Jukka Mikkonen

suomeksi

D.Phil, Researcher
School of Social Sciences and Humanities/Philosophy
33014 University of Tampere
FINLAND

jukka.mikkonen [at] uta.fi
 


Research Interests

Philosophical Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art, Philosophy and/as/of /in/through Literature, Rhetoric, Literary Theory


Publications (in English)

Articles

“Contemplation and Hypotheses in Literature”
Philosophical Frontiers, Vol. 5, No. 1. (2010)

Implicit Assertions in Literary Fiction”
Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics, Vol. 2, edited by Alessandro Bertinetto, Fabian Dorsch & Cain Todd (2010).

On the Body of Literary Persuasion”
Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics, Vol. 1/2010. [Abstract]

“Sutrop on Literary Fiction-Making: Defending Currie
Disputatio, Vol. III, No. 28 (2010).

“Literary Fictions as Utterances and Artworks”
Theoria, Vol. 76, No. 1 (2010). [Abstract]

“Truth-Claiming in Fiction: Towards a Poetics of Literary Assertion”
Nordic Journal of Aesthetics, Vol. 38 (2009). [Abstract]


“Assertions in Literary Fiction”
Minerva, Vol. 13 (2009).

“The Realistic Fallacy, or: The Conception of Literary Narrative Fiction in Analytic Aesthetics”
Studia Philosophica Estonica, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2009).
[Abstract]

“Intentions and Interpretations: Philosophical Fiction as Conversation”
Contemporary Aesthetics, Vol. 7 (2009).

“Philosophical Fiction and the Act of Fiction-Making”
SATS: Nordic Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 9, No. 2 (2008). [Abstract]

“‘Believe you me, I know. I’m pretty sharp when it comes to things like that’: Little My’s Argumentation and Rhetoric”
In Tove Jansson Rediscovered, edited by Malin Lidström Brock & Kate McLoughlin. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2007. [Abstract]


Reviews and Review Essays

Review of Garry Hagberg & Walter Jost (eds.), Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Literature
Forthcoming in Partial Answers.


Review of Noël Carroll (ed.), The Aesthetics, Poetics, and Philosophy of Narrative
British Journal of Aesthetics (2012).

Review of Peter Lamarque
’s book Philosophy of Literature
Philosophy and Literature
, Vol. 33, No. 1 (2009). [Project MUSE: html, pdf]

“Apologies for Fiction”
Review of John Gibson, Wolfgang Huemer & Luca Pocci (eds.), A Sense of the World: Essays on Fiction, Narrative and Knowledge
SATS: Nordic Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 9, No. 2 (2008).

Review of John Gibson’s book Fiction and the Weave of Life
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. 66, No. 4 (2008).
[DOI] [IngentaConnect]

Review essay of David Davies’s book Aesthetics and Literature
Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics, 1/2008.



Professional Affiliations

American Comparative Literature Association
American Society for Aesthetics
The British Society of Aesthetics
The European Society for Aesthetics
Finnish Association of Science Editors and Journalists
The Finnish Critics’ Association
Finnish Literary Research Society
Finnish Society for Aesthetics
The International Association for Philosophy and Literature
The International Society for the Study of Narrative
Nordic Society of Aesthetics
The Philosophical Society of Finland Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics
The Society for Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy



Academic Responsibilities

Reviewer for Journal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry.
Reviewer for Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication.
Reviewer for Philosophical Frontiers.
Editor for the Logos encyclopedia.
Editor for the philosophical journal niin & näin.
 

Misc

Philosophy of Literature Links
List of Publications (in Finnish)




Page last updated  16 Jan 2012.