Seppo Poutanen
Dr. Soc. Sc., Docent
tel. +358 (0)40 72 38 993
email. seppou (at) utu.fi
Faculty Research Fellow
3. 1. 2011 - 8. 6. 2011
Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research
Stanford University
My research interests include social epistemology, Whiteheadian process philosophy, feminist theory, critical realism, Foucauldian theory and universities as epistemic communities.
Keywords concerning expertise:
social epistemology, critical realism, feminist theory, Foucauldian theory
Active research projects:
Meta-level analysis of knowledge formation and epistemological connections.
Some publications:
Kovalainen, A. & Poutanen, S.: Kieli, valta ja toimijuus - episteemiset yhteisöt ja tiedepolitiikka. Teoksessa Marjut Johansson, Riitta Pyykkö & Pirkko Nuolijärvi (toim.) Kieli työssä. SKS, Helsinki 2011 (forthcoming).
Poutanen, S. & Kovalainen, A.: Epistemic Communities Facing a New Type of Agora? Centres of Science, Technology and Innovation as Defining the New Research Landscape in Finland. Sociological Research Online, May 2010: Vol. 15, Issue 2.
Poutanen, S. & Kovalainen, A.: Critical Theory. In: Albert J. Mills, Gabrielle Durebos & Elden Wiebe (eds.) Encyclopedia of Case Study Research. Sage, London & Thousand Oaks & New Delhi 2009.
Poutanen, S.: Metaphorizing as a Strategy for Reworking Research Materials. Proceedings of The 9th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Lisboa 2009.
Felt, U. et al.: Knowing and Living in Academic Research. Convergence and heterogeneity in research cultures in the European context. Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague 2009.
Ahlbeck-Rehn, J., Poutanen, S., Kovalainen, A. & Kantola, I.: Embedded in Fluid Networks: Spaces, Times and Conditions of Biosciences and Social Sciences in Contemporary Finland. Research reports from the Finnish KNOWING project 2. University of Turku & Turku School of Economics, Turku 2008.
Poutanen, S.: Critical Realism and Poststructuralist Feminism - The Difficult Path to Mutual Understanding. Journal of Critical Realism 2007: Vol. 6, 1:28-52.
Poutanen, S.: The Revitalised Whiteheadian Process Philosophy, the Difficulty in Making Some Moral and Political Difference in the World, and Parfit's Imaginary Examples. The International Journal of the Humanities 2007: Vol. 4, 7:51-58.
Ahlbeck-Rehn, J., Kovalainen, A. & Poutanen, S.: The Natural and Social Sciences - Gendered epistemic environments at two university departments in Finland. An Introduction. Research reports from the Finnish KNOWING project 1. University of Turku & Turku School of Economics, Turku 2006.
Poutanen, S.: The First Genetic Screening in Finland. In: Alan Petersen & Robin Bunton (eds.) Genetic Governance. Health, Risk and Ethics in the Biotech Era. Routledge, London & New York 2005.
Poutanen, S.: Kriittisen realismin metodologisesta otteesta yhteiskuntatieteissä. Teoksessa Pekka Räsänen, Anu-Hanna Anttila & Harri Melin (toim.) Tutkimus menetelmien pyörteissä. PS-kustannus, Jyväskylä 2005.
Poutanen, S.: Genetisoituminen sosiologisena teemana. Teoksessa Ismo Kantola, Hannu Ruonavaara & Pekka Räsänen (toim.) Kiistoja ja dilemmoja - sosiologisen keskustelun vastakkainasetteluja. Aurora, Turku 2005.
Poutanen, S.: How to decide about participating in genetic tests? A normative and sociological analysis of potential benefits of the Bayesian decision-making method. (Partly in Finnish.) Annales Universitatis Turkuensis, University of Turku 2003.
Poutanen, S.: The first genetic screening in Finland: its execution, evaluation and some possible implications for liberal government. Critical Public Health 2002: Vol. 12: 251-264.
Poutanen, S.: How Could Contemporary Social Theory Contribute to Socialized Epistemology? Social Epistemology 2001: Vol. 15, 1:27-42.
Pietarinen, J. & Poutanen, S.: Etiikan teorioita. Gaudeamus, Tampere 1998.