Autumn 2026 programme

18.9. Jussi Suortti (University of Helsinki)

2.10. Turku PhD Researchers’ Day: short presentations from PhD researchers at UTU

16.10. Tapio Korte (University of Turku)

13.11. TBA

27.11. Erika Ruonakoski (University of Helsinki)

xx.12. TBA

The Philosopher’s Club meets at Publicum, SH150, at 13:15–14:45 unless otherwise noted.

Spring 2026 programme

9.1Tiina Rosenqvist (Dartmouth):  Engineering the concept of pain for clinical practice

23.1Emma Cepeda Mouriño (Santiago de Compostela): Rethinking Dehumanization: A Feminist Analysis of Structural Injustice and the Limits of Moral Community

6.2Joonas Martikainen (UTU): Political Faith as an Enabling Condition of Political Agency

6.3Kalle Hellgren: (UTU): What is semantic reference?

20.3Olle Blomberg (HCAS / Gothenburg): Quality of Will, Repair and Resultant Moral Luck

10.4Hemmo Laiho (UTU): Idealism in Kant’s Account of Sense Perception?

24.4. Markku Keinänen (TUNI): Fundamentality and non-fundamentality of ontological categories (Room Pub469)

The Philosopher’s Club meets at Publicum, SH150, at 13:15–14:45 unless otherwise noted.

Autumn 2025 programme

10.10. Oskari Sivula (Turku): Existential eucatastrophes

24.10. Markku Oksanen (University of Eastern Finland): Demokraattinen omatunto NB! in Finnish

27.10. 14:15–15:45 Kristin Primus (UC Berkeley): Spinoza on the Intellect’s Idea of an Attribute NB! different weekday & time!

14.11. Inkeri Koskinen (Helsinki): Peer Review in Artistic Research: a Case Study

21.11. Kalle Puolakka (Helsinki): Literature from the Perspective of Virtue Epistemology

11.12. Haeran Jeong (Turku): TBA NB! Different workday!


The Philosopher’s Club meets at Publicum, SH150, at 13:15–14:45 unless otherwise noted.

Spring 2025 programme:

31.1. Tuukka Brunila (Turku): Temporality of emergencies

14.2. Sanna Lehtinen (Aalto): From the Cityscape to the Streetscape: Philosophical Urban Aesthetics on Experiencing the City

7.3. Matti Eskelinen (Turku): Ethico-Political Underpinnings of Anarchist Federalism: Non-Domination and Mutual Recognition

14.3. Elisa Aaltola (Turku): Onko misantropia oikeutettua? Suru ja viha luonto- ja eläinkriisien aikakaudella

4.4. Gottfried Vosgerau (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf): From Acting to Thinking: Affordances and Concepts

11.4. Jenna Aarnio (Turku): TBA

25.4. Anssi Korhonen (Helsinki): TBA

9.5. Helen Beebee (Leeds): TBA

The Philosopher’s Club meets at Publicum, SH150, at 13:15–14:45 unless otherwise noted.

Autumn 2024 programme:

4.10. Veikko Launis (Turku): The Many Faces of Vulnerability
11.10. (12:15) Kaisa Mishina (Turku): Päihteitä käyttävien henkilöiden kohtaama syrjintä yhteiskunnassa
11.10. (13:05) Jani Sinokki (Turku): Onko meillä lupa uskoa pahaa tai epätotuuksia muista?
1.11. Heidi Haanila (Turku): Dynamics of self-consciousness examined in depersonalization and meditation
15.11. Samuli Isotalo (Turku): Spinoza on Existence
29.11. Laura Puumala (Turku): Supererogatory Action

Spring 2024 programme:

15.3. Joona Räsänen (TIES): “That Will Teach You!” Is Punishing One’s Spouse Ever Justified?
22.3. Nicole Hassoun (HCAS/Binghampton): Legitimacy and Technocracy
12.4. Valtteri Arstila (Turku): Practically cognized present
19.4. Pii Telakivi (Turku): Risks of Extending Mind with AI
26.4. Eerik Lagerspetz (Turku): Filosofia pilan kohteena

Autumn 2023 programme:

8.9. Mikko Puumala (Turku): Ulkoavaruuden asuttamisen haasteet moraalijärjestelmille
22.9. Robert Frodeman (TIAS/Fulbright): The Future of Philosophy, The Future of the University
29.9. Hille Paakkunainen (Syracuse): The Empathetic Stance
6.10. Jani Sinokki (Oulu): Edward Westermarck on the Relation Between Moral Emotions and Moral Concepts
3.11. Helena Siipi (Turku): Danger of Slippery Slopes in Nudge Research
1.12. Alex Carruth (Helsinki): Between Emergence and Reduction

Spring 2023 programme:

3.3. Joseph Almog (Turku), Gabriel Sandu (Helsinki) & Vesa Halava (Turku): Zoology, Logic, Reality
17.3. Jani Hakkarainen (Tampere): Wolff on Free Will
31.3. Polaris Koi (Turku): Options, Options: the Nature of Decision Set Constituents
14.4. Ville Kokko (Turku): The Consequence Argument and the Randomness Argument
5.5. Katariina Lipsanen (Jyväskylä): Duns Scotus and the Immediateness of Intellectual Intuition
26.5. Sanna Mattila (Helsinki): Origin, Kind, Matter – A Kripkean Epistemology of Necessity

Autumn 2022 programme:

14.10. Adrian Blau (Helsinki/London): On thought experiments
21.10. Michael Cholbi (Edinburgh): Grief, empathy, and psychopathy
4.11. Eero Suorsa (Turku): Melancholic Bodies: Cosmetic Surgeries as Melancholic Events
9.12. Jenna Aarnio (Turku): Wild animal suffering and assistance [ONLINE]

Spring 2022 programme:

4.3. Laura Puumala (Turku): Just and Unjust Environmental Wars
8.4. Markus Nikkarla (Turku): Intentionality as a Mode of Existence
29.4. Kinga Ciereszko (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań): On Habermas’ Practical Discourse and Animal Rights
6.5. Oskari Sivula (Turku): Is Future a Utility Monster?
20.5. [CANCELLED]