Tutkijaseminaarissa filosofian jatko-opiskelijat, henkilökunta sekä vierailevat luennoitsijat pitävät filosofisia esitelmiä / In the seminar, Tampere graduate students, faculty and external speakers give talks in philosophy. Seminaari kokoontuu seuraavan ohjelman mukaisesti/the program of the seminar is the following:

15.9. Mari Mikkola (Humboldt): Feminist Metaphysics and Philosophical Methodology

21.9. Graduate Seminar: Research Plans Session

29.9. Graduate Seminar Shorts: Jaana Virta (UTA), Renne Pesonen (UTA).

6.10. Sonja Amadae (Helsinki): Computational Rationality and Rational Choice:  Denying Agentive Autonomy?

27.10. Anik Waldow (Sydney): Descartes on Knowing and Experiencing the Self

3.11 Jan Forsman (Graduate Seminar, UTA): Deceiving Deity & External World - How Radical Was Descartes?

17.11. Antti Kauppinen (UTA):Preference, Commitment, and Personal Transformation

21.11. (Mon, 16-18, Pinni B3107) José Noguera (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona): Reductionism That Really Matters for Social Science

24.11. Panu Raatikainen (UTA): Semantic Externalism

1.12. J.L. Austin ja puheteot (klo 10-15, A2a)

8.12. Heikki Ikäheimo (UNSW, Sydney): Intersubjective recognition and personhood as membership in the life-form of persons

15.12. Hanne Appelqvist, Jukka Mikkonen and Kalle Puolakka (Helsinki/Tampere): The Cognitive Relevance of Aesthetics

Kevät/Spring:

12.1.Paula Rauhala (Graduate Seminar): Marx in the East

19.1. Aino Lahdenranta (Jyväskylä): Adam Smith on virtuous action and the derivative value of character

26.1. NB 12-14! Tuomas Lepistö (Graduate Seminar): Reality and experience: new B-theoretical approaches to the justification of time experience.

2.2. Vesa Oittinen (Helsinki): Marx on Ideology

9.2. Tapio Santala +TBA (Graduate seminar): Research plan session

16.2. Anssi Korhonen (Helsinki): An almost unquenchable desire implanted in the human breast: Russell on truthmaking, falsemaking, and negative facts

23.2. Miika Kabata (Graduate seminar): The spectre unleashed: Friedman’s instrumentalism and the shadow of economics ideology

9.3. Petri Ylikoski (Helsinki): Behavioral Genetics and Social Science

16.3. Jaakko Hirvelä (Helsinki): Global Safety – How to Deal with Necessary Truths

23.3. A session on the methods of philosophy

30.3. Corrado Piroddi (Graduate seminar): TBA

6.4. Noora Tienaho (Graduate seminar): Rationality in electronic music – what would Adorno say?

20.4.  Risto Koskensilta (Graduate seminar): TBA

27.4. Markku Oksanen (UEF): On Environmental Human Rights

4.5. Juha Himanka (Tampere): Philosophy: Against Knowledge 

11.5. Jaakko Belt (Graduate Seminar): Description, Understanding, Critique. Husserl's Method(s) of Reflection.

18.5. Inkeri Koskinen (Helsinki): In defence of a contextual account of objectivity.

Wed 24.5. Matthew Slater Trust and Scientific Literacy, 2pm-4pm, PinniB4116

If you wish to be added to the list where papers are circulated, contact arto.laitinen@uta.fi

Seminaari on avoin myös perustutkinto-opiskelijoille. Kun seminaarissa on vierailijaesitelmöitsijä, sen jälkeen on vastaanotto filosofian kahvihuoneessa.

The seminar is open to everybody. When we have an external speaker, there is a reception in the common room.

In this text seminar we will go through Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments. The text is available in the moodle page, the password is Sentiments. (Check out also the course in moral psychology 26-29.9)

28.9. Introduction

12.10. Part I: Of the propriety of action 11-77

2.11. Part II: Of merit and demerit; or, of the objects of reward and punishment 78-127

16.11. Part III Of the foundation of our judgments concerning our own sentiments and conduct, and of the sense of duty 128-208

30.11. Part IV Of the effect of utility upon the sentiment of approbation & Part V Of the influence of custom and fashion upon the sentiments of moral approbation and disapprobation 209-247

7.12. Part VI Of the character of virtue 248-312

15.12. Part VI Of systems of moral philosophy 313-405 (NB: not 14.12).

Active participation in seminars, typically 3 ECTS, with extra reading 5 ECTS.

The aim of this mini-course will be to introduce participants to some of the basic questions and issues in the phenomenology of the body and embodied experience.  We will spend the first day exploring aspects of Husserl’s pioneering work on the body in the second volume of Ideas.  The second day will be devoted to an examination of Merleau-Ponty’s account of the body in the first part of Phenomenology of Perception.  Although, as we will see, Merleau-Ponty inherits a great deal from Husserl, there are also significant criticisms and departures.  Emphasis will be given to the latter in our examination.

For 3 credits

Lectures + readings + 3 page essay on one of the topics

Teacher:

Prof. David R. Cerbone, Teacher responsible

For more information on the readings, access Moodle, the key is ”Embodiment”: https://learning2.uta.fi/course/view.php?id=9078

Wednesday, August 31:  Husserl on the Body

 First and Second Hours:
1.     The legacy of dualism
2.     Körper and Leib (body and Body)
3.     Remarks on the notion of constitution
4.     The Body and perception
5.     The Body and objectivity
6.     The Body and intersubjectivity 

Third and Fourth Hours:
7.     The constitution of the Body

8.     Sight, touch, and double-touch
9.     Localization
10.   Overcoming dualism: the unity of the ego and the Body

Thursday, September 1:  Merleau-Ponty

Hours One and Two:
1.     The return to phenomena
2.     Twin prejudices: empiricism and intellectualism
3.     Being-in-the-world
4.     Phantom limb: ambivalence and repression
5.     Motor Intentionality

Hours Three and Four:
6.     Perceptual experience revisited
7.     Truths versus presences
8.     Seeing things and things that see
9.     Perceptual constancy
10.   The intentional arc

There is no enrolment, welcome to the first session.
For practical matters, e-mail PhD researcher Jaakko Belt (jaakko.belt@uta.fi)
For credit points, e-mail prof. Arto Laitinen (arto.laitinen@uta.fi)

Type or level of studies

Postgraduate studies, intermediate studies

Course unit descriptions in the curriculum

FILS1a Early Modern, Modern and Contemporary Philosophy

Or negotiated with prof. Arto Laitinen (arto.laitinen@uta.fi)