THE RESEARCH SEMINAR IN PHILOSOPHY
meets on Thursdays from 16 to 18 in the department seminar room (Siltavuorenpenger 20 A, room 222), unless stated otherwise. The meetings are open for all. Papers may be available on the home page of the research seminar (http://www.helsinki.fi/filosofia/researchseminar.htm).
The current programme:
20.9 Prof. Helmut Pape (Bamberg): "Thinking and Acting. The Logical Background of Peirce's Pragmatism"
27.9 Jussi Backman: Being and Being-Something: Aristotle's Metaphysical Critique of Parmenides.
4.10 Susanna Lindberg : Thinking the Elemental: Schelling's Organism, Heidegger's fysis and Merleau-Ponty's flesh.
9.10 (Note! Tuesday!) Jacek Kornak : "Post-fenomenological Reading of Pornography"
11.10 (Note! Room 303) Panu Raatikainen: "Ontological Relativity and the Inscrutability of Reference"
1.11 Juhana Lemetti: "From 'soul-peeping' to sympathy: Hobbes and Hume on reciprocal recognition"
8.11 Nora Hämäläinen: Moral Particularism and Narrative Fiction.
22.11 Henrik Rydenfelt: TBA
7.12 Bernard Linsky (Alberta): "A proposition occurs in a function only
through its values: Extensionality in the Second Edition of Principia
Mathematica"
This will be a joint seminar with the Seminar in Logic. It will take place
in room 222 at the department of philosophy (Siltavuorenpenger 20 A, 2nd
floor) 10 am. - 12 am.
13.12 Tuomas Tahko: The Necessity of Metaphysics
14.12 (Note! Friday!) Mark Phelan (UNC) : TBA