Periods
(1-Sep-2014
– 24-Oct-2014)
(27-Oct-2014
– 19-Dec-2014)
(7-Jan-2015
– 13-Mar-2015)
(16-Mar-2015
– 31-Jul-2015)
A new seminar for PhD-students and advanced students from any discipline, interested in social theory broadly conceived. During fall 2014 we will be reading Michel Foucault's lectures on the birth of biopolitics (La naissance de la biopolitique). The text will be available via moodle for registered participants.
Registration for the seminar on theoretical social research: Foucault, fall 2014
The first meeting is 24.9 (Pinni B3109), after that we meet 1.10. (chapters 1 & 2) (Pinni B3109) and then every second week (Pinni B3117), reading two chapters of the text for each meeting. Should be fun.
The purpose of this course is to grapple with several central issues and problems in contemporary philosophy of mind and knowledge by using some Kantian ideas as starting points. The course material is based on the current MS of my book, Cognition, Content, and the A Priori (CCAP), which is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.
The course will run from the morning of Wed 24 September to the morning of Fri 26 September and have four parts (= two 2 hour sessions on Wed, one 2 hour session on Thursday morning, and one 2 hour session on Friday morning), and the general format will be that on each topic I will present the basic line of argument under that topic, and then we'll proceed to comments and questions from participants in the course and a general critical discussion.
On the afternoon of Thurs 25 Sept, I will also do a free-standing research seminar presentation to which all interested people are invited.
Program:
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24
10:00-12:00
1. Intentionality & Knowledge Revisited.
Readings: CCAP, section 1.0, & the rest of the chapter optional.
14:00-16:00
2. A Kantian Theory of Non-Conceptual Content.
Readings: CCAP, section 2.0, & the rest of the chapter optional.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25
10:00-12:00
3. Radically Naive Realism in the Philosophy of Perception.
Readings: CCAP, section 3.0, & the rest of the chapter optional.
14:00-16:00
Research Seminar Presentation: "Kant, The Benacerraf Dilemmas, and the Problem of A Priori Knowledge"
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
10:00-12:00
4. The Return of the Analytic-Synthetic Distinction and the Morality of Logic.
Readings: CCAP, sections 4.0 and 5.0, & the rest of the chapters optional.
Sähköpostitse Tommi Vehkavaaralle (tommi.vehkavaara@uta.fi)
A new seminar for PhD-students and advanced students from any discipline, interested in social theory broadly conceived. During fall 2014 we will be reading Michel Foucault's lectures on the birth of biopolitics (La naissance de la biopolitique). The text will be available via moodle for registered participants.
Registration for the seminar on theoretical social research: Foucault, fall 2014
The first meeting is 24.9 (Pinni B3109), after that we meet 1.10. (chapters 1 & 2) (Pinni B3109) and then every second week (Pinni B3117), reading two chapters of the text for each meeting. Should be fun.
A new seminar for PhD-students and advanced students from any discipline, interested in social theory broadly conceived. During spring 2015 we will be reading David Graeber's Debt: the first 5000 years. The text will be available via moodle for registered participants.
Place: Atalpa 143
Time: Wed 15-18 Dates: 11.2, 11.3, 18.3, 1.4, 15.4
11.2. Jani Pulkki 1-42 Florian Houpier 43-88
11.3. Paula Rauhala 89-127 Olli Herranen 127-165
18.3. XXX 166-192 Angel Iglesias Ortiz 193-221 Michael Osei 222- 250
1.4. Dermot Lyons 251-306 Mihku Hytönen 307-333
15.4. Jaakko Belt 334-360 Dong Seob Lee 361-393
In addition to the presentations,write half a page summary of all chapters, a selective abstract of the chapter. That will help you to prepare for the discussion. After the class, send the 6p document to arto.laitinen@uta.fi
A new seminar for PhD-students and advanced students from any discipline, interested in social theory broadly conceived. During spring 2015 we will be reading David Graeber's Debt: the first 5000 years. The text will be available via moodle for registered participants.
Place: Atalpa 143
Time: Wed 15-18 Dates: 11.2, 11.3, 18.3, 1.4, 15.4
11.2. Jani Pulkki 1-42 Florian Houpier 43-88
11.3. Paula Rauhala 89-127 Olli Herranen 127-165
18.3. XXX 166-192 Angel Iglesias Ortiz 193-221 Michael Osei 222- 250
1.4. Dermot Lyons 251-306 Mihku Hytönen 307-333
15.4. Jaakko Belt 334-360 Dong Seob Lee 361-393
In addition to the presentations,write half a page summary of all chapters, a selective abstract of the chapter. That will help you to prepare for the discussion. After the class, send the 6p document to arto.laitinen@uta.fi