Tuomo Tiisala
Biographic Data
| ID | 279053 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tuomo Tiisala |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tuomo |
| FAMILY NAME | Tiisala |
| SIGNATURE | TIISALA T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Center for Post‐Kantian Philosophy University of Potsdam Potsdam Germany |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0463-5540 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The architectonic of Foucault's critique
This paper presents a new interpretation of Michel Foucault's critical project. It is well known that Foucault's genealogical critique does not focus on issues of justification, but instead tackles “aspectival captivity,” that is, apparently inevitable limits of thought that constrain the subject's freedom but that, in fact, can be transformed. However, it has not been recognized that, according to Foucault, critique can proceed along two distinc…
Power and Freedom in the Space of Reasons: Elaborating Foucault's Pragmatism
This book argues that the received view of the distinction between freedom and power must be rejected because it rests on an untenable account of the discursive cognition that endows individuals with the capacity for autonomy and self-governed rationality. In liberal and Kantian approaches alike, the autonomous subject is a self-standing starting point whose freedom is constrained by relations of power only contingently because they are external …
Sex, truth, and law: Rereading Foucault's History of Sexuality after volume 4, The Confessions of the Flesh
Foucault's historical studies were motivated by problems he identified in the present and there is no reason to think that History of Sexuality is different in this regard.1 But that raises a question no reader of The Confessions of the Flesh can escape: How is a scholarly 426-page treatise on the Church Fathers relevant to the contemporary world, or, at least, to concerns that emerged from Foucault's own historical present?2 The question is only…
Normativity of meaning: An inferentialist argument
This paper presents a new argument to defend the normativity of meaning, specifically the thesis that there are no meanings without norms. The argument starts from the observation inferentialists have emphasized that incompatibility relations between sentences are a necessary part of meaning as it is understood. We motivate this approach by showing that the standard normativist strategy in the literature, which is developed in terms of veridical …
Foucault, Neoliberalism, and Equality
This article presents a new account of the relationship between Michel Foucault's work and neoliberalism, aiming to show that the relationship is significantly more complicated than either Foucault's critics or defenders have appreciated in the recent controversy. On the one hand, I argue that Foucault's salutary response to some of Gary Becker's ideas in the lecture course from 1979 should be read together with the argument of Discipline and Pun…
Keeping It Implicit: A Defense of Foucault's Archaeology of Knowledge
This paper defends Michel Foucault's notion of archaeology of knowledge against the influential and putatively devastating criticism by Dreyfus and Rabinow that Foucault's archaeological project is based on an incoherent conception of the rules of the discursive practices it purports to study. I argue first that Foucault's considered view of these rules as simultaneously implicit and historically efficacious corresponds to a general requirement f…
Foucault, Neoliberalism, and Equality
This article presents a new account of the relationship between Michel Foucault's work and neoliberalism, aiming to show that the relationship is significantly more complicated than either Foucault's critics or defenders have appreciated in the recent controversy. On the one hand, I argue that Foucault's salutary response to some of Gary Becker's ideas in the lecture course from 1979 should be read together with the argument of Discipline and Pun…
Keeping It Implicit: A Defense of Foucault's Archaeology of Knowledge
This paper defends Michel Foucault's notion of archaeology of knowledge against the influential and putatively devastating criticism by Dreyfus and Rabinow that Foucault's archaeological project is based on an incoherent conception of the rules of the discursive practices it purports to study. I argue first that Foucault's considered view of these rules as simultaneously implicit and historically efficacious corresponds to a general requirement f…
Power and Freedom in the Space of Reasons: Elaborating Foucault's Pragmatism
This book argues that the received view of the distinction between freedom and power must be rejected because it rests on an untenable account of the discursive cognition that endows individuals with the capacity for autonomy and self-governed rationality. In liberal and Kantian approaches alike, the autonomous subject is a self-standing starting point whose freedom is constrained by relations of power only contingently because they are external …
Keeping It Implicit: A Defense of Foucault's Archaeology of Knowledge
This paper defends Michel Foucault's notion of archaeology of knowledge against the influential and putatively devastating criticism by Dreyfus and Rabinow that Foucault's archaeological project is based on an incoherent conception of the rules of the discursive practices it purports to study. I argue first that Foucault's considered view of these rules as simultaneously implicit and historically efficacious corresponds to a general requirement f…
Foucault, Neoliberalism, and Equality
This article presents a new account of the relationship between Michel Foucault's work and neoliberalism, aiming to show that the relationship is significantly more complicated than either Foucault's critics or defenders have appreciated in the recent controversy. On the one hand, I argue that Foucault's salutary response to some of Gary Becker's ideas in the lecture course from 1979 should be read together with the argument of Discipline and Pun…
Sex, truth, and law: Rereading Foucault's History of Sexuality after volume 4, The Confessions of the Flesh
Foucault's historical studies were motivated by problems he identified in the present and there is no reason to think that History of Sexuality is different in this regard.1 But that raises a question no reader of The Confessions of the Flesh can escape: How is a scholarly 426-page treatise on the Church Fathers relevant to the contemporary world, or, at least, to concerns that emerged from Foucault's own historical present?2 The question is only…
Normativity of meaning: An inferentialist argument
This paper presents a new argument to defend the normativity of meaning, specifically the thesis that there are no meanings without norms. The argument starts from the observation inferentialists have emphasized that incompatibility relations between sentences are a necessary part of meaning as it is understood. We motivate this approach by showing that the standard normativist strategy in the literature, which is developed in terms of veridical …
The architectonic of Foucault's critique
This paper presents a new interpretation of Michel Foucault's critical project. It is well known that Foucault's genealogical critique does not focus on issues of justification, but instead tackles “aspectival captivity,” that is, apparently inevitable limits of thought that constrain the subject's freedom but that, in fact, can be transformed. However, it has not been recognized that, according to Foucault, critique can proceed along two distinc…
Power and Freedom in the Space of Reasons: Elaborating Foucault's Pragmatism
This book argues that the received view of the distinction between freedom and power must be rejected because it rests on an untenable account of the discursive cognition that endows individuals with the capacity for autonomy and self-governed rationality. In liberal and Kantian approaches alike, the autonomous subject is a self-standing starting point whose freedom is constrained by relations of power only contingently because they are external …
Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (4 works) · Foucault, Power, and Ethics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Argument (complex analysis (2 works)