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

Esther Shalev-Gerz, 2007 Two-channel HD video projection, 10min, loop In this double video, Shalev-Gerz filmed members of the staff of London’s National Maritime Museum listening to her in the Great Hall of the Queen’s House as she recounts what the person she filmed before just told her. Those fragments of history, dreams and interpretations range from actual facts to long-held rumours and disputed opinions. In the background, one can see.. Read More

Rebacca Bournigault, 1994 In this video installation the viewer is invited to sit on a chair in a dark room and then gets in front of is own image magnified. Other viewer are witnesses of a portrait, not recorded, that is happening in real time. They also have the possibility to be the next models. In this installation we are confronted to our image as the other see us, it.. Read More

Nicolas Darrot, 2016 Luminous projector, telescope mount Concept developed in collaboration with physicist Olivier Dadoun (Nuclear Physics and High Energy Laboratory LPNHE, IN2P3 CNRS/Pierre & Marie Curie University/Paris Diderot University) A high-definition image of the universe, produced by the WISE satellite, is the invisible core that the Faun algorithm uses to read. Each pixel of the image is thus expressed by its luminous value, its color, its order in the.. Read More

Diaporama of 149 vintage pictures selected by Mériam Korichi Courtesy of the Computer History Museum in California Under the ramp, Main lobby 1st floor, 10pm-7am A Night of Philosophy in Helsinki 2’s full program here

A Night of Philosophy is a nocturnal event, inviting philosophers and artists to organize a unique encounter between Philosophy, Art and the general Public. It is based on the principles of profusion, simultaneity and free access: profusion of philosophers and artists, simultaneity of the performances, freedom of the audience. As a site-specific event, A Night of Philosophy offers each time a new experience. After Paris, Berlin, London, New York, UNESCO’s.. Read More

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Gina Papalexiou studied Philosophy at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, MS, Phd (Thesis: “Theory and Knowledge in Plato’s Theaetetus”). The subjects of her teaching at the University and research activity are: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Epistemology, Ontology, Ethics, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Education. She has authored and published three research monographies – books (Minor Platonics, 2009, Plato’s Theaetetus, introduction, translation, commentary, 2015, Introduction to Presocratic Ontology, 2015) and she has published papers.. Read More

The Call Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-philosophicus, 5.5542, 5.6, 5.621, 5.632, 6.373, lu par Bogdan Hatisi Syrinx, Debussy H. D. Thoreau, Walden or The Life in the Wood, un des extraits diffusés par From Walden to Space, de Stéphane Thidet Extrait du script de Faune, de Nicolas Darrot, lu par Bogdan Hatisi Proposition de Mériam Korichi