JAN SLEUTELS, Leiden University
(Media Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind)
“In his research Sleutels concentrates on problems of mental content in contemporary philosophy of mind and in epistemology. Which factors are responsible for determining the contents of our thoughts, perceptions, desires, and other mental states? The working hypothesis, inspired by the Toronto School hypothesis in communication theory (Innis, McLuhan), is that identity conditions for mental contents are responsive to pressures from historically changing technological conditions. This also affects the way these contents can be ‘managed’ in thinking processes, especially in rational thinking, which is generally conceived as a specific form of systematic content management. More generally, if both the contents and the processes in which they are involved are subject to substantial changes, it may be argued that the human mind itself is subject to substantial change—or more cautiously, that the proper model of mind that applies to earlier stages of technological development may be substantially different from current models of mind”
JARI PALOMÄKI, University of Tampere
(Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics)
Jari Palomäki is Adjunct Professor in theoretical philosophy at the University of Tampere and at the Tampere University of Technology. He has studied philosophy and mathematics at the University of Turku, and has made his doctoral dissertation about concepts and concept theory at the University of Tampere. Since then he has done research on the philosophical foundations of conceptual modeling. His main field of research in philosophy is history and philosophy of logic and mathematics. Moreover he is interested in analytical philosophy philosophy of science.
