Dr. Jaana Parviainen is a philosopher and senior researcher from the University of Tampere in Finland. Her research interests include phenomenology and social epistemology especially relating to embodiment, movement and digital technology in the post-industrial economy. Her current research focuses on social robots in eldercare. Lecture / Kiasma Theater / 2 am / 20 min A Night of Philosophy in Helsinki 2’s full program

Hemmo Laiho received his PhD in philosophy from University of Turku in 2012 upon completion of his award-winning thesis Perception in Kant’s Model of Experience. Besides Kant and history of philosophy, his research interests include philosophy of perception and aesthetics. He has taught philosophy of art at TUAS Arts Academy and conducted research in University of California, first at UCLA, and then, as a Fulbright scholar, at UC San Diego… Read More

Giulia Piredda is temporary research fellow at the IUSS Center for Neurocognition, Epistemology and theoretical Syntax (Pavia) since April 2015. Her primary research interests are in the philosophy of mind and philosophy of language, with special reference to the development of situated, embodied and extended views of the mind. Her main current research project at IUSS deals with potential implementations of the extended mind approach in other domains, such as.. Read More

Anne-Kathrin Koch studied philosophy in Mainz and Darmstadt, Germany. In 2015, she joined the philosophy department at the University of Vienna. Her research focuses on the connection between relativism and skepticism. She is currently working towards her PhD. Lecture / Kiasma Theatre / 12:20 am / 20 min A Night of Philosophy in Helsinki 2’s full program

Paavo Pylkkänen is Director of Philosophy Bachelor’s programme and senior lecturer in theoretical philosophy at the University of Helsinki; he is also an associate professor in theoretical philosophy at the University of Skövde. His research areas are philosophy of mind and the foundations of quantum theory. In particular, he has studied the relevance of David Bohm’s interpretation of quantum theory to problems in scientific metaphysics. He is the author of.. Read More

Johanna Ahola-Launonen is a Finnish researcher in moral and political philosophy. Her research interests focus on distributive and social justice, the philosophy of responsibility, the social determinants of health, and the methodology of bioethics. Currently she finishes her PhD “Conceptions of responsibility in bioethics – common fallacies and a way forward” at the University of Helsinki and coordinates the project “Justice and its Alternatives in a Globalizing world” at Aalto.. Read More