Filosofia Jyväskylän yliopisto

Upcoming workshop: Work, Democracy, and Freedom, August 28-29.

Upcoming workshop: 13th Nordic Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy, August 24-25.

13th Nordic Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy The Nordic Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy fosters collaboration between scholars of early modern philosophy in the Nordic region. This year the workshop is held at the University of Jyväskylä and brings together a wide range of research in the field. Workshop also includes a round table discu...

Tämän viikon torstaina (25.5.) järjestetään pitkästä aikaa filosofian kevätkollokvio. Tervetuloa kuuntelemaan ja keskustelemaan!

Paikka: Seminarium 303

9:15-9:30 Tilaisuuden avaus (Joona Taipale)

9:30-11:00
Jari Kaukua: ”Ibn Sinan perintö”
Martina Reuter & Tuomas Parsio: ”Sukupuoli renessanssin ja varhaismodernin ajan filosofiassa”
Juhana Toivanen: ”Paheita ja politiikkaa”

11:00-12:15 Lounastauko (Ilokivi)

12:15-13:15
Jarno Hietalahti: ”Humoristinen humanismi — Naurusta kumpuava vastaus humanismin kriitikoille”
Joona Taipale: ”Kokemusten jakamisesta”

13:15-13:45 Kahvitauko

13:45-15:15
Onni Hirvonen: ”Hegelin hairahdus: yksityisomaisuuden ontologiaa”
Teea Kortetmäki: ”Oikeudenmukaisen siirtymän filosofiaa”
Joonas Pennanen: "Mitä seurauksia erimielisyyden paljastumisella on salaliittoteoreetikolle?"

15:15-15:30 Tauko

15:30-16:30
Mikko Yrjönsuuri: ”Demokratian historia”
Malin Grahn: ”Rodullistavan ajattelun alkuperä”

Filosofian tutkijaseminaari kokoontuu torstaina 7.4. kello 14-16 Lyhdyssä (P 302) keskustelemaan ryhmien itseymmärryksestä. Tapahtumaan voi osallistua myös Zoomissa (linkki alla). Tervetuloa paikalle kuuntelemaan ja keskustelemaan!

FILOSOFIAN TUTKIJASEMINAARI / PHILOSOPHY RESEARCH SEMINAR

Should groups become self-interpreting agents (if they can)?

Onni Hirvonen (JYU)

This presentation examines whether groups, and not just individuals, can and should be self-interpreting agents. We start by accepting the Self-Interpretation Claim about identity: the thick (practical, narrative, social, evaluative) identity of individuals is an interpretation about that individual, defined by that individual. The process of self-interpretation may take place in dialogical relations to others, and against a shared background of cultural significances, but arguably its result differs from externally attributed stereotypes and stigmas in being in some sense the individual’s own view on who she is. Following this frame, collective identity is an interpretation about a group, defined by that group. It is the latter that may turn out to be problematic: are groups capable of such cognitively sophisticated operations that self-interpretations require (capacity to have beliefs, second-order beliefs, linguistic or conceptual capacities etc.)? In this paper, we study whether groups are capable of such self-definition, and whether and why it would be important.

This presentation draws on and contributes to two separate debates. First, in political philosophy, the importance of self-interpretations for interest groups and identity groups has been stressed. Second, in analytical theories of group agency, the ability of groups to intend, act, and have group beliefs, has been hotly debated. The former can answer why and how self-interpretation matters for groups, and the latter can answer whether and how it is possible for groups. Our paper aims at new insights to both questions.

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Filosofian tutkijaseminaari kokoontuu torstaina 24.2. kello 14-16 keskustelemaan varhaisesta hoivasta ja musiikin kuuntelusta. Koronatilanteen myötä tapahtuma on vain Zoomissa (linkki alla). Tervetuloa paikalle kuuntelemaan ja keskustelemaan!

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Joona Taipale (JYU)

The Modifying Mirror: From Early Interaction to Music Listening

The presentation compares music listening with the infant’s early experiences of care. Many arguments have been made on the “scaffolding” function of music listening. Developmental psychologists, in turn, maintain a wide consensus over the claim that, in early interaction, the caregiver scaffolds the infant’s self-experience in various ways. While also the relationship between the two has attracted some interest, the contributions tend to be one-sided: thanks to Trevarthen and others, the “musical aspects” of early interaction is today a well-known topic, but less studies exist on the shared functions of the attuned caregiver, on the one hand, and music listening, on the other. In this sense, I will turn the received approach around by investigating the sense in which early interaction serves as the basic model for music listening in later life. Making use of Daniel Stern’s concepts of “affective attunement” and “vitality affects”, I will argue that the examination of the early self/other relation can teach us something important of the listener/music relation.

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Filosofian tutkijaseminaari kokoontuu torstaina kello 14-16 keskustelemaan sosiaalisista tunteista keskiaikaisessa filosofiassa. Kiristyneen koronatilanteen myötä tapahtuma on vain Zoomissa (linkki alla). Tervetuloa paikalle kuuntelemaan ja keskustelemaan!

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Ritva Palmén (University of Helsinki): Social emotions in Medieval Philosophical Psychology: Pride and Hope

My paper studies philosophical theories of pride and hope in Latin medieval context. The paper presumes that both hope and pride can be understood as social emotions that typically depend upon the thoughts, feelings or actions of other people. These may be experienced, imagined, anticipated or recalled at first hand or instantiated in more generalized consideration of social norms or moral conventions. Social emotions like hope and pride have a self-reflexive nature such that people become aware that a certain event or situation affects their personal self-evaluation or welfare. More generally, the social emotions indicate how we understand ourselves and estimate our own value, show signs of philanthropy, and determine where we feel safe and whom we trust. Hence, by examining the theories of hope and pride in authors such as Bernard of Clairvaux, John of la Rochelle and Thomas Aquinas, I aim at offering new unexplored perspectives of how these medieval authors explained the relation between the individual and her community as well as that person’s relation to herself.

Filosofian tutkijaseminaari kokoontuu torstaina Opinkivessä (OPK141) kello 14-16 pohtimaan robottien mahdollista sosiaalisuutta. Tervetuloa paikalle kuuntelemaan ja keskustelemaan! Osallistua voi myös Zoomin välityksellä (linkki alla).

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Raul Hakli (University of Helsinki): Can robots be social?

Given the amount of talk about “social robots”, it seems appropriate to ask whether robots can be social and what it would mean for robots to be social. A central aim of social robotics is to create robots that can be perceived as social agents and that can engage in social interaction with human beings. This seems problematic, however, because the term “sociality” does not seem to be readily applicable to artifacts like robots. I recall an argument that aims to show that robots are not autonomous agents that can be attributed moral responsibility. If correct, this arguably implies that, strictly speaking, they are not capable of social interaction with humans that typically involves social commitments and other normative relations between participants. However, they can still be programmed to behave in ways that resemble cooperative social interaction and joint action. We can hence coordinate our actions with them by attributing to them certain social capacities that allow us to predict and explain their actions. This is similar to the Dennettian intentional stance, but goes beyond it, into a social stance, which creates room for taking robots, for instrumental purposes, as social agents and partners in social interaction.

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Filosofian tutkijaseminaari kokoontuu jälleen tänä torstaina Lyhdyssä kello 14-16. Tervetuloa paikalle kuuntelemaan tai keskustelemaan. Osallistua voi myös Zoomin välityksellä.

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Mirja Hartimo (JYU): Husserl and the question of the value-freedom of science

After a brief introduction to the old debate about whether science is value-free, or better, whether the epistemic values guiding science are independent from contextual values, the talk will situate Husserl’s view within this debate. For Husserl, scientific theoretical attitude is free from values other than epistemic values by definition. In his later texts the issue becomes more complex, because Husserl acknowledges a plurality of incompatible sets of epistemic values. I will argue that for Husserl the choice of a particular set of epistemic values (in particular the one captured by his account of Galilean science) is conditioned by historical and sociological factors. Phenomenological critique can reveal this choice to be one-sided. Hence, to assure objectivity of scientific research, phenomenological criticism of these values is needed.

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Filosofian tutkijaseminaari kokoontuu jälleen tänä torstaina Lyhdyssä kello 14-16. Tervetuloa paikalle kuuntelemaan tai keskustelemaan. Osallistua voi myös Zoomin välityksellä.

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Alexandra Chadwick (JYU): Ideas of human nature in and after Hobbes

Hobbes is reputed to have presented a very negative picture of human nature: some readers, following Rousseau, have even considered Hobbesian man to be ‘naturally evil’. Yet several scholars have challenged this picture, and indeed Hobbes himself asserted that humans are not ‘evil by nature’. It is clear that providing an account of ‘man’ was fundamental to Hobbes’s project: mistaken views on the subject had, he thought, greatly contributed to political conflict. But how should Hobbes’s view of human nature be understood? Answering this question, I suggest, involves identifying different notions of ‘human nature’ at work in Hobbes’s philosophy, by drawing on the Aristotelian framework which he explicitly sought to replace. I aim to disentangle these various ideas of human nature in Hobbes, and to begin to consider how they operated in political philosophy after him.

Zoom:

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Filosofian tutkijaseminaari kokoontuu Zoomissa tulevan viikon keskiviikkona 12.5. kello 14-16. Kevään viimeisellä kerralla esitelmävuorossa on tutkija Erika Ruonakoski (JYU). Erika on tutkinut fenomenologiaa ja eksistentialismia ja keskittynyt muun muassa filosofian rajojen ja mahdollisuuksien kartoittamiseen. Keskiviikon esitelmä käsittelee filosofian roolia "totuudenjälkeisenä" aikana.

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The research seminar in philosophy convenes online on next Wednesday 12.5. in Zoom at 2pm. The presenter for this last session of the seminar is researcher Erika Ruonakoski from JYU. Her research interests include phenomenology and existentialism, and one of her particular interests is the limits and possibilities of philosophy. This presentation discusses the role of philosophy in the context of the so-called post-truth era.

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Filosofian tutkijaseminaari / Philosophy Research Seminar (Zoom, 14-16)

Erika Ruonakoski – (Indirect) philosophy in a 'post-truth' era

Abstract

How to think of the tasks of philosophy in our time, one occasionally labelled as a “post-truth” era? In our days, philosophy is, for the most part, practiced in the form of academic research and teaching. Yet, if we reject the Aristotelean idea that philosophy needs no other justification but itself, and temporarily bracket the needs and musts of philosophy as an academic career, the question arises, what exactly is the input of philosophy in the current epistemic crisis. Can philosophy in its current form in any way counterweigh the endless for-or-against debates and temptations for instant opinion formation inside and outside the social media? If not, are there other, more promising avenues of practicing philosophy that might help undo the current antagonistic developments and, together with other fields and actors, create a movement for a greater tolerance of uncertainty and wonder as epistemic positions? To this end and to explain what I mean by “indirect philosophy”, I briefly discuss the methods of three historical thinkers, Plato, Christine de Pizan and Friedrich Nietzsche, and analyze the possibilities to adapt or develop these or similar methods within contemporary philosophy.

Zoom

Topic: JYU Philosophy Research Seminar
Time: May 12, 2021 02:15 PM Helsinki
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Filosofian tutkijaseminaari kokoontuu verkkovälitteisesti torstaina 15.4. kello 14-16 Zoomissa. Saksalaisen idealismin tuplasessiossa kuullaan kaksi lyhyempää esitelmää. Ensimmäisessä väitöskirjatutkija Pirkko Holmberg (JYU) tarkastelee intuitiivista tietoa Goethen ja kumppaneiden teksteissä ja toisessa esitelmässä väitöskirjatutkija Jaakko Syrén (JYU) esittää Hegelin kritiikin kantilaista moraalifilosofiaa kohtaan. Esitelmien abstraktit sekä Zoom-linkki löytyvät alta. Tervetuloa!

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The research seminar in philosophy convenes online on Thursday 15.4. in Zoom at 2pm. The double session on German Idealism includes two shorter papers. The first presenter is Pirkko Holmberg (JYU) who discusses intuitive knowledge in Goethe and other German Idealists. The second presentation, by Jaakko Syrén (JYU), focuses on Hegel's critique of Kantian moral philosophy. Please see short abstracts and the Zoom link below. Welcome!

Filosofian tutkijaseminaarin tuplasessio / Philosophy Research Seminar double session (Zoom, 14-16)

Pirkko Holmberg – Intuitive knowledge in Goethe and German Idealism

Abstract

Regarding Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) merely as a historical and literary figure with nothing substantial to give to the philosophical debates of his time can, in my opinion, result in overlooking a whole important line of development in the history of German Idealism. The notions of intellectual intuition and intuitive understanding appear in Kant’s critical philosophy as regulative assumptions, used to clarify their opposing notions, but are considered impossible for humans. The notion of intellectual intuition became essential for J. G. Fichte and F.W.J. Schelling, whereas Goethe’s interpretation of the methodology of intuitive understanding became important for Hegel. In my paper I try to shed some light on the different reinterpretations and adaptations of these intuitive faculties by German idealists and Goethe.

Jaakko Syrén – Hegel’s critique of Kantian moral philosophy

Abstract

In this presentation I will discuss the critique of Kantian moral philosophy posed in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. The context for the discussion is given by the enlightenments critique of religion. According to Hegel, the philosophy of enlightenment destroys the religious worldview. Having questioned the religious justification of moral norms, the enlightenment sets to replace the moral dogma with reason. The enlightened moral theory should provide the individual agents with the freedom of autonomous rational self-determination while avoiding the impasse of subjectivism. For Hegel, the Kantian moral theory doesn’t succeed in this goal. In the subchapter The moral view of the world Hegel goes through what he thinks are the shortcomings of Kant’s ethical thought.

Zoom

Topic: JYU Philosophy Research Seminar
Time: Apr 15, 2021 02:15 PM Helsinki
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Meeting ID: 674 3660 2246

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Congratulations to Julius Telivuo for the JYU good dissertation award!

Lämpimät onnittelut väitöskirjapalkinnosta yliopiston vuosijuhlassa Julius Telivuo