About me
I obtained my PhD from University of Jyväskylä in 2016, where I'm also an adjunct professor (title of docent). In 2017-19 I was a visiting scholar at UCLA's Philosophy Department. I worked as an Academy of Finland postdoctoral fellow here at Tampere University in 2020-2023. I have done shorter research visits to Stockholm University in spring 2015 and at the end of 2022 I was part of the Centre for Philosophy and the Sciences at the University of Oslo.
Research fields
- David Hume
- History and philosophy of science
- Philosophy of time
Funding
Selected publications
Books:
Relational Passage of Time. New York: Routledge.
Hume's Natural Philosophy and Philosophy of Physical Science. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
Journal articles:
"Mach's Denial of Absolute Time". History of Philosophy Quarterly 40 (1), 85-104.
"Eternalism and the Problem of Hyperplanes". Ratio 35 (2), 91-103.
"Kaila's Interpretation of Einstein-Minkowski Invariance Theory". Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 93 (3), 57-65.
"Hume's Thoroughly Relationist Ontology of Time". Metaphysica 22 (2), 173-88.
"Eternalism and Perspectival Realism about the 'Now'". Foundations of Physics 50 (11), 1398-1410.
"A Problem in Du Châtelet’s Metaphysical Foundations of Physics". History of Philosophy Quarterly 37 (1), 61-76.
"Universal Gravitation and the (Un)Intelligibility of Natural Philosophy". Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 101 (1), 129-57.
"Time as an Empirical Concept in Special Relativity". The Review of Metaphysics 73 (2), 335-53.
"Time Series and Nonreductive Physicalism". KronoScope: Journal for the Study of Time 19 (1), 25-38.
"Hume on the Laws of Dynamics: The Tacit Assumption of Mechanism". Hume Studies 42 (1-2), 113-36.
"Hume’s Fork and Mixed Mathematics". Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 99 (1), 102-19.
"Newtonian and non-Newtonian Elements in Hume". Journal of Scottish Philosophy 14 (3), 275-96.
"Empiricism and Relationism Intertwined: Hume and Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity". Theoria 31 (2), 247-63.
"Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation and Hume’s Concept of Causality". Philosophia Naturalis 50 (2), 277-305.
Chapters/Entries:
“Eternalism”. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy ISSN 2161-0002.
"Newton and Hume". Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences. Cham: Springer.
"Hume, The Philosophy of Science and the Scientific Tradition". The Humean Mind, 388-402. New York: Routledge.
Outreach:
"No Absolute Time". Aeon: https://aeon.co/essays/what-albert-einstein-owes-to-david-humes-notion-of-time.