy and comparative cultural studies.
Call for Abstracts
Abstracts: 150 words Deadline for submission: 10 August 2013
Submit abstracts to Dr. Chandana Chakrabarti at chandanachak at gmail.com Date of proposal acceptance: Week after the proposal is submitted
Subtopics: Ethnic Identity & Culture; Personal Identity in Society; Society, Culture & Consumption; Social Identification; Dynamics of Group Culture; Ethnic Boundaries; Constructing & Deconstructing Ethnic Identity; Evolution of Society; Encountering Different Cultures; Cultural Shock; Society & Effect of Colonization; Media & Society; Morality & Society; Perfectionist & Situational Ethics; Humanism & Positivism; Reductionist Approach to Moral Responsibility; Archaeological Approaches to Society; Hybrid Cultural Systems; Hybrid Ethical Theory; Cultural Roots of Environmental Problems; Uneven Income Distribution as a Social Ethical Issue; The Point of View of Justice; Core Values, Traditions & Justice; etc.
Advisory Board Members: Barbara Amodio (USA), Gordon Haist (USA), Robin Kar (USA), Elizabeth Koldzak (Poland), Tommi Lehtonen (Finland), Maria Marczewska (Poland), Debkumar Mukhopadhya (India), Rizwanur Rahman (India), Ming Shao (China), Andrew Ward (UK), Su-Chen Wu (Taiwan)
Papers from the Conference will be published subject to editorial review.
For further information, contact: Chandana Chakrabarti, Ph.D. Institute of Cross-Cultural Studies and Academic Exchange 405 Maple Avenue Burlington, NC 27216 USA Sponsored by: University of Vaasa, The Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion, Institute for Cross-Cultural Studies and Academic Exchange 23.04.2013
Call for papers: Scandinavian-Russian Enlightenment symposium in St.Petersburg
The Aleksanteri Institute of the University of Helsinki will arrange in August, together with St. Petersburg Center of the History of Ideas, a symposium on the Enlightenment thought in Northern Europe and Russia. The event is a continuation of previous "Northern Light" symposia. This time the theme will be "History and Enlightenment", and the symposium will be held in the Finland House in St. Petersburg in August 29. and 30. The location is in the very centre of classical St.Petersburg, near the Nevsky Prospekt. The address is 8, ul. Bolshaya Konyushennaya. For details, see the web page: http://www.instfin.ru/. The previous Enlightenment symposia were held in Helsinki in 2009 and 2012. The papers of the first symposium have been published, and an electronic version can be downloaded from the address http://ideashistory.org.ru/a36 The Enlightenment symposia are held annually in context of the Aleksanteri Institute's CoE project "Problems of Russian Modernization", and aim at analysing the initial states of the modernization processes in the 1700's both in Northern Europe and Russia. For more information about the CoE project in general, see the web page www.helsinki.fi/aleksanteri/cr There is yet room for some papers. In case you are interested to deliver a presentation, please contact the organiser Vesa Oittinen (vesa.oittinen at helsinki.fi). The language of the symposium is English, but papers in German and French are possible, too. The presentations will be published in the same series as the previous symposium materials. Dead-line for submisssions is May, 30. 23.04.2013
May 29 at 5:15 p.m. 11th Annual Collegium Lecture Professor Nancy Fraser: Can society be commodities all the way down? Venue: Porthania, lecture hall PIII, Yliopistonkatu 3, Helsinki.
Abstract: In his classic 1944 book, The Great Transformation, Karl Polanyi traced the roots of capitalist crisis to efforts to create “self-regulating markets” in land, labor, and money. The effect was to turn those three fundamental bases of social life into "fictitious commodities.” The inevitable result, Polanyi claimed, was to despoil nature, rupture communities, and destroy livelihoods. This diagnosis has strong echoes in the 21st century: witness the burgeoning markets in carbon emissions and biotechnology; in child-care, schooling, and the care of the old; and in financial derivatives. In this situation, Polanyi’s idea of fictitious commodification affords a promising basis for an integrated structural analysis that connects three dimensions of the present crisis, the ecological, the social, and the financial. This lecture explores the strengths and weaknesses of Polanyi’s idea.
Nancy Fraser is the Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science and Department Chair at the New School for Social Research in New York. Her work concentrates on social and political theory, feminist theory as well as contemporary French and German thought. As leading critical theorist and noted feminist thinker, Professor Fraser is well known for her work on social justice. Her early books Unruly Practices: Power, Discourse and Gender in Contemporary Social Theory (1989) and Justice Interruptus: Critical Reflections on the "Postsocialist" Condition (1997) are modern classics. Her recent work includes the book is Scales of Justice: Reimagining Political Space in a Globalizing World (2008) and the article Feminism, Capitalism and the Cunning of History (New Left Review, 2009).
Organised by the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, www.helsinki.fi/collegium Free admission. Welcome! Välkommen på "Søren Kierkegaard 200 år" -seminarium // Tervetuloa " Søren Kierkegaard 200 vuotta" -seminaariin I vår har det gått 200 år sedan födelsen av världens mest kända nordiska filosof, Søren Kierkegaard. För att uppmärksamma detta ordnar Kulturkontakt Nord ett seminarium om Kierkegaards filosofi på onsdag den 24. april. I diskussionen deltar direktör, FD Pia Søltoft från Søren Kierkegaard Forskningscentret, och Kierkegaard-forskaren, docent Janne Kylliäinen. Under evenemanget diskuteras bland annat relationen mellan etik och filosofi, som är ett av de aktuella teman som förknippas med Kierkegaards filosofi. Därutöver diskuteras hur och varför Kierkegaard förbinder etik med religiositet samt om vad som hände med etiken och betoningen av den samma under existentialismen på 1900-talet. Tid: onsdagen 24 april kl. 18.00
*** Tilaisuudessa pohditaan muun muassa etiikan ja filosofian välistä suhdetta, joka on yksi ajankohtaisista Kierkegaardin filosofiaan liitettävistä teemoista. Lisäksi keskustellaan siitä, miten ja miksi Kierkegaard kytkee etiikan uskonnollisuuteen, sekä siitä, mitä olemassaolokeskustelun eettiselle painotukselle tapahtui 1900-luvun aikana. Aika: keskiviikkona 24. huhtikuuta klo 18.00
*** Filosoficafé 28.4 - Martin Gustafsson***
Tid: Söndag 28.4.2013 kl. 17.00 Plats: Restaurang skolan (Historiesalen), Eriksgatan 18, Åbo Inledare: Martin Gustafsson, professor i filosofi vid Åbo Akademi Tema: "Med vett och vilja eller bara av oaktsamhet? - En filosofs reflektioner kring en debatt om uppsåtsbegreppet i svensk och finsk rätt" Synopsis Uppsåtsbegreppet är enligt hävd av central betydelse i all västerländsk rättsskipning - många brottsrubriceringar kräver uppsåt för en fällande dom. Ändå råder en hel del förvirring kring hur gränsen ska dras mellan uppsåt och oaktsamhet, den så kallade "uppsåtets nedre gräns". I synnerhet i Sverige har frågan under senare tid uppmärksammats en hel del, då Högsta Domstolen initierat en förändring i praxis. Tidigare arbetade svensk rättskipning med en för västerländsk rätt närmast unik konstruktion för att dra gränsen, så kallat "eventuellt uppsåt" - "dolus eventualis". Men nuförtiden verkar det råda bred enighet om att detta uppsåtsbegrepp bör ersättas. Frågan är bara med vad. För en filosof som länge försökt hitta rätt i den filosofiska diskussionen kring avsiktbegreppet bjuder denna rättsteoretiska debatt på många nya perspektiv och välbehövlig konkretion. Men jag ska också försöka säga några ord om vad rättsteoretikerna kan ha att lära av filosofin. Fritt inträde & alla välkomna! Filosoficaféts arrangör -- Folkets Bildningsförbund r.f. Hagsgatan 12 20540 Åbo tel 050 5147297 e-mail fbf (at) kaapeli.fi www.fbf.fi INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON FOUCAULT 28 June 2013
University of Helsinki, Metsätalo (Unioninkatu 40), room 12, 3rd fl. 10.15–12.00 Béatrice Han-Pile (University of Essex): Foucault, Normativity, and Critique as a Practice of the Self 12.00-13.30 Lunch Break 13.30–15.00 Martin Saar (Frankfurt University): Subject, Truth, Democracy: Foucault and Political Philosophy Mika Ojakangas (University of Jyväskylä): Plato and Bio-politics 15.00-15.30 Coffee 15.30–17.30 Sergei Prozorov (University of Helsinki): Biopolitics of Stalinism: Ideas and Bodies in the Construction of Socialism Jemima Repo (University of Helsinki): Herculine Barbin and the Omission of Biopolitics from Judith Butler's Gender Genealogy Lauri Siisiäinen (University of Jyväskylä): From Global Vision to Short Sight: Foucault and the Neo/Liberal Turn in Political Optics Contact: Johanna Oksala (johanna.oksala at helsinki.fi) & Jemima Repo (jemima.repo at helsinki.fi) Organised by the Subjectivity, Historicity, and Communality (SHC) Research Network, University of Helsinki 10.04.2013
LITERARY FICTION AND RATIONALITY
University of Tampere, May 30−31, 2013 PROGRAM: THURSDAY MAY 30 All Thursday sessions are held at Pinni B 1096 09.00 Welcome by Leila Haaparanta 09.15−10.45 Plenary Talk by Kathleen Stock: Fiction, Belief, Imagining and Cognitive Value 10.45−11.15 Coffee 11.15−11.50 Petr Kotatko: Narration in Decay 11.55−12.30 Arto Laitinen: On Literary Fiction, Science Fiction and Thought Experiments in Practical Philosophy 12.30−13.30 Lunch 13.30−14.05 Lars-Olof Åhlberg: Imaginary and Imagined Worlds in Narrative Fiction 14.10−14.45 Karen Simecek: The Rationality of Poetry 14.50−15.25 Alexander Bareis: The Interpretation of Fictional Narrative and Rationality 15.25−15.55 Coffee 15.55−16.30 María José Alcaraz León: Warranted Emotional Responses to Artworks and the Problem of Moral Education through the Arts 16.35−17.10 Angela Curran: Aristotle on the Nature of Our Affective Responses to Literature 17.15−17.50 Stephen Chamberlain: Emotion and Imagination in the Rationality of Fiction 19.00− Conference Dinner at the Restaurant Henriks FRIDAY MAY 31 09.15−10.45 Plenary Talk by Elisabeth Schellekens: Title TBA (Pinni B 1096) 10.45−11.15 Coffee 11.15−11.50 Parallel Sessions Riku Juti: Philosophical Lessons from Dickens (Pinni B1096) Hanna Meretoja: Literature, Ethics and a Sense of History (Pinni B 1097) 11.55−12.30 Parallel Sessions Timo Vuorio: A Novel as an Argument. Dostojevsky on Crime (Pinni B 1096) Olli−Pekka Moisio: Ernst Bloch and Literature (Pinni B 1097) 12.30−13.30 Lunch 13.30−15.00 Plenary Talk by Garry Hagberg: Title TBA (Pinni B 1096) 15.00−15.30 Coffee 15.30−16.05 Parallel Sessions Jukka Mikkonen: Literature, Irrationality, and Moral Reasoning (Pinni B 1096) Niklas Forsberg: Teachings of Density and Distance. Remarks on the Philosophical Significance of Novels beyond the Presence of “Philosophy” (Pinni B 1097) 16.10−16.45 Parallel Sessions Ana Falcato: Form is an Expression of Content. John Coetzee against Substitution of Ethical Thought (Pinni B 1096) Ingeborg Löfgren: Cavell and Projective Imagination in Philosophy and Literature – Clarification, Mystification, and the Logic of Narration (Pinni B 1097) 16.50−17.25 Parallel Sessions Bridget Vincent: Reasoning with Literature. Poetic and Prosodic Irrationality (Pinni B 1096) Nora Hämäläinen: Cora Diamond, Alice Crary and an Extended Conception of Rationality (Pinni B 1097) Closing Words by Leila Haaparanta (Pinni B 1096) Prof. Rodolphe Gasché (SUNY, Buffalo, Comparative Literature): “Of Mammoth Smallness: Franz Kafka's 'The Village Schoolmaster'” Ma 15.4. klo 12-14 Turun yliopisto, Janus-luentosali Sirkkalan kasarmialue, 1 krs. (nivelosassa Artiumin ja Minervan välissä) Kaivokatu 12
Luentoa varten suositellaan luettavaksi Kafkan kertomus ”Kyläkoulunopettaja” (sis. teokseen Franz Kafka: Kootut kertomukset, Helsinki: Otava 2010).
Seminaari: Keskustelua esiseminaareissa I ja II käsitellyistä kirjoista (The Stelliferous Fold: Toward a Virtual Law of Literature's Self-Formation; The Idea of Form: Rethinking Kant's Aesthetics)
13.03.2013
The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir: Ambiguity and Embodied Subjectivity.
Call For Papers: The Political Economy of the Commons - What is / how to define the common/s? - What is the relationship between enclosure and the commons? - How are the concepts of value and the commons related? - What distinguishes the commons from the public and the private? - What are the historical specificities of commons-based production and how does it differ from the capitalist mode of production? - How are the commons produced within networks, communities, metropolises or social movements? - What is the meaning of the commons for the future of world politics? - What is the role of the commons in building sustainable futures?
08.03.2013
Väitös: Jyrki Kivelä, teoreettinen filosofia
FL Jyrki Kivelä väittelee 16.3.2013 kello 10 Helsingin yliopiston humanistisessa tiedekunnassa aiheesta "On the Affinities Between Hume and Kierkegaard". Väitöstilaisuus järjestetään osoitteessa Päärakennus, auditorium XII, Unioninkatu 34. Vastaväittäjänä on Professor Emeritus Russell B. Goodman, The University of New Mexico, ja kustoksena on professori Gabriel Sandu. Väitöskirja julkaistaan sarjassa Philosophical Studies from the University of Helsinki. Väitöskirjaa myy Jyrki Kivelä. Väitöskirja on myös elektroninen julkaisu ja luettavissa E-thesis-palvelussa. Väittelijän yhteystiedot: Jyrki Kivelä jyrki.kivela(at)helsinki.fi In this study the author discusses the historical and philosophical connections between David Hume (1711-1776) and Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855). Kierkegaard mainly encountered Humean ideas through the writings of Johann Georg Hamann (1730-1788) and Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743-1819). Hamann's and Jacobi's interpretations of Hume were at least among the influences when Kierkegaard developed his idea of paradoxical Christianity and his criticism of "Speculation". Because Hume's discussion of miracles is a classic in the philosophy of religion and Kierkegaard is known for his idea of the absolute paradox as the object of faith and because of Kierkegaard's knowledge of the conclusion of Hume's "Of Miracles", I have found it worthwhile to compare these two terms. The idea of a miracle expressed explicitly in terms of violation of the laws or order of nature is not important to Kierkegaard. I claim that the unavoidable doubtfulness of all historical knowledge and the non-immediate meaning of personal experience are the most important philosophical reasons for Kierkegaard's tangential interest in the concept of a miracle as a philosophical problem. The author argues that Kierkegaard's notion of ordinary belief as the opposite of doubt is at least partly analogous to Hume's notion of belief as a lively conception. Kierkegaard's belief is a terminator of doubt. Hume's custom-based belief acts in the same role when it disregards the uncertainty inherent in the conclusions drawn from our immediate experience. The author further argues that just like the ancient fiction of substance for Hume, the notions of pure being and an absolute beginning in a logical system for Climacus refer to fictional conceptual structures. Kierkegaard argues that there can be no system of life and Hume argues that the philosophical system solving the important problem of perception yields a fictitious solution. Humean notions of true and false philosophy are discussed in this connection. The thesis concludes with the suggestion that there is an affinity between the revocation of the Postscript and the conclusion of the first book of the Treatise. Finally, the author concludes that Kierkegaard was perhaps even profoundly inspired by the ideas present in Hume s thought. He, unlike Hume, embraced the idea of nearly miraculous personal transformation and believing in the most improbable thing. However, they shared the idea that at some basic level we are all nevertheless natural believers. They also understood the lure of abstract thought and saw the dangers of thinking in a sense too highly of philosophical enterprise itself, and agreed on the idea that it is not in fact that tautological or redundant to say that philosophers, too, are human beings.  Helsinki Trialogues "To Understand what is Happening"
Trialogue with Emil Angehrn (Basel), Nicholas Davey (Dundee) and Manfred Sommer (Kiel) discussing "The Limits of Making Die Grenzen der Machbarkeit". 27.4.2013, 14.00-19.30 Tieteiden talo, Kirkkokatu 6, Helsinki Emil Angehrn, Sinn und Geschichte: An den Grenzen der Machbarkeit(English translation will be offered.)Der Vortrag wird sich mit den Grenzen der Machbarkeit und dem Jenseits der Machbarkeit im Horizont der Geschichtsphilosophie und der Hermeneutik befassen. Dabei geht es sowohl um die begrenzte Machbarkeit der Geschichte wie um die Grenze der Konstruktivität (und dem Gegenmotiv der Rezeptivität und Responsivität) im Umgang mit Sinn. Manfred Sommer, Bound to flatness and rectangularityThe lecture will deal with the discovery or invention of flatness and rectangularity during the so-called neolithic revolution, and then with the progressive and restrictive impact of these forms on what we can make and have already made in our culture.Nicholas Davey, Can Art make anything at all?The paper will discuss some of the paradoxes entailed in the suggestion by Heidegger and Gadamer that "art comes forth". How does the notion of "making" relate to the concept of "presentation"?Foundation for Research in Effective History Stiftung für wirkungsgeschichtliche Forschung Fondation de recherche en histoire efficiente www.svst.eu vaik@svst.eu Emil Angehrn ist seit 1991 Professor für Philosophie an der Universität Basel. Ein Schwerpunkt seiner Arbeit liegt in der Geschichtsphilosophie, aber aus einer Perspektive, die hermeneutische, politische und metaphysische Aspekte in ihrer Wechselbeziehung erforscht. Er hat zahlreiche Schriften veröffentlicht, u.a. Geschichtsphilosophie (1991), Die Überwindung des Chaos. Zur Philosophie des Mythos (1996), Der Weg zur Metaphysik. Vorsokratik, Platon, Aristoteles (2000), Interpretation und Dekonstruktion. Untersuchungen zur Hermeneutik (2003), Die Frage nach dem Ursprung. Philosophie zwischen Ursprungsdenken und Ursprungskritik (2007), Wege des Verstehens. Hermeneutik und Geschichtsdenken (2008) und zuletzt Sinn und Nicht-Sinn. Das Verstehen des Menschen (2010). Nicholas Davey is Professor of Philosophy and Dean of Humanities at the University of Dundee and President of the British Society of Phenomenology. One of the major representatives of continental philosophy in the English-speaking world he has written several texts on hermeneutics, aesthetics, philosophy of language, ontology, on Gadamer, Habermas, Dilthey and Nietzsche – the most recent one being Unquiet Understanding. Gadamer’s Philosophical Hermeneutics. At the University of Dundee he has been the initiator of the Arts and Humanities Research Institute. Manfred Sommer ist Professor emeritus an der Universität Kiel. Er ist Herausgeber der Schriften von Hans Blumenberg, hat über Wissenschaftsphilosophie und Phänomenologie gearbeitet und verbindet in seinem Denken sachbezogene Deutung mit einem ausgeprägten Sinn für die anthropologischen Aspekte unserer Erfahrung – so z.B. in Sammeln. Ein Philosophischer Versuch (2002) und Suchen und finden. Lebensweltliche Formen (2002). Zu den zentralen Schriften gehören neben den oben genannten auch Husserl und der frühe Positivismus (1985), Evidenz im Augenblick. Eine Phänomenologie der reinen Empfindung (1987), Identität im Übergang: Kant (1988), Lebenswelt und Zeitbewußtsein (1990) und Die Selbsterhaltung der Vernunft (1990). 05.03.2013
Professor Helen E. Longino (Stanford University, USA) will give a public lecture titled Epistemological, Ontological, Social Quandaries in the Sciences of Human Behavior. The lecture takes place on Tuesday 9th of April at 2 pm – 4 pm (Publicum, lecture hall PUB 4 at Assistentinkatu 7, 20014 University of Turku, Department of Social Research).
The themes of the lecture originate from Professor Longino’s recently published book Studying Human Behavior: How Scientists Investigate Aggression & Sexuality (The University of Chicago Press, 2013). A quotation from the book’s blurb: “Longino dissects five approaches to the study of behavior – quantitative behavior genetics, molecular behavior genetics, neurophysiology and anatomy, social/environmental methods, and a set of integrative approaches – highlighting the underlying assumptions of these disciplines, as well as the different questions and mechanisms each addresses. Longino concludes that there is no single ‘correct’ approach, arguing instead for a pluralistic perspective that recognizes the strengths and weaknesses of each.”
Helen E. Longino is Clarence Irving Lewis Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Stanford University. She is one of the key figures in the research field known as social epistemology. Longino’s publications include the books Science as Social Knowledge and The Fate of Knowledge.
For further information concerning the lecture please contact Seppo Poutanen (seppou at utu.fi).
28.02.2013
Kolmas Tila esittää — Tredje Rummet presenterar:
Nietzscheä etsimässä III: Nietzsche ja aikalaisetPå Spaning Efter Nietzsche III: Nietzsche och hans samtidaIn Search of Nietzsche III : Nietzsche and His Contemporaries 3.3. 12.30-18 Åbo Akademi, Arken, Armfelt Tehtaankatu 2 Welcome & Välkommen Hannu Salmi: Wagner, Nietzsche and the New Germany Joel Backström: Nietzsche and Freud - the problematics of ressentiment and repression Kristóf Fenyvesi: The Story of an Error - Friedrich Nietzsche's Dionysian Narrative Nietzsche + Strindberg + Qvinnan, ett läsdrama Manus & regi: Johanna Enckell I rollerna: Sofia Törnqvist Musik: Kari Mäkiranta n. 14.50-15.20 kahvitauko Hans Ruin: Att se i blindo - Nietzsche och den tragiska blicken (tulkataan suomeksi) Panel Discussion: Nietzsche and His Contemporaries Yhteistyössä/I samarbete med: Åbo Akademi Tapahtumaa ovat tukeneet/Med stöd av: Koneen säätiö, Turku 2011-säätiö, Varsinais- Suomen taidetoimikunta, valtion näyttämötaidetoimikunta, Suomen Kulttuurirahasto, Turun kaupunki https://www.facebook.com/events/242944432508425/ Utbildning: Introduktion till Filosofisk Praxis 9-12/5 på Ekskäret
Välkommen till 3 dygn av gemensamt filosoferande i vacker skärgårdsmiljö – med helpension!
Arrangörer och ledare: Tulsa Jansson och Kalle Grill. Tulsa är fil.mag. i filosofi och arbetar huvudsakligen som filosofisk praktiker. Hon är ordförande för Svenska Sällskapet för Filosofisk Praxis och gav förra året ut boken Du har svaren – filosofi till vardags. Kalle är fil.dr. i filosofi, arbetar som lektor och forskare i praktisk filosofi vid Umeå universitet och är på deltid verksam som filosofisk praktiker och samtalsledare.
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Plats: Ekskäret, en vacker ö i Stockholms norra skärgård. Se bilder och information på stiftelsenekskaret.se. Ekskäret ägs av Stiftelsen Ekskäret, som ger oss 50% rabatt på hyra av anläggningen.
Tid: Taxibåt går från Åsättra brygga, Österåker kl 15.00 torsdag 9/5. Taxibåt anländer Åsättrabrygga ca kl. 14.00 söndag 12/5.
Anmälan: Till Tulsa at philosophyatwork.com eller kalle at tankereda.se. Begränsat antal platser – max 25 deltagare, första 15 får enkelrum, sedan delat rum (våningssäng). 06.02.2013
CALL FOR PAPERS: Literary Fiction and Rationality
University of Tampere, Finland 30-31 May 2013 Plenary Speakers are: Garry Hagberg (Bard College) Elisabeth Schellekens (Durham University) Kathleen Stock (University of Sussex) Abstract submission deadline: 15 February 2013 Literature gives us a unique opportunity to examine persons and their lives. For example, literature may be seen as illuminating rationality and the different kinds of reasons that agents have for their actions, beliefs, and judgements. It also enables us to examine rationality as a property of a person, and reasons as constituted by the context of a person’s life narrative. Literature may also be considered a source of empirical, moral, and aesthetic reasons and beliefs. The purpose of this conference is to critically discuss these and other conceptions of the relation between literary fiction and rationality. We welcome paper submissions for the two-day conference, to be held in Tampere, Finland, on May 30-31 2013. Topics to be discussed might include, but are not limited to: - literature in the constitution of rationality - literature and human agency & action - irrationality in literature - rationality, irrationality, and creativity - rationality and literary interpretation Abstracts of up to 500 words should be submitted by email to Hanne Appelqvist: hanne.appelqvist[at]helsinki.f Leila Haaparanta Jukka Mikkonen Jenni Tyynelä Hanne Appelqvist The conference is organized by the research project Judgment and Human Rationality, funded by the Academy of Finland. For further information, go to: http://www.uta.fi/yky/judgemen 26.01.2013
MOVEMENT, AESTHETICS, ONTOLOGY
IV Annual Conference on the New Materialisms 16-17 May 2013, School of History, Culture and Arts Studies, University of Turku, Finland New materialist approaches are increasingly announced, articulated, exercised and contested across a gamut of often entwining research fields from art theory, media studies and feminist philosophy to sociology, gender and sexuality research, and science and environmental studies. In addition to the cross-evolving discussions in these areas, there is growing need to consider the connections but also specificity of new materialisms in relation to many contemporaneous intellectual developments, such as new forms of realism or post-human(ist) thought. Given these conditions, the fourth international conference on the new materialisms suggests that it is crucial to steer clear of “a manifesto quality” when arguing for the distinctiveness and cutting-edge relevance of new materialist approaches, a risk perceptively noted by Barbara Bolt (2013). Instead, theorists and practitioners involved in this endeavour need to inquire with insistence, rigour and creativity what might be the distinguishing concepts of new materialisms, accompanied by associated problems, theoretical inspirations, methodological choices, and socio-political, ethical significances. To encourage inquiries of this kind, the conference at the University of Turku invites scholars and postgraduate students of wide (trans-)disciplinary diversity to submit proposals for 20 minute presentations and for panels of maximum four papers in reference to three concepts. Variations of them seem to inform much of the research done in the name of new materialisms or linkable with these approaches. The concepts are movement, aesthetics, and ontology. Far from serving as prescriptive closures to what new materialisms involve, the concepts are offered here as condensation points of concerns that incarnate very differently depending on the context in which they are engaged. Yet, they are among the notions that arguably bring substance and consistency to new materialist modes of thinking and intervention – in ways both currently manifest and yet to be discovered. Movement pertains, for example, to the primacy given in many new materialist pursuits to process, emergence and the vibrancy of matter, whereas aesthetics may refer to the importance of sensation, affect, inter-/amodality or new sense- and feeling-based conceptions of politics. Ontology implicates a range of neomaterialist themes and affiliations from nature–culture continua to non-representational thought. ****** We look forward to receiving contributions of theoretical, empirical, practice-based and activist orientation that somehow explore, assess, elaborate or connect these concepts with regard to the formative stages, recent actualizations and future potential of new materialisms. The work of our distinguished keynote speakers is exemplary of the ways in which movement, aesthetics and ontology matter to and through new materialist examinations of the arts, the body, gender, technology, entanglements of materiality and sociality, and human–non-human relations. Topics of the presentation and panel proposals may include, as well as go beyond, the following: -continua of theory and practice; art and philosophy; material and social -methodologies: how to study processes, relations, affect, the new? -new or radical empiricism: how to take account of emergence and complexity? -revisiting aesthetics and politics -ontologies of art, object, sex, work, medium, etc. -neomaterialist analysis of social mobilities, activism, and economies -multisensory/intermodal movements of thinking and knowing Confirmed keynote speakers -Estelle Barrett (Communication & Creative Arts, Deakin University, Australia) -Barbara Bolt (Victoria College of Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia) -Patricia Pisters (Media and Film Studies, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) -Jukka Sihvonen (History, Culture & Arts Studies, University of Turku, Finland) -Iris van der Tuin (Gender Studies, Utrecht University, The Netherlands) -Cecilia Åsberg (The Posthumanities Hub: Gender Studies, Linköping University, Sweden) Proposals for panels and individual papers Abstracts should be sent in the following format: (1) Title (2) Presenter(s) (3) Institutional affiliation (4) Email (5) Abstract (individual proposals: 200-300 words; panel proposals: general description of 150-200 words, 200-300 words for each paper) Please use your surname as the document title. Abstracts for panels and twenty-minute presentations should be submitted as an email attachment to by Monday 4 February 2013. We are happy to consider both established and alternative presentation formats from academic papers to illustrations of artistic research practice, performance-talks, etc. We will advise all proposers of accepted presentations within two weeks of the deadline. Attendance and accommodation Attendance at this conference is free of charge. University of Turku cannot provide or book accommodation for presenters, but the conference website at http://movementaestheticsontology.wordpress.com/ will include information about places to stay and lunch and dinner possibilities in Turku once notifications of acceptance have been posted. PLEASE NOTE also the possibility to combine participation at the conference with attendance in the following seminar organized likewise in Turku: MATERIAL CONVERSATIONS: LANGUAGE, NATURE, POWER, Åbo Akademi University, Department of Social Sciences, May 15th, 2013. There is a separate registration for this event, for more information see: www.abo.fi/institution/en/materialconversations This conference is associated with the following conference series: -The international conference series on New Materialisms. The first conference ”New Materialisms and Digital Culture” was held at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge in June 2010 and the second ”Naturecultures” at the Utrecht University in April 2011. The third conference ”Entanglements of New Materialisms” was organized by Linköping University in May 2012. The keynote speakers of these events have included, among others, Stacy Alaimo, Donna Haraway, Vicki Kirby, Adrian MacKenzie and Anna Powell. This event is the 4th New Materialisms conference. -Rethinking Art Studies (REARS) conference series. The first conference ”Regulated Liberties: Negotiating Freedom in Art, Culture and Media” was held at the University of Turku in August 2009. Keynote speakers included Bracha Ettinger, Brian Massumi and Tiina Rosenberg. This event is the 2nd REARS conference. 
Aristotelian Themes in Dependence, Modality, and Essence, Workshop at the University of Helsinki, Saturday, January 26th 2013
Location: University Main Building, Fabianinkatu 33, room 8
Program 09:00 – 10:30 Lucas Angioni (Campinas, Brazil), ‘Essence, Causality and Necessity in Aristotle's Theory of Scientific Explanation’ 10:40 – 12:10 Michail Peramatzis (Oxford), ‘Essence and Necessity in Aristotle’ 12:10 – 13:10 Lunch 13:10 – 14:40 Tuomas Tahko (Helsinki), ‘Grounding Modality in Essence’ 14:50 – 16:20 Benjamin Schnieder (Hamburg), ‘Grounding and Dependence’ 16:30 – 18:00 Mika Perälä (Helsinki), ‘Aristotle on ouk aneu Dependence’
Attendance is free, but we would kindly ask you to e-mail either Mika Perälä (mika.perala at helsinki.fi) or Tuomas Tahko (tuomas.tahko at helsinki.fi) if you are planning to attend. Some of the papers will be available for pre-reading, please contact Mika or Tuomas for further details.
The workshop is organized by Dr. Mika Perälä and Dr. Tuomas Tahko and is funded by Mika Perälä’s Academy of Finland project Aristotle on Memory and the Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies, University of Helsinki.
18.01.2013
Call for Papers: Women, Truth, Action, An International Conference in Philosophy
10–12, October, 2013, University of Helsinki, Finland Keynote Speakers include: Lena Halldenius (Sweden), Sally Haslanger (USA), Alice Pugliese (Italy), Lanei Rodemayer (USA) and Charlotte Witt (USA) We hereby invite abstracts for papers to the forthcoming conference Women, Truth, Action, at the University of Helsinki. The conference will focus on three fields and themes informed by the gender perspective: phenomenology (“Subject, Body, World”), contemporary metaphysics (“Meaning and Objectivity”), and politics (“Action and Change”). The conference is motivated by the fact that in all these fields women philosophers work with excellent results and with innovative approaches. We wish to bring together women scholars from different philosophical traditions – analytic and continental – as well as from history of philosophy so that they can share their insights on common topics of interest and establish a dialogue across dividing lines that mainly are dogmatic and seldom beneficial for female scholars. We welcome proposals from senior researchers as well as from graduate students. Proposals should consist of a suggested title and an abstract (max. 400 words). Proposals will be blind reviewed. Please, provide the title of the paper, your name, affiliation and contact information in the cover letter. Remember to give the same title in the abstract and in the cover letter! Deadline for submission: April 1, 2013. Submitters will be notified of the decisions by May 1, 2013. To submit a proposal, send it as an email attachment and with a cover letter to Virpi Lehtinen (virpi.lehtinen at helsinki.fi). Please, include the title of the proposal also to the covering letter. Ensure that the subject line of the email reads: WTA 2013 Proposal. Organizers: Sara Heinämaa’s Project Ethics of Renewal (HCAS, UH, AF) and The Association for Women and Feminist Philosophers in Finland (NFY) Sponsors: Finnish Cultural Foundation, Subjectivity, Historicity and Communality (SHC), Philosophical Psychology, Morality and Politics Research Unit (PMP) Organization Committee: Virpi Lehtinen, Sara Heinämaa, Martina Reuter, Erika Ruonakoski and Sanna Tirkkonen (University of Helsinki) For more information: http://www.helsinki.fi/erbm/ev Workshop, “Philosophical and Historical Perspectives on Interdisciplinarity: Beyond the 'Two Cultures' Debate” Date: 1-2 February 2013 Venue: Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Fabianinkatu 24, Helsinki
http://www.helsinki.fi/collegium/events/interdisciplinarity/index.htm
This international workshop is part of a series of workshops based on the trilateral collaboration, inaugurated in 2011, among the Forum Scientiarum (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen), the Vienna Circle Institute (Universität Wien), and the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. Through this cooperation the three institutes involved seek to deepen our understanding of fundamental philosophical and methodological issues of scientific inquiry, as well as the place of science in modern culture and society. The workshops in this series are primarily philosophically focused but intended for a wide interdisciplinary audience.
The workshop, "Philosophical and Historical Perspectives on Interdisciplinarity: Beyond the 'Two Cultures' Debate", to be hosted by the HCAS will contribute to the on-going debates on the nature and significance of interdisciplinarity - a key topic for any institute for advanced study. In particular, the "two cultures" debate concerning the relation between science and the humanities will be reconsidered from this perspective.
Programme
Friday, 1 February 14:00 Sami Pihlström (Helsinki): Opening of the Symposium 14:15-15:30 Keynote Chair: Sami Pihlström ·Chancellor Ilkka Niiniluoto (Helsinki): The Challenge of Interdisciplinarity 15:30-16:00 coffee break 16:00-18:00 Session I Chair: Risto Saarinen ·Friedrich Stadler (Vienna): From 'Methodenstreit' to the 'Science Wars' - On the Interaction and Competition between the Natural, Social and Cultural Sciences ·Uskali Mäki (Helsinki): Interdisciplinary Give and Take: Generalizable Dynamics with Illustrations from the Case of Economics ·Donata Romizi (Vienna): The Question of Scientific Determinism in Philosophical, Historical and Cultural Context: From Newton to Statistical Mechanics
Saturday 2 February 10:00-12:00 Session II Chair: tba ·Michael Heidelberger (Tübingen): Types of Interdiciplinarity in the Late 19th Century ·Niels Weidtmann (Tübingen): Back to the Phenomena by Means of Interdisciplinarity? ·Sara Heinämaa (Helsinki): The Request of Interdisciplinarity and the Task of Philosophizing 12:00-13:30 lunch break 13:30-16:00 Session III Chair: tba ·Tarja Knuuttila (Helsinki): Interdisciplinarity at the Grassroots Level: The Modeling Practice of Synthetic Biology ·Giovanni Rubeis (Tübingen): Naturalizing Anthropology. How Science Creates Man 14.45-15:00 Coffee break ·Georg Koridze (Tübingen): William James and Moritz Schlick ·Christoph Limbeck-Lilienau (Vienna): Perceptual Representation in Philosophy and Psychology
MA Contemporary European Philosophy is a unique, 18-month programme offering students an international and interlinguistic orientation in current philosophical work in the Modern European Tradition. Students spend the autumn semester in London, the spring semester in Paris, and the final six months working on a dissertation in either city. The programme combines the strengths of Kingston's CRMEP with the renowned expertise and experience of the Philosophy Department at Paris 8. A good reading knowledge of French is a requirement for admission to the programme. Language support is offered in London in semester 1. For further details go to: http://www.kingston.ac.uk/
CRMEP is also offering a £2000 scholarship for each of our three, one-year, taught MA programmes MA Aesthetics and Art Theory MA Modern European Philosophy MA Philosophy and Contemporary Critical Theory All applications to these MAs received by Friday 19 April 2013 will automatically be considered for these scholarships. For further details of these MAs go to: http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/ The MA teaching team in CRMEP currently includes: Éric Alliez Étienne Balibar Howard Caygill Peter Hallward Catherine Malabou Peter Osborne Stella Sandford Enquiries: S.Sandford at kingston.ac.uk 28.11.2012
In the next HPRS session Tuesday 4.12.2012, 18:00-19:45, in Porthania 617 (Yliopistonkatu 3, Helsinki) Alan Coffee (Kings College London), "Slave narrative and the republican tradition”
PLEASE NOTE THAT EXCEPTIONALLY THE SEMINAR TAKES PLACE AT NIGHT FROM 18:00 ONWARDS (no academic quarter) 27.11.2012
Conference: The Metaphysics of Culture - The Philosophy of Joseph Margolis
Helsinki, Finland 20-21 May 2013 Joseph Margolis’ philosophical career stretches over several decades. A major figure of contemporary pragmatism, he is especially known for his systematic defense of relativism and for emphasizing the historical character of human thinking and inquiry. This conference is devoted to the different aspects of Margolis’ vast philosophical work and its contemporary relevance. Its keynote speakers are Joseph Margolis and Christopher Hookway. The event is organized by the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, The Philosophical Society of Finland, The Finnish Society for Aesthetics and the Nordic Pragmatism Network. The organizers invite paper proposals to the conference programme. Please send an abstract of 400-500 words to by 31 January 2013. The organizers reserve the right to select presentations based on interest and suitability to the overall conference theme. For more information and the full call for papers, please see the conference webpage at: http://www.nordprag.org/moc.ht Professori emeritus Zygmunt Bauman luennoi Kuvataideakatemiassa 22.11. Sosiologi, Leedsin yliopiston professori emeritus Zygmunt Bauman pitää torstaina 22.11.2012 klo 18-20 Kuvataideakatemiassa luennon Culture between State and Market (Kaikukatu 4, auditorio, 1. kerros). Tilaisuus on kaikille avoin. Paikkoja rajoitetusti. Zygmunt Bauman (s. 1925) on puolanjuutalaissyntyinen sosiologi, joka tunnetaan erityisesti holokaustin merkityksen tulkinnasta suhteessa moderniin sekä postmodernin konsumerismin tutkimuksesta. Lisätietoja 17.11.2012
CALL FOR PAPERS
Literary Fiction and Rationality University of Tampere, Finland 30-31 May 2013 Plenary Speakers are: Garry Hagberg (Bard College) Elisabeth Schellekens (Durham University) Kathleen Stock (University of Sussex) Abstract submission deadline: 15 February 2013 Literature gives us a unique opportunity to examine persons and their lives. For example, literature may be seen as illuminating rationality and the different kinds of reasons that agents have for their actions, beliefs, and judgements. It also enables us to examine rationality as a property of a person, and reasons as constituted by the context of a person’s life narrative. Literature may also be considered a source of empirical, moral, and aesthetic reasons and beliefs. The purpose of this conference is to critically discuss these and other conceptions of the relation between literary fiction and rationality. We welcome paper submissions for the two-day conference, to be held in Tampere, Finland, on May 30-31 2013. Topics to be discussed might include, but are not limited to: - literature in the constitution of rationality - literature and human agency & action - irrationality in literature - rationality, irrationality, and creativity - rationality and literary interpretation Abstracts of up to 500 words should be submitted by email to Hanne Appelqvist: hanne.appelqvist[at]helsinki.f Leila Haaparanta Jukka Mikkonen Jenni Tyynelä Hanne Appelqvist The conference is organized by the research project Judgment and Human Rationality, funded by the Academy of Finland. For further information, go to: http://www.uta.fi/yky/judgemen |
