Ilpo Koskinen
Biographic Data
| ID | 249864 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ilpo Koskinen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ilpo |
| FAMILY NAME | Koskinen |
| SIGNATURE | KOSKINEN I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9060-7011 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
We Have No Satisfactory Social Epistemology of AI-Based Science
In the social epistemology of scientific knowledge, it is largely accepted that relationships of trust, not just reliance, are necessary in contemporary collaborative science characterised by relationships of opaque epistemic dependence. Such relationships of trust are taken to be possible only between agents who can be held accountable for their actions. But today, knowledge production in many fields makes use of AI applications that are epistem…
Expanding Pragmatism with Symbolic Interactionism
This article describes the story of pragmatism and its transformation into symbolic interactionism at Carnegie Mellon University and Aalto University. In both universities, design researchers were interested in user experience in interactive systems. John Dewey's pragmatism taught them to study how experience sometimes transforms into an experience and occasionally into stories. Herbert Blumer's interactionism had its roots in Chicago School soci…
Reasoning by analogy and the transdisciplinarian’s circle
In their 2018 paper, Carolina Adler, Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn, Thomas Breu, Urs Wiesmann, and Christian Pohl propose that transferability of knowledge across cases in transdisciplinary research should be thought of in terms of arguments by analogy. We aim to advance this discussion about transferability by examining it in the light of recent ideas about knowledge transfer, extrapolation, and external validity in the philosophy of science. We proble…
Social and cognitive diversity in science
Participation and Objectivity
Many philosophers of science have recently argued that extra-academic participation in scientific knowledge production does not threaten scientific objectivity. Quite the contrary: Citizen science, participatory projects, transdisciplinary research, and other similar endeavours can even increase the objectivity of the research conducted. Simultaneously, researchers working in fields in which such participation is common have expressed worries abo…
How Constructive Design Researchers Drift
This article contributes to methodological studies of constructive design research by explicating its underlying epistemological foundations. At the heart of this article is the notion of drifting, defined as those actions that move design from its original objective or question to sometimes unanticipated results. The article explicates four traditions of knowledge production as derived from a corpus based on PhD theses. These traditions relate k…
How institutional solutions meant to increase diversity in science fail
Philosophers of science have in recent years presented arguments in favour of increasing cognitive diversity, diversity of social locations, and diversity of values and interests in science. Some of these arguments align with important aims in contemporary science policy. The policy aims have led to the development of institutional measures and instruments that are supposed to increase diversity in science and in the governance of science. The li…
Humanismi, nihilismi ja eläin
Objectivity in contexts
In this paper I discuss and develop the risk account of scientific objectivity, which I have recently introduced, contrasting it to some alternatives. I then use the account in order to analyse a practice that is relatively common in anthropology, in the history of science, and in the sociology of scientific knowledge: withholding epistemic judgement. I argue that withholding epistemic judgement on the beliefs one is studying can be a relatively …
Philosophy of science for sustainability science
Sustainability science seeks to extend scientific investigation into domains characterized by a distinct problem-solving agenda, physical and social complexity, and complex moral and ethical landscapes. In this endeavor, it arguably pushes scientific investigation beyond its usual comfort zones, raising fundamental issues about how best to structure such investigation. Philosophers of science have long scrutinized the structure of science and sci…
Defending a Risk Account of Scientific Objectivity
When discussing scientific objectivity, many philosophers of science have recently focused on accounts that can be applied in practice when assessing the objectivity of something. It has become clear that in different contexts, objectivity is realized in different ways, and the many senses of objectivity recognized in the recent literature seem to be conceptually distinct. I argue that these diverse ‘applicable’ senses of scientific objectivity h…
Relativism in the philosophy of anthropology
This chapter explores arguments, ideas, and practices related to relativism in social and cultural anthropology. It covers discussions about cultural relativism, methodological relativism, conceptual relativism, relativism about rationality, moral relativism, epistemic relativism, and ontological relativism
Scientific/Intellectual Movements Remedying Epistemic Injustice
Whereas much of the literature in the social epistemology of scientific knowledge has focused either on scientific communities or research groups, we examine the epistemic significance of scientific/intellectual movements (SIMs). We argue that certain types of SIMs can play an important epistemic role in science: they can remedy epistemic injustices in scientific practices. SIMs can counteract epistemic injustices effectively because many forms o…
Mobile Multimedia in Action
"Mobile Multimedia in Action" displays a revealing picture of how people communicate using camera phones and other mobile multimedia devices. With such devices spreading faster than practically any other new technology, questions about how these devices are being used (and abused) to capture and distribute embarrassing or raunchy images and content, and what should be done about it, are surfacing. This volume presents the first detailed study of …
Where is the epistemic community? On democratisation of science and social accounts of objectivity
How New Social Design Captures the Social with Photographs
New social design defines "the social" rather than material things as its main design object, and builds usually on ethnographic research techniques in capturing the social. Designers use camera in their fieldwork but unlike social scientists, they build their camera practices on a variety of sources, often artistic and journalistic rather than analytic. This paper explores how new social design captures the social with photographs. It shows that…
Observing Mobile Multimedia
Enriching Ethnography in Marginalized Communities with Surrealist Techniques
This paper describes two projects, Vila Rosario and Vila Mimosa, two pieces of ethnographic research that aimed at improving public health in poor corners of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The research sought to improve public health in these two marginalized communities in Rio de Janeiro. The main objective of the paper is to explain how Surrealist techniques can be applied to enrich ethnographic fieldwork. The broader question of the paper is the tens…
Billions of interaction designers
research-article Share on Billions of interaction designers Authors: Eli Blevis Indiana University at Bloomington and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University Indiana University at Bloomington and the Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityView Profile , Kenny Chow The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityView Profile , Ilpo Koskinen The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityView Profile , Sharo…
Critical Subjects
Participatory methods in anthropology and other fields of cultural research aim at turning informants into collaborators or co-authors. Researchers generally accept the idea of different knowledge systems and continue the practice of avoiding the critical appraisal of alien systems that is common in ethnography. However, if informants are to be treated as collaborators, or ideally as colleagues, they become effectively a part of the research comm…
At Least Two Concepts of Culture
This article uses ideas developed in the philosophy of science to examine two concepts of culture used in contemporary folkloristics. One of them appears mainly in the context of archival work, while the other occurs chiefly in discussions on themes such as identity politics and ethnic minorities. The main difference between the two concepts is that one is used when formulating ‘substantial theories’ related to ‘kinds’, whereas the other is a bon…
IPersonal
The evolution of the mobile phone from communication device to an expressive multimedia tool has resulted in some dramatic transformations in how we experience and conceptualize the politics of labor, creativity and place. From camera phones to geomedia such as Foursquare (a location-based social networking software game made for the mobile phone), mobile media provide a variety of tools for the everyday user-so much so that mobile media has ofte…
Wising up
The evolution of mobile communication in the twenty-first century has been marked by its uneven transition into mobile media – often called ‘smartphones’. Once upon a time mobile phones were little
Seemingly Similar Beliefs
The kind of epistemic relativism usually refuted by its critics is less frequently observable in ethnographic research practices than the critics assume. Instead, methodological conceptual relativism can be recognized in several cases. This has significant practical implications, since the kind of epistemic relativism described by its critics, if rigorously followed, could lead to ethnographers conflating ways of argumentation accepted by their i…
Living in metamorphosis
article Share on Living in metamorphosis: proactive computing in the home environment Authors: Jukka Vanhala Tampere University of Technology Tampere University of TechnologyView Profile , Frans Mäyrä University of Tampere, Finland University of Tampere, FinlandView Profile , Ilpo Koskinen University of Art and Design Helsinki University of Art and Design HelsinkiView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 12Issue 4July + August 2005 pp…
Philosophy of science for sustainability science
Sustainability science seeks to extend scientific investigation into domains characterized by a distinct problem-solving agenda, physical and social complexity, and complex moral and ethical landscapes. In this endeavor, it arguably pushes scientific investigation beyond its usual comfort zones, raising fundamental issues about how best to structure such investigation. Philosophers of science have long scrutinized the structure of science and sci…
Scientific/Intellectual Movements Remedying Epistemic Injustice
Whereas much of the literature in the social epistemology of scientific knowledge has focused either on scientific communities or research groups, we examine the epistemic significance of scientific/intellectual movements (SIMs). We argue that certain types of SIMs can play an important epistemic role in science: they can remedy epistemic injustices in scientific practices. SIMs can counteract epistemic injustices effectively because many forms o…
Defending a Risk Account of Scientific Objectivity
When discussing scientific objectivity, many philosophers of science have recently focused on accounts that can be applied in practice when assessing the objectivity of something. It has become clear that in different contexts, objectivity is realized in different ways, and the many senses of objectivity recognized in the recent literature seem to be conceptually distinct. I argue that these diverse ‘applicable’ senses of scientific objectivity h…
Wising up
The evolution of mobile communication in the twenty-first century has been marked by its uneven transition into mobile media – often called ‘smartphones’. Once upon a time mobile phones were little
Where is the epistemic community? On democratisation of science and social accounts of objectivity
Participation and Objectivity
Many philosophers of science have recently argued that extra-academic participation in scientific knowledge production does not threaten scientific objectivity. Quite the contrary: Citizen science, participatory projects, transdisciplinary research, and other similar endeavours can even increase the objectivity of the research conducted. Simultaneously, researchers working in fields in which such participation is common have expressed worries abo…
Seemingly Similar Beliefs
The kind of epistemic relativism usually refuted by its critics is less frequently observable in ethnographic research practices than the critics assume. Instead, methodological conceptual relativism can be recognized in several cases. This has significant practical implications, since the kind of epistemic relativism described by its critics, if rigorously followed, could lead to ethnographers conflating ways of argumentation accepted by their i…
Objectivity in contexts
In this paper I discuss and develop the risk account of scientific objectivity, which I have recently introduced, contrasting it to some alternatives. I then use the account in order to analyse a practice that is relatively common in anthropology, in the history of science, and in the sociology of scientific knowledge: withholding epistemic judgement. I argue that withholding epistemic judgement on the beliefs one is studying can be a relatively …
Critical Subjects
Participatory methods in anthropology and other fields of cultural research aim at turning informants into collaborators or co-authors. Researchers generally accept the idea of different knowledge systems and continue the practice of avoiding the critical appraisal of alien systems that is common in ethnography. However, if informants are to be treated as collaborators, or ideally as colleagues, they become effectively a part of the research comm…
How institutional solutions meant to increase diversity in science fail
Philosophers of science have in recent years presented arguments in favour of increasing cognitive diversity, diversity of social locations, and diversity of values and interests in science. Some of these arguments align with important aims in contemporary science policy. The policy aims have led to the development of institutional measures and instruments that are supposed to increase diversity in science and in the governance of science. The li…
Plans, Evaluation, and Accountability at the Workplace
This paper is based on an ethnomethodologically informed analysis of plans by Dant and Francis (1988). Using ethnographic and conversation data, this paper will argue that although plans do not ordinarily organize action at the workplace in the sense proposed by rationalistic viewpoints on planning, planning does have one key managerial use that has scarcely been dealt with in previous research. Managers often formulate and systematize their visi…
Reasoning by analogy and the transdisciplinarian’s circle
In their 2018 paper, Carolina Adler, Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn, Thomas Breu, Urs Wiesmann, and Christian Pohl propose that transferability of knowledge across cases in transdisciplinary research should be thought of in terms of arguments by analogy. We aim to advance this discussion about transferability by examining it in the light of recent ideas about knowledge transfer, extrapolation, and external validity in the philosophy of science. We proble…
Plans, Evaluation, and Accountability at the Workplace
This paper is based on an ethnomethodologically informed analysis of plans by Dant and Francis (1988). Using ethnographic and conversation data, this paper will argue that although plans do not ordinarily organize action at the workplace in the sense proposed by rationalistic viewpoints on planning, planning does have one key managerial use that has scarcely been dealt with in previous research. Managers often formulate and systematize their visi…
Messages visuels mobiles
Dans les scenarios-types de la future societe mobile, l’envoi de photographies sous forme de cartes postales et de video-clips est une activite courante. Selon ces scenarios, les images « mobiles » auront, dans quelques annees, encore plus integre notre vie quotidienne que les SMS aujourd’hui. Cet article propose une etude des interactions mediatisees par des images mobiles – des photographies numeriques envoyees a travers un reseau sans fil – qu…
Living in metamorphosis
article Share on Living in metamorphosis: proactive computing in the home environment Authors: Jukka Vanhala Tampere University of Technology Tampere University of TechnologyView Profile , Frans Mäyrä University of Tampere, Finland University of Tampere, FinlandView Profile , Ilpo Koskinen University of Art and Design Helsinki University of Art and Design HelsinkiView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 12Issue 4July + August 2005 pp…
Seemingly Similar Beliefs
The kind of epistemic relativism usually refuted by its critics is less frequently observable in ethnographic research practices than the critics assume. Instead, methodological conceptual relativism can be recognized in several cases. This has significant practical implications, since the kind of epistemic relativism described by its critics, if rigorously followed, could lead to ethnographers conflating ways of argumentation accepted by their i…
IPersonal
The evolution of the mobile phone from communication device to an expressive multimedia tool has resulted in some dramatic transformations in how we experience and conceptualize the politics of labor, creativity and place. From camera phones to geomedia such as Foursquare (a location-based social networking software game made for the mobile phone), mobile media provide a variety of tools for the everyday user-so much so that mobile media has ofte…
Wising up
The evolution of mobile communication in the twenty-first century has been marked by its uneven transition into mobile media – often called ‘smartphones’. Once upon a time mobile phones were little
Billions of interaction designers
research-article Share on Billions of interaction designers Authors: Eli Blevis Indiana University at Bloomington and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University Indiana University at Bloomington and the Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityView Profile , Kenny Chow The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityView Profile , Ilpo Koskinen The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityView Profile , Sharo…
Critical Subjects
Participatory methods in anthropology and other fields of cultural research aim at turning informants into collaborators or co-authors. Researchers generally accept the idea of different knowledge systems and continue the practice of avoiding the critical appraisal of alien systems that is common in ethnography. However, if informants are to be treated as collaborators, or ideally as colleagues, they become effectively a part of the research comm…
At Least Two Concepts of Culture
This article uses ideas developed in the philosophy of science to examine two concepts of culture used in contemporary folkloristics. One of them appears mainly in the context of archival work, while the other occurs chiefly in discussions on themes such as identity politics and ethnic minorities. The main difference between the two concepts is that one is used when formulating ‘substantial theories’ related to ‘kinds’, whereas the other is a bon…
Observing Mobile Multimedia
Enriching Ethnography in Marginalized Communities with Surrealist Techniques
This paper describes two projects, Vila Rosario and Vila Mimosa, two pieces of ethnographic research that aimed at improving public health in poor corners of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The research sought to improve public health in these two marginalized communities in Rio de Janeiro. The main objective of the paper is to explain how Surrealist techniques can be applied to enrich ethnographic fieldwork. The broader question of the paper is the tens…
How New Social Design Captures the Social with Photographs
New social design defines "the social" rather than material things as its main design object, and builds usually on ethnographic research techniques in capturing the social. Designers use camera in their fieldwork but unlike social scientists, they build their camera practices on a variety of sources, often artistic and journalistic rather than analytic. This paper explores how new social design captures the social with photographs. It shows that…
Mobile Multimedia in Action
"Mobile Multimedia in Action" displays a revealing picture of how people communicate using camera phones and other mobile multimedia devices. With such devices spreading faster than practically any other new technology, questions about how these devices are being used (and abused) to capture and distribute embarrassing or raunchy images and content, and what should be done about it, are surfacing. This volume presents the first detailed study of …
Where is the epistemic community? On democratisation of science and social accounts of objectivity
Relativism in the philosophy of anthropology
This chapter explores arguments, ideas, and practices related to relativism in social and cultural anthropology. It covers discussions about cultural relativism, methodological relativism, conceptual relativism, relativism about rationality, moral relativism, epistemic relativism, and ontological relativism
Scientific/Intellectual Movements Remedying Epistemic Injustice
Whereas much of the literature in the social epistemology of scientific knowledge has focused either on scientific communities or research groups, we examine the epistemic significance of scientific/intellectual movements (SIMs). We argue that certain types of SIMs can play an important epistemic role in science: they can remedy epistemic injustices in scientific practices. SIMs can counteract epistemic injustices effectively because many forms o…
Philosophy of science for sustainability science
Sustainability science seeks to extend scientific investigation into domains characterized by a distinct problem-solving agenda, physical and social complexity, and complex moral and ethical landscapes. In this endeavor, it arguably pushes scientific investigation beyond its usual comfort zones, raising fundamental issues about how best to structure such investigation. Philosophers of science have long scrutinized the structure of science and sci…
Defending a Risk Account of Scientific Objectivity
When discussing scientific objectivity, many philosophers of science have recently focused on accounts that can be applied in practice when assessing the objectivity of something. It has become clear that in different contexts, objectivity is realized in different ways, and the many senses of objectivity recognized in the recent literature seem to be conceptually distinct. I argue that these diverse ‘applicable’ senses of scientific objectivity h…
Humanismi, nihilismi ja eläin
Objectivity in contexts
In this paper I discuss and develop the risk account of scientific objectivity, which I have recently introduced, contrasting it to some alternatives. I then use the account in order to analyse a practice that is relatively common in anthropology, in the history of science, and in the sociology of scientific knowledge: withholding epistemic judgement. I argue that withholding epistemic judgement on the beliefs one is studying can be a relatively …
How Constructive Design Researchers Drift
This article contributes to methodological studies of constructive design research by explicating its underlying epistemological foundations. At the heart of this article is the notion of drifting, defined as those actions that move design from its original objective or question to sometimes unanticipated results. The article explicates four traditions of knowledge production as derived from a corpus based on PhD theses. These traditions relate k…
How institutional solutions meant to increase diversity in science fail
Philosophers of science have in recent years presented arguments in favour of increasing cognitive diversity, diversity of social locations, and diversity of values and interests in science. Some of these arguments align with important aims in contemporary science policy. The policy aims have led to the development of institutional measures and instruments that are supposed to increase diversity in science and in the governance of science. The li…
Expanding Pragmatism with Symbolic Interactionism
This article describes the story of pragmatism and its transformation into symbolic interactionism at Carnegie Mellon University and Aalto University. In both universities, design researchers were interested in user experience in interactive systems. John Dewey's pragmatism taught them to study how experience sometimes transforms into an experience and occasionally into stories. Herbert Blumer's interactionism had its roots in Chicago School soci…
Reasoning by analogy and the transdisciplinarian’s circle
In their 2018 paper, Carolina Adler, Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn, Thomas Breu, Urs Wiesmann, and Christian Pohl propose that transferability of knowledge across cases in transdisciplinary research should be thought of in terms of arguments by analogy. We aim to advance this discussion about transferability by examining it in the light of recent ideas about knowledge transfer, extrapolation, and external validity in the philosophy of science. We proble…
Social and cognitive diversity in science
Sociology (19 works) · Epistemology (16 works) · Philosophy (15 works) · Political science (13 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Philosophy of science (9 works) · Social science (7 works) · Engineering (6 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (6 works)