University of Helsinki
“What kinds of creatures do we think we are, we contemporary human beings” How have we come to understand ourselves in these ways”
These are two core questions that Nikolas Rose poses in his many texts about governance and humanities in the age of biology and neuroscience. Rose visited the CEACG’s group’s Thursday meeting the 23rd of April, talking about two recent papers with great significance for the research group’s work on addiction, control and governance.
Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen, Anna Alanko and Arto Ruuska functioned as discussants.
See also some new research that discusses the addiction concept and its contact surfaces with biology, published on the basis of the meeting in Majvik in autumn 2012:
Pekka Sulkunen: The images theory of addiction
Susanne Uusitalo: Addiction, recovery and moral agency: Philosophical considerations
Petri Ylikoski, Samuli Pöyhönen: Addiction-as-a-kind hypothesis
Room, R. , Hellman, M. and Stenius K.: Addiction: The dance between concept and terms
These papares are all part of a special issue of International Joiurnal of Alcohol and Drug Research (IJADR) see early online here.
