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On the ethical desirability of considerable life extension
(Turun yliopisto, 2019-11-15)
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 ...
Addiction in Action
(Turun yliopisto, 2015-12-03)
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 ...
Animal Experience in Kant’s Philosophy
(Turun yliopisto, 2016-04-23)
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 ...
An Access theory of self-control: Essays on self-control, ADHD, and stimulant medication
(Turun yliopisto, 2021-11-19)
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, ...
Platonin ideat – todellisuus informaationa
(Turun yliopisto, 2020-02-29)
Tämän väitöstutkimuksen aiheena on Platonin idea-ajatus ja sen edellytykset vastata todellisuutta. Toisin sanoen tutkimukseni valottaa aineellisen todellisuuden ulkopuolella olevan normatiivisen ja abstraktin todellisuuden ...
Climate Change and Ethics of Geoengineering -- Implications Of Climate Emergency Ethics
(Turun yliopisto, 2015-11-06)
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 ...
Essays on Business and Leadership Ethics
(Turun yliopisto, 2012-06-20)
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.
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Kant’s transcendental Deductions : A New Elucidation
(Turun yliopisto, 2017-10-21)
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 ...
Cementing science : understanding science through its development
(Turun yliopisto, 2019-06-10)
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 ...