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Timo Airaksinen



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e-mail: timo.airaksinen@helsinki.fi

PERSONAL:Born April 25, 1947, Vaasa, Finland. Finnish citizen.

EDUCATION:University of Turku, M.A. 1971, philosophy and psychology.
University of Turku, Ph.D.1975, philosophy.
(Dissertation topic: The Hegelianism of Bradley and McTaggart).

POSITIONS:Assistent, University of Turku, Department of Philosophy, 1972-1983.
Docent, University of Turku, 1976 -
Professor of Philosophy (Chair in ethics, social philosophy and philosophy of law), University of Helsinki

1983 -

Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, 1994-1996.
Consultant and lecturer to many professional associations and societies. Teacher in the open university and adult education in Finland.
BISC (Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing): Philosophy. Member of the Advisory Board, Univ. of California, Berkeley, until 2005
A Honorary Member of the Learned Society of Praxiology (Warsaw, Poland).
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Sydney, Australia, fall 1991 (declined).
Lecturer, The School of Social Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, fall 1993 (declined).
Docent, University of Lappland, Rovaniemi, Finland (Philosophy), 2002-.
External expert in Professor=s nominations: Finland, Sweden, and Norway.
Vice President, International Berkeley Society, 2006-

ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS:

Tampere Peace Research Institute (TAPRI), Tampere, Finland,
Member of the Board 1986 - 1991.
Philosophical Society of Finland, Member of the Board, 1980 -
Finnish Association for the Philosophy of Law, Member of the Board and Vice-President 1985 - 1991.
Int. Society for Value Inquiry (USA), Vice-Precident, 1993 - 1995.
Chairman of the Department of Philosophy, several periods, and 1992 - 1994, 1997-2003.
Asst. Dean of the Faculty of Social Science, University of Helsinki, 1993 - 1994.
Asian and Pacific Area Research Center, University of Helsinki, Member of the Board, 2001-2005.
Member of the International Board of Trustees of the Center for Ethics of the University of Tartu (Estonia)
Member of the International Expert Evaluation Panel of Research in Philosophy and Theology in Estonia (Spring 2003) and Teaching (Spring 2005).

MAJOR TRAVEL GRANTS:

-Academy of Finland/The State of Ireland: 1973-74 Trinity College, Dublin; 9 months.
-Fulbright grant: 1976-7
University of Pittsburgh; 9 months.
-Exchange grant: fall 1979 Dept. of Sociology, University of Warsaw, Poland; 5 months.
-British Academy: summer 1981, University College, Oxford; 3 months.
-Dept. of Philosophy, The University of Western Ontario, Ontario, Canada, spring 1981 (sabbatical leave); 6 months.
-University of Moscow and Helsinki exchange grant: May 1982 Faculty of Philosophy, Univ. of Moscow; 1 month.
-Center for Philosophy of Science, Pittsburgh: 1982-83 University of Pittsburgh; 9 months.
-NSF and the Center for Philosophy of Science, Pittsburgh: 1985 University of Pittsburgh, and NSF: January 1986 Hampshire College, Amherst, Ma.; 4 + 1 months.
-Deutsche Forschungsgemeinshaft: June 1987 Dept. of Philosophy, University of Hamburg, West-Germany; 1 month.
-Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Dept. of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, N.C,. 1987-88; 9 months.
-British Council travel grant to London (LSE) for summer 1989; 2 weeks.
-Clare Hall, Cambridge, Visiting Fellow, 1991-1992. Life Member of Clare Hall; 11 months.
-Dept. of Philosophy, University of Tasmania, Hobart, fall 1998, 1 month.
-Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, 2000-2001, 9 months.
-The University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore, Qld, Australia, 2003-2004, 9 months.
-Clare Hall ja HPS, Cambridge, 2005-2006, 9 months.

Numerous conference papers and invited lectures.


TEACHING COMPETENCIES:

(1) Ethics, applied ethics, and social/political philosophy.
(2) History of ideas and philosophy: Hegel, Berkeley, and Hobbes; de Sade.
(3) Epistemology.

SUCCESFUL DOCTORAL STUDENTS (14):

Tapio Puolimatka, Arto Siitonen, Heta Ha"yry, Matti Ha"yry, Maija-Riitta Ollila, Sirkku Hellsten, Marjaana Kopperi, Petri Sipila", Arto Tukiainen, Mikko Salmela, Manu J. Vuorio, Leonidas Donskis, Olli Loukola, Katri Kaalikoski, Liisa Lampi, Juhani Lemetti.

Examiner of Doctoral Dissertations: Finland, Australia, New Zealand, and Norway.

Current number of active doctoral students:

10.EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE:

Member of the board of editorial consultants:Acta Philosophica Fennica
The International Journal of Applied Philosophy
Praxiology Yearbook
Journal of Value Inquiry
Managing Editor, Hobbes Studies
Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics, Academic Press, ed. R. Chadwick.
On the Boundary of Two Worlds (Baltic Studies), Rodopi, ed. L. Donskis.

PRIZES:

Finnish Association of Non-fiction Writers= prize, 2001.
(Revised: December 2006)

MAIN PUBLICATIONS


(Complete list upon request. Total number of publications 280 in Finnish, English, Estonian, Swedish, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, and Polish).
1978:1. Five types of knowledge, Americal Philosophical Quarterly 15 (1978), pp. 263-274.1979:2. On the foundations of Rescher's coherence theory of truth, Logique et Analyse 22 (1979), pp. 147-157.1980:3. On time travel, Dialectics and Humanism 7 (1980), pp. 113- 121.
4. Problems in Hegel's dialectic of feeling, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 41 (1980), pp. 1-25. 1981:5. Meaning and knowledge, Dialectics and Humanism 8 (1981), pp. 113-122.
6. On the nonfoundationalistic theories of epistemic justification, The Southern Journal of Philosophy 19 (1981), pp. 403-412.1982:7. Between welfare and anxiety: the case of Rescher's social philosophy, in R. Almeder (ed.), Praxis and Action, University Press of America, 1982, pp. 228-256.
8. Contextualism: a new theory of epistemic justification?, Philosophia (Israel) 12 (1982), pp. 37-50.
9. Moral education and democracy in the school, Synthese 51 (1982), pp. 117-134.
10. Systems theory in social science, in R. Trappl (ed.), Cybernetics and Systems Research, North Holland, 1982, pp. 489-494. 1983:11. Values in Mackie's error theory of ethics, Inquiry 26 (1983), pp. 467-475.1984:12. Normative aspects of some stabilizing social systems, in R. Trappl (ed.), Cybernetics and Systems Research vol. 2, North Holland, 1984, pp. 465-470.
13. Coercion, deterrence and authority, Theory and Decision 17 (1984), pp. 105-117.
14. The epistemological relevance of social power, Dialectics and Humanism 11 (1984), pp. 575-583.1985:15. Social time and place, Man and World 18 (1985), pp. 99- 105.
16. War against the environment, Current Research on Peace and Violence 8 (1985), pp. 37-43
17. Westermarck, Mackie, Stroup, and Harrison, in E. Bulygin et.al (eds), Man, Law and Modern Forms of Life, D. Reidel, 1985, pp. 97-101.
18. Hegel on poverty and violence, in K. Kipnis and D. T. Meyers (eds), Economic Justice: Private Rights and Public Responsibilities, Rowman and Allanheld, 1985, pp. 42- 58.
19. Absolutely certain beliefs: Odegard, Rescher and Klein, Philosophy Research Archives 11 (1985), pp. 393-406.1986:20. Ogo'lna teoria wartosci i jej zastosowanie w nauce i technice, Polska Academie Nauk, Ossolineum Publ., 1986, 70 pages. (A study of science policy).
21. Games of coercion and power, Part I, European Journal of Political Economy 2 (1986), pp. 407-434;
and
22. Part II, op. cit. pp. 557-598.1987:23. Rescher on Pascal's Wager Argument, in F. H. van Eemeren et.al. (eds), Argumentation: Across the Lines of Discipline, Foris Publications, 1987, pp. 159-164.
24. Moraalifilosofia (Moral Philosophy), WSOY, 1987 (several editions), in Finnish, 250 pages.
25. Berkeley and the justification of beliefs, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 48 (1987), pp. 235-256.1988:26. Medical ethics in Finland: some recent trends, Theoretical Medicine 9 (1988), pp. 299-307 (coauthor: M. Vuorio).
27. Moral failures and legal relativism, in C. Faralli and E. Pattaro (eds), Reason in Law, Dott. A. Giuffre' Editore, 1988, pp. 7-17.
28. Original populations and environmental rights, Journal of Applied Philosophy 5 (1988),pp. 37-47. Reprinted in Brenda Almond and Donald Hill (eds), Applied Philosophy, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1991, pp. 26-36.
29. Istota i metody filozofii praktycznej, Projektowanie i Systemy 10 (1988), pp. 11-20. Tr. The nature and methods of practical philosophy, Praxiology 4-5 (1990), pp. 35-46. Reprinted in W. Gasparskin and Arne Collen (eds), Design and Systems, Transaction, 1995, pp. 41-52.
30. Elements of constraint, Analyse & Kritik 10 (1988), pp. 32-47 (coauthor: M. Ha"yry).
31. An analysis of coercion, Journal of Peace Research 25 (1988), pp. 213-227.
32. Kant's elusive self: problems of paralogisms, Metaphilosophy 19 (1988), pp. 329-336 (coauthor: A. Siitonen).
33. Ethics of Coercion and Authority, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988, 219 pages.
34. Hegel's psychology of knowledge, Annalen fu"r dialektische Philosohie IV, Pahl-Rugenstein, 1988, pp. 36-42
35. Hard and soft offers as constraints, Philosophia 18 (1988), pp. 385-398 (coauthor: M. Ha"yry). Discussion: In defence of hard offers: a reply to J. P. Day, Philosophia 20 (1990), pp. 325-327 (coauthor: M. Ha"yry).
36. Moralne implicacje stosowania przymusu, Prakseologia no. 101 (1988), pp. 407-416.1989:37. Insanity, crime and the structure of freedom in Hegel, Social Theory and Practice 15 (1989), pp. 155-178.
38. Hobbes: War among Nations, T. Airaksinen and Martin A. Bertman (eds), Avebury, 1989, 198 pages.
39. The whiteness of the whale: Thomas Hobbes and a paradox of war and fear, in Hobbes: War among Nations, pp. 51-69.1990:40. Hobbes, Freud, conflict, fear, guilt, in T. Campbell (ed.), Law and Elightenment in Britain, Aberdeen University Press, 1990, pp. 1-16.
41. Justified coercion, in Y. Hudson and C. Peden (eds), Revolution, Violence, and Equality, Edwin Mellen Press, 1990, pp. 21-40.1991:42. Of Glamour, Sex and De Sade, Longwood Academic, 1991, 200 pages. New Edition, The Philosophy of the Marquis de Sade, Routledge, 1995. Finnish translation, Gaudeamus 1995.
43. Ammattien ja ansaitsemisen etiikka, (Ethics of professions and business), ed., with introduction and a chapter on the theory of professions (in Finnish),Helsinki University Press, 1991, 284 pages. 3. ed. 2002.
44. Goals and ethics: comments on Kotarbinski, in W. Gasparski and A. Strzalecki (ed.), Logika, Praktyka, Etyka, TWP Warszawa, 1991, pp. 219-228.1992:45. The rhetoric of domination, in Thomas Wartenberg (ed.), Rethinking Power, SUNY Press, 1992, pp. 102-120.
46. Against retributivism: an evaluation, ARSP-Beiheft 47 (1992), pp. 101-105.
47. Ethics, what is the point?, Life and Education in Finland, no 2 (1992), pp. 15-19. 1993:47. Immoral beliefs, in T. Airaksinen and W. Gasparski (eds), Practical Philosophy and Action Theory, Transaction Publishers, 1993, pp. 1-15.
48. Competition in outer space, in Airaksinen and Gasparski, Practical Philosophy and Action Theory, 1993, pp. 83-87.
49. Promises and slaves, the ethics of reading, in A. Bennet (ed.), Reading Reading, Tampere English Studies, 1993, pp. 45-57.
50. Hobbes on power and powerlessness, Hobbes Studies 6 (1993), pp. 90-115. Republished in Homo Oeconomicus XIX(4), 2003, pp. 543-567 as Hobbes on passions and powerlessness.1994:50. Values and design in professional life, in R. Trappl (ed.), Cybernetics and Systems '94, World Scientific Publ., 1994, pp. 369-375 (coauthor: K. Salo). (Best paper in Section prize).
51. Service and science in professional life, in R. Chadwick (ed.), Ethics and the Professions, Avebury, 1994, pp. 1-13.
52. Instrumental Rationality, Proto Soziologie, no 6: Rationalita"t I (1994), pp. 151-159 (coauthor: K. Kaalikoski). Reprinted in Pryer, G ja Peter, G, toim. The Contextualization of Rationality, Mentis, 2000.
53. The Society of Values (Arvojen yhteiskunta, in Finnish), WSOY, 1994, 195 pp. 1995:54. Methodological pragmatism, in H. Stachoviak (ed.), Pragmatik vol. V, Felix Meiner Verlag, 1995, pp. 179-194.
55. The virtuous face of the ethics of science, in W. Gasparski and T. Airaksinen (eds.), Science in Society, IFiS Publishers, 1995, pp. 13-26.1996:55. The style of Sade: Sex, text and cruelty, in Alan Soble (ed.), Sex, Love, and Friendship, Rodopi, 1996, pp. 527 - 535.1997:56. The Touch of Reality (Todellisuuden kosketus, in Finnish), Otava, 1997, 188 pp.1998:57. Professional ethics, in Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics, Volume 3, Academic Press, 1998, pp. 671-682. The Concise Enc. Of Ethics in Politics and the Media, Academic Press, 2001, s. 263-273
58. Professionalism and science, in Anna Lewicka-Stralecka and Olli Loukola (eds), Science in Society: Science Policy and Ethics, IFiS Publishers, 1998, pp. 43-49.
59. Moral facts and objective values, in A. Wu"stehube and M. Quante (eds), Pragmatic Idealism: Critical Essays in Nicholas Rescher's System of Pragmatic Idealism, Poznan Studies 64, Rodopi, 1998, pp. 27-35.
60. Action and learning, in W. Gasparski and D. Botham (eds), Action Learning, Praxiology vol. 6, Transaction, 1998, pp. 65-75.1999:61. The Philosophy of H.P. Lovecraft: The Road to Horror, Peter Lang, 1999, 251 pp.
62. The Builders of Identity (Minuuden rakentajat, in Finnish), Otava, 1999, 237 pp. 1999.
63. Anarchist philosophy of law and Nihilism, The Philosophy of Law: An Encyclopedia, Garland Publishing, 1999, vol. I s. 26-38, vol. II s. 590-592.
64. Scandal as relic, Scandal and Its Theory. Homo Economicus XV(1), 1999, s. 7-20.
65. Medicine and body engineering, What Is This Thing Called Bioethics? Australian Bioethics Association, 1999, pp. 7-12.2000:66. Isolation and radicalization in democracy, New Ethics - New Society, Acta Philosophica Fennica, vol. 65, 2000, pp. 9-26.2001:67. The Prisoners of Love (Rakkauden vangit, in Finnish), Otava, 2001, 247 pp.
68. Professional ethics of engineering: The principle of double loyalties, Proceedings, 8th World Conference on Continuing Engineering Education, IACEE, Toronto, 2001, pp. 285-291.
69. Counterfactuals and other philosophical challenges to machine intelligence: A fuzzy view, Proceedings of the Joint 9th IFSA World Conference and 20th NAFIPS International Conference, Vancouver, 2001, 6 pp (CD).
70. Machine dreams: Fuzzy ethical theory to cyborg intelligence, Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information Engineering Systems and Allied Technologies, KES 2001 Proceedings Part 1, IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2001, pp. 705-709.
71. Guilt and other negative moral emotions, Praxeologia Nr 141, 2001, pp. 299-308.
72. Why do inequalities in health exist?, Justice, Charity, and the Welfare State: Moral and Social Dimensions, Acta Philosphica Fennica, vol. 65, 2001, pp. 15-36.2002:73. Design ethics in the future world of cyborgs, Cybernetics and Systems, Vol 1, Proceedings of 16. European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research, Vienna, 2002, pp. 239-244.
74. In Praise of Old Age (Vanhuuden ylistys, in Finnish), Otava, 2002, 222 pp.
75. The scandal of evil in philosophical ethics, Homo Economicus XIX(2), 2002, pp. 171-197.
76. Education and the meaning of life, Philosophy of Education 2001, Urbana, IL, 2002, pp. 311-319 (co-author: T. Puolimatka).
77. Fuzziness and the principles of praxiology, Proceedings of SCIS & ISIS 2002, Tsukuba, Japan, 6 pp., 2002 (CD). Reprinted in Alexandre V. and Gasparski W. W., French and Other Perspectives in Praxiology, Transaction, 2005, pp. 261-271.
78. Praxiological efficiency in heterogenous professional ethics, in Ryan, L. V, Nahser, B, and Gasparski, W., Praxiology and Pragmatism, 2002, Transaction, pp. 71-86.2003:79. Tekniikan suuret kertomukset: filosofinen raportti (The Master Narratives of Technology: A Philosophical Report), Otava, 2003, 399 pp.
80. What a machine should know about philosophical problems?, Soft Computing, on line Springerlink.com 2004. Paper: Soft Computing 8 (2004), pp. 650-656.2004:81. Truth, in V. A. Niskanen and J. Kortelainen, eds, On the Edge of Fuzziness, Acta Universitatis Lappeenrantaensis 179, 2004, pp. 39-43.
82. Kant on Hobbes, peace, and obedience, History of European Ideas 30 (2004), pp. 315-328 (coauthor: Arto Siitonen). Republished: Kant, acerca de Hobbes, la paz y la obediencia, Revista Philosophica N 1 28 (2005), s. 5-21 (Instituto de Filosofi'a, Pontificia Universidad Cato'lica de Valparai'so).
83. Thomas Hobbes, the state of nature and Kant, in P. Nikula, ed., Ideas, Values and Conflicts in Social Life, Lapin yliopiston yhteiskuntatieteellisia" tutkimuksia 5, Lapin yliopisto, 2004, pp. 31-58.
84. The Philosophy of professional ethics, in R. Elliot, ed., Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, 2004, Unesco, 14 pp.. On line: www.eolss.net.
85. Professional ethics for professional soldiers, in J. Toiskallio, ed., Identity, Ethics, and Soldiership, ACIE Publ., 2004, pp. 31-46.
86. Los diversos estados de naturaleza en Thomas Hobbes, Revista Philosophica N 1 27 (2004), pp. 5-16 (Instituto de Filosofi'a, Pontificia Universidad Cato'lica de Valparai'so Arti'culos).200587. Ihmiskoneen tulevaisuus (The Future of the Human Machine), WSOY, 2006, 326 p.
88. Intolerance and self-deception, Filosofija, Scientific Papers, University of Latvia 687, 2005, pp. 83-87.
89. Education and the praxiology of the hidden curriculum, Praxeologia 145/2005, pp. 33-42. 200688. The strange rationality of needs and desires, Treorie Vedy/Theory of Science XIV/XXVII 1/2006, pp. 69-82.
89. Onnellisuuden opas (A Guide to Happiness), Johnny Kniga, 2006, 190 p.
90. and 91. Sade, Bataille, in A. Soble, ed., Sex from Plato to Paglia: A Philosophical Encyclopedia, 2 vols., Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2005, pp. 952-960, 84-86.
92. The chain and the animal: idealism in Berkeley’s Siris, in S. Gersch and D. Moran (eds), Eriugena, Berkeley, and the Idealist Tradition, Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 2006, pp. 224-223.