PMP Research Seminar
Autumn 2008
Friday, 26 September, 14-16 ( Auditorium IX, Main Building, Unioninkatu 34, 3rd floor)
The Study of Moral Psychology in History: Methodological Issues
Julia Annas
John Marenbon
Friday, 10 - Saturday, 11 October (Auditorium XI, Main Building, Unioininkatu 34, 3rd floor)
Ancient Moral Psychology
Friday,
10.15: Juha Sihvola, Introduction
Christof Rapp, Aristotle on the moral psychology of persuasion
Mika Perälä, Aristotle on Perception and Self-Love
14.15: Marke Ahonen, Ancient Philosophers on Mental Illness
Christoph Helmig, Chanting the truth: the concept of epôdê in Plato's
dialogues
Philipp Bruellmann, Aristotle on music and education (Politics VIII)
Saturday,
10.15: Francesca Pedriali, Aspasius' excursus on emotions
Malin Grahn, Seneca on Poetry and Moral Development
Miira Tuominen, Ethics and Moral Psychology in the Late Ancient
Commentators
Friday, 31 October, 12-15 ( Auditorium IX, Main Building, Unioninkatu 34, 3rd floor)
Ilse Paakkinen, Christine de Pizan on the souls and bodies of men and women
Martina Reuter, Mary Wollstonecraft on the virtue of modesty
Ville Paukkonen, Berkeley on self-knowledge
Friday, 28 November, 12-15 ( Auditorium IX, Main Building, Unioninkatu 34, 3rd floor)
Juhana Toivanen, Peter Olivi on Animal Consciousness
Jussi Varkemaa, Summenhart on self-ownership
Olli-Pekka Vainio, On the impossibility to place a bet: Passions and Pascal's Wager argument
Minna Koivuniemi, Spinoza's Medea
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