Past talks

2018

9.2. Discussion on Kant’s theory of judgment
2.3. Discussion on Kant’s theory of judgment
20.4. Lauri Kallio (Helsinki): How late Hegelians replied to Trendelenburg’s logical question?
4.5. Tapio Korte (Turku): Frege on subjective and objective ideas
30.5. (12-14) Mikko Yrjönsuuri (Jyväskylä): “I certainly seem to see” – Descartes on Vision, Embodiment and the Mind
14.9. Lucas Thorpe (Bogazici): “Kant on Character and Calculus”
26.10. Patrick Sibelius (Åbo): “The Semantic Mind-body Relationship”

2017

3.2. Valtteri Viljanen (Turku): Locke, Moral Action, and the Space of Reasons
24.2. Hanne Appelqvist (Turku): Kant on Beauty and Rules
3.3. (13-15) Matti Huttunen (Sibelius Academy): Music, idealism, and anti-idealism
10.3. Veli Virmajoki (Turku): Notes on the Philosophy of Human Sciences
23.3. Matti Saarni (Turku): Kant on language, objectivity and communicability
7.4. Tapio Korte (Turku): Frege on perception in Der Gedanke
21.4. Niko Ranta (Turku): Leibniz on Panpsychism
28.4. Matias Kuokkanen (Turku): The Representationalism of F. R. Ankersmit
4.-5.5. Spring workshop: Perceiving the finite, perceiving the infinite
23.5. (10-11) Pärttyli Rinne: Kant and the Ascent of Love
23.5. (11-12) Jan Forsman (Tampere): Cogito, Mathematics, and God in Descartes’s Meditations
12.9. (9.30-17) Workshop: The Life of the Mind – from Descartes to Frege
6.10. Jan Johansson (Turku): On Kant
13.10. Hemmo Laiho (Turku): Kant’s Universalism and Pragmatism
20.10. (13-15) Houston Smit (Arizona): Kant on the Supersensible Grounds of Our Experience: a Reply to Jacobi
27.10. Matti Saarni (Turku): Is Kant’s Transcendental Philosophy Ontology?
3.11. Kant reading group
10.11. Kant reading group (Dreams of a spirit-seer, ch. 1-2)
24.11. Kant reading group (Dreams of a spirit-seer)
1.12. Jan Johansson (Turku): Kant’s ‘Directions in Space’ – some Leibnizian responses

2016

1.4. (10-12) Karolina Hübner (Toronto): Spinoza on expression
1.4. (13-15) Laurens van Apeldoorn (Leiden): Hobbes on sovereignty, dominium, and property
15.4. Veli Virmajoki (Turku): Presentism and the limits of testing philosophical theories against the history of science
5.8. Kreeta Ranki (Turku): Purusha ja transsendentaalinen apperseptio
9.9. (10-12) John Carriero (UCLA): Mind-Body Union in Spinoza
9.9. (13-15) Joseph Almog, John Carriero, Olli Koistinen, Valtteri Viljanen: Discussion on Spinoza’s basic metaphysics
16.9. (10-12) Michael Cholbi (Pomona): On the Contradiction Test in Kant’s Formula of Universal Law
16.9. (13-15) Valtteri Viljanen (Turku): Kant on Moral Agency: the Conflict-of-Forces Conception Revisited
23.9. Jani Sinokki (Turku): Descartes on God and the Real Distinction between Mind and Body
7.10. Miika Hellevaara (Turku): Is everything dying or is it just us?
21.10. Matti Saarni (Turku): Kant and the Objectivity Problem of Sensation
28.10. Joseph Almog (Turku): The Ur-being or nothing
3.11. (Thu 14-16) Jan Johansson (Turku): On Kant’s Metaphysical Exposition of Space
4.11. Sanna Mattila (Helsinki): Fine and Epistemology of Essence
11.11. Discussion on “transcendental” and “metaphysical” in Kant’s metaphysical and transcendental expositions
25.11. Olli Koistinen (Turku): On Spinoza on will
9.12. Joseph Almog (Turku): Natura sive Universum sive Spatium sive Deus

2015

16.1. Kreeta Ranki (Turku): David Hume and the Experience of Rational Animals
30.1. Mandel Cabrera (Yonsei): Identification and Detachment in Kierkegaard’s The Present Age
13.2. Veli Virmajoki (Turku): Philosophical issues in the history of science and humanities
27.2. Mika Suojanen (Turku): On sense-datum
13.3. Visa Helenius (Turku): On behalf of reasons, eh? On the history of the PSR
27.3. Matti Saarni (Turku): Kant on the objectivity of colors
12.5. Tapio Korte (Turku): Frege’s Description Theory of Proper Names?
12.6. Jan Johansson (Turku): Kant on judgment
25.8. Olli Koistinen (Turku): World and God
9.10. Jan Forsman (Tampere): The Meditator’s persona in Descartes’s Meditations
6.11. Lars Vinx (Bilkent/Turku): Hobbes and the Personality of the State
13.11. Peter Myrdal (Turku): Appetite, Ends, and Activity in Leibniz
20.11. Valtteri Viljanen (Turku): Spinoza on Activity, Passivity, and the Power of the Emotions
27.11. José Filipe Pereira da Silva (Helsinki): An alternative dualist account of perception
4.12. Ilmari Jauhiainen (Helsinki): Existence and possibility: Wolff and Baumgarten on modalities
11.12. Joseph Almog & Jani Sinokki (Turku): Descartes’ punctum archimidis and the frame of Being

2014 and earlier (incomplete)

Marjo Vartiainen (Turku): On Nietzsche
Veli Virmajoki (Turku): Woodward on causation
Jani Sinokki (Turku): Cartesian Sensations as Privations
Lilli Alanen (Uppsala): Cartesian Hylomorphism
Ville Paukkonen (Helsinki): Berkeley on minds as substances
Valtteri Viljanen (Turku): Kant on Moral Agency
Mika Suojanen (Turku): On direct perception
Christian Barth (HU Berlin) & Vili Lähteenmäki (Jyväskylä): Self-Knowledge in Descartes
Marjo Vartiainen (Turku): Muutoksen selittäminen vastakohtaisuuden periaatteella
Kreeta Ranki (Turku): Kant’s philosophy of experience
Juho Ritola (Turku): On circular reasoning
Tuomas Tahko (Helsinki): Moderately Naturalistic Metaphysics
Jani Hakkarainen (Tampere): Hume, Unity and Composites
Olli Pitkänen (Jyväskylä): On Kant and radical evil
Kreeta Ranki (Turku): Descartes on Animal Experience
Ericka Tucker (Helsinki/Pomona): Spinoza’s Social Sage
Susanne Uusitalo (Turku): Kant on conflict and virtue
Joseph Almog (UCLA): The Unification of Thinking and Being in Descartes
Kreeta Ranki (Turku): The Problem of Animal Experience in Early Modern Philosophy
Julien Klein (Villanova): On Spinoza
Peter Myrdal (Uppsala): Why Are Faculties Unintelligible?
Jani Sinokki (Turku): Early Modern Perception: A Light Switch Theory
Markku Keinänen (Turku) & Jani Hakkarainen (Tampere): A Trope Nominalist Theory of Natural Kinds