Since 2014, Timo Honkela has served as a professor at the department of modern linguistics of University of Helsinki, Finland. Earlier he has worked as a professor and other academic positions at the Helsinki University of Technology and University of Art and Design Helsinki (both currently part of Aalto University). The central themes in Honkela’s work have been related to the epistemological questions regarding computational modeling of language, communication, and.. Read More

Max Ryynänen (b. 1972) studied philosophy, aesthetics and semiotics in Helsinki, Pisa, Uppsala and Philadelphia (Temple). He left academic philosophy early to pursue a career in art theory (in the art world), but has lately come back to work on the philosophy of contemporary art and popular culture. Ryynänen works currently as senior lecturer of theory of visual culture and the director of the MA program Visual Culture and Contemporary.. Read More

Olli Koistinen is Professor at the department of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Contemporary History, and Political Science at the University of Turku, Finland. He works mainly on early modern philosophy and has published papers on Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, and Kant. He also works on contemporary metaphysics, especially action theory, a subject on which he has published a monograph. Lecture / Kiasma Theater / 6 am / 20 min A Night.. Read More

Erika Ruonakoski, PhD, is Senior Researcher at the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä. She is the author of Eläimen tuttuus ja vieraus (Familiarity and foreignness of animals, 2011) and the co-author of Human and Animal in Ancient Greece (2017) together with Docent Tua Korhonen. Her philosophical point of departure is phenomenology of the body, and she has specialized in questions of intersubjectivity, animals and gender. Currently.. Read More

Yrsa Neuman received a PhD on language and philosophical method in the tradition after the later Ludwig Wittgenstein from Åbo Akademi University (2015). Apart from teaching and research at Åbo, she has acted as the editor-in-chief of Nordic Wittgenstein Review (2011-17) and as the Swedish-speaking editor of the national philosophy portal Filosofia.fi (2005-2017). Her next assignment is situated at the von Wright and Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Helsinki… Read More

Roomet Jakapi is an Associate Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Tartu, Estonia. His research and teaching are focused on Early Modern Philosophy and Philosophy of Religion. He is also a musician, a vocalist who works in the fields of experimental music and free improvisation. His latest collaborations in music include guest appearances on the albums of Finnish groups LAKI and Ville Vokkolainen & Kusipäät. Lecture /.. Read More

Yvonne Förster is currently Visiting Professor for Philosophy at Leuphana University Lüneburg. She has taught at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Bauhaus University Weimar, and recently been awarded Research Fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Studies Media Cultures of Computer Simulation in Lüneburg and at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Cultural Foundations of Social Integration at University of Konstanz. Her research focuses on human-machine relations, the future of technology, theories.. Read More

Stefan Majetschak is professor of philosophy at the School of Art and Design and at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Kassel, Germany. Book publications: Die Logik des Absoluten. Spekulation und Zeitlichkeit in der Philosophie Hegels, 1992; Ludwig Wittgensteins Denkweg, 2000, Ästhetik zur Einführung, 4th ed. 2016. Edited (Selection): Auge und Hand. Konrad Fiedlers Kunsttheorie im Kontext, 1997; Bild-Zeichen. Perspektiven einer Wissenschaft vom Bild, 2005; Klassiker der Kunstphilosophie… Read More

Pablo Jarauta is PhD in Philosophy (Universidad de Murcia, 2010). His work moves through different ideas such as utopian thought, history of cartography, cultural history of design. About this ideas he has presented numerous contributions to conferences and congresses. Among his main professional positions, highlights his residence as a researcher and professor at Duke University (2001-2002) and at the Faculty of Arts at University of Extremadura (2010-2011). Currently he is.. Read More

I’m a Finnish metaphysician, metametaphysician and Hume scholar based at the University of Tampere. I working on metaphysics of properties and relations. At the moment I’m also developing a novel metametaphysical theory about the subject matter of metaphysics. I received my PhD at the University of Tampere in 2007. My dissertation was on Hume’s scepticism about the external world. Nowadays, I’m a post-doctoral fellow at Tampere: http://www.uta.fi/yky/en/contact/personnel/janihakkarainen/index.html. I also write.. Read More