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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Tämän väitöstutkimuksen aiheena on Platonin idea-ajatus ja sen edellytykset vastata todellisuutta. Toisin sanoen tutkimukseni valottaa aineellisen todellisuuden ulkopuolella olevan normatiivisen ja abstraktin todellisuuden ...

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 ...

Questions concerning perception are as old as the field of philosophy itself. Using the first-person perspective as a starting point and philosophical documents, the study examines the relationship between knowledge ...

Tämän kirjan kirjoitukset on omistettu professori Olli Koistiselle hänen 60-vuotissyntymäpäivänään 11.5.2016. Kirjoittajat ovat professori Koistisen kollegoita, työtovereita, väitöskirjaohjattavia ...