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Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen

Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen

Centre for Philosophical Studies of History, University of Oulu

Professor of Philosophy Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh in 2006 and has also worked in the universities of Durham, Leiden and Hull. Kuukkanen is a founder and co-director of The Oulu Centre for Philosophical Studies of History, and has published widely on the philosophy of science and specifically on Thomas Kuhn, on the philosophical foundations of the historiography of science and the history of ideas, and on the philosophy of historiography. His book Postnarrativist Philosophy of Historiography (Palgrave) was published in 2015.

Ilkka Lähteenmäki

Ilkka Lähteenmäki

Centre for Philosophical Studies of History, University of Oulu

Ilkka Lähteenmäki (PhD, philosophy) is a Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Oulu, Finland. His research focuses on possibilities and limitations of different forms of historical (re)presentation, including games, social media feed, museum exhibitions, and of course the traditional narrative historical text. Lähteenmäki’s PhD thesis discussed the theoretical usefulness of conceptualising different kinds of historical representations as historical worlds instead of informative texts or explanations.

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