Kalle Puolakka
Biographic Data
| ID | 1530164 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kalle Puolakka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kalle |
| FAMILY NAME | Puolakka |
| SIGNATURE | PUOLAKKA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3606-7501 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Learning from Literary Experience
According to a popular account, literary works can give a sense of the “inside” feel of various human experiences, literature thereby supplementing the external and objective perspective on the world that the different sciences aim at. This paper extends this understanding of literature's cognitive value, usually called “experiential knowledge,” with some key ideas of John Dewey's philosophy. It is argued that Dewey's general take on experience, …
Essays in Literary Aesthetics
The six essays of this book touch upon some of the key issues of philosophical aesthetics. The issues discussed by the author Ranjan K. Ghosh include the definition of art, the relevance of authorial intentions for interpretation, the nature of our emotional responses to art, and art’s moral significance. The essays are stand-alone pieces to a substantial degree and Ghosh shows very little effort to build bridges between them. The book leaves qui…
Musical Quotations and Shostakovich’s Secret
Peter Kivy has argued that scholars of the music of Dimitri Shostakovich are misguided when they make interpretations that attribute complex extra-musical content to works of his that bear no indications of such content, such as a title or an explicitly announced programme. Upon Kivy’s account, such works should rather be approached in terms of absolute music. In this paper, I show some decisive weaknesses in this critique. Drawing on the relevan…
Pragmatist Cultural Naturalism
In this essay I discuss the relationship between naturalism and culture by drawing on the aesthetic notions of two leading pragmatists, John Dewey and Richard Rorty. Rorty’s view of the cultural significance of metaphor, which is based on Donald Davidson’s theory of metaphor, centers on the distinction between a naturalistic and an idealistic view of the cognitive value of metaphor. I then discuss the development from idealism to naturalism in De…
Naturalism and Metaphors
This paper outlines a pragmatist aesthetic theory on the basis of themes relating to naturalism, metaphor, and solidarity found in Richard Rorty’s neopragmatism. A central part of this attempt is to show that some previous readings of Rorty’s work in aesthetics are misguided. I begin by raising aspects of Rorty’s work that have been previously largely overlooked in aesthetics and philosophy of art, and which I believe undermine particularly Richa…
Wojcieh Malecki, Embodying Pragmatism. Richard Shusterman’s Philosophy and Literary Theory
Though hints of increasing interest can be discerned here and there within contemporary aesthetic theory, as a whole, pragmatist aesthetics is still very much situated at the outskirts of philosophical aesthetics. Richard Shusterman is basically the only figure who has tried to develop a more systematic aesthetic theory based on pragmatist ideas, and while his work has been addressed and its value acknowledged in various parts of contemporary the…
Musical Quotations and Shostakovich’s Secret
Peter Kivy has argued that scholars of the music of Dimitri Shostakovich are misguided when they make interpretations that attribute complex extra-musical content to works of his that bear no indications of such content, such as a title or an explicitly announced programme. Upon Kivy’s account, such works should rather be approached in terms of absolute music. In this paper, I show some decisive weaknesses in this critique. Drawing on the relevan…
Wojcieh Malecki, Embodying Pragmatism. Richard Shusterman’s Philosophy and Literary Theory
Though hints of increasing interest can be discerned here and there within contemporary aesthetic theory, as a whole, pragmatist aesthetics is still very much situated at the outskirts of philosophical aesthetics. Richard Shusterman is basically the only figure who has tried to develop a more systematic aesthetic theory based on pragmatist ideas, and while his work has been addressed and its value acknowledged in various parts of contemporary the…
Naturalism and Metaphors
This paper outlines a pragmatist aesthetic theory on the basis of themes relating to naturalism, metaphor, and solidarity found in Richard Rorty’s neopragmatism. A central part of this attempt is to show that some previous readings of Rorty’s work in aesthetics are misguided. I begin by raising aspects of Rorty’s work that have been previously largely overlooked in aesthetics and philosophy of art, and which I believe undermine particularly Richa…
Pragmatist Cultural Naturalism
In this essay I discuss the relationship between naturalism and culture by drawing on the aesthetic notions of two leading pragmatists, John Dewey and Richard Rorty. Rorty’s view of the cultural significance of metaphor, which is based on Donald Davidson’s theory of metaphor, centers on the distinction between a naturalistic and an idealistic view of the cognitive value of metaphor. I then discuss the development from idealism to naturalism in De…
Musical Quotations and Shostakovich’s Secret
Peter Kivy has argued that scholars of the music of Dimitri Shostakovich are misguided when they make interpretations that attribute complex extra-musical content to works of his that bear no indications of such content, such as a title or an explicitly announced programme. Upon Kivy’s account, such works should rather be approached in terms of absolute music. In this paper, I show some decisive weaknesses in this critique. Drawing on the relevan…
Essays in Literary Aesthetics
The six essays of this book touch upon some of the key issues of philosophical aesthetics. The issues discussed by the author Ranjan K. Ghosh include the definition of art, the relevance of authorial intentions for interpretation, the nature of our emotional responses to art, and art’s moral significance. The essays are stand-alone pieces to a substantial degree and Ghosh shows very little effort to build bridges between them. The book leaves qui…
Learning from Literary Experience
According to a popular account, literary works can give a sense of the “inside” feel of various human experiences, literature thereby supplementing the external and objective perspective on the world that the different sciences aim at. This paper extends this understanding of literature's cognitive value, usually called “experiential knowledge,” with some key ideas of John Dewey's philosophy. It is argued that Dewey's general take on experience, …
Epistemology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Pragmatism (3 works) · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications (3 works)