Philosophy @ Tampere University

Today in our #ResearchSeminar: Richard Healey (LSE) (richard-healey.com) gives a talk on ”The Grounds of #Moral Powers”. #TamperePhilosophy

Today I had the pleasure to attend the Philosophy Research Seminar at Tampere University for a joint presentation on the TIPU (Suomen Akatemia) and Transnational Flows (Kone) projects: researching the far-right impact on health, trade, gender equality, and decision-making (EU & Finland)

Today at the main building @ #TampereUniversity info for #Students about #Philosophy #Studies #AskAPhilosopher #Opintosuunnistus

Mikä on sodan eettinen ongelma? | Uusi Suomi Puheenvuoro Sodan eettinen ongelma on filosofinen ongelma. Se ei ole pelkästään teoreettinen ongelma vaan myös valitettavan polttava ja viheliäinen käytännöllinen moraalinen dilemma, joka eroaa oikeutetun sodan…

Jani Hakkarainen kysyy: mikä on sodan eettinen ongelma? #Sota #Etiikka #Filosofia

Defending the pure causal-historical theory of reference fixing for natural kind terms - Synthese According to the causal-historical theory of reference, natural kind terms refer in virtue of complicated causal relations the speakers have to their environment. A common objection to the theory is t...

Recent work from #Tampere #Philosophy: Jaakko Reinikainen defending a pure causal-historical theory of #Reference fixing for natural kind terms. #PhilLanguage #Language #Philsky

The Annual #Colloquium of the Philosophical Society of Finland (Jan 23-24) is almost here. Keynotes: Helen Beebee (Leeds/Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies), Lilian O'Brien (University of Tampere). #Philosophy #Philsky The program looks like this: www.filosofinenyhdistys.fi/wp-content/u...

Siiri Porkkala, Hermeneutical Injustice, Nonbinary Gender Identities and Category Invalidation - PhilPapers

Recent work from #Tampere #Philosophy: Siiri Porkkala's "Hermeneutical Justice, #Nonbinary #Gender Identities and Category Invalidation" (forthcoming in #Social #Epistemology) articulates a distinct form of #EpistemicInjustice faced by people who belong to a non-established social category.

We argue that this trivial explanation for unrestricted normative supervenience fails. Moreover, we argue that even if it succeeded, this wouldn’t undermine the explanation challenges associated with normative supervenience." 4/4

The idea is that if all descriptive properties are included in the base, any two individuals that share all their base properties must be the same individual in the same world, from which it follows that they have the same normative properties. 3/4

The abstract: "A common worry regarding normative supervenience theses is that they are easily trivialized unless we somehow restrict the set of descriptive base properties on which the normative properties supervene. 2/4

Why We Should Not Worry about the Triviality of Normative Supervenience* | Ethics: Vol 133, No 3 A common worry regarding normative supervenience theses is that they are easily trivialized unless we somehow restrict the set of descriptive base properties on which the normative properties superven...

Recent work from #Tampere #Philosophy: "Why We Should Not Worry about the Triviality of #Normative #Supervenience" (Ethics, 2023) by Vilma Venesmaa & Teemu Toppinen. 1/4

Marx, Karl Paula Rauhala (julkaistu 20.10.2023)

Viimeaikaisia julkaisuja Tampereen yliopiston #Filosofia oppiaineen väeltä: Paula Rauhalan kirjoittama suomenkielinen #Marx esittely julkaistiin #Logos ensyklopediassa viime vuonna. Teksti löytyy täältä: filosofia.fi/fi/ensyklope....

We wish to congratulate Berthet Valentine + research group, including a Tampere philosopher Corrado Piroddi, for securing a @koneensaatio.fi grant for their project Transnational flows: The impact of transatlantic #Conservative networks on Finnish and #EU #Environmental, #Health and social policies!

Formal Ontology Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Formal Ontology

Recent work by #Tampere philosophers: Formal #Ontology (Cambridge University Press, 2023) by Jani Hakkarainen and Markku Keinänen offers a formal ontological analysis of the categories of being that is useful for understanding various issues in #Metaphysics. It's all open access, folks!

Panu Raatikainen (ed.), _Essays in the Philosophy of Language._ Acta Philosophica Fennica Vol. 100. - PhilPapers Table of Contents: Panu Raatikainen: Varieties of Ideal Language Philosophy. Jani Sinokki: Descartes on Language: How Signification Leads to Direct Reference. Matti Eklund: Carnapian Frameworks Revisi...

The 100th volume of Acta Philosophica Fennica, "Essays in the Philosophy of Language", edited by Panu Raatikainen and with, among others, many Tampere philosophers, is now openly accessible:
#Philosophy #PhilSky

philpapers.org/rec/RAAEIT

Hei Bluesky! Me olemme Tampereen #Yliopisto #Filosofia oppiaine. Suunnitelmissa on postata tänne tietoa uusista julkaisuista, tapahtumista, projekteista, jne. Katsotaan nyt mitä kaikkea keksitään. Suurin osa postauksista tulee olemaan englanniksi, mutta osa sisällöstä on suomenkielistä. 2/2

Hi #BlueSky #PhilSky We are the #Philosophy department at #Tampere University. The plan is to post here at least about our events, new publications, projects, etc. Let’s see what we’ll come up with! Most of the content will be in English, but on occasion we will also post in #Finnish. 1/2