Raimo Heikki Tuomela (9 October 1940 in

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– 22 November 2020 in Helsinki) was a

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philosopher.

Career

Tuomela received his first degree of

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in 1968 from the

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and the second one in 1969 from Stanford University. Tuomela was full

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of philosophy (especially methodology and philosophy of the

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) at the Department of Philosophy,

in 1971–2008. Having earlier worked and published in many fields of philosophy, especially

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and

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, the theory of

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has been his main research interest. Tuomela has received several grants and awards, including the

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Research Award (''Forschungspreis''), awarded in recognition of achievements in research, and the honour prize of

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. During the five-year period 1995–2000, Tuomela was Academy Professor at the Academy of Finland. This research professorship also included a research group working within the general field of the philosophy of social action. __NOTOC__

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 with

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). 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''.

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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. *''Social Ontology: Collective Intentionality and Group Agents'', 2013, New York: Oxford University Press.

Books in Finnish

*''Tiede, toiminta ja todellisuus. Tieteellisen maailmankäsityksen filosofiset perusteet'', Gaudeamus, Jyväskylä, 1983.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tuomela, Raimo Analytic philosophers Atheist philosophers Finnish philosophers Philosophers of science Finnish skeptics Academic personnel of the University of Helsinki 1940 births 2020 deaths