Faculty Member, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
Research fellow
About
I am a philosophy research fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, and an adjuct professor ("docent") at the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä.
My research interests cover social philosophy, the nature of human agency and personhood, theories of normativity, ethics and meta-ethics. The main topics are mutual recognition, normative (moral) realism, and solidarity.
I am currently co-editing a book on Recognition and Social Ontology (with Heikki Ikäheimo), on Hegel and Action (with Constantine Sandis) and on Solidarity (in Finnish, with Anne Birgitta Pessi). I recently finished a monograph on Charles Taylor's views on humans as "Self-Interpreting Animals" (in Finnish).
My other work in progress concerns normativity (what is it? what is its relation to the "world"?), solidarity (what is it and why does it matter?), personhood (what is the moral status of persons based on and do all humans have it?), mutual recognition (what is it and how does it relate to normativity, personhood and solidarity?), social commitments (what are they and what is their normative relevance?), Hegel (what did he say about sociality of reason, human action, social ontology, desire, recognition, politics).
All sorts of comments on any of the papers that you find here are most welcome.
Contact Information
Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
Fabianinkatu 24 (P.O. Box 4)
FI-00014 University of Helsinki
Finland
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