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Raul Hakli
raul.hakli@helsinki.fi
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Topics of interest: collective intentionality, collective epistemology, social ontology.

Säde Hormio
sade.hormio@helsinki.fi
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Topics of interest: collective responsibility, collective agency, marginal participation, complicity, climate ethics, agnotology.

Tuukka Kaidesoja
tuukka.kaidesoja@helsinki.fi
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Topics of interest: philosophy of the social sciences, mechanism-based explanations in sociology, social ontology, relationship between the cognitive and social sciences.

Tomi Kokkonen
tomi.kokkonen@helsinki.fi

Areas of specialization: philosophy of science (biology, psychology, and foundational issues in social sciences and humanities) and philosophy of mind.

Topics of interest: biological approaches to human mind, behavior and culture; explanation and evidence across disciplinary borders; altruism; evolution of social behavior; evolution of morality; innateness; human nature.

Inkeri Koskinen
inkeri.koskinen@helsinki.fi

Topics of interest: objectivity, values in science, social epistemology, philosophy of the humanities, participatory and collaborative research, citizen science, transdisciplinarity, demarcation.

Jaakko Kuorikoski
jaakko.kuorikoski@helsinki.fi
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Topics of interest: Explanation; Causality; Mechanisms; Statistical causal modelling; Rational choice theory; Simulation.

Pekka Mäkelä
pekka.a.makela@helsinki.fi

Topics of interest: Social action; Social ontology; Moral aspects of social action; Philosophy of the social sciences.

Uskali Mäki
uskali.maki@helsinki.fi
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Topics of interest: Explanatory unification within and across disciplinary boundaries; Modes of interaction between economics and its neighbours; Explanatory pluralism; Economic models and their truth; Economic philosophy of science; Local scientific realism.

Magdalena Małecka
magdalena.malecka@helsinki.fi

I work at the intersection of modern and contemporary philosophy, philosophy of science, legal theory, and the social and behavioural sciences.

Current research interest:
applications of economics to law (especially their methodological and philosophical implications); approaches to law and policy based on findings in behavioural sciences (analysis and critique); representations of nature in the legal and political realm (historical and philosophical analysis)

Caterina Marchionni
caterina.marchionni@helsinki.fi
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Areas of specialization: philosophy of economics, philosophy of the social sciences.

Topics of interest: modeling, simulation, scientific explanation, unification, interdisciplinary relations.

Luis Mireles Flores
luis.mireles-flores@helsinki.fi

Areas of specialisation: philosophy of the social sciences, epistemology and methodology of economics, history of economic analysis.

Topics of interest: causal inference, evidence, causal generalisations, practical relevance of science, positive and normative economics in relation to policy-making, the methodology of applied macroeconomics, uses and misuses of econometric methods as sources of evidence, scientific perspectivism, classical political economy, inferential reconstruction of economic theories.

JANI RAERINNE
JANI.RAERINNE@HELSINKI.fI

Areas of Specialization: Philosophy of biology.

Michiru Nagatsu
m.nagatsu@gmail.com
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Areas of Specialization: Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of Social Science; Philosophy of Economics.

Topics of interest: Experimental Philosophy of Science; Metaphysics and Methodology of Behavioural Economics, Experimental Economics and Neuroeconomics; Foundations of Human (Ir)rationality and Sociality.

Samuli Reijula
samuli.reijula@helsinki.fi
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@samulireijula@fediscience.org , @samulireijula.bsky.social , @samulipo

Topics of interest: cognitive diversity; scientific problem solving; evidence-based policy; cognitive modeling; AI; agent-based models; classification, concept formation & kinds.

Matti Sarkia
matti.sarkia@helsinki.fi

Topics of interest: social ontology, scientific modeling, mechanistic explanation, interdisciplinarity.

Ilmari Hirvonen
ilmari.hirvonen@helsinki.fi

Areas of specialization: philosophy of science, philosophy of language, linguistics (psycholinguistics, morphology)

Topic of interest: philosophy of pseudoscience

lari hokkanen
lari.hokkanen@helsinki.fi

Topics of interest: philosophy of science, cognitive social sciences, social policy.

Mikko Hyyryläinen
mikko.e.hyyrylainen@helsinki.fi

Topics of interest: cognitive social sciences, field theory, sociology of scientific knowledge.

Tero Ijäs
tero.ijas@helsinki.fi

Topics of interest: philosophy of biology and biomedical sciences, design and engineering, biotechnology, systems and synthetic biology.

Teemu Lari
teemu.lari@helsinki.fi
Twitter @teemulari

Topics of interest: philosophy of economics, pluralism in economics, relationship between science and politics, social epistemology, science and values.

Tatu nuotIo
tatu.nuotio@helsinki.fi

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Anita Välikangas
anita.valikangas@helsinki.fi

Areas of specialization: philosophy of social sciences, science and technology studies, social epistemology.

Topics of interest: science/society relationship, grand challenges, responsible research and innovation (RRI), history of economic ideas, academic knowledge production, interdisciplinarity.