Tulevat tapahtumat

Esitelmä- ja keskustelutilaisuudet

Huhtikuun esitelmätilaisuus 22.4.2026, klo 16:15-17:30

Paikka: Tampereen yliopisto, Linna, Sali K104.

Kevään viimeisen kuukausiesitelmän pitää prof. Susanna Lindberg (Leidenin yliopisto). Englanninkielisen esitelmän otsikkona on “Global Warming and Another World”.

Tiivistelmä esitelmästä:

What is the world of global warming? Of course, for the natural attitude, the world of global warming is our home planet that, as we all know, is increasingly ravaged by rising temperatures, and that, as we also know, is our unique homeworld. There is no planet B.

In this conference, however, we do not need to repeat the evidences of the natural attitude but examine the world of global warming in a phenomenological attitude. My hypothesis is that the inherited phenomenological concept of world is insufficient to think through the phenomenon of global warming, so that, to properly face it, we need a different concept of world. This is partly because the phenomenological concept of world is tightly tied to experience. It is problematic to speak about the experience of global warming either because, as Dipesh Chakrabarty says, we cannot have an experience of it, or because, as I would like to suggest, the “we” who experience it are different from the classical phenomenological ego or Dasein: the “subject” of the experience of global warming is a new kind of inauthentic and asubjective subject.

In my paper, I will first show quickly why the classical phenomenological concept of the world is insufficient to account for global warming. This concept, as laid out in particular by Husserl and Heidegger, depicts the world as a total horizon of a subject’s experience (ego, Dasein). If one wishes to explain global warming in this framework, one will inevitably resort to the idea of the epoch of technics, which can effectively give a philosophical grounding to the idea of the Anthropocene. In my paper, I will show, however, why the underlying idea of totality renders the idea of the epoch of technics insufficient in the case of global warming.

After that, I will show how the poststructuralist thinking of the world, developed in particular by Derrida and Nancy, starts by the question of the “end of the world”, which designates both the ends of the concrete lifeworld and the end of the classical phenomenological concept of the world. Instead of the latter, Derrida and Nancy develop a thinking of globalisation, which helps to reformulate the problem of agency at the epoch of the Anthropocene. I will show, however, why their idea of globalisation is despite everything ill equipped to properly account for global warming as a techno-natural process.

Finally, I will present a hypothesis of another thinking of the world that I hope to be better suited for the problem of global warming. This concept is still found in a phenomenological manner, so that it opens as a transcendental question rather than as an ontological hypothesis (such as OOO or new materialism). Here the world is not thought as totality anymore, but as an enmeshed tissue of events in which existents are immersed. Akin to Merleau-Ponty’s idea of the flesh, it differs from it because it isn’t related to bodies and perception, but to a primordial technicity of the techno-nature. I will then show how to conceptualize it in in terms of “bio-technics”, “technics of naturing”, articulation or fabrication. I will suggest that they help us articulate a more adequate picture of the world of global warming.

Tilaisuutta on mahdollista seurata myös Zoomin välityksellä:

Maaliskuun esitelmätilaisuus 25.3.2026, klo 16:15-19

Paikka: Tieteiden Talo (Kirkkokatu 6, Helsinki); sali: Cedercreuz.

Tilaisuudessa juhlistetaan yhdistyksen aiemman puheenjohtajan, prof. emer. Ilkka Niiniluodon 80-vuotispäivää.

Luvassa on kolme esitelmää:

  • prof. Sami Pihlström: “Ilkka Niiniluoto uskontokriitikkona”.
  • prof. Panu Raatikainen: “Emergentti materialismi”.
  • dos. Kristina Rolin: “Relativismin ongelma feministisessä tieteenfilosofiassa”.

Tilaisuutta on mahdollista seurata myös Zoomin välityksellä:

  • Meeting ID: 874 1135 4872
  • Passcode: 612606

Tilaisuuden diaesitykset:

Pihlström

Raatikainen

Rolin

Vuoden 2026 esitelmätilaisuudet

  • 24.2. klo 16:15 (Tieteiden Talo; sali: Cedercreuz): akatemiaprofessori Jari Kaukua (JY).
  • 25.3. klo 16:15-19 (Tieteiden Talo, Helsinki): esitelmätilaisuus prof. emer. Ilkka Niiniluodon 80-vuotispäivän kunniaksi.
  • 22.4. 16:15-17:30 (Tampereen yliopisto, Linna, Sali K104): prof. Susanna Lindberg (Leidenin yliopisto).
  • 10.9. klo 16-18 Tieteiden Talo (alustava).
  • 15.10. klo 16-18 Tieteiden Talo (alustava).
  • 12. tai 13.11. Tieteiden Talo (osana Suomen nais- ja feministifilosofien yhdistyksen (NFY) järjestämää konferenssia).

Vuosikollokvio 2027

Vuoden 2027 vuosikollokvio järjestetään 7. ja 8.1.2027 Tampereen yliopistossa.

Vuosikollokvio 2026

Vuosikollokvion 2026 verkkosivu

Tulevat tapahtumat

Esitelmä- ja keskustelutilaisuudet

Huhtikuun esitelmätilaisuus 22.4.2026, klo 16:15-17:30

Paikka: Tampereen yliopisto, Linna, Sali K104.

Kevään viimeisen kuukausiesitelmän pitää prof. Susanna Lindberg (Leidenin yliopisto). Englanninkielisen esitelmän otsikkona on “Global Warming and Another World”.

Tiivistelmä esitelmästä:

What is the world of global warming? Of course, for the natural attitude, the world of global warming is our home planet that, as we all know, is increasingly ravaged by rising temperatures, and that, as we also know, is our unique homeworld. There is no planet B.

In this conference, however, we do not need to repeat the evidences of the natural attitude but examine the world of global warming in a phenomenological attitude. My hypothesis is that the inherited phenomenological concept of world is insufficient to think through the phenomenon of global warming, so that, to properly face it, we need a different concept of world. This is partly because the phenomenological concept of world is tightly tied to experience. It is problematic to speak about the experience of global warming either because, as Dipesh Chakrabarty says, we cannot have an experience of it, or because, as I would like to suggest, the “we” who experience it are different from the classical phenomenological ego or Dasein: the “subject” of the experience of global warming is a new kind of inauthentic and asubjective subject.

In my paper, I will first show quickly why the classical phenomenological concept of the world is insufficient to account for global warming. This concept, as laid out in particular by Husserl and Heidegger, depicts the world as a total horizon of a subject’s experience (ego, Dasein). If one wishes to explain global warming in this framework, one will inevitably resort to the idea of the epoch of technics, which can effectively give a philosophical grounding to the idea of the Anthropocene. In my paper, I will show, however, why the underlying idea of totality renders the idea of the epoch of technics insufficient in the case of global warming.

After that, I will show how the poststructuralist thinking of the world, developed in particular by Derrida and Nancy, starts by the question of the “end of the world”, which designates both the ends of the concrete lifeworld and the end of the classical phenomenological concept of the world. Instead of the latter, Derrida and Nancy develop a thinking of globalisation, which helps to reformulate the problem of agency at the epoch of the Anthropocene. I will show, however, why their idea of globalisation is despite everything ill equipped to properly account for global warming as a techno-natural process.

Finally, I will present a hypothesis of another thinking of the world that I hope to be better suited for the problem of global warming. This concept is still found in a phenomenological manner, so that it opens as a transcendental question rather than as an ontological hypothesis (such as OOO or new materialism). Here the world is not thought as totality anymore, but as an enmeshed tissue of events in which existents are immersed. Akin to Merleau-Ponty’s idea of the flesh, it differs from it because it isn’t related to bodies and perception, but to a primordial technicity of the techno-nature. I will then show how to conceptualize it in in terms of “bio-technics”, “technics of naturing”, articulation or fabrication. I will suggest that they help us articulate a more adequate picture of the world of global warming.

Tilaisuutta on mahdollista seurata myös Zoomin välityksellä:

Maaliskuun esitelmätilaisuus 25.3.2026, klo 16:15-19

Paikka: Tieteiden Talo (Kirkkokatu 6, Helsinki); sali: Cedercreuz.

Tilaisuudessa juhlistetaan yhdistyksen aiemman puheenjohtajan, prof. emer. Ilkka Niiniluodon 80-vuotispäivää.

Luvassa on kolme esitelmää:

  • prof. Sami Pihlström: “Ilkka Niiniluoto uskontokriitikkona”.
  • prof. Panu Raatikainen: “Emergentti materialismi”.
  • dos. Kristina Rolin: “Relativismin ongelma feministisessä tieteenfilosofiassa”.

Tilaisuutta on mahdollista seurata myös Zoomin välityksellä:

  • Meeting ID: 874 1135 4872
  • Passcode: 612606

Tilaisuuden diaesitykset:

Pihlström

Raatikainen

Rolin

Vuoden 2026 esitelmätilaisuudet

  • 24.2. klo 16:15 (Tieteiden Talo; sali: Cedercreuz): akatemiaprofessori Jari Kaukua (JY).
  • 25.3. klo 16:15-19 (Tieteiden Talo, Helsinki): esitelmätilaisuus prof. emer. Ilkka Niiniluodon 80-vuotispäivän kunniaksi.
  • 22.4. 16:15-17:30 (Tampereen yliopisto, Linna, Sali K104): prof. Susanna Lindberg (Leidenin yliopisto).
  • 10.9. klo 16-18 Tieteiden Talo (alustava).
  • 15.10. klo 16-18 Tieteiden Talo (alustava).
  • 12. tai 13.11. Tieteiden Talo (osana Suomen nais- ja feministifilosofien yhdistyksen (NFY) järjestämää konferenssia).

Vuosikollokvio 2027

Vuoden 2027 vuosikollokvio järjestetään 7. ja 8.1.2027 Tampereen yliopistossa.

Vuosikollokvio 2026

Vuosikollokvion 2026 verkkosivu