Timo Airaksinen
Professor of moral philosophy
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- PhD Philosophy University of Helsinki
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Timo Airaksinen is Professor of Moral Philosophy in the Discipline of Social and Moral Philosophy at Helsinki University. By longstanding tradition in the University of Helsinki, the philosophy faculty is divided into two major areas, the practical and the theoretical. He graduated from the University of Turku in 1971 and defended his doctoral dissertation The Hegelianism of Bradley and McTaggart in 1975. He specializes in ethics and social philosophy, ethics of technology, the history of philosophy, and education. He has written on a wide range of topics dealing with these issues, from the thinking of Hobbes to Marquis de Sade. Airaksinen also regularly contributes to public debate in Finland and has had a column in the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat.
Timo Airaksinen's Published Works
Published Works
- The Philosophy of the Marquis de Sade (1995) (20)
- Ethics of Coercion and Authority: A Philosophical Study of Social Life (1989) (12)
- Kant on Hobbes, peace, and obedience (2004) (8)
- THE PHILOSOPHY OF PROFESSIONAL ETHICS (2011) (8)
- The Philosophy of H. P. Lovecraft: The Route to Horror (1999) (7)
- Hobbes War Among Nations (1989) (7)
- Ethics of coercion and authority (1988) (6)
- Hard and soft offers as constraints (1988) (5)
- The Language of Pain: A Philosophical Study of BDSM (2018) (5)
- Desire and Happiness (2012) (5)
- Practical Philosophy and Action Theory (2023) (5)
- Irony and Sarcasm in Ethical Perspective (2020) (4)
- Berkeley and the Justification of Beliefs (1987) (4)
- On Optimal Utilization of Labor and Capital Stocks in the Neoclassical Theory of the Firm (1977) (4)
- Coercion, deterrence, and authority (1984) (4)
- Trust, Responsibility, Power, and Social Capital (2008) (4)
- Scandal as Relic (1999) (3)
- Hobbes on the Passions and Powerlesness (1993) (3)
- Mimetic Evil: A Conceptual and Ethical Study (2020) (3)
- Inflation and the user cost of capital (1979) (3)
- Education and the Meaning of Life (2001) (3)
- Berkeley and Newton on Gravity in Siris (2010) (3)
- In the Upper Room: Metaphysics and Theology in Berkeley's Ethics (2015) (3)
- Vagaries of Desire: A Collection of Philosophical Essays (2019) (2)
- Socratic Irony and Argumentation (2021) (2)
- Fortune is a women: Machiavelli on luck and virtue (2009) (2)
- Medical ethics in Finland: Some recent trends (1988) (2)
- A threat like no other threat, George Berkeley against the freethinkers (2017) (2)
- A philosophical and rhetorical theory of BDSM (2017) (2)
- Rhetoric and Corpuscularism in Berkeley's Siris (2011) (2)
- Action and Learning (2017) (2)
- Narratives of (Mad) Desire (2013) (2)
- Desire: The Concept and Its Practical Context (2016) (2)
- Personal Safety—A Utopian Transition? (2017) (1)
- Tricky Sexual Differences: What Is Perversion? (2019) (1)
- Psychology of Desire and the Pragmatics of Betterment (2017) (1)
- A dynamic model of interrelated demand for capital and lobour : a theoretical model with an application to time-series cross-section data for finnish breweries in 1954-1972 (1977) (1)
- S.A. Lloyd , Ideals as Interests in Hobbes's Leviathan: The Power of Mind over Matter . Reviewed by (1992) (1)
- Good Life without Happiness (2022) (1)
- Education and the Praxiology of the Hidden Curriculum (2005) (1)
- Games of coercion and power part II (1986) (1)
- Praxiology and the Philosophy of Technology (2021) (1)
- An Analysis of Coercion (1988) (1)
- On Time Travel (1980) (1)
- Counterfactuals and other philosophical challenges to machine intelligence: a fuzzy view (2001) (1)
- Berkeley's Lasting Legacy: 300 Years Later (2011) (1)
- The Ethics of Redistribution (2001) (1)
- Nowhere to Go Kafka, A Philosophical Study (2017) (1)
- Problems in Hegel's Dialectic of Feeling (1980) (1)
- Conspiracy Theories as Fiction: Kafka and Sade (2019) (1)
- Berkeley’s Passive Obedience: the logic of loyalty (2020) (1)
- Thomas Hobbes on Intentionality, Desire, and Happiness (2019) (1)
- Original Populations and Environmental Rights (1988) (1)
- Narratives of Desire (2016) (1)
- What a machine should know about philosophical problems? (2004) (1)
- Insanity, Crime and the Structure of Freedom in Hegel (1989) (1)
- Social time and place (1985) (0)
- Kafka: Crime and punishment (2019) (0)
- Supernatural Morality in Berkeley's Passive Obedience (2020) (0)
- MEDICAL E THICS IN FINLAND: SOME R ECENT T RENDS (1988) (0)
- René Girard and Mimetic Desire (2019) (0)
- Desire and the Socratic Paradox of Happiness (2017) (0)
- The Entrepreneur and the Customers: a Quiet Conflict (2019) (0)
- Lost in Kafka’s America (2019) (0)
- A Comment on “What Is Wrong with the West’s Economies?” by Edmund Phelps (2016) (0)
- Science in Society (1995) (0)
- Between Democracy and Antagonistic Environmental Politics (2017) (0)
- Push and Pull Theories of Desire (2019) (0)
- Book Review:Naturalism and Social Science: A Post-Empiricist Philosophy of Social Science David Thomas (1982) (0)
- Donskis, L., Power and Imagination: Studies in Politics and Literature (2012) (0)
- Absolutely Certain Beliefs: Odegard, Rescher and Klein (1985) (0)
- Vulgar Talk and Learned Reasoning in Berkeley’s Moral and Religious Thought (2021) (0)
- A study of the export behaviour of the firm under uncertainty (1984) (0)
- Great Books, Bad Arguments: Republic, Leviathan and The Communist Manifesto (2011) (0)
- Agonistic approaches to sexuality: A critical analysis of the conservative mindset (2023) (0)
- Introduction: Depicting Desire (2019) (0)
- Moral education and democracy in the school (1982) (0)
- Socratic Irony and Argumentation (2021) (0)
- Human and Machine Centred Technologies: A Philosophical and Ethical Analysis1 (2021) (0)
- Trouble with Success (2017) (0)
- Active Principles and Trinities in Berkeley's Siris (2010) (0)
- Praxiological Efficiency in Heterogeneous Professional Ethics (2018) (0)
- The Scandal of Evil in Philosophical Ethics: Theory and Applications (2002) (0)
- David Boonin-Vail , Thomas Hobbes and the Science of Moral Virtue . Reviewed by (1995) (0)
- Inalienable rights in hobbes’s politics (2012) (0)
- In defence of “hard” offers: A reply to J.P. Day (1990) (0)
- KANT'S ELUSIVE SELF: PROBLEMS OF PARALOGISMS (1988) (0)
- Meaning and Knowledge: The Place of Criteria in Epistemology (1981) (0)
- ?They have it better this way?: Assessing an argument for inequality (1993) (0)
- AGAINST ALL THE ODDS: MACHIAVELLI ON FORTUNE IN POLITICS (2011) (0)
- A Comment on “What Is Wrong with the West’s Economies?” by Edmund Phelps (2016) (0)
- Book Review:Progress and Its Discontents Gabriel Almond, Marvin Chodorow, Roy H. Pearce (1983) (0)
- Berkeley’s Passive Obedience: positive and negative norms (2021) (0)
- Chapter 14. Rescher on Pascal’s Wager Argument (1987) (0)
- ON NONFOUNDATIONALISTIC THEORIES OF EPISTEMIC JUSTIFICATION (1981) (0)
- Values in Mackie's error theory of Ethics∗ (1983) (0)
- Professor Gasparski on Design and Entrepreneurship (2017) (0)
- Peter Geach, ed. , Logic and Ethics . Reviewed by (1991) (0)
- Beliefs and Desires (2019) (0)
- Our Anxious Desires (2019) (0)
- Death, Desire, and the Generation of Metaphor (2019) (0)
- HEDONISM IN PSYCHOLOGY (2002) (0)
- A dynamic disequilibrium model of the firm for substitutable factors of production (1976) (0)
- Notes about the Authors (2018) (0)
- Hegel and Marx in Finland: A Philosophical Parody (2017) (0)
- Book reviews (1984) (0)
- R.E. Ewin , Virtues and Rights: The Moral Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes . Reviewed by (1992) (0)
- Praxiology of evil: Thinking about threats and their effectiveness (2008) (0)
- Metaphysics, Universal Irony, and Richard Rorty’s “We Ironists” (2021) (0)
- TRUST AND RISKY SECRETS (2013) (0)
- Review: C. Bradatan, The Other Bishop Berkeley, Fordham UP, 2006 (2008) (0)
- Fuzziness and the Principles of Praxiology 1 (2018) (0)
- William P. Alston, Divine Nature and Human Language: Essays in Philosophical Theology, Cornell University Press, 1989, 279 pp. DM Armstrong, A Combinatorial Theory of Possibility, Cambridge University Press, 1989, 156 pp. Ronald Aronson,“Stay out of Politics”: A Philosopher Views South (1991) (0)
- Value, Consciousness, and Action (1976) (0)
- D. M. Gross, The Secret History of Emotion: From Aristotle’s Rhetoric to Modern Brain Science. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006, x + 194 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-30980-4, paperback ($ 22). (2012) (0)
- Starting with Hobbes (2010) (0)
- Book Review:The Philosophy of Nicholas Rescher: Discussion and Replies Ernest Sosa (1983) (0)
- Trouble with Success: The Problem of Effectiveness in Praxiology (2017) (0)
- NEW LIFE FORMS: MIN OR MAX CYBORGS? (2009) (0)
- New ethics - new society, or, The dawn of justice (2000) (0)
- Kafka: Tropes of Desire (2019) (0)
- Elements of Constraint (1988) (0)
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