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The Gender of the Cartesian Mind, Body, and Mind-Body Union

2019

The chapter examines what we can know about gender from the perspective of the three primary notions introduced by Descartes in his correspondence with Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia. The first section discusses how the primitive notion of the mind strengthens the idea that “the mind has no sex”, an idea that was further developed by the Cartesian and early feminist François Poulain de la Barre. The next section focuses on the notion of the body and analyses what Descartes has to say about gender in his anatomical writings. The little known posthumously published notes Primae cogitationes circa generationem animalium receive particular attention. Here Descartes assumes a difference between t…

Introduction

2019

The introduction gives a brief overview of some important developments in recent scholarship on René Descartes and Baruch Spinoza. It is argued that there has been a shift of focus, away from Descartes-the-dualist towards an interest in Descartes’ ethics and his conception of the human being as a union of mind and body. This turn has also given rise to new perspectives on the relations between Descartes and Spinoza. After having presented the area of research covered by the volume, the introduction offers short presentations of the individual chapters. These are divided into three parts: the first part focusing on different features of Cartesian persons; the second discussing different aspe…

On Common Sense, Estimation, and the Soul’s Unity in Avicenna

2020

This paper addresses two questions related to Themistius’ alleged influence on Avicenna’s theory of the common sense. The first question concerns the phenomenon of incidental perception, which Themistius explained by means of the common sense. For Avicenna, on the contrary, the explanation of cases like our perceiving something yellow as honey involves the faculty of estimation and the entire system of the internal senses that he coined, and this results in an analysis that is considerably more complex than Themistius’. The second question concerns Themistius’ claim according to which an incorporeal spirit is the primary subject of perception. I argue that Avicenna departs from such a view …

The Flying and the Masked Man, One More Time: Comments on Peter Adamson and Fedor Benevich, ‘The Thought Experimental Method: Avicenna's Flying Man A…

2020

AbstractThis is a critical comment on Adamson and Benevich (2018), published in issue 4/2 of the Journal of the American Philosophical Association. I raise two closely related objections. The first concerns the objective of the flying man: instead of the question of what the soul is, I argue that the argument is designed to answer the question of whether the soul exists independently of the body. The second objection concerns the expected result of the argument: instead of knowledge about the quiddity of soul, I claim the argument yields knowledge about the soul's existence independently of the body. After the objections, I turn to the masked man fallacy, claiming that although the Adamson-…

Kirjan Self-Awareness in Islamic Philosophy: Avicenna and Beyond esittely

2018

Teksti luonnehtii lyhyesti islamilaisen filosofian tutkimuksen nykytilaa sekä esittää tiivistelmän symposiumissa käsiteltävän kirjani keskeisestä sisällöstä. nonPeerReviewed

Philosophy of Mind in the Early and High Middle Ages: The History of the Philosophy of Mind, Margaret Cameron (ed.)

2019

Itsetuntemus, ekspressivismi ja Wittgenstein

2017

Tämä artikkeli esittelee ekspressivististä itsetuntemuksen (self-knowledge) teoriaa erityyppisten itsetuntemuksen teorioiden kontekstissa. Artikkelin viimekätinen tavoite on arvioida erityisesti ekspressivistisen teorian suhdetta Wittgensteinin mielenfilosofiaan, joka usein mainitaan teorian lähteenä, ja tarkastella teorian kehitystarpeita ja -mahdollisuuksia muiden itsetuntemuksen teorioiden valossa. Osassa 1 esitetään eräitä käsitteellisiä selvennyksiä. Osa 2 käsittelee itsetuntemuksen (omia mentaalisia tiloja koskevan tiedon) oletettuja filosofisesti kiinnostavia erityispiirteitä, joiden ymmärtäminen on itsetuntemuksen teorioiden arvioimisen kannalta olennaista. Osa 3 esittää itsetuntemu…

Ludwig Wittgensteinin mielenfilosofiassa toisten mielet eivät ole tavoittamattomia

2016

Jyväskylän yliopistossa 19.9.2015 pidetty lectio praecursoria.

Wittgenstein’s “Inner and Outer”: Overcoming Epistemic Asymmetry

2013

In this article, I identify three ways in which Wittgenstein opposed an idea of epistemic asymmetry between the first person and the secondor-third person. Examining the questions of 1) absence of doubt about my own experience and uncertainty about the experiences of others, 2) ineffability of subjective experience and 3) immediacy of my knowledge of my own experience contrasted with my merely inferential knowledge about the experiences of others, I see Wittgenstein’s remarks about “inner and outer” as a many-faceted denial of the claim that people’s minds are in some deep way unknowable to others. These considerations also serve to clarify Wittgenstein’s relation to behaviorism. 1. Wittgen…

Fiktiivisten mielten tietoisuus ja tiedostamaton Jaakko Yli-Juonikkaan romaanissa Vanhan merimiehen tarina

2015

Tarkastelen pro gradu -tutkielmassani fiktiivisten mielten tietoisuutta ja tiedostamatonta kognitiivisen narratologian työkaluja käyttäen. Tutkielmani lähtökohta on oletus siitä, että todellisista mielistä tuotettua tutkimustietoa on hedelmällistä soveltaa fiktiivisten mielten tutkimukseen. Samalla tiedostan, että kaunokirjallisuuden logiikka eroaa monin paikoin todellisten mielten logiikasta, eivätkä fiktiiviset mielet siksi ole täysin rinnastettavissa todellisiin mieliin. Kohdetekstini, Jaakko Yli-Juonikkaan romaani Vanhan merimiehen tarina (2014) on kokeellinen teos, joka käsittelee tietoisuuden kysymyksiä kyseenalaistamalla vakiintuneita (niin kirjallisuutta kuin todellisuuttakin) koske…