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I’m a doctoral student in philosophy at the university of Helsinki. My field of research is philosophy of science: I’m interested in the interface between the social sciences and the cognitive&neurosciences.

Research interests

Kinds, concepts and classification; Relations between the social sciences and neuro- & cognitive sciences; Psychological essentialism; Classification & explanation; Concepts; Conceptual change; Social neuroscience.

Studies

  • 2009 – 2013 : Finnish Doctoral Programme of Philosophy (filosofian tutkijakoulu)
  • 2008 – ____ : Doctoral student, Philosophy of Science, Department of Economics and Political Studies, University of Helsinki
    Supervisor: Petri Ylikoski
  • 2002 – 2007 : MSocSci, Social and moral philosophy, University of Helsinki
  • 2001 – ____ : Department of Engineering Design and Production, Helsinki University of Technology

Publications

  • Pöyhönen, Samuli (forthcoming). “Carving the mind by its joints – Natural kinds and social construction in psychiatry”, in Milkowski, Martin, and Konrad Talmont-Kaminsky (eds.) Regarding Mind, Naturally. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. [pdf]
  • Rusanen, Anna-Mari & Samuli Pöyhönen (forthcoming). “Conceptual Confusions: Psychological and philosophical boundary conditions for conceptual change research”, IHPST Thessaloniki 2011 Proceedings.
  • Kokkonen, Tomi & Samuli Pöyhönen (forthcoming). “Olemukset piilopremisseinä argumentaatiossa”, Suomalainen argumentaation tutkimus, ed. Ritola, Juho. 2010.
  • Pöyhönen, Samuli (2010). “Luonnollinen luokka” Logos-ensyklopedia. Syrjämäki, Sami, Kannisto, Toni & Järvilehto, Lauri (ed.). Eurooppalaisen filosofian seura ry.
  • Kuorikoski, Jaakko & Samuli Pöyhönen (2009). “Ihmistieteelliset luokitukset ja sosiaaliset takaisinkytkentämekanismit”, Tiede & Edistys, 4/09, 271-289.
    [pdf]
  • Pöyhönen, Samuli (2007). “Luonnollisuuden rajoilla” Master’s thesis (pro gradu).
    Full text (in Finnish). Abstract (in English).

Work in Progress & Forthcoming Presentations

  • 1/2012: “Invisible hand in the science community. Models of division of cognitive labor”, Finnish Philosophical Association annual meeting, Helsinki
  • 12/2011: “Understanding non-modular functionality – lessons from genetic algorithms”, The Collective Dimension of Science, Nancy (/w Jaakko Kuorikoski)
  • 11/2011: “Where was my mind again? Explanatory turn in extended cognition”, Doctoral student congress, Tampere

Conference Talks

  • 10/2011: “Should I split or should I lump? The epistemic-tool approach to scientific concept formation” EPSA 11, Athens.
  • 7/2011: “Should I split or should I lump? The epistemic-tool approach to scientific concept formation” 14th Congress of Logic, Methdology and Philosophy of Science, Nancy
  • 7/2011: “Conceptual change and conceptual games”, 11th International IHPST and 6th Greek History, Philosophy and Science Teaching Joint Conference, University of Thessaloniki.
  • 6/2011: “Category-based induction in science: the new toolkit”, POS summer seminar, Helsinki-Tallinn.
  • 5/2011: “The extended mind thesis – implications for scientific research” AivoAalto seminar
  • 5/2011: “Addiktio ja neurotiede” (Addiction and neuroscience). Psykologian filosofia -kollokvio,  Jyväskylän yliopisto. (/w Petri Ylikoski)
  • 10/2010: “Olemukset piilopremisseinä argumentaatiossa”, Philosophy research seminar, University of Tampere. (/w Tomi Kokkonen)
  • 9/2010: “Intentional concepts in cognitive neuroscience”, “A science of the soul” seminar, University of Helsinki
  • 9/2010: “Natural kinds with extended mechanisms”, Philosophy of science research seminar, University of Helsinki
  • 8/2010: “Intentional concepts in cognitive neuroscience”, ESPP 2010, Bochum
  • 8/2010: “Psychological Essentialism and Hidden Premises in Philosophical Argumentation”, ESPP 2010, Bochum (/w Tomi Kokkonen)
  • 7/2010: “Inferentialism and scientific representation”, ISSCSS summer school, Latvia
  • 4/2010: “Natural kinds with extended mechanisms”, PPIG seminar, University of Edinburgh
  • 3/2010: “Interactive kinds and social mechanisms”, Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable 2010, St. Louis (/w Jaakko Kuorikoski)
  • 12/2009: “Explanations or grammatical errors? The Wittgensteinian critique of cognitive neuroscience”, Philosophy of science research seminar, University of Helsinki.
  • 11/2009: “Essences as hidden premises” (olemukset piilopremisseinä), Suomalainen argumentaation tutkimus, Turku.
  • 9/2009: “Carving the psyche by its joints: Natural kinds and social construction in psychiatry”, Kazimierz naturalism workshop, Kazimierz, Poland.
  • 4/2009: “Towards a middle-range theory of looping kinds”, Purpose of social theory -workshop, University of Tampere.
  • 3/2009: “Ihmistieteelliset luokitukset ja sosiaalisen todellisuuden takaisinkytkentämekanismit”, Sosiologipäivät, Helsinki.
  • 6/2008: ”Essentialist reasoning and social categories”, Mechanisms and Everyday Reasoning -workshop, University of Helsinki.
  • 4/2008: ”Carving social reality by its joints. The theory of natural kinds and classifications in the human sciences”, Philosophy of science research seminar, University of Helsinki.
  • 11/2007: ”Dialectic of sign and referent. Looping effects of representations in the human sciences.”, Current European Semiotics, Tarto.

Teaching

  • 2008-2011 (x4): “Scientific argumentation and explanation”, Cognitive Science (cog121), University of Helsinki
  • 2009 (Spring): FF1 (Introduction to philosophy), FF3 (Science and scientific knowledge), Tapiola High School.”

Summer schools & Other activities

  • 7/2010: Graduate International Summer School in Cognitive Sciences and Semantics 2010 (ISSCSS): Analytic Pragmatism, Semantic Inferentialism, and Logical Expressivism. Riga, Latvia.
  • 2-5/2010: Visiting postgraduate researcher, University of Edinburgh.

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