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Aboagora: "The Human Machine"; 13-15 August, Turku

toimittaja — Mon, 13 May 2013 21:40:36 +0300

Sisältö: 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

Bioetiikan tutkimuksen tila ja tulevaisuus Suomessa; 26.-27.9., Helsinki

toimittaja — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 16:59:17 +0300

Sisältö: 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/bioetiikanseminaari/

Ilmoittautumiset ja abstraktit pyydetään lähettämään osoitteeseen:
johanna.ahola-launonen at helsinki.fi

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

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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/bioetiikanseminaari/

Please send abstracts and registrations to:
johanna.ahola-launonen at helsinki.fi

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/The Westermarck Memorial Lecture 15.5., Helsinki

toimittaja — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 16:51:05 +0300

Sisältö: 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.

Cfp; International and Interdisciplinary Conference: Culture, Values and Justice, 21-23 May 2014, Vaasa

toimittaja — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 16:40:36 +0300

Sisältö:

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

Cfp; Scandinavian-Russian Enlightenment symposium in St.Petersburg 29-30 August

toimittaja — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:00:50 +0300

Sisältö: 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.html. The papers of the 2012 symposium will be published soon.

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/crm/index.html (the Enlightenment symposia are part of Cluster 5).

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.

11th Annual Collegium Lecture: Prof. Nancy Fraser: Can society be commodities all the way down?; May 29, Helsinki

toimittaja — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:46:12 +0300

Sisältö:

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!

"Søren Kierkegaard 200 vuotta" -seminaari; 24.4., Helsinki

toimittaja — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:47:32 +0300

Sisältö:

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 
Plats: TING-salen, Kulturkontakt Nord, Kajsaniemigatan 9

Servering. Inträdet är gratis. Evenemanget är på engelska. Hjärtligt välkomna!

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Tänä keväänä tulee kuluneeksi 200 vuotta maailman tunnetuimman pohjoismaisen filosofin, Søren Kierkegaardin syntymästä. Pohjoismainen kulttuuripiste juhlistaa merkkivuotta järjestämällä seminaarin Kierkegaardin filosofiasta keskiviikkona 24. huhtikuuta. Keskusteluun osallistuvat tanskalaisen Søren Kierkegaard -tutkimuslaitoksen johtaja, FT Pia Søltoft sekä suomalainen Kierkegaard-tutkija, dosentti Janne Kylliäinen.

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  
Paikka: TING-sali, Pohjoismainen kulttuuripiste, Kaisaniemenkatu 9

Tarjoilu. Vapaa pääsy. Tilaisuus järjestetään englanniksi. Tervetuloa!

Filosoficafé i Åbo 28.4.2013 - Martin Gustafsson

Jonas — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:14:58 +0300

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

International Symposium on Foucault; 28th June, Helsinki

toimittaja — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 17:50:00 +0300

Sisältö: 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

International conference Literary Fiction and Rationality, University of Tampere, May 30-31

toimittaja — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 19:45:30 +0300

Sisältö: 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)

Rodolphe Gasché luennoi Franz Kafkasta; 15.4., Turku

toimittaja — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:57:18 +0300

Sisältö:

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)

Philosophical Seminar: "The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir: Ambiguity and Embodied Subjectivity.", 15th April, Helsinki

toimittaja — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 00:24:49 +0200

Sisältö:

The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir: Ambiguity and Embodied Subjectivity.
A Philosophical Seminar. April 15, 2013. Helsinki.

Fabianinkatu 24, Helsinki Collegium of Advanced Studies
Seminar Room 136, 1st floor

Since Simone de Beauvoir’s death on the 14th of April 1986, her philosophical work has gained increasing attention and a multitude of volumes have been published on her arguments and reflections. Beauvoir developed an insightful description of situated and embodied subjectivity and clarified the structures of such a subject by investigating into the themes of sexuality, aging, mortality, historicity and literary communication.

The seminar illuminates Beauvoir’s contribution to feminist scholarship and existential-phenomenological philosophy that were the two main frameworks of her studies. The aim is to compare her arguments and insights to those of her contemporaries as well as to later feminist thinkers. The speakers are also invited to experiment with Beauvoir’s ideas with the aim of developing them further.

PROGRAM (tentative)

10.00 Opening by Sara Heinämaa
10.15–11.45 Christine Daigle (Brock University): The Feminist Phenomenology of Beauvoir: Rethinking Subjectivity
11.45–12.45 Lunch
12.45–13.30 Ebba Witt-Brattsröm: TBA
13.30–14.15 Sara Heinämaa (University of Helsinki): Beauvoir and Irigaray: Two Feminist Ethics of the Present
14.15–14.30 Coffee
14.30–15.45 Sara Cohen-Shabot (University of Haifa): Laboring Bodies, Lost Selves: In Search of the Embodied Subject in Childbirth. A Beauvoirian Analysis
15.15–16.00 Erika Ruonakoski (University of Helsinki): Communicating Loss: A Beauvoirian Interpretation of an Ancient Greek Epigram
16.00–16.15 Coffee
16.15–17.00 Hanna Lukkari (University of Helsinki): A Beauvoirian Analysis of Human Rights and Liberation

Organizers: Research Community Subjectivity, Historicity, Communality (SHC), Research Project Ethics of Renewal, Research Project Empathising with the Non-Human Other in Ancient Greek Literature, and The Association for Women and Feminist Philosophers in Finland (NFY).

For more information:
http://nfyx.wordpress.com/in-english/the-lecagy-of-simone-de-beauvoir-ambiguity-and-embodied-subjectivity/

Cfp; The Political Economy of the Commons; 25th May, Helsinki

toimittaja — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 00:19:35 +0200

Sisältö:

Call For Papers: The Political Economy of the Commons
(Seminar at the University of Helsinki 25th May 2013)

In the past two decades the commons has become a widely debated concept within various academic disciplines, such as environmental studies, social sciences, law and political economy. The commons has also become a central part of the vocabulary of contemporary social movements.

The commons is often seen as an alternative to ”the market economy”, as well as the capitalist mode of production and its core element, the commodity form. The abundant logics of network commons, apparent for instance in open code and varieties of peer-to-peer production, would thus stand in an antagonistic relationship to commodification of knowledge by means of copyrights and patents. It has also been argued, for example, that new commons can be identified when non-commodified social relations are strengthened through arrangements such as collaborative consumption and participatory budgeting.

On the other hand, it can be argued that the future of capitalist societies will depend on the appropriation of the production of the commons. In this case the commons is not seen so much as an alternative to but more as a consolidation of capitalism. For example the post-Fordist organisation of work can embrace autonomy, democracy and commons-based production, but it is also constantly coming up with new ways to capture and commodify the value produced from the commons.

We welcome papers that aim to engage with these already existing divergent debates on the commons, as well as ones proposing new critical perspectives on the political economy of the commons. We are also interested in questions on the relationships between the commons and democracy, social movements, nation states and world politics. Possible themes could include, but are not limited to, the following theoretical questions:

- 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?

The event will take place as a part of Professor Teivo Teivainen’s research seminar on Global Capitalism on the 25th of May 2013. The keynote speech will be given by Professor Tere Vadén from Aalto University.

Abstracts of no more than 200 words should be sent to Tero Toivanen (tero.toivanen at helsinki.fi). The deadline for the abstracts is 18th of April 2013. The seminar is co-organised by the Department of Political and Economic Studies of the University of Helsinki and the Commons.fi online journal.

Väitöstilaisuus: Jyrki Kivelä, "On the Affinities Between Hume and Kierkegaard"; 16.3., Helsinki

toimittaja — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 01:32:25 +0200

Sisältö: 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" 27.4

yrsa — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 09:31:23 +0200

Sisältö: 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 rectangularity

The 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).