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Mieli, ajallisuus ja ruumiillisuus: psykoanalyysin, psykiatrian ja filosofian risteymäkohtia

Symposium
Helsingin yliopiston Tutkijakollegium
Fabianinkatu 24, 1. kerros, seminaarihuone 136
Torstai 26.4.2012


Ohjelma:

12.00–12.15    Avaussanat: Sami Pihlström ja Joona Taipale

12.15–13.45    Johannes Lehtonen (Itä-Suomen yliopisto):
                           Ruumiillisuus ihmismieltä muokkaamassa

13.45–15.00    Lounas

15.00–16.45      

16.45–17.15     Kahvitauko

17.15–19.00       


Tilaisuuteen on vapaa pääsy. Tervetuloa!

Lisätietoja: Joona Taipale (joona.taipale@helsinki.fi)

Research seminar in phenomenology

Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
Fabianinkatu 24, 2^nd floor seminar room
Fridays 10–12 a.m.

Those interested in presenting a paper at the seminar, please contact Sara Heinämaa (sara.heinamaa (at) helsinki.fi).


Spring 2012

JANUARY

Jan. 20

Jan. 27, 10–12
Timo Miettinen: Edmund Husserl's Europe: Empirical and Transcendental Genesis

FEBRUARY

Feb. 3, 10–12
Simo Pulkkinen: From the Horizontal Totality of Material Nature to the Contextuality of the Cultural World – and Back

Feb. 10, 10–12
Saara Hacklin: Divergencies of Perception: The Possibility of Merleau-Pontian Phenomenology in Analyses of Contemporary Art

Feb. 17, 10–12
Joel Backström: Nietzsche on Masters and Slaves: Revolt and Repression in Morality

MARCH

March 23, 10–12
Joona Taipale: Phenomenological Reflections on the Psychoanalytic Theory of Early Interaction

March 30, 10–12
Erika Ruonakoski: Reading Ancient Greek Literature Through Phenomenology: Between Classical Philology, Literary Theory, and Philosophy

APRIL

Thursday, April 12, 18–20
James McGuirk (University of Nordland): The First-Person Perspective, Horror, and the Depersonalization of the Subject

April 20, 10–12
Mirja Hartimo: Phenomenology, Local Normativity, and Mathematical Pluralism

MAY

May 4, 10–12
Sanna Tirkkonen: History of Law and Introduction of Money in Ancient Greece: Michel Foucault in Collège de France 1970–71

May 11, 10–12
Irina Poleshchuk: Unfolding Flesh towards the Other: Levinas' Perspective on Maternity and the Feminine
NB. Virpi Lehtinen's paper postponed until Fall 2012.

May 18, 10–12
Jussi Backman: Mortality and the End of Finitude: Meillassoux's Speculative Critique of Phenomenology

May 25, 10–12
Hermanni Yli-Tepsa: Vagueness of Organicism: Raymond Ruyer's Critique of Merleau-Ponty in Néo-finalisme

JUNE

June 1, 10–12
Simo Pulkkinen: TBA

June 15, 10–12
Hanne Jacobs (Loyola University Chicago): TBA

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Past events

2011 SEMINAR SERIES: PHENOMENOLOGY AND TRANSCENDENTAL PHILOSOPHY

Phenomenology and the Transcendental

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At the Limits of Transcendental Phenomenology

A phenomenological workshop organized by the research project European Rationality in the
Break from Modernity: Studies in Phenomenology and Hermeneutics.

Date: March 11–12, 2011

Venue: Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Fabianinkatu 24, seminar room, 1st floor


Programme:

Friday, March 11

Keynote Speaker 16:15–18:00

Rudolf Bernet (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium):
Transcendental Phenomenology?

ABSTRACT: There can be a phenomenology that does not understand itself as a phenomenology of a transcendental constituting conscious subject. Likewise, there can be a transcendental phenomenology that is not an eidetic science of the apodictically necessary structures of pure consciousness. In other words, within phenomenology there are also limits to sense-formation and limits to the general essential characterization of transcendental consciousness. In both cases, one should respect these limits rather than attempt to transcend them since the ultimate ground of all phenomenology lies in nothing else than the facticity of our experience. This does not mean, however, that the phenomenologist should be constrained by this facticity and be satisfied with simply narrating the history of his own experiences. In the end, the experienced phenomena themselves determine which science of them is possible and to what extent a scientific elaboration of its descriptive findings is congenial to phenomenological research.

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Saturday, March 12
Venue: Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (Fabianinkatu 24), seminar room 135, 1st
floor.

Session I: 10:15–11:45
Sara Heinämaa: Sexual Difference – A Phenomenological Problem?
Timo Miettinen: Towards a Transcendental Social Ontology

Session II: 12:00–13:30
Mirja Hartimo: Scientific Objectivity and the Transcendental
Joona Taipale: From the Lived-Body to the Body-Ego: Psychoanalytic Foundations of
Phenomenology?

LUNCH 13:30–15:00

Session III: 15:00–16:30
Simo Pulkkinen: Husserl and the Historicity of the Transcendental Subject
Jussi Backman: The End of the Transcendental? Post-Husserlian Transformations

The workshop is open to all. Welcome!

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Rudolf Bernet is a professor of philosophy at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven as well as the current director of the Husserl Archives at the same university. He is a well-known scholar of
phenomenology, especially its Husserlian current, and has written extensively on the
topics of transcendental philosophy, temporality, and psychoanalysis. He is the author of
several books and articles on phenomenological philosophy, including Conscience et
existence: perspectives phénoménologiques (2004), La vie du sujet: recherches sur
l'interprétation de Husserl dans la phénoménologie (1994), and An Introduction to
Husserlian Phenomenology (1993, together with with Iso Kern and Eduard Marbach). He is
also the editor of the Husserliana volume on time-consciousness (2001).

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For further information, please contact Timo Miettinen (timo.pa.miettinen (at) helsinki.fi).

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Professor Dan Zahavi (University of Copenhagen)

will present a lecture under the title "Husserl and the Transcendental" at the University of Helsinki on Thursday, February 17, 2011.

Professor Zahavi is the Director of the Center for Subjectivity Research (University of
Copenhagen) and Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Media, Cognition and
Communication (University of Copenhagen). He is one of the leading experts in
phenomenology and has written numerous articles in the fields of phenomenology,
cognitive science, and philosophy of mind. Some of his best-known books include Husserl
und die transzendentale Intersubjektivität (1996), Self-Awareness and Alterity (1999),
Subjectivity and Selfhood (2005), and The Phenomenological Mind: An Introduction to
Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science (with Shaun Gallagher) (2008).

The lecture is open to all, including students. Welcome!

Date: Thursday, February 17, 2011, 16:15–18:00

Venue: Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (Fabianinkatu 24), seminar room 135, 1st floor.

Organizer: Research project European Rationality in the Break from Modernity: Studies in
Phenomenology and Hermeneutics.

For further information, please contact joona.taipale (at ) helsinki.fi.

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Senior Lecturer Marguerite La Caze (University of Queensland)

will present a lecture under the title “A Taste of Ashes: Vengefulness and
Impossible Reciprocity in Beauvoir” at the University of Helsinki on May 5, 2011.

Senior Lecturer La Caze is an expert in Continental philosophical ethics and political
philosophy. Her books include The Analytic Imaginary (Cornell University Press, 2002)
and Integrity and the Fragile Self with Damian Cox and Michael Levine (Ashgate, 2003).
At the moment, she is working on restorative ethics and politics, discussing the
emotions of hate and revenge, the idea of post-genocide justice, and the problems of
lying.

ABSTRACT: Written just after the liberation of France and during the trials of collaborators,
Beauvoir’s essay 'An Eye for an Eye’ (1946) describes the worst of crimes as those that
reduce the human being to a thing. She suggests that we can only truly understand
reactions of outrage to these crimes, such as vengefulness, in these extreme situations
when we feel them in their “true concreteness”. I argue that the essay works to undermine
her own refusal to sign the petition for clemency for Robert Brasillach, an anti-Semitic
writer tried and convicted of treason. It also clarifies why vengefulness is almost bound
to be disappointed. Beauvoir sets out to understand why what she sees as the need for a
restored reciprocity in the light of these crimes usually cannot be satisfied. Both
private revenge and state punishment fail to bring about the perpetrator’s recognition of
what they have done, their own ambiguous existence or an acknowledgement of the
perspective of the victim. Here Beauvoir parallels this impossible reciprocity with that
of love. I show how her position shifts in The Second Sex (1949) and argue that we must
distinguish these emotional reactions of outrage from reciprocal loving relations.

The lecture is open to all, including students. Welcome!

Date: Thursday, May 5, 2011, 14:15–16:00

Venue: Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (Fabianinkatu 24), seminar room, 1st floor.

Organizer: Research project European Rationality in the Break from Modernity: Studies in Phenomenology and Hermeneutics

For further information, please contact sara.heinamaa (at) helsinki.fi.

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Professor Anthony J. Steinbock (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale)

will present a lecture under the title "The Distinctive Structure of the Emotions"
at the University of Helsinki on April 11, 2011.

Professor Steinbock is one of the leading experts in phenomenology and Continental philosophy. His best-known books include Home and Beyond: Generative Phenomenology after Husserl (Northwestern University Press, 1995) and Phenomenology and Mysticism: The Verticality of Religious Experience (Indiana University Press, 2007). He is also the translator of Husserl's monumental work Analyses Concerning Passive and Active Syntheses: Lectures on Transcendental Logic (2001), and the Editor-in-Chief of Continental Philosophy Review.

ABSTRACT: In this paper, I investigate whether acts peculiar to the emotional sphere of experience have a unique structure that is independent of epistemic acts. Do acts peculiar to the emotional sphere simply follow the coordinates of the noesis-noema structure of intentionality? Does the emotional sphere, which concerns the person (and not simply the
epistemically engaged subject), have an essentially different structure? I limit myself to one example of an emotional experience — trust — examining it with attention to three structural characteristics, namely, otherness, temporality, and the modality of possibility. In this way, I can adduce the extent to which acts of the emotional sphere have a unique structure such that they are not merely modifications of objectivating acts.

The lecture is open to all, including students. Welcome!

Date: Monday, April 11, 2011, 16:15–18:00

Venue: Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (Fabianinkatu 24), seminar room 135, 1st floor

Organizer: Research project European Rationality in the Break from Modernity: Studies in Phenomenology and Hermeneutics

For further information, please contact joona.taipale (at) helsinki.fi.

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Research seminar in phenomenology, Fall 2011

Research seminar in phenomenology, Spring 2011

Research seminar in phenomenology, Fall 2010

Research seminar in phenomenology, Spring 2010

Listening to the Silence: Martin Heidegger 120 years
November 16, 2009

Contemporary Topics in Phenomenology: An Encounter with Dermot Moran
May 21, 2009

Technology and Gestell: A Symposium with Professor Hans Ruin
November 3, 2008

Crisis and Tradition: Phenomenological Horizons
March 27–28, 2008