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Place of Birth: Vaasa, Finland
About Timo Airaksinen
- Timo Airaksinen (born 25 April 1947 in Vaasa, Finland) is Professor of Moral Philosophy in the Discipline of Social and Moral Philosophy at Helsinki University.
- By longstanding tradition in the University of Helsinki, the philosophy faculty is divided into two major areas, the practical and the theoretical.
- He graduated from the University of Turku in 1971 and defended his doctoral dissertation The Hegelianism of Bradley and McTaggart in 1975.
- He specializes in ethics and social philosophy, ethics of technology, the history of philosophy, and education.
- He has written on a wide range of topics dealing with these issues, from the thinking of Hobbes to Marquis de Sade.
- Airaksinen also regularly contributes to public debate in Finland and has had a column in the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat.Timo Airaksinen is a member of the editorial boards of the leading Finnish philosophical journal Acta Philosophica Fennica and of the yearbook Berkeley Studies.
- Also he was the vice-president of the International Berkeley Society.
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