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Between Bodies

– emotion • sense • affect –

The second Uppsala University Body/Embodiment Symposium

November 18-19, 2010

Emotion and affect lie at the very heart of our understandings of the world: subjectivity is embedded and embodied and bodies, in their very being, are transgressive and transgressed as the ‘self’ and ‘the world’ bleed into one another through the various porosities of the senses. Such sensory immediacy highlights both the temporal primacy of our senses in understandings of the world but also the way in which particular senses demand attention at particular times in particular contexts. Thus not only are the senses, emotions, and affect, primary to our perception of the world, but they also operate within personal, cultural and political orderings dependent on the positioning of the individual, collective, species. Thus, affecto-emotional registers foster attachment to place, are dependent on space, cultures, technologies; they delineate, reinforce, undermine and are dependent on the material and cultural boundaries which we hold as significant. They are overarched by the multiplicity of approaches, theories and conceptual frameworks that decide which sense(s), emotion(s), affects are significant and how they should be (re)presented. Further, the endemic anthropocentricism of these frameworks has shaped which sensory immediacies are prioritised along the strata of animality, with concepts of sense, subjectivity and emotion simultaneously deployed to police the various divides between human and animal, and also to create the contact zones where human-animal encounters become most apparent.

The symposium takes its point of departure from the role of the body as a centre for emotions, sensations and affectivity. It enquires into the relation between inner emotions and their expression in outer forms of behavior. It questions the role of emotion and affectivity as foundational for intellectual life, for thinking, rationality and communication. It highlights the vast milieu of meetings between human and animal, nature and technology, self and other and places focus on bodily boundaries, points of meeting/melting/tension, kinship and skinship between bodies; making manifest the interrelationality of drawing boundaries and constituting singularities, differences and commonalities. Confirmed Key note speakers are Eva Hayward (University of New Mexico) and Myra Hird (Queens University).

We welcome papers from both within and beyond academia on a wide range of topics within the scope of the overarching theme of the symposium. Please send one page proposals by August 31, 2010 to body(at)gender.uu.se. For questions or further information, please contact the conference organizers Jacob Bull (jacob.bull(at)gender.uu.se) and Lisa Folkmarson Käll (lisa.kall(at)gender.uu.se).
  

Embodiment, Intersubjectivity and Psychopathology

International Conference, University of Heidelberg 30 Sept.-2 Oct. 2010

Website, program and early registration (before 15th of August):
www.eip-conference2010.unitt.de

During the last decade, the concept of embodiment has become a key paradigm of interdisciplinary approaches from the areas of philosophy, psychology, psychiatry and neuroscience. The body is no longer merely considered as an interesting input for the brain or mind. The new trend is to link embodiment, cognition and emotion in a deeper way, and this has particular repercussions for understanding our social engagements. This in turn has implications for psychopathology and psychotherapy, because embodied and intersubjective views on mental illness can offer new insights useful for diagnosis and remediation.

The conference is aimed at creating an interdisciplinary forum for the exchange of ideas on the themes of embodiment, intersubjectivity and their role in psychopathology. It brings together worldwide experts from the fields of developmental psychology, philosophy, and psychopathology, in order to advance on some key questions for this research area, among them:

    * What is embodied intersubjectivity? In how far is our relationships with others mediated by the body?

    * What is the role that embodied intersubjectivity plays for the development of social cognition?

    * How can mental illness be conceived from an embodied and enactive point of view?

    * What is the use of the notion of embodiment for therapy and training?

The conference is also intended to inaugurate the recently established Karl-Jaspers-Chair for Philosophical Foundations of Psychiatry at the University of Heidelberg.

Main Speakers:
Ezequiel Di Paolo, Matthew Ratcliffe, Beata Stawarska, Dan Zahavi (Philosophy)
Peter and Jessica Hobson, Vasudevi Reddy, Colwyn Trevarthen, Ed Tronick (Developmental Psychology)
Jonathan Cole, George Downing, Giovanni Stanghellini (Neurology, Psychology, Psychiatry)

The conference is conceived as an event that is more-than-usually intersubjective in its organisation. Apart from the keynote presentations delivered by experts, we have dedicated about half the time to specialised workshops. This will allow all participants to actively engage with and discuss the topics of the main talks.

We are looking forward to an interesting exchange of views on one of the key questions of current research.
 
Contact:                        eip-conference2010(at)uni-heidelberg.de
Further information:    www.eip-conference2010.unitt.de
Venue:                           Old Lecture Hall, University of Heidelberg
 

Set Theory, Model Theory, Generalized Quantifiers and Foundations of Mathematics: Meeting in Honor of Jouko Väänänen's 60th Birthday

The conference takes place 16-18 September 2010
There will be two tutorials 13-15 September 2010

Venue:
Pieni Juhlasali, Main Building of the University of Helsinki, Fabianinkatu 33, Helsinki, Finland.

This meeting, organized by the Helsinki Logic Group, is in honour of Professor Jouko Väänänen's sixtieth birthday. Topics include model theory, set theory, foundations of mathematics, logic in computer science, semantics of natural language, games, generalized quantifiers, infinitary languages, and abstract logic.

Further information:
http://www.helsinki.fi/~kulikov/jouko/
 

”Virtuous Agency: On the Development and Practice of the Virtues”
Uppsala 9-10.9.2010

Workshopen ordnas inom ramen för det av RJ finansierade forskningsprojektet
Understanding Agency.

Alla intresserade är varmt välkomna! (Vi kan tyvärr inte erbjuda ersättning för eventuella rese- eller boendekostnader, men alla är välkomna till Receptionen vid Filosofiska institutionen i Uppsala på torsdagskvällen där det kommer att serveras gratis buffé och dryck.

Vänligen meddela Frans Svensson (frans.svenssona(a)filosofi.uu.se), om ni vill delta vid Receptionen.)

Schemat ser preliminärt ut på följande sätt:

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Torsdagen 9/9 (Sal I, Universitetshuset)

9.00-9.15: Inledning

9.15-10.45 Daniel Farnham (College of St. Benedict/St. Johns University): TBA

Paus

11.00-12.30 Hallvard Fossheim (Oslo Universitet): “Strategies, Self-Help, and Virtue Ethics”

Lunch

14.00-15.30 Daniel C Russell (Wichita State University/University of Arizona): “The Unity of the Virtues: How and Why I Believe It”

Paus

15.45-17.15 Gösta Grönroos (Stockholms Universitet): ”Vice and Mental Conflict in Aristotle”

17.45 Reception vid Filosofiska institutionen (Thunbergsvägen 3H, Engelska Parken)

Fredagen 10/9 (Sal VIII, Universitetshuset)

9.00-10.30 Johan Brännmark (Lunds Universitet): “Grades of Rightness: A Virtue-Ethical Account”

Paus

10.45-12.15 Uri Leibowitz (Nottingham University): TBA

Lunch

13.45-15.15 Joel Martinez (College of Lewis & Clarke): “Aristotle and Practical Wisdom”

Paus

15.30-17.00 Anne Baril (University of Notre Dame): TBA

Paus

17.15-18.45 Frans Svensson (Uppsala Universitet): ”Descartes on Happiness, Wellbeing and Their Relation to Virtue”
 

STALINISM – WHAT IT WAS ABOUT?

An international conference on the problems of the methodology of Stalinism research arranged by Aleksanteri Institute (University of Helsinki), Unioninkatu 33, 2nd floor

3rd—4th of September, 2010

The Aleksanteri Institute is arranging a symposium on the phenomen of Stalinism in Helsinki in the first week of September (Week 35, 3.—4. 9. 2010). In recent times, the discussions about the nature of the Stalin rule in the Soviet Union from the 1930’s to the 1950’s and the impacts of Stalinism in the international agenda have been resurfing, partly no doubt because the end of the Cold War and the demise of ideological clichés connected with it, partly thanks to the opening of Soviet archives, which makes the concrete assessment of Stalinist policy and the amount of its victims more reliable. The ”totalitarism theory”, which hitherto has been prevailing in the West as an explanation of the Stalinism phenomen, has been increasingly criticised as insufficient and superficial, although it undoubtedly did grasp some aspects of the Stalin regime. However, no consensus as regards to the causal and historical explanation of Stalinism has yet been achieved, but there are many concurring interpretations, starting from the heterodox Marxist attempts to interpret the USSR of the Stalin period as a ”state capitalist” or ”developmental” dictatorship, to recent American analyses of Stalinism as a form of civilization sui generis. In the symposium we intend to focus on the different explanatory models of Stalinism as a political, sociological and cultural phenomen and discuss the methodological approaches to it.

The symposium will be accompanied by two open lectures for a wider public, held in Swedish and Finnish.


FRIDAY 3TH OF SEPTEMBER
10.00 KATALIN MIKLOSSY (Dr., Aleksanteri Institute, Helsinki) – Opening words

10.15 – 10.45 MIKHAIL MASLOVSKIY (prof., Nizhni Novgorod State University) – Towards A Neo- Weberian Historical Sociology of Stalinism

10.45 – 11.15 LENNART SAMUELSON (doc., Östekonomiska institutet, Stockholm) – Interpretations of Stalinism: Historiographical Patterns since the 1930s and the Role of the ”Archival Revolution” since the 1990s

11.15 – 11.45 IAIN LAUCHLAN (prof., University of Edinburgh) – Feliks Dzerzhinskij and the Origins of Stalinism

11.45 – 12.15 Discussion

12.15. -- 14.15 Lunch

14.15 – Discussion continues

OPEN LECTURES
Lecture Room XII, Main Building of the Helsinki University

17.00—18.00 LENNART SAMUELSON (doc., Östekonomiska institutet, Stockholm) – Vad har de ryska arkivens öppnande sedan 1900-talet betytt för vår kunskap om Stalin och stalinismen?

18.00—19.00 MARKKU KANGASPURO (Dr., Aleksanteri Institute, Helsinki) – Neuvosto-Karjala – vaihtoehtoinen malli stalinismille?


SATURDAY 4TH OF SEPTEMBER
(The papers will be presented in two parallel sections)

  Sectio I
10.00 – 10.30 ELENA HUBER (Dr., Universität für angewandte Kunst, Wien) – Pro-women-policy or the Renewed Appreciation of Feminine Styles in the Stalin period

10.30—11.00 TOMI HUTTUNEN (Dr., University of Helsinki) – Russian Culture and Stalinism

11.00 – 11.30 ELINA VILJANEN (Aleksanteri Institute, Helsinki) – Towards Stalinism: Methodology of Sovietization of a Musical Academician

Discussion

Lunch

14.00 – 14.30 A. JAN KUTYLOWSKI (Dr., Polish Academy of Sciences and University of Oslo) – Stalinism from the Viewpoint of Sociosciences: Reflections on the Origins, Underlying Intertemporal Factors, Decay and Fall

14.30 – 15.00 MARKKU KANGASPURO (Dr., Aleksanteri Institute, Helsinki) – Stalinism as a Structural Choice of the Soviet Society and its Alternatives

15.00 – Discussion

  Sectio II
10.00 – 10.30 VALENTIN NICOLESCU (Dr., National School of Political Science and Public Administration, Bucharest) – Defining Stalinism: An Ideological Approach

10.30 – 11.00 JUTTA SCHERRER (Dr., Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris) – Interpretations of Stalin and Stalinism in Russian History Schoolbooks Today

11.00—11.30 Discussion

Lunch

14.00 – 14.30 CARLOS REBELLO DE MENDONCA (Prof., Rio de Janeiro State University) – Trotsky’s Thermidor Thesis: A Necessary Reassesment

14.30 – 15.00 VESA OITTINEN (prof., Aleksanteri Institute) – Stalin as ”World Spirit Embodied”: the Hegelian Interpretations of the Phenomen of Stalinism in Lukács and Bukharin

15.00— Discussion

Minor changes in the programme are yet possible
 

Eino Kaila 120 Years

Porthania, Lecture Hall P722, Thursday, September 2, 2010

Organizers:
Department of Philosophy, History, Culture, and Art Studies, University of Helsinki     & Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies

Programme:

10.00-10.10    Opening
10.10-11.00    Matthias Neuber (University of Tübingen): From Carnap to Kaila – A Neglected Transition in the History of Philosophy
11.00-11.45    Juha Manninen (University of Oulu): From “Carnap’s Circle” to the Book on Human Knowledge
11.45-13.00    lunch break
13.00-13.45    Jaakko Hintikka (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies & Boston University): Invariance and Causality: On the Conceptual Background of Kaila’s Ideas
13.45-14.30    Matti Sintonen (University of Helsinki): Kaila on the Aristotelian and the Galilean Traditions in Science
14.30-15.00    coffee break
15.00-15.45    Ilkka Niiniluoto (University of Helsinki): Kaila’s Critique of Metaphysics
15.45-16.30    Anssi Korhonen (University of Helsinki): Eino Kaila’s Scientific Philosophy
16.30-16.45    break
16.45-17.30    Sami Pihlström (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies & University of Jyväskylä): Kaila on Pragmatism and Religion
17.30-18.15    Mikko Salmela (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies): Kaila on Ethics

Free entrance!
 

The metaphysics of causality, causal powers and dispositions
Monday, August 30, 2010.

An International workshop at the Department of Behavioural Sciences and Philosophy, University of Turku.

Lecture room 150, Publicum, Assistentinkatu 7.

Program:

9.30
Stephen Mumford (University of Nottingham):
Spoils to the Vector

10.45
Rani Lill Anjum (University of Nottingham & University of Oslo)
Causal production without necessitation

lunch

13.30
Panu Raatikainen (University of Helsinki):
Causal powers and reduction

14.20
Jussi Jylkkä (University of Turku):
Categoricalism, dispositionalism and the question of intrinsic nature

15.10
Markku Keinänen (University of Turku):
Natural kinds of powerful particulars

espresso

16.10
Valtteri Viljanen (University of Turku):
Aristotelians, Spinoza, Leibniz, and the two paths to intrinsic power

17.00
Jani Hakkarainen (University of Tampere):
Why does Hume think that power is unknown?

17.50       
Closing

Welcome!


The workshop is organized by the Academy of Finland research project "Tropes, change and dispositional essentialism".

Further information: Markku Keinänen, markku.keinanen[at]utu.fi

http://users.utu.fi/mkeina/Dispositions.pdf
 

Workshop on Berkeley’s Social and Moral Philosophy

University of Helsinki, Department of Political and Economic Studies, in co-operation with Philosophical Psychology, Morality and Politics Research Unit

August 27-28 2010
Helsinki, Unioninkatu 40 (Metsätalo), lecture room 10


Friday 27th

Chair: Roomet Jakapi (Tartu)

09:30-10:00 Ville Paukkonen: Introduction

10:00-11:00 Matti Häyry (Manchester/ Helsinki): George Berkeley’s Sermon on Passive Obedience as a Dissertation in Applied Political Philosophy

11:15-11:30 Break

11:30-12:30 Dan Flage (James Madison University): Berkeley's Ethics in Passive Obedience

12:30-13:30 Ville Paukkonen (Helsinki): Is Berkeley’s Moral Knowledge Notional?

13:30-14:30 Lunch

Chair: Matti Häyry

14:30-15:30 Laurent Jaffro (Sorbonne): Berkeley and Shaftesbury on Punishment and Desert

15:30-15:45 Break

15:45-16:45 Daniele Bertini (Parma): Berkeley and Free Will


Saturday 28th

Chair: Mikko Tolonen

09:30-10:30  Bertil Belfrage (Lund): George Berkeley’s Fundamentalism: A Passing Phase in his Moral Philosophy (1712-1730)

10:30-10:45 Break

10:45-11:45 Marta Szymañska (Kraców): Patriotism and Berkeley's Philosophy

11:45-12:45 Juhana Lemetti (Helsinki): Berkeley and Hobbes on Active and Passive Obedience

12:45-13:45 Lunch

Chair: Juhana Lemetti

13:45-14:45 Eric Schliesser (Ghent): Berkeley and Smithian Political Economy

14:45-15:45 Mikko Tolonen (Helsinki): Bernard Mandeville's Answer to Berkeley

15:45-16:00 Break

16:00-17:00 Tom Jones (St. Andrews): Making Sense of our Daily Practice: the Quotidian, the Ordinary and the Practical in Alciphron


For further information please contact Ville Paukkonen (ville.paukkonen(at)helsinki.fi)
 

The Academy of Finland research project The Possibility of Metaphysics in Twentieth Century and Contemporary Philosophy organizes an international conference at the University of Tampere on

MONISM, PLURALISM, AND METAPHYSICS

25 – 27 August 2010

Program:
[updated 17.8.2010]

Wed 25 August [Pinni B1097]

10.00 - 10.15  Opening words, Leila Haaparanta

10.15 - 11.45  Dan Flage (James Madison University): On Lockean Ideas

11.45 - 13.00  Lunch

13.00 - 13.40  Tim De Mey (University of Ghent): About Nothing At All? Notes on the
Metaphysics of Fiction

13.40 - 14.20  Mirja Hartimo (University of Helsinki): Husserlian phenomenology and
contemporary trends in philosophy of mathematics

14.20 - 15.00  Leila Haaparanta (University of Tampere): Judging, Judgment and Being: A Constructivist Point of View

15.00 - 16.00  Coffee

16.00 - 16.40  Valtteri Viljanen (University of Turku): Activity and Passivity in
Spinoza's Substance Monism and in Leibniz's Substance Pluralism

16.40 - 17.20  Omri Boehm (LMU Munich / New School for Social Research): Kant's
Regulative Monism

17.20 - 18.00  Jani Hakkarainen (University of Tampere): Hume's Argument for the
Ontological Independence of Properties


Thu 26 August [Paavo Koli Hall]

10.15 - 11.45  Michael Della Rocca (Yale University): Playing with Fire: Hume,
Rationalism, and a Little Bit of Spinoza

11.45 - 13.00  Lunch

13.00 - 13.40  Susanna Lindberg (University of Helsinki): The Remains of Romantic
Philosophy of Nature: Being as Life or the Plurality of Living Beings

13.40 - 14.20  Sami Pihlström (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies): William James's Pluralism

14.20 - 15.00  Anssi Korhonen (University of Helsinki): "The comfortable pluralism now so often taken for granted"

15.00 - 16.00  Coffee

16.00 - 16.40  Markku Keinänen (University of Turku): Against Determinable Universals

16.40 - 17.20  Antti Keskinen (University of Tampere): Quine's Critique of Modal Logic and his Conception of Objects

17.20 - 18.00  Jenni Tyynelä (University of Tampere): Fictional Metaphysics: On the De Re Modalities of Fictional Characters


Fri 27 August [Paavo Koli Hall]

10.15 - 11.45  Stephen Mumford (University of Nottingham): The Interrelatedness of Powers

11.45 - 13.00  Lunch

13.00 - 14.30  Rani Lill Anjum (University of Oslo & University of Nottingham):
Causation, Dispositions and Modality

14.30 - 15.30  Coffee

15.30 - 16.10  Heikki J. Koskinen (University of Tampere): Notes on Persons as Primitive Substances

16.10 - 16.50  Hanne Appelqvist (University of Helsinki): Apocalypse Now. Wittgenstein's Early Remarks on Immortality

16.50 - 17.00  Closing


For further information concerning the event, contact Heikki J. Koskinen, Department of History and Philosophy, 33014 University of Tampere, Finland (e-mail: heikki.j.koskinen(at)kolumbus.fi)
 

Rhetoric of Science Workshop
Tuesday August 24th 2010
Aalto University School of Economics
Arkadia Building, Lapuankatu 6 [Helsinki], Lecture Room E-128


Timetable:

9.45-10.00 Morning Coffee

10.00-11.00 Ricca Edmondson (Senior Lecturer, School of Political Science and Sociology, NUI Galway, Ireland): Mediating Experience through Rhetoric in Social Sciences

11.00-12.00 Ricca Edmondson: Rhetoric in Creating Reliability in Narrative Research

12.00-13.00 Lunch Break

13.00-14.00 Olivier Ratle (Lecturer, Department of Organisation Studies, University of West England, UK): The Relevance of Rhetoric in Analysing Paradigm Disputes

14.00-14.15 Coffee Break

14.15.-15.00 Marja-Liisa Kakkuri-Knuuttila (Professor, Aalto University School of Economics) and Antti Kylänpää (Student in Philosophy, University of Helsinki): What Does a Scientific Article Represent?


For coffee, please, confirm your participation to Mikko Rummukainen at laserkaraoke(at)gmail.com

Marja-Liisa Kakkuri-Knuuttila
Professor in Philosophy of Management
Aalto University School of Economics
kakkuri(at)aalto.fi


About the speakers:

Ricca Edmondson is the author of books including Rhetoric in Sociology, Rules and Norms in the Sociology of Organisations, and Ireland: Society and Culture. She has written the article on rhetoric in the Sage Handbook of Social Science Methodology. She is now working on books on the history of wisdom and on ageing as a process of meaning-creation.

Olivier Ratle works within the field of organisation studies, and has an interest for meta-theoretical and methodological debates within that field. His PhD dissertation, titled 'Rhetoric and the Intellectual Structure of Organisation Studies', paid attention to the rhetorical strategies featured within a series of paradigm disputes.

Marja-Liisa Kakkuri-Knuuttila has written on Aristotle’s dialectic, rhetoric, and conception of science and applied these ideas to contemporary issues in philosophy of social science.

Antti Kylänpää has a wide interest in various aspects of philosophy, including history of philosophy, rhetoric of science, and logic. He is the co-author with Kakkuri-Knuuttila of the article Luottamus, retoriikka ja tieteen rationaalisuus (Trust, rhetoric and rationality in science).