Filosofian tutkijakoulun järjestämät kurssit vuonna 2010

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Sivua päivitetty 5.1.2010

Seuraavat linkit vievät kunkin tutkijakouluun osallistuvan laitoksen opetusta koskevalle sivulle.

Helsingin yliopisto, filosofian laitos ja käytännöllisen filosofian laitos
Joensuun yliopisto
Jyväskylän yliopisto
Tampereen yliopisto
Turun yliopisto
Åbo Akademi

Tutkijakoulun pääsivu.

Osallistumiseen alla mainuituille kursseille voi hakea matkakorvausta, ks INFO .

 

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Toistaiseksi tiedossa olevat kurssit:

POSSIBLE WORLDS: LECTURES ON MODALITY, COUNTERFACTUAL REASONING AND THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS

Seminar room 150,  Department of Behavioural Sciences and Philosophy,

University of Turku 03-07/05: 18-20

Dr. Tim De Mey (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam)

LECTURE 1. What if? So what? (Monday 3th of May 2010, 18-20)

In this lecture, the central theme of hypothetical and, more specifically, counterfactual reasoning is introduced. We take into account findings in social and/or cognitive psychology on how people reason counterfactually about their own past, and discuss their ramifications for the indispensable, goal-directed use of hypothetical and counterfactual reasoning by professional historians in their attempts to reconstruct the past “as it really was”.

LECTURE 2. Scientific thought experiments (Tuesday 4^th of May 2010, 18-20)

In science, counterfactual reasoning is often recruited to think through “thought experiments”. In this lecture, two examples are analyzed. Firstly, we discuss Kuhn’s paradox of thought experiments in physics, taking Galileo’s thought experiment on free fall as our main example.  Secondly, we argue that William Harvey’s quantitative argument is in fact the thought experiment on the basis of which Harvey brought not only himself, but also the scientist of his age to postulate blood circulation.

LECTURE 3. Philosophical thought experiments (Wednesday 5^th of May 2010, 18-20)

In philosophy, two kinds of thought experiments flourish: conceptual and evaluative thought experiments. In this lecture, we see that scientific thought experiments and philosophical thought experiments have much in common, and we discuss whether and to what extent we can infer criteria for the successful use of thought experiments in philosophy, from our understanding of how scientific though experiments “really” work.

LECTURE 4. A fieldtrip to possible worlds (Thursday 6^th of May 2010, 18-20)

The use of counterfactual reasoning and thought experiments in scientific and philosophical contexts, is based on a number of controversial logical, metaphysical, epistemological and methodological assumptions about modality. In this lecture, we discuss some of the fundamental issues, in particular (1) the existence of possible worlds, (2) the problem of identity over possible world, and (3) the question whether conceivability implies possibility.

Happiness and the Good in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy

Prof. Donald Rutherford (University of California, San Diego)

Helsingin yliopisto, Käytännöllisen filosofian laitos
Time: 19-23.4.2010 UUSI AIKA!

THERAPY IS NOT ENOUGH: WITTGENSTEIN'S SUBSTANTIAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO PHILOSOPHY

Dr Daniele Moyal-Sharrock (School of Humanities, University of Hertfordshire)

 

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Kurssit 2010 laitoksittain:  

Helsingin yliopisto, Filosofian laitos

Contextualism in philosophy of language

Prof. Ernst Lepore (Rutgers) and Prof. Gabriel Sandu (Helsinki)

Time: 15-26 November 2010

 

Philosophy of Language

Prof. Mircea Dumitru (University of Bucharest, Department of Philosophy)

Time: May 2010

Brief description:
The class will cover new material from the ongoing debates in philosophy of language, and in particular from the philosophical semantics, concerning the nature and mechanics of reference. We pay close attention to the recent literature devoted to the work and philosophy of David Kaplan focusing on his contribution to logic and semantics, and then to the ground-braking program in philosophical logic and philosophy of language, entitled semantic relationism, which has been articulated by Kit Fine in his very recent book having the same title.

We want to understand the specific contribution of those new theories to the overall philosophical understanding of the relation between language and reality, with a special emphasis on the issues of reference and meaning.

Prerequisites:
Working knowledge in first order logic and an intro class in philosophy of language.

Topics for discussion:
1. Kaplan’s views on demonstratives (4 hours).
2. On direct reference (1 hour).
3. The problem of de re modality (1 hour).
4. Kit Fine’s semantic relationism program (2 hours).
5. A semantic relationist solution to Frege’s puzzle (1 hour).
6. A semantic relationist solution Kripke’s puzzle (1 hour).

Basic references:
Joseph Almog, John Perry, Howard Wettstein (eds.), Themes from Kaplan, Oxford University Press, 1989.

Joseph Almog and Paolo Leonardi (eds.), The Philosophy of David Kaplan, Oxford University Press, 2009.

Kit Fine, Semantic Relationism, Blackwell, 2007.

Paul Humphreys and James Fetzer (eds.), The New Theory of Reference – Kripke, Marcus, and Its Origins, Synthese Library, Springer, 1999.

 

Helsingin yliopisto, Käytännöllisen filosofian laitos

Happiness and the Good in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy

Prof. Donald Rutherford (University of California, San Diego)

Time: 19-23.4.2010 UUSI AIKA!

Place:

Course content:
Study of the history of early modern philosophy has been infected by two regrettable biases: 1) an overemphasis on theoretical philosophy (metaphysics and epistemology) at the expense of practical philosophy (ethics, politics); 2) an assumption that the concerns and methods of philosophy undergo a radical revision in the seventeenth century in conjunction with the emergence of modern natural science.  The goal of this course is to rectify these biases by focusing on the ethical dimension of seventeenth century philosophy, emphasizing the way in which even its most forward-looking practitioners remain tethered to a conception of philosophy inherited from their predecessors, while at the same time rejecting certain key ideas about the operation of nature that anchored the theories of ancient and medieval thinkers.

Monday, April 19, (2+2 hours of lectures)

1.         Introduction to the issues; Natural law theory and its transformation

Readings:  Excerpts from Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, IaIIae;  Suarez, Treatise on Law; Hooker, Of Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity; Grotius, On the Law of War and Peace

2.         Gassendi and the Revival of Epicureanism

Readings: Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus; Principle Doctrines; Gassendi, Philosophiae Epicuri Syntagma

Tuesday, April 20, Thomas Hobbes (2 +2 hours of lectures)

1. Hobbes' doctrine of the good

2. Felicity and the "True Moral Philosophy"

Readings: Thomas Hobbes, De Cive; De Homine; Leviathan

Wednesday, April 21, René Descartes (2 +2 hours of lectures)

1.         Descartes on virtue and happiness

2.         The Passions of the Soul

Readings: Seneca, De vita beata; Pierre Charron, De la sagesse; Descartes, Discourse on the Method; letters to Elisabeth and Christina; Passions of the Soul

Thursday, April 22, Benedict de Spinoza (2 +2 hours of lectures)

1 and 2.            The structure and aims of Spinoza's ethics

Readings: Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect; Ethics

Friday, April 23,  Concluding remarks + round table discussion (2 +2 hours)

Total: 20 hours

Further information: There will be no exam, but additional credit will be received by writing an essay. For more information, contact the assistant teacher Juhana Lemetti (e-mail: juhana.lemetti[at]helsinki.fi).

 

Joensuun yliopisto

Ei tutkijakoulun järjestämiä kursseja vuonna 2010.

Jyväskylän yliopisto, Yhteiskuntatieteiden ja filosofian laitos

 

Tampereen yliopisto, Historiatieteen ja filosofian laitos

 

Turun Yliopisto, Filosofian laitos

Questions of Value: Ethics and Meta-Ethics

 Prof. Thomas Magnell, Drew University, NY &

 Juha Räikkä, Turun yliopisto

 Time: August 9 – August 13, 2010

 Place: Publicum, Seminaarihuone 150 

Monday 9.8: 10-14:
Filosofinen etiikka ja moraaliset dilemmat 

Tuesday 10.8: 10-14:
Ideaaliteoriat ja ei-ideaaliteoriat etiikassa ja yhteiskuntafilosofiassa 

Wednesday 11.8: 10-14:
Freedom and security as a global problem 

Thursday 12.8: 10-14:
Disjunctive duties and homogeneous and heterogeneous values 

Friday 13.8: 10-14:
The comparative nature of evaluation

Further information: Kurssin korvaavuuksista voi sopia Juha Räikän kanssa (jraikka@utu.fi)

 

Åbo Akademi, Filosofiska Institutionen

Therapy is not enough: Wittgenstein's substantial contributions to
philosophy

Dr Daniele Moyal-Sharrock (School of Humanities, University of Hertfordshire)

Course description: 14 hours lectures and student presentations + research seminar

Info and registration: To participate to the course please register to Martin Nybom (e-mail: mnybom(at)abo.fi) by the end of April 2010.

 

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