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Addiction in Action
Reports from the Department of Philosophy : 33 (Turun yliopisto, 03.12.2015)As human action, drinking alcohol or smoking cigarettes, for instance, are phenomena that are familiar to most people. We recognise when people use drugs or gamble whether that happens in the television or around ... -
An Access theory of self-control: Essays on self-control, ADHD, and stimulant medication
Reports from the Department of Philosophy : 48 (Turun yliopisto, 19.11.2021)This dissertation consists of four articles and an introductory essay, the overarching aim of which is to investigate the nature of self-control and its implications. I defend a value-deflationist definition of self-control, ... -
Animal Experience in Kant’s Philosophy
Reports from the Department of Philosophy : 37 (Turun yliopisto, 23.04.2016)The role of animals in the philosophy of mind is primarily to help understand the human mind by serving as practical examples of cognition that differs from ours either in kind or in degree. Kant regarded animals as beings ... -
Aspects of objectivity and objective reference in Kant’s transcendental idealism
Reports from the Department of Philosophy : 46 (Turun yliopisto, 27.11.2020)This study analyzes and lays out different aspects of Kant’s account of the concept of objectivity and objective reference in the broad view, as well as their conditions, to show the relevance of Kant’s view to contemporary ... -
Can ordinary morality survive the climate crisis?: A philosophical analysis of moral demandingness and climate change
Reports from the Department of Philosophy : 51 (Turun yliopisto, 14.10.2023)In this dissertation I examine how ordinary morality operates in the context of climate change, with a specific focus on moral demandingness. I will employ climate change as a conceptual stress test, to analyse how ordinary ... -
Cementing science : understanding science through its development
Reports from the Department of Philosophy : 42 (Turun yliopisto, 10.06.2019)In this book, I defend the present-centered approach in historiography of science (i.e. study of the history of science), build an account for causal explanations in historiography of science, and show the fruitfulness of ... -
Climate Change and Ethics of Geoengineering -- Implications Of Climate Emergency Ethics
Reports from the Department of Philosophy : 32 (Turun yliopisto, 06.11.2015)Global climate change and intentional climate modification, i.e. geoengineering include various ethical problems which are entangled as a complex ensemble of questions regarding the future of the biosphere. The possibilities ... -
Concepts and Reference. Defending a Dual Theory of Natural Kind Concepts
Reports from the Department of Philosophy : 21 (Turun yliopisto, 22.11.2008)In this thesis I argue that the psychological study of concepts and categorisation, and the philosophical study of reference are deeply intertwined. I propose that semantic intuitions are a variety of categorisation ... -
Essays on Business and Leadership Ethics
Turun yliopiston julkaisuja. Sarja B, Humaniora : 348 (Turun yliopisto, 20.06.2012)As this is a dissertation, an academic thesis, it is important to define the objectives of my research, even if ex post facto, explicitly: - To define, develop and study the concept of business and leadership ethics. - ... -
IN DUBIO PRO NATURA? A Philosophical Analysis of the Precautionary Principle in Environmental and Health Risk Governance
Reports from the Department of Philosophy : 20 (Turun yliopisto, 10.06.2008)In this book, I apply a philosophical approach to study the precautionary principle in environmental (and health) risk decision-making. The principle says that unacceptable environmental and health risks should be anticipated, ... -
The Inevitability of Skepticism. A Study on the Problem of the Criterion
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Kant’s transcendental Deductions : A New Elucidation
Reports from the Department of Philosophy : 39 (Turun yliopisto, 21.10.2017)In his Transcendental Deductions of the categories, Kant purports to show that we have the right to employ our basic a priori concepts of a thing in general, e.g. the concept of causality, in cognition of ... -
Metaphilosophical themes : naturalism, rationalism and the conceptions of philosophy
Reports from the Department of Philosophy : 14 (Turun yliopisto, 03.05.2019)This study belongs firmly to the genre of metaphilosophy, as it reflects on topics pertaining to the subject matter, method and aim of philosophy itself by using philosophy’s own usual tools and approaches. The contents ... -
Neurophilosophy of self-consciousness: Clarifications for the connection between minimal and reflective form
Reports from the Department of Philosophy : 49 (Turun yliopisto, 25.03.2022)Selfhood has a central role in people’s lives. The self is present as the subject of experience, thinker of thoughts, and agent of action. This doctoral study elaborates on the concept on self-consciousness by examining ... -
On the ethical desirability of considerable life extension
Reports from the Department of Philosophy : 44 (Turun yliopisto, 15.11.2019)This thesis is a tool for evaluating the ethical desirability of considerable life extension. The discussion on the topic brings together metaphysical questions related to life and death as well as practical bioethical ... -
Perception in Kant's Model of Experience
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Platonin ideat – todellisuus informaationa
Reports from the Department of Philosophy : 45 (Turun yliopisto, 29.02.2020)Tämän väitöstutkimuksen aiheena on Platonin idea-ajatus ja sen edellytykset vastata todellisuutta. Toisin sanoen tutkimukseni valottaa aineellisen todellisuuden ulkopuolella olevan normatiivisen ja abstraktin todellisuuden ... -
Political Legitimacy and Ethnocultural Justice. Essays on Public Reason, Democratic Citizenship, and the Rights of Cultural Minorities
Reports from the Department of Philosophy : 36 (Turun yliopisto, 19.03.2016)In this thesis, I argue that there are public cultural reasons that can underpin public justifications of minority rights of indigenous and national minorities in a constitutionaldemocracy. I do so by tackling diverse ... -
Queering bioethics: a queer feminist framework for vulnerability and principles
Reports from the Department of Philosophy : 47 (Turun yliopisto, 2021)Gender and sexual variance invite a cornucopia of philosophically salient inquiries. My dissertation considers them in the realm of bioethics. Bioethics can be defined as a field of philosophy that interrogates ethical, ... -
Seeing all things in space : Kant and the reality of space in the context of early modern philosophy
Reports from the Department of Philosophy : 43 (Turun yliopisto, 25.01.2020)One of the basic concepts of the metaphysics of the pre-critical Kant is the early modern, Leibnizian concept of the world as a synthetic whole of simple substances. Space is the order according to which these simple ...