Philosophers’ Club Turku

18.9. Jussi Suortti (University of Helsinki): Rereading Kant’s Doctrine of Synthesis and the Enlightenment Ideal of Thought (PUB 299, second floor)

2.10. Turku PhD Researchers’ Day: Samuli Isotalo, Piia Vinnari & Gunjan Saha (short presentations from PhD researchers at UTU) (PUB 299, second floor)

16.10. Tapio Korte (University of Turku): Frege’s Begriffsschrift as a lingua characteristica and the problem of identity (PUB 299, second floor)

13.11. Cancelled

27.11. Erika Ruonakoski (University of Helsinki): Being One’s Body: Merleau-Ponty, Beauvoir and Sartre (PUB 209, second floor)

17.12. Matias Slavov (LUT University): Block World Eternalism: Why Accept It, How to Criticize It, and How to Respond (at 14:15–15:45, PUB 150 seminar room) – NB! Different weekday & time!

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

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

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

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

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

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

10.4. Hemmo 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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]

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]