Tapahtumat marraskuulle 2007

History of Mind Research Seminar

Autumn 2007

 

Friday, 28 September, 12-14 (Auditorium IX, Main Building, Unioninkatu 34,
3rd floor)

    Virpi Mäkinen, "The ideas of self-preservation and self-ownership in the
development of rights discourse, 1200?1400"
    Petter Korkman, "Civil and Ecclesiastical Toleration in Early
Enlightenment Natural Law"

 

Friday, 2 November, 12-15 (Auditorium III, Main Building, 2nd floor)

    Christel Fricke (Oslo), "Learning How to Feel: Adam Smith on Selfishness
and Sympathy"
    Kari Saastamoinen, "Selfishness and Sympathy in Pufendorf"

 

Friday, 30 November, 12-15 (Auditorium IV, Main Building, 2nd floor)

    Concluding Remarks
    Juha Sihvola, Aristotle
    Simo Knuuttila, John Duns Scotus
    Risto Saarinen, Petrarch
    Lilli Alanen, Descartes

 

The seminar is open.

Inquiries: Jussi Varkemaa, tel. 09- 19122521, e-mail: jussi.varkemaa at
helsinki.fi

BILDUNG, LEARNING AND CHANGE
An International Workshop
November 30 - December 1, 2007
Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (Fabianinkatu 24 A)
Seminar room, ground floor


Friday, November 30

11.00-11.15 Opening and welcome
11.15–12.15 Pierre Rodrigo (Bourgogne): Aristotle: On Hexis as a Way to Be
12.15–13.15 Malin Grahn (Helsinki, Oslo): The Stoics on the Habituation of
Character
13.15–14.30 Lunch
14.30–15.30 Martina Reuter (Helsinki): Mary Wollstonecraft on Education and
the Virtue of Modesty
15.30-16.30 Claudia Lindén (Södertörn): Does Bildung Have a Gender?
16.30–16.45 Coffee
16.45-17.45 Laura Werner (Helsinki, Jyväskylä): Hegel, Gender and Bildung
17.45–18.45 Sara Heinämaa (Helsinki): Edmund Husserl’s Ethics of Personal
Capacities
19.00 Dinner


Saturday, December 1

9.30-10.30 Hans Ruin (Södertörn): Bildung and the Enigma of Freedom
10.30–10.45 Coffee
10.45-11.45 Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback (Södertörn): Life in Balance or
Life in Amplitude? Phenomenological Reflections on the Relation between
Bildung and Philosophy
11.45–12.45 Jussi Backman (Helsinki): Bildung: Configuring the Human
12.45–14.00 Lunch

MODELING, SIMULATION, AND COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE:
Perspectives from different sciences

THURSDAY 29.11. 2007: 10 - 18 (Metsätalo, aud. 4)

Computational templates and computational science:
10.00 – 11.15 Paul Humphreys, Department of Philosophy, University of
Virginia: “Computational Templates: Representation and Application”

11.15 – 11.30  Coffee

11.30 – 12.15 Andrea Loettgers, California Institute of
Technology: “Computational templates in modeling biological systems”
 12.15 – 13.00 Tarja Knuuttila, Department of Philosophy, University of
Helsinki: “Computational templates and the strategy of model-based science”

13.00 - 14.15 Lunch

Panel discussion: Computational templates and modeling in physics
14. 15 – 15.45
   * Ismo Koponen, Department of Physical Sciences, University of Helsinki
   * Arkady Krashenninikov, Accelerator Laboratory, University of Helsinki
   * Tapio Ala-Nissilä, Laboratory of Physics, Helsinki University of
Technology

15.45 – 16.15 Break

Simulation:
16. 15– 17.00 Till Grüne-Yanoff, Department of Social and Moral Philosophy,
University of Helsinki: “Making Policy With In Silico Experiments”
17.00 – 17.45 Erika Mattila, Economic History Department, London School of
Economics: “Predictive and explanatory functions in simulation models:
perspectives from infectious disease studies”


FRIDAY 30.11. 2007: 10 - 18 (The Main Building, aud. XVI)

Some things compute, other things don’t. Computational models in
neurocognitive sciences:
10.00 – 10. 45 Gualtiero Piccinini, Department of Philosophy, University of
Missouri
 St.Louis: "Digits, strings, and spikes: Empirical evidence against
computationalism"
 10.45 – 11.30 Oron Shagrir, Department of Philosophy, Hebrew University of
Jerusalem: “Why we view the brain as a computer?”

11. 30 – 12.00 Break

12. 00 – 12.45 Anna-Mari Rusanen & Otto Lappi, Department of Philosophy,
University of Helsinki & Department of Psychology, University of
Helsinki: “From observable neurophysiological mechanisms to models of
neural computation”
12. 45 – 13.30 Aapo Hyvärinen, Helsinki Institute for Information
Technology, University of Helsinki: “"The practice of mathematical and
computational modeling in neuroscience"”

13. 30 – 14. 30 Lunch

Computation and emergence:
 14. 30 – 15.15  Timo Honkela, Laboratory of Computer and Information
Science, Helsinki University of Technology: “Modeling the emergence of
shared meaning systems:
Philosophical, computational and societal aspects”
15. 15 – 16. 00 Petri Ylikoski & Jaakko Kuorikoski, Department of Social
and Moral Philosophy, University of Helsinki: “Understanding understanding
emergence”

16.00 – 16.30 Break

16.30 – 17.45 Closing panel: Challenges of computational modeling of
cognition and language
   * (Piccinini, Shagrir, Hyvärinen, Honkela, Lappi & Rusanen)

Organisers:
Kulta-project (MASI Modelling and Simulation 2005-2009 programme, Finnish
Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation)
Philosophy of Science Group (University of Helsinki)

For more information, please do not hesitate to contact:
Anna-Mari Rusanen ()
 
 

Antingen – Eller
Seminarium om författaren, filosofen och teologen Søren Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855)
onsdagen den 28 november kl. 14.00 – 17.15
Svenska litteratursällskapets hus, Riddaregatan 5, Helsingfors

Välkomstord
Svenska litteratursällskapets ordförande, professor Håkan Andersson

Sammenhængen i Kierkegaards forfatterskab
Niels Jørgen Cappelørn, direktör för Søren Kierkegaard Forskningscenteret ved Københavns Universitet

Kierkegaards betydelse i dagens teologi med särskild betoning på begreppen ”ärlighet” och ”innerlighet”
Stefan Djupsjöbacka, lektor vid Diakoniyrkeshögskolan

Paus

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, variationer
Henrik Järvi, piano
Nobu Takizawa, violin

Kierkegaards opfattelse af kærlighedens kraft
Pia Søltoft, lektor vid Søren Kierkegaard Forskningscenteret ved Københavns Universitet

Kierkegaards människosyn: vad är jaget?
Ingmar Pörn, professor emeritus i filosofi vid Helsingfors universitet

Slutord
Danmarks ambassadör, Niels Kaas Dyhrlund

Mottagning på Kungliga Danska Ambassaden, Georgsgatan 9, 4 vån, med början 17.30

Arr.: Kungliga Danska Ambassaden och Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland

Förhandsanmälning per tfn 09-618 777 senast 23.11.
Föredragen är på svenska och danska.

Agneta Rahikainen
producent
Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland
Riddaregatan 5
00170 Helsingfors, Finland
agneta.rahikainen(a)sls.fi
tel. +358 9 618 77 514

Ikuisesti ajassa

– Filosofisia keskusteluja Tuomas Nevanlinnan kanssa
Pasilan kirjaston auditoriossa

 

Keskiviikkona 31.10. klo 17.30
Kapitalismi ja kommunismi informaatioyhteiskunnassa
Vieraana dosentti Tere Vadén
"Kommunismi = valta neuvostoille + vapaa internet"
Pasilan kirjasto, Kellosilta 9, 00520 Helsinki

 

Keskiviikkona 28.11.klo 17.30
Ovatko asiantuntijat kaapanneet vallan?
Vieraana dosentti Jaana Parviainen
”Olemme siirtymässä asiantuntijavallasta asiakasvaltaan, mutta asiakkaiden valta tuskin kasvaa.”
Pasilan kirjasto, Kellosilta 9, 00520 Helsinki

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IKUISESTI AJASSA – filosofisia keskusteluja Tuomas Nevanlinnan kanssa
Pasilan kirjaston auditoriossa

 

Aikakautta eivät määritä sen antamat tyypilliset vastaukset, ne uskomukset, joista jonakin aikana elävät ihmiset ovat yksimielisiä. Päinvastoin. Aikakauden muodostavat ne kysymykset, johon se ei kykene vastaamaan, mutta joihin sen on pakko ottaa jatkuvasti kantaa; samassa ajassa ja paikassa elävät ihmiset keräävät yhteen juuri ne kiistat, joita ei voi paeta eikä ratkaista. Miksi ei voi? Jos ne voi välttää tai ratkaista, silloin myös aikakausi on vaihtunut.

Ikuisesti ajassa -keskustelusarja tutkii tällaisia kohtalonkysymyksiä omasta ajastamme.

 

Linkki tapahtuman sivuille: http://www.lib.hel.fi/pasila/nevanlinna

 

History of Philosophy Research Seminar
University of Helsinki

The seminar meets on following Tuesdays, P 728, 2-4 pm

    * 2.10. Jari Kaukua (Jyväskylä): Avicenna and Suhrawardi on self-awareness
    * 23.10. Juhana Lemetti (Helsinki): On some aspects of (re)cognition in
early modern moral psychology
    * 30.10. Mirja Hartimo (Tampere): Many senses of Platonism, cases of
Lotze, Natorp, and possibly Gomperz
    * 13.11. José Filipe Silva (University of Minho, Braga): Robert
Kilwardby on human nature
    * 20.11. Jani Hakkarainen (Tampere): Hume?s scepticism and realism
    * 27.11. Marc Hight (Hampden-Sydney College/University of Tartu):
Finding the substance in Berkeley?s theory of the mind

Aristotelianism and the Critique of Modernity
Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
Fabianinkatu 24 A, Ground Floor, Seminar Room 136
November 23-25 2007

November 23

Session I: Aristotelianism in Science and Natural Philosophy

12:30 Opening
12:45-14:00 Diana Quarantotto (University of Pisa): The Struggle for
Eternity: Aristotle on the Metamorphosis of Living Matter, its Goal and Laws
14:15-15:30 Monte Johnson (University of California San Diego): Aristotle's
Teleology - What It Is and What It Is Not
15:30-15:45 Coffee
15:45-17:00 Sabine Föllinger (University of Bamberg): Aristotle's Biological
Works as Scientific Literature
17:00-17:15 Coffee
17:15-18:30 Miira Tuominen (University of Helsinki): How Do We Know the
Principles? Back to Posterior Analytics II 19
19:15 Rector's Reception

November 24

Session II: Aristotelianism in Ethics and Political Philosophy

10:15-11:30 Fred Miller (Bowling Green State University): Anticipations of
Human Rights in Aristotle and Other Ancient Thinkers
11:30-11:45 Coffee
11:45-13:00 Juha Sihvola (University of Helsinki): Aristotelian Sociability
and Individualism
13:00-14:15 Lunch
14:15-15:30 Roberto Lambertini (University of Macerata): The Debate about
Natural Rights in the Middle Ages
15:30-15:45 Coffee
15:45-17:00 Annabel Brett (University of Cambridge): The Question of
Individual Natural Liberty in Early-Modern Aristotelianism
18:30 Dinner

November 25

Session III: Aristotelian Developments in Phenomenology

10:15-11:30 John Drummond (Fordham University): Axiology, Eudaimonia, and
Virtue Ethics
11:30-11:45 Coffee
11:45-13:00 Sara Heinämaa (University of Helsinki): Husserl's Ethics of
Renewal: Persons, Capacities and Virtues
13:00-14:15 Lunch
14:15-15:30 Panel Discussion
15:30 Closing

Organising Committee: Miira Tuominen, Virpi Mäkinen, Sara Heinämaa
For further information contact miira.tuominen[at]helsinki.fi

130248  DIALOGI OHJAUKSESSA JA JOHTAMISESSA

 

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International Symposium of Philosophy
The Modernity of Spinoza
Moscow : 15-16 November 2007

http://caute.net.ru/sympfr.doc.

Russian Academy of Sciences - Institute of Philosophy
15 November 2007

10h00 : Lorenzo VINCIGUERRA, Andrei MAIDANSKY
 Opening of the Symposium
10h15 : Presentation of the review Logos dedicated to Spinoza with Valeri ANASHVILI director of the review.
10h30 : Nikolay BIRJUKOV (Moscow State Institute of Forign Affairs)
Varieties of Determinism: Spinozist Meditations
11h30 : Vittorio MORFINO (University Bicocca of Milan)
Leibniz vs Spinoza. A contemporary alternative
12h15 : Discussion
12h30 : Lunch
Chairman: Serguei MAREEV (Modern Academy of Humanities, Moscow)
14h30 : Mogens LAERKE (University of  Chicago)
Sketch of a metaphysics of absolute exteriority: some reflections on the theory of causality and the ontology of power in Spinoza
15h30 : François FLAHAULT (CNRS/EHESS, Paris)
About Spinoza and wisdom
16h30 : Coffee break
17h00 : Boris RUDJ (National University of Kiev)
The problem of libertas philosophandi in Spinoza
18h00 : Discussion

High School of Economics of Moscow, Maly Gnezdnikovsky 4/2
16 November 2007
Chairman : Anna YAMPOLSKAYA (Russian University of Humanities, RGGU, Moscow)

10h30 : Andrei MAIDANSKY (Institute of Economics and Management, Taganrog)
The polemics on res cogitans, or how to improve Spinoza’s theory of mind
11h30 : Chantal JAQUET (Université de Paris I - Sorbonne)
La référence à la conception spinoziste des rapports du corps et de l’esprit dans l’ouvrage de Paul Ricœur et Jean-Pierre Changeux : « Ce qui nous fait penser. La nature et la règle »
12h15 : Discussion
12h30 : Lunch
Chairman : Alexei RUTKEVICH (High School of Economics, Philosophy Department, Moscow)
14h30 : Serguei MAREEV (Modern Academy of Humanities, Moscow)
Two traditions in Soviet studies on Spinoza
15h30 : Lorenzo VINCIGUERRA (University of Reims)
Aesthetica sive ethica. A Spinozistic approach to the problem of the essence of art
16h30 : Coffee break
17h00 : Table ronde with Vitali KURENNOY, Valeri ANASHVILI, Alexandre SURMAVA
18h00 : Final discussion
18h30 : Cocktail

 

Directed by Lorenzo VINCIGUERRA (University of Reims, France) and Andrei MAIDANSKY (Institute of Economy and Management, Taganrog, Russia), supported by the Centre franco-russe des recherches en sciences humaines et sociales de Moscou.
Information : ; ; .

EPSA07: 1st Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association

Contributed papers are invited to the 1st Conference of the newly founded
European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA). The conference will take
place at Complutense University, Madrid, from 15-17 November 2007.

For details of the Association (EPSA) and the Conference (EPSA07) see:
:: The EPSA website at http://www.epsa.ac.at
:: The EPSA07 Conference homepage at: http://www.ucm.es/info/epsa07/

Papers are welcome in any of the five different sections of the conference
as follows:
General Philosophy and Methodology of Science
Philosophy of the Natural Sciences
Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Formal Methods in Philosophy of Science
Historical, Social and Cultural Studies of Philosophy of Science
Abstracts of contributed papers should be submitted directly to the
Programme Committee through the webpage http://www.easychair.org/EPSA07

Abstracts must not exceed 500 words, should start with the number and title
of the relevant section, followed by the title of the paper, the author's
name, address, and email address. For example:

Section 5. Historical, Social and Cultural Studies of Philosophy of Science
THE NOTION OF EMERGENCE IN CARNAP'S AUFBAU
Moritz Schlick Jnr.,
University of Logical Positivism,
1925 Carnapstrasse, Twin Vienna, Otherland.


The allocated time for delivering contributed papers at the conference will
be 30 minutes, including discussion.

Abstracts received by the deadline (1st May 2007) will be refereed by the
Conference Programme Committee. Status of acceptance will be communicated to
authors by 1st July 2007.

Deadline for the submission of abstracts: 1st May 2007

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Mauricio Suárez
Email: msuarez at filos.ucm.es
http://fs-morente.filos.ucm.es/profesores/suarez/inicio.htm