The Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters is organising the symposium How to Speak of What is Essential? on 29 May 2026 from 9:00 to 18:00 in the Cedercreutz Hall at the House of Science and Letters, Kirkkokatu 6, 00170 Helsinki.

The symposium is organised in connection with the publication of the first Swedish edition of Aristotle’s Metaphysics.

The programme is in Swedish and English.

The symposium is open to the public but requires advance registration.

Please register by 21 May via the following link: Registration

Use the password Symposium, and then change the language in the top right corner of the screen if needed.

Programme

9:15 Mats Gyllenberg & Mika Kajava
Welcome remarks

9:30 Miira Tuominen (Stockholm)
Aristoteles om principer och orsaker: Hur kan en förståndig metafysiker ha kunskap om allting?

10:15 Hallvard Fossheim (Bergen)
Aristotle’s Metaphysics and the Being of Happiness

11:00 Coffee break

11:15 Harry Alanen (Oxford)
Väsen, förändring och aktivitet i Aristoteles Metafysik IX

12:00 Pauliina Remes (Uppsala)
Har undersökning väsentliga egenskaper?

12:45 Lunch break

14:30 Lassi Jakola (Athens) Aristotle’s metaphysical Greek

15:15 Mika Perälä (Helsinki) Kath’ hauto and kata symbebēkos in Aristotle. The Difference between What is Essential and What is Not

16:00 Coffee break

16:15 Sharon Rider (Uppsala)
Om blott åtföljande drag i filosofi

17:00 Jan-Ivar Lindén (Helsinki) Varför allt väsentligt inte kan vara moral