Political phenomenology from history to the contemporary world – An interview with Antonio Calcagno

Why should we be interested in early women phenomenologists alongside the most famous male philosophers? Why should we care about Latin philosophy that has not been translated into English? Antonio Calcagno (b. 1969) visited the University of Helsinki in November 2024, invited by the Centre of Excellence EuroStorie. Calcagno is a professor of philosophy at … Lue lisää

The Enactive Mind in the midst of Other People, Institutions, and Technology – Interview with Shaun Gallagher

American philosopher Shaun Gallagher (b. 1948) is one of the world’s leading thinkers in the field of embodied and social cognition. In this interview, he discusses his understanding of enactivism and how it relates to questions about embodiment, social institutions, and emerging technologies. According to enactivism, mental capacities like perception, memory, or thinking are not … Lue lisää

A Relationship Thinker – An Interview with Nick Enfield

An Australian researcher, Nick Enfield (b. 1966) has written and (co-)edited almost 20 books and huge number of articles on different fields of linguistics. In addition to descriptions of languages spoken in Mainland Southeast Asia, he has thought extensively about metatheory of linguistics: how can we investigate language? The professor of linguistics at the University … Lue lisää