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Curriculum Vitae

Tuomas E. Tahko, MA, PhD

CV in pdf format

Current Position

2011 – present: Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies (Theoretical Philosophy)
University of Helsinki, Finland.

Areas of Specialization

  • Metaphysics and Epistemology
  • Philosophical Methodology
  • Philosophical Logic

Areas of Competence

  • Philosophy of Science
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • History of Philosophy (Descartes to Kant)
  • Aristotle

Education

Fellowships

  • 09/2013 – 08/2018 Academy Research Fellowship (Academy of Finland) (425.005€).
    Project: Essential Knowledge: The Metaphysical Basis of Scientific Realism
  • 10/2013 – 08/2014: EURIAS (European Institutes for Advanced Study) Fellowship
    (Turned down in favour of Academy Research Fellowship.)
  • 01 – 06/2012: Visiting Scholar, Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.
    Sponsored by Professor L. A. Paul
  • 03 – 06/2011: Visiting Scholar, Department of Philosophy, New York University, USA.
    Sponsored by Professor Kit Fine
  • 01/2011 – 08/2013: Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (246.240€).
    Project: A Study of the Foundations of Metaphysics: The A Priori, Modality, and Essences
  • 11 – 12/2009: Visiting Scholar, eidos Centre in Metaphysics, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
  • 12/2008 – 12/2010: Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Durham University, UK.
  • 05/2007 – 05/2008: Postgraduate Teaching Fellow, Framwellgate School Durham, UK.

Awards and Grants

Journal Articles: Academic

  1. Tahko, T.E. (Forthcoming) Truth-Grounding and Transitivity, Thought.
  2. Tahko, T.E. (Forthcoming) Soames’s Deflationism About Modality, Erkenntnis. doi:10.1007/s10670-012-9428-x
  3. Tahko, T.E. (2012) Boundaries in Reality, Ratio, Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 405-424. Reprinted in David S. Oderberg (Ed.), Classifying Reality (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), pp. 41-60. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9329.2012.00554.x
  4. Tahko, T.E. (2012) Counterfactuals and Modal Epistemology, Grazer Philosophische Studien, Vol. 86, pp. 93-115.
  5. Tahko, T.E. (2011) A Priori and A Posteriori: A Bootstrapping Relationship, Metaphysica, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 151-164. doi:10.1007/s12133-011-0083-5
  6. Tahko, T.E. (2009) On the Modal Content of A Posteriori Necessities, Theoria: A Swedish Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 75, No. 2, pp. 344–357. doi:10.1111/j.1755-2567.2009.01048.x
  7. Tahko, T.E. (2009) The Law of Non-Contradiction as a Metaphysical Principle, The Australasian Journal of Logic, Vol. 7, pp. 32-47. URL: www.philosophy.unimelb.edu.au/ajl/2009/
  8. Tahko, T.E. (2009) Against the Vagueness Argument, Philosophia, Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 335-340. doi:10.1007/s11406-008-9172-2
  9. Tahko, T.E. (2008) A New Definition of A Priori Knowledge: In Search of a Modal Basis, Metaphysica, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 57-68. doi:10.1007/s12133-007-0022-7

Books: Edited

  1. Tahko, T.E. (Ed.) (2012) Contemporary Aristotelian Metaphysics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Books: Sections

  1. Tahko, T.E. (Forthcoming 2014) The Metaphysical Status of Logic, in Penelope Rush (Ed.), The Metaphysics of Logic: Logical Realism, Logical Anti-Realism and All Things In Between (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
  2. Tahko, T.E. (Forthcoming 2013) Metaphysics as the First Philosophy, in Edward Feser (Ed.), Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics, Philosophers in Depth series (New York: Palgrave Macmillan).
  3. Tahko, T.E. (2012) On the Common Sense Argument for Monism, in P. Goff (Ed.), Spinoza on Monism, Philosophers in Depth series (New York: Palgrave Macmillan) (with Donnchadh O’Conaill), pp. 149-166.
  4. Tahko, T.E. (2012) In Defence of Aristotelian Metaphysics, in Tahko, T.E. (Ed.), Contemporary Aristotelian Metaphysics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 26-43.
  5. Tahko, T.E. (2012) Introduction, in Tahko, T.E. (Ed.), Contemporary Aristotelian Metaphysics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 1-7.
  6. Tahko, T.E. (2010) Reefer Madness: Cannabis, the Individual, and Public Policy, in Dale Jacquette (Ed.), Cannabis: What Were We Just Talking About?, in the Philosophy for Everyone series (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell), pp. 149–161.

Conference Proceedings

  1. Tahko, T.E. (2008) The Metaphysical Status of Logic, Michal Peliš (Ed.) The Logica Yearbook 2007 (Prague: Filosofia), pp. 225-235.
  2. Tahko, T.E. (2008) The Aristotelian Method and Aristotelian Metaphysics, Patricia Hanna (Ed.), An Anthology of Philosophical Studies (Athens: ATINER), pp. 53-63.

Commentaries & Reviews

  1. Tahko, T.E. (Forthcoming) Review of Heil, John, The Universe As We Find It (Oxford University Press, 2012), Mind.
  2. Tahko, T.E. (2013) Review of Lowe, E. J., More Kinds of Being: A Further Study of Individuation, Identity, and the Logic of Sortal Terms (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), Mind. doi:10.1093/mind/fzt020
  3. Tahko, T.E. (2013) Review of Ehring, Douglas, Tropes: Properties, Objects and Mental Causation (Oxford University Press, 2011), The Philosophical Quarterly 63 (251): 379-382. doi:10.1111/1467-9213.2005
  4. Tahko, T.E. (2011) Commentary on Kathrin Koslicki’s The Structure of Objects, special issue on Composition, Counterfactuals and Causation, Humana.Mente Vol. 19, pp. 197-204.

Refereed Conference Presentations

2006
  1. ‘Metaphysics in Natural Science’, Metafisica 2006, Rome, Italy, July.
  2. ‘Metaphysics and the A Priori’, 9th Durham-Bergen Conference, Durham, UK, November.
2007
  1. ‘The Aristotelian Method and Aristotelian Metaphysics’, 2nd International Conference on Philosophy, University of Athens, Greece, June.
  2. ‘The Metaphysical Status of Logic’, LOGICA 2007, Hejnice Monastery, Czech Republic, June.
  3. ‘The Value of A Priori Knowledge’, The Value of Knowledge, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August.
  4. ‘When are Metaphysical Debates Substantial?’, Fifth Conference of The Spanish Society for Analytic Philosophy, University of Barcelona, Spain, September.
  5. ‘On the Semantics of Natural Kinds: In Defence of the Essentialist Line’, Nature and its Classification – A Metaphysics of Science Conference, Birmingham, UK, October.
  6. ‘A New Definition of A Priori Knowledge: In Search of a Modal Basis’, Graduate Conference on Knowledge and Understanding, Edinburgh, UK, November.
2008
  1. ‘When are Metaphysical Debates Substantial?’, Logos Conference on MetaMetaphysics, University of Barcelona, Spain, June.
  2. ‘Metaphysical vs. Conceptual Modality, or What Modality is Grounded in’, ECAP 6: Sixth European Congress of Analytic Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, August.
2009
  1. ‘The Metaphysical Basis of Semantics’, Recent Trends in Philosophy of Language and General Analytic Philosophy, Tilburg University, The Netherlands, January.
  2. ‘The A Priori and Scientific Knowledge’, British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Conference, University of East Anglia, UK, July.
  3. ‘Two-Dimensional Modal Semantics, Conceivability, and Modal Epistemology’, Société de Philosophie Analytique (SOPHA) Conference,
    Université de Genève, Switzerland, September.
  4. ‘Natural Boundaries and Metaphysical Realism’, Metaphysics of Science Conference, Nottingham, UK, September.
  5. ‘Metaphysics Is Not About Existence Questions’, The fourth meeting of the Portuguese Society for Analytic Philosophy (ENFA 4), University of Évora, Portugal, September.
  6. Principal organiser of a symposium entitled The Structure of Scientific Knowledge (with contributions from myself, Alexander Bird, Robin Hendry and Paul Winstanley), European Philosophy of Science Association Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October.
2010
  1. ‘The Metaphysical Status of Modal Statements’, Meaning, Modality and Apriority – Research Workshop with Scott Soames (one of four critical comments), Emmy Noether Group, University of Cologne, Germany, May.
  2. ‘What Is Aristotelian Metaphysics?’, Metaphysics: Aristotelian, Scholastic, Analytic, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, July.
  3. ‘In Search of a Fundamental Level’, Structure and Identity, University of Bristol, UK, July.
2011
  1. ‘Naturalizing Aprioristic Metaphysics’, Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science, University of Toronto, Canada, May.
  2. ‘Grounding Modality’, ECAP 7: Seventh European Conference of Analytic Philosophy, University of Milan, Italy, September.
2012
  1. ‘Why Quantifiers Cannot Carve at the Joints’, The North Carolina Philosophical Society Meeting with the South Carolina Society for Philosophy, Elon University, USA, February.
2013
  1. ‘Truth-grounding and Transitivity’, Northern Institute of Philosophy Early Career Conference, University of Aberdeen, June.

Invited Presentations and Seminar Talks

2007
  1. ‘On the Metaphysics of Modality’, Eidos – Postgraduate Philosophy Society, Durham University, UK, April.
  2. ‘Truthmaking and Realism’, Eidos – Postgraduate Philosophy Society, Durham University, UK, November.
  3. ‘The Necessity of Metaphysics’, Departmental Research Seminar, University of Helsinki, Finland, December.
2008
  1. ‘The Necessity of Metaphysics’, Eidos – Postgraduate Philosophy Society, Durham University, UK, February.
  2. ‘The Necessity of Metaphysics’, Seminar on The Possibility of Metaphysics in Twentieth Century and Contemporary Philosophy, University of Tampere, Finland, April.
  3. ‘The Necessity of Metaphysics’, Departmental Research Seminar, Durham University, UK, May.
  4. ‘Against Conventionalism: Boundaries and Realism’, Eidos – Postgraduate Philosophy Society, Durham University, UK, October.
2009
  1. ‘A Priori and A Posteriori: A Bootstrapping Relationship’, Eidos – Postgraduate Philosophy Society, Durham University, UK, February.
  2. ‘Metaphysics Is Not About Existence Questions’, Eidos – Postgraduate Philosophy Society, Durham University, UK, May.
  3. ‘On the Epistemic Status of Euclidean Geometry’, Eidos – Postgraduate Philosophy Society, Durham University, UK, October.
2010
  1. Comment on Magdalena Balcerak Jackson’s paper, ‘Intuitions as Inferential Judgments’, Workshop on the A Priori, Emmy Noether Group, University of Cologne, Germany, May.
2011
  1. ‘Essence and Modality Reconsidered’, Metaphysics Bootcamp, New York University, USA, April.
  2. ‘The Epistemology of Essence’, Brown Bag Lunch, New York University, USA, May.
  3. ‘The Modal Basis of Humean Supervenience’, Hume’s Metaphysics and Humean Metaphysics, University of Tampere, Finland, June.
  4. ‘Quantification and Ontological Realism’ (in Finnish), Workshop on Metametaphysics, University of Tampere, Finland, December.
2012
  1. ‘On the Very Idea of Substance Causation’, Indeterminism Ltd Kickoff Workshop, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, January.
  2. ‘The Epistemology of Essence’, Departmental Seminar, UNC Chapel Hill, USA, February.
  3. ‘The Epistemology of Essence’, Departmental Colloquim, UNC Greensboro, USA, March.
  4. ‘The Epistemology of Essence’, Brown Bag Lunch, Kripke Center, CUNY Graduate Center, USA, March.
  5. (Neo-)Aristotelian Essentialism’, Work-in-Progress Seminar, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA, April.
  6. ‘Quantification and Ontological Realism’, Departmental Colloquim, Duke University, USA, April.
  7. Comments on Meghan Sullivan’s paper, ‘An A-Theory Without Tense Operators’, Carolina Metaphysics Workshop, Duck, NC, USA, June.
  8. ‘Natural Kind Essentialism Revisited’, Departmental Research Seminar, University of Helsinki, Finland, November.
2013
  1. ‘Grounding Modality in Essence’, Workshop on Aristotelian Themes in Dependence, Modality, and Essence, University of Helsinki, Finland, January. (Jointly organized with Mika Perälä.)
  2. ‘The Metaphysical Interpretation of Logical Truth’, Departmental Seminar, University of Tampere, Finland, February.
  3. ‘What Is Realism About Natural Kinds?’, Metaphysical Issues in Natural Kinds, Durham University, UK, May.
  4. ‘The Metaphysical Interpretation of Logical Truth’, First Tartu-Helsinki Workshop, University of Tartu, Estonia, June.
  5. Comments on Francesco Berto’s paper ‘Meinongian Quanti cation and Existence’, Tübingen Metaphysics Workshop: Existence, Truth and Fundamentality, University of Tübingen, Germany, July.

Teaching & Supervision

Qualifications

  • 2007
    Postgraduate Teaching Fellowship Scheme (Durham)
  • 2006
    Postgraduate Teaching Certi cate (Durham)

Supervision

  • 2008 – 10
    Hashem Morvarid, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, Iran:
    PhD thesis on the Metaphysics of Modality (in progress)
  • 2011 – 13
    Multiple undergraduate projects in Metaphysics and Metaontology (Helsinki):
    Fundamentality
    Counterfactuals
    Ontological Dependence

Courses Taught

2006 – 07
  • Knowledge & Reality (Durham)
2007 – 08
  • Critical Thinking (Framwellgate School Durham)
  • Introduction to Philosophy (Framwellgate School Durham)
  • Philosophy of Mind (Durham)
2008 – 09
  • Knowledge & Reality (Durham)
  • Philosophical Logic (Durham)
  • Philosophy of Mind (Durham)
2009 – 10
  • Knowledge & Reality (Durham)
  • Varieties of Modality, Problèmes de Métaphysique seminar (Geneva) (Graduate level)
2011 – 12
  • Metametaphysics (Helsinki) (Graduate level)
2012 – 13
  • Essence, Modality, Reality (Helsinki) (Graduate level)
2013 – 14
  • Introduction to Formal Logic (Helsinki)

Professional Activities

Languages

  • Finnish: Native speaker
  • English: Fluent
  • Swedish: Satisfactory
  • French: Basics
  • Latin: Reading

Computer Skills

  • OS: Competent in PC environment, familiar with Mac/UNIX/Linux environments.
  • Programming: dBase, Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, LaTeX.
  • Office: Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office and OpenOffice packages.
  • Design: Experience in web and graphics design (e.g. Adobe Design CS5).

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