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35Sex, Breath, and Force: Sexual Difference in a Post-Feminist EraLexington Books. 2006.This collection of essays provides a reassessment of the question of sexual difference, taking into account important shifts in feminist thought, post-humanist theories, and queer studies. The contributors offer new and refreshing insights into the complex question of sexual difference from a post-feminist perspective, and how it is reformulated in various related areas of study, such as ontology, epistemology, metaphysics, biology, technology, and mass-media
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15Phenomenology and the Transcendental (edited book)Routledge. 2014.The aim of this volume is to offer an updated account of the transcendental character of phenomenology. The main question concerns the sense and relevance of transcendental philosophy today: What can such philosophy contribute to contemporary inquiries and debates after the many reasoned attacks against its idealistic, aprioristic, absolutist and universalistic tendencies—voiced most vigorously by late 20th century postmodern thinkers—as well as attacks against its apparently circular arguments …Read more
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127This collection represents the first historical survey focusing on the notion of consciousness. It approaches consciousness through its constitutive aspects, such as subjectivity, reflexivity, intentionality and selfhood. Covering discussions from ancient philosophy all the way to contemporary debates, the book enriches current systematic debates by uncovering historical roots of the notion of consciousness.
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58On the Complexity and Wholeness of Human Beings: Husserlian PerspectivesInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 25 (3): 393-406. 2017.At the beginning of Being and Time, Heidegger rejects Husserl’s classical phenomenology on three grounds: he claims that Husserlian phenomenology is impaired by indeterminate concepts, by naïve personalism, and by obscurities in its account of individuation. The paper studies the validity of this early critique by explicating Husserl’s discourse on human persons as bodily-spiritual beings and by clarifying his account of the principles by which such beings can be individuated. The paper offers t…Read more
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12Metaphysics, Facticity, Interpretation: Phenomenology in the Nordic Countries (edited book)Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2003.The past decade has witnessed a notable turn in philosophical orientation in the Nordic countries. For the first time, the North has a generation of philosophers who are oriented to phenomenology. This means a vital rediscovery of the phenomenological tradition as a partly hidden conceptual and methodological resource for taking on contemporary philosophical problems. The essays collected in the present volume introduce the reader to the phenomenological work done in the Nordic countries today. …Read more
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15Fifth Cartesian Meditation (§§ 42–54): Analysis of Otherness and EmbodimentIn Daniele De Santis (ed.), Edmund Husserl’s Cartesian Meditations: Commentary, Interpretations, Discussions, Verlag Karl Alber. pp. 141-168. 2023.
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7Hermeneutics and the Analytic–Continental DivideIn Niall Keane & Chris Lawn (eds.), A Companion to Hermeneutics, Wiley. 2015.Contemporary philosophy is often divided into two approaches or orientations: analytic philosophy and continental philosophy. The relation between these two philosophical approaches is often presented as oppositional and exclusionary. This chapter illuminates the distinction between analytic and continental philosophy and to clarify the position of hermeneutics within the field of philosophy. It argues that rather than being philosophical or empirical in nature, the analytic–continental distinct…Read more
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9Hermeneutics and Feminist PhilosophyIn Niall Keane & Chris Lawn (eds.), A Companion to Hermeneutics, Wiley. 2015.This chapter covers all the main topics of feminist philosophy, from knowledge and being to good life, justice, and power. The relation between hermeneutical and feminist investigations is constructive and deconstructive: on the one hand, feminist scholars have developed hermeneutical methods further and, on the other hand, they have questioned the very foundations of these methods. The first feminist hermeneuticians and historians of philosophy aimed primarily at reconsidering the works of cano…Read more
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4FeminismIn Hubert L. Dreyfus & Mark A. Wrathall (eds.), A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism, Blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains sections titled: Two Starting Points: The Living Body and the Sexual Person Sexual Difference: Phenomenological Analysis and Feminist Questions The Self and Its Other Sexual Hierarchy Later Developments.
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19Introduction: Phenomenological approaches to Tove Jansson’s fictionSATS 19 (1): 1-4. 2018.This article investigates the emotional undercurrents of Tove Jansson’s Moominvalley in November. I argue that one of the main characters of Jansson’s book is the autumn forest that surrounds the abandoned Moomin house. The decomposing forest is not just an emblem of the inner lives of the guests that gather in the house but is an active character itself: an ambiguous life form that creeps in the house and must be expelled from its living core. I further demonstrate that the emotion of disgust h…Read more
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28Vocational life: personal, communal and temporal structuresContinental Philosophy Review 56 (3): 461-481. 2023.This paper offers a new philosophical account of vocations as deeply personal but at the same time also communal and generational forms of multimodal intending. It provides a reconstruction and a systematic development of Edmund Husserl’s scattered discussions on vocations. On these grounds, the paper argues that vocational life is a general human possibility and not determined by any set of material values, religious, epistemic or moral. Rather, vocations are distinguished from other complexes …Read more
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13Simone de Beauvoir on Sexual DifferenceIn Sebastian Luft & Ruth Hagengruber (eds.), Women Phenomenologists on Social Ontology: We-Experiences, Communal Life, and Joint Action, Springer Verlag. pp. 217-229. 2018.In the introduction to The Second Sex, Simone [aut]de Beauvoir clarifies her philosophical approach to Embodiment and Sexual difference by writing: “However, it is said, in the perspective which I adopt—that [aut] Heidegger, Sartre and [aut] Merleau-Ponty—that if the body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp upon the world and an outline of our projects.”
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18Objectification, Inferiorization and Projection in Phenomenological Research on DehumanizationIn Maria Kronfeldner (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Dehumanization, Routledge. pp. 309-325. 2021.Sara Heinämaa and James Jardine demonstrate that both classical and existential phenomenology offer analytical concepts that are of crucial pertinence and value to contemporary dehumanization research. They begin by outlining an account of dehumanization that distinguishes this phenomenon both from the general operation of objectification and from the violation of autonomy. What is essential to dehumanizing acts and practices they argue, is not objectification or the violation of autonomy per se…Read more
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19Une approche phénoménologique du moi : temporalité, finitude et intersubjectivitéDiogène 270 (1): 81-94. 2021.La philosophie européenne est souvent critiquée comme une manière dépassée de penser et est taxée d’individualiste, d’anthropocentrique et d’euro-centrique. Plusieurs de ces approches critiques partagent la notion que la source majeure des problèmes gît dans la pensée cartésienne héritée de l’ego. Je confronte cette notion anti-cartésienne de la philosophie européenne en argumentant que la phénoménologie husserlienne offre une réinterprétation robuste et viable de l’ego cartésien, une réinterpré…Read more
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16Self: Temporality, Finitude and IntersubjectivityIn Anna Bortolan & Elisa Magrì (eds.), Empathy, Intersubjectivity, and the Social World: The Continued Relevance of Phenomenology. Essays in Honour of Dermot Moran, Degruyter. pp. 187-200. 2022.
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41On the transcendental undercurrents of phenomenology: the case of the living bodyContinental Philosophy Review 54 (2): 237-257. 2021.Today the phenomenological concept of the lived body figures centrally in several philosophical and special scientific debates. In these wide and widening fields, the concept is used with multiple different meanings. In order to clarify and delineate the debates, this paper provides an explication of the phenomenological-transcendental methods. It argues that these methods help us remove the most fundamental ambiguities of the concept of embodiment by distinguishing between the main constituents…Read more
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14Correction to: Values of love: two forms of infinity characteristic of human personsPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 19 (3): 451-452. 2020.The original version of this article unfortunately contains incorrect article title and incorrect data in the body text.
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40Simone de Beauvoiris Phenomenology of Sexual DifferenceHypatia 14 (4): 114-132. 1999.The paper argues that the philosophical starting point of Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex is the phenomenological understanding of the living body, developed by Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. It shows that Beauvoir's notion of philosophy stems from the phenomenological interpretation of Cartesianism which emphasizes the role of evidence, self-criticism, and dialogue.
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56Values of love: two forms of infinity characteristic of human personsPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 19 (3): 431-450. 2020.In his late reflections on values and forms of life from the 1920s and 1930s, Husserl develops the concept of personal value and argues that these values open two kinds of infinities in our lives. On the one hand personal values disclose infinite emotive depths in human individuals while on the other hand they connect human individuals in continuous and progressive chains of care. In order to get at the core of the concept, I will explicate Husserl’s discussion of personal values of love by dist…Read more
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36Ambiguity and difference: Two feminist ethics of the presentIn E. A. Parker & A. van Leeuwen (eds.), Differences: Rereading Beauvoir and Irigaray, Oxford University Press. pp. 137-176. 2018.The chapter studies the ethical dimensions of Beauvoir’s existentialism and Irigaray’s ontology of difference. It argues that Irigaray builds on one central but largely neglected result of Beauvoir’s moral philosophical argumentation: the claim that fundamentally sexual subordination constitutes an ethical problem that cannot be adequately solved merely through social reforms, political interventions, or theoretical reflections. By comparing Beauvoir’s concept of erotic generosity to Irigaray’s …Read more
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23Strange vegetation: Emotional undercurrents of Tove Jansson’s Moominvalley in NovemberSATS 19 (1): 41-67. 2018.This article investigates the emotional undercurrents of Tove Jansson’s Moominvalley in November. I argue that one of the main characters of Jansson’s book is the autumn forest that surrounds the abandoned Moomin house. The decomposing forest is not just an emblem of the inner lives of the guests that gather in the house but is an active character itself: an ambiguous life form that creeps in the house and must be expelled from its living core. I further demonstrate that the emotion of disgust h…Read more
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44Embodiment and feminist philosophyIn Ann Garry, Serene J. Khader & Alison Stone (eds.), Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy, Routledge. pp. 180-193. 2017.peerReviewed.
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1From Decisions to Passions: Merleau-Ponty's Interpretation of Husserl's ReductionIn Ted Toadvine & Lester Embree (eds.), Merleau-Ponty's Reading of Husserl, Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2002.
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184Merleau-ponty's modification of phenomenology: Cognition, passion and philosophySynthese 118 (1): 49-68. 1999.This paper problematizes the analogy that Hubert Dreyfus has presented between phenomenology and cognitive science. It argues that Dreyfus presents Merleau-Ponty''s modification of Husserl''s phenomenology in a misleading way. He ignores the idea of philosophy as a radical interrogation and self-responsibility that stems from Husserl''s work and recurs in Merleau-Ponty''s Phenomenology of Perception. The paper focuses on Merleau-Ponty''s understanding of the phenomenological reduction. It shows …Read more
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1927Transformations of Old Age: Selfhood, Normativity, and TimeIn Silvia Stoller (ed.), Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Age: Gender, Ethics, De Gruyter. pp. 167-87. 2014.
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11New Perspectives on Aristotelianism and its Critics (edited book)Brill. 2014.New Perspectives on Aristotelianism and Its Critics traces Aristotelian influences in modern and pre-modern discourses on knowledge, rights, and the good life. The contributions offer new insights on contemporary discussions on life in its cognitive, political, and ethical dimensions
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The Background of Simone de Beauvoir's Metaphysical Novel: Kierkegaard and HusserlActa Philosophica Fennica 79 175. 2006.
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27Review of Taylor Carman, Merleau-Ponty (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (10). 2010.
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University of HelsinkiDepartment of Philosophy (Theoretical Philosophy, Practical Philosophy, Philosophy in Swedish)Researcher
Helsinki, Finland