Katariina Lipsanen



General description

Research interests:

Intuitive knowledge in philosophy
19th and early 20th century French philosophy, in particular French Spiritualism (Félix Ravaisson, Henri Bergson etc.)
Scholasticism
Methods in history of philosophy
Classical philology

Dissertation (in Preparation)

Epistemic Vision: A History of Intuitive Philosophical Knowledge


Recent talks:

Erik Ahlman ja filosofian menetelmät (with Tiia-Mari Hovila), Philosophical Society of Finland’s annual colloquium 2023: Filosofian muuttuvassa suomalaisessa yhteiskunassa, University of Helsinki, 2023.

Intuition käsitehistorian suuntaviivoja antiikkiin: Kirkkoisä Augustinus, Paideia: Turun klassillinen yhdistys, Antiikin tutkimuksen iltapäivä, 2022.

Filosofian ajallinen luonne ja keston käsite Henri Bergsonin filosofisessa menetelmässä, Philosophical Society of Finland’s annual colloquium 2022: Past. Future. Philosophy, University of Oulu, 2022.

Science and the Bergsonian Method, The revival of Bergson in the Twenty-First Century, University of Helsinki, 2021.

Filosofinen intuitio, Filocafé (Kriittinen korkeakoulu), Jyväskylä, 2021.

Metaphilosophical Study of the Methods of Erik Ahlman (with Tiia-Mari Hovila), Summer School ‘Methodology in the History of Philosophy’, University of Groningen, 2021.

Speculative Reconstructions and Search for Unity: A Case Study on Michael Della Rocca’s “holistic” approach to Spinoza, 12th Nordic Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy, University of Gothenbourg 2019.


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Research interests

My research focuses on history of the concept of intuition in the Western philosophical tradition. I approach the intuition from the point of view of the metaphor of seeing basing my research on cognitive metaphor theory. The key figures in my research are John Duns Scotus, Wilhelm of Ockham, René Descartes, Baruch Spinoza, John Locke, Immanuel Kant, Edmund Husserl and Henri Bergson.


Personal keywords

intuition; philosophy;Bergson;history of philosophy;metaphysics;epistemology;metaphors;conceptual history


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