- Raimo Tuomela
Raimo Tuomela (born
October 9 ,1940 inHelsinki ,Finland ) is a Finnishphilosopher . Tuomela received his first degree ofdoctor of philosophy in1968 from theUniversity of Helsinki ) and the second one in1969 fromStanford University . Tuomela has been fullprofessor ofphilosophy (especially methodology and philosophy of thesocial sciences ) at the Department of Philosophy,University of Helsinki since1971 .Having earlier worked and published in many fields of philosophy, especially
philosophy of science andphilosophy of action , the theory ofsocial action has been his main research interest.Tuomela has received several grants and awards, including the
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award ("Forschungspreis"), awarded in recognition of achievements in research.During the five-year period
1995 –2000 , Tuomela was Academy Professor at theAcademy of Finland . This research professorship also included a research group working within the general field of the philosophy of social action.Books in English
*"Theoretical Concepts". Library of Exact Philosophy 10, Springer-Verlag, Wien and New York, 1973, 254 pp.
*"Theoretical Concepts and Hypothetico-Inductive Inference" (together withIlkka Niiniluoto ). Synthese Library, D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht and Boston, 1973, 262 pp.
*"Human Action and Its Explanation: A Study on the Philosophical Foundations of Psychology". Synthese Library, D. Reidel Publishing Co., Dordrecht and Boston, 1977, 426 pp.
*"A Theory of Social Action". D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Boston, and Lancaster, 1984, 534 pp.
*"Science, Action, and Reality". D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Boston, and Lancaster, 1985, 274 pp.
*"The Importance of Us: A Philosophical Study of Basic Social Notions". Stanford Series in Philosophy, Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 1995, 470 pp.
*"Cooperation: A Philosophical Study", Philosophical Studies Series, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000, 431 pp.
*"The Philosophy of Social Practices: A Collective Acceptance View", Cambridge University Press, 2002, 274 pp.
*"The Philosophy of Sociality", Oxford University Press, 2007, 318 pp.Books in Finnish
*"Tiede, toiminta ja todellisuus. Tieteellisen maailmankäsityksen filosofiset perusteet", Gaudeamus, Jyväskylä, 1983.
External links
* [http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/staff/tuomela/ Homepage of Raimo Tuomela]
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