Tuukka Kaidesoja

Tuukka Kaidesoja is a University Lecturer (sociology) at the University of Eastern Finland. Kaidesoja is also a member of the Centre for Philosophy of Social Science (TINT) at the University of Helsinki and holds a Title of Docent in sociology at the University of Turku. He has previously worked as a University Researcher at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies and as a University Researcher and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences in Helsinki. In 2015-2016, Kaidesoja also worked as a University Lecturer in sociology at the University of Turku (a fixed-term contract for two years). Kaidesoja is the author of Naturalizing Critical Realist Social Ontology (Routlegde) and a co-editor of two volumes in Finnish, Ihmismielen sosiaalisuus (Sociality of Human Mind) and Syistä selityksiin: Kausaalisuus ja selittäminen yhteiskuntatieteissä (From Causes to Explanations: Causation and Explanation in the Social Sciences), both published by Gaudeamus (University of Helsinki Press). His work has been published in many international journals, including The British Journal of Sociology, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, Higher Education Policy, and Social Science Information. Kaidesoja’s research interests range from sociological theory and science policy to methodological and philosophical issues concerning the social sciences and the relations between the social and cognitive sciences.