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409Leibniz's Passionate KnowledgeBlityri (1/2 2015): 75-85. 2016.In §18 of Principles of Nature and Grace, Based on Reason, Leibniz says: ”Thus our happiness will never consist, and must never consist, in complete joy, in which nothing is left to desire, and which would dull our mind, but must consist in a perpetual progress to new pleasures and new perfections.” This passage is typical in Leibniz’s Nachlass. Universal perfection creates in us joy or pleasure of the mind and its source is our creator, God. When this joy is constant, we reach happiness and wi…Read more
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18Filosofin kuolema (edited book)Summa. 2004.Tyynen rauhallisesti, traagisen ennenaikaisesti, koomisen kommelluksen seurauksena, arkipäiväisen banaalisti... Filosofin kuolema sisältää neljäkymmentä tarinaa siitä, miten filosofi kohtaa kuoleman. Mitä Pythagoras ajatteli kuolemanjälkeisestä elämästä? Mikä oli Sokrateen itsemurhan tausta? Entä miten esimerkiksi Platon, Pyrrhon, Aristoteles, Plotinos, Avicenna, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Kaila ja Foucault suhtautuivat kuolemaan ja miten he kuolivat? Hei…Read more
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46News from FinlandThe Leibniz Review 5 39-39. 1995.This is a short description of studies on Leibniz in Finland before 1995 with some explications on the topics discussed.
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38Jolley, Nicholas , Causality and Mind: Essays on Early Modern Philosophy . Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 35 (2): 97-99. 2015.Causality and Mind presents seventeen of Nicholas Jolley's essays on early modern philosophy, which focus on two main themes. One theme is the continuing debate over the nature of causality in the period from Descartes to Hume. Jolley shows that, despite his revolutionary stance, Descartes did no serious re-thinking about causality; it was left to his unorthodox disciple Malebranche to argue that there is no place for natural causality in the new mechanistic picture of the physical world. Severa…Read more
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264Syiden kisat Leibnizin mielenfilosofiassaIn Heta Gylling, Ilkka Niiniluoto & Risto Vilkko (eds.), Syy, Gaudeamus. 2007.G. W. Leibnizin mielenfilosofiassa ymmärrykselle on jatkuvasti läsnä erilaisia taipumuksia erilaisiin päämääriin. Nämä taipumukset tai syyt toimia jollakin tavoin saattavat perustua selviin ja tarkkoihin havaintoihin ja olla tiedostettuja ennakkotahtomuksia. Näiden lisäksi mielessämme on epälukuinen määrä epäselviin havaintoihin perustuvia tiedostamattomia ja hetkittäisiä passioita, oikkuja tai hurahduksia. Kun henkilö ryhtyy harkitsemaan toimintaansa, nämä erilaiset taipumukset ja ennakkotahtom…Read more
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699Leibniz, Bayle and the Controversy on Sudden ChangeIn Giovanni Scarafile & Leah Gruenpeter Gold (eds.), Paradoxes of Conflict, Springer. pp. 29-40. 2016.will give an overview of the fascinating communication between G. W. Leibniz and Pierre Bayle on pre-established harmony and sudden change in the soul which started from Bayle’s footnote H to the article “Rorarius” in his Dictionnaire historique et critique (1697) and ended in 1706 with Bayle’s death. I will compare the views presented in the communication to Leibniz’s reflections on the soul in his partly concurrent Nouveaux essais sur l’entendement humain (1704) and argue that many topics in t…Read more
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480The “Death” of Monads: G. W. Leibniz on Death and Anti-DeathIn Charles Tandy (ed.), Death and Anti Death, vol. 14: Four Decades after Michael Polanyi, Three Centuries after G. W. Leibniz, Ria University Press. pp. 243-266. 2016.According to Leibniz, there is no death in the sense that the human being or animal is destroyed completely. This is due to his metaphysical pluralism which would suffer if the number of substances decreased. While animals transform into other animals after “death”, human beings are rewarded or punished of their behavior in this life. This paper presents a comprehensive account of how Leibniz thought the “death” to take place and discusses his often unclear views on the life after death. I will …Read more
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1083Leibniz on Emotions and the Human BodyIn Breger Herbert, Herbst Jürgen & Erdner Sven (eds.), Natur und Subjekt (IX. Internationaler Leibniz-Kongress Vorträge), Leibniz Geschellschaft. 2011.Descartes argued that the passions of the soul were immediately felt in the body, as the animal spirits, affected by the movement of the pineal gland, spread through the body. In Leibniz the effect of emotions in the body is a different question as he did not allow the direct interaction between the mind and the body, although maintaining a psychophysical parallelism between them. -/- In general, he avoids discussing emotions in bodily terms, saying that general inclinations, passions, pleasures…Read more
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346Universaalineron palkinto: G. W. LeibnizIn Timo Kaitaro & Markku Roinila (eds.), Filosofin kuolema, Summa. 2004.Kertomus Leibnizin kuolemasta / An account of the death of Leibniz
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442Leibnizin rationaalisen päätöksenteon mallitAjatus 66 39-60. 2009.Artikkelissaan ”The Balance of Reason” Marcelo Dascal on osoittanut, että metafora syiden punnitsemisesta järjen vaa’assa on yleinen Leibnizin kirjoituksissa ja sitä on pidettävä hänen yleisenä järkeilyn metodinaan tilanteissa, joissa ei voida suorittaa täydellistä loogista analyysiä. Keskustelen tässä esitelmässä tuosta metaforasta ja ehdotan Jaakko Hintikan ja Simo Knuuttilan aiempien esityksien pohjalle rakentaen, että käsityksissään ihmisen praktisesta rationaalisuudesta Leibniz sovelsi myös…Read more
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480Hyisen pohjolan viettelys: Rene Descartes (1596-1650)In Timo Kaitaro & Markku Roinila (eds.), Filosofin kuolema, Summa. 2004.Kertomus René Descartesin kuolemasta / An account of the Death of René Descartes.
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1018Kant and Leibniz on the Singularity of the Best of All Possible WorldsIn Proceeding of the Xi. International Kant-Kongress, De Gruyter. pp. 381-390. 2013.In his early lecture note Versuch einiger Betrachtungen über den Optimismus (1759) a young supporter of metaphysical optimism called Immanuel Kant tested the Leibnizian optimism by posing some counter-arguments against it only to falsify them. His counter-arguments were very inventive and they feature often in modern scholarship on Leibniz. In this paper I will present Kant’s main arguments and evaluate them. I will argue that Kant’s understanding on Leibnizian optimism is little misguided and f…Read more
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340Social Media for a PhilosopherNew Apps Blog. 2011.In this brief review I discuss various social media used by philosophers, such as Academia.edu, PhilPapers, blogs and email-lists. Strenghts and weaknesses of different medias are evaluated.
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University of HelsinkiDepartment of Philosophy (Theoretical Philosophy, Practical Philosophy, Philosophy in Swedish)Post-doctoral fellow (Part-time)
University of Helsinki
Department of Philosophy (Theoretical Philosophy, Practical Philosophy, Philosophy in Swedish)
PhD, 2007
Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
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Epistemology |
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Philosophy of Action |
Philosophy of Mind |
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17th/18th Century Philosophy |
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