I am Senior Lecturer at Tampere University, Finland. I work both on metaphysics (tropes, universals, relations), metametaphysics (subject matter of metaphysics, ontological categories, ontological forms and fundamentality) and early modern philosophy (Du Châtelet, Hume, Wolff). My metaphysical view is trope theory. In metametaphysics, I have formulated an account of metaphysics following the formal ontological tradition stemming from Husserl via Peter Simons, Barry Smith and E.J. Lowe. Regarding Hume, I have defended a sceptical interpretation of his attitude to the external world. Recently, I have been working on Hume's metaphysics of proper…

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