Jussi Suikkanen

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  -  Lecturer in philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, September 2010...
  -  Temporary lecturer in philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Reading, Reading, UK, September 2009–August 2010.
  -  Temporary lecturer in philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, September 2008–August 2009.

AOS:
  -  Ethics, especially metaethics and ethical theories.

AOC:
  -  Political philosophy, free will, realism debates, philosophy of language, applied ethics, Early modern philosophy.

Education:
  -  PhD in Philosophy, University of Reading, 2004–2008. 
Dissertation: Contractualist Principles and Wrongness. Supervisors: Brad Hooker and Philip Stratton-Lake, Examiners: Jonathan Dancy and James Lenman (Univ. of Sheffield). 
  -  Visiting scholar, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Aug. 2006–May 2007.
  -  Doctor of Social Sciences in Philosophy, University of Helsinki, 2001–2007.
Dissertation: Ethics of Justification – A Defence of Contractualism. Supervisor: Timo Airaksinen. Opponent: Geoffrey Sayre-McCord (UNC, Chapel Hill). 
  -  Master of Social Sciences, Major: Philosophy, University of Helsinki, 1995–2001.

Publications:
A) Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals: 
  -  "An Improved Whole Life Satisfaction Theory of Happiness".
International Journal of Wellbeing 1, 2011, pp. 149-166.
Essays in Philosophy 12, 2011, pp. 32-54, special issue on love and reasons ed. by Constantine Sandis.
  -  “Non-Naturalism: the Jackson Challenge”. 
Oxford Studies in Metaethics 5, 2010, pp. 87-110.
  -  “The Subjectivist Consequences of Expressivism”. 
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 90 (3), 2009, pp. 364-387. 
  -  “Buck-Passing Accounts of Value”. 
Philosophy Compass 4 (5), 2009, pp. 768-779. 
  -  “A Dilemma for Rule-Consequentialism”.
Philosophia 36 (1), 2008, pp. 141–150.
  -  “The Argument from Intransigence for Non-Cognitivism”.
Philosophical Writings 35 (summer), 2007, pp. 39–51.
  -  “Reasons and Value – A Defence of the Buck-Passing Account”.
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 7 (5), 2005, pp. 513–535.
  -  “Contractualist Replies to the Redundancy Objections”.
Theoria 71 (1), 2005, pp. 38–58.
  -  “What We Owe to Many”.
Social Theory and Practice 30 (4), 2004, pp. 485–506.
  -  “Contractualist Account of Reasons for Being Moral Defended”.
Sats – Nordic Journal of Philosophy 6 (2), 2005, pp. 93–113.

B) Critical Notices and Book Reviews:
  -  "On Scanlon's Moral Dimensions". Forthcoming in Jurisprudence.
  -  “Consequentialism, Constraints, and the Good-Relative-to: A Reply to Mark Schroeder”.
            Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy, www.jesp.org, 2009 (March).
  -  “Normativity of Reasons – A Critical Notice of Joshua Gert’s Brute Rationality”.
            International Journal of Philosophical Studies 12 (4), 2004, pp. 478–491.
  -  "Review of Caspar Hare's On Myself and Alison Hills' The Beloved Self"
            Forthcoming in Times Literary Supplement.
            Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, January 2011.
  -  "Review of Alan Goldman's Reasons from Within".
            Times Literary Supplement, 23 July, 2010, p. 12.
  -  “Review of Anita Superson’s The Moral Sceptic”.
            Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, July 2009.
  -  “Review of Roger Crisp’s Reasons and the Good”.
            The Philosophical Quarterly 57 (July, vol. 228), 2007, pp. 503–505.
  -  “Review of Nomy Arpaly’s Unprincipled Virtue”.
            Ratio 19 (2), 2006, pp. 261–265.
  -  “Review of T.M. Scanlon’s What We Owe to Each Other”.
            Utilitas 19 (4), 2007, 524–526.

C) Articles in Edited Collections:
  -  "Practical Reason.
Forthcoming in Oxford Bibliographies Online.
  -  “Introduction”. 
In J. Suikkanen & J. Cottingham (eds.): Essays on Derek Parfit’s On What Matters (Blackwell, 2009), pp. 1–20.
  -  “The Open Question Argument” and “The Naturalistic Fallacy”.
Forthcoming in H. LaFollette (ed.): The International Encyclopedia of Ethics (Routledge).
  -  “Contractualism”, co-authored with Matthew S. Liao.
Forthcoming in S. Caney (ed.): Encyclopedia of Political Theory (SAGE).

D) Some papers published in Finland:
  -  “Ongelma toiminnan syiden ymmärtämiselle suosimissuhteiden avulla”
        [”A Problem for Understanding Practical Reasons in Terms of Favouring-Relations”].
In Gylling, H., Niiniluoto, I., and Vilkko, R. (eds.): Syy [Cause/Reason] (Yliopistopaino, Helsinki, 2006), pp. 261–270.
  -  “The Inadequacy of the Communitarian Account of Practical Agency”.
In Ikäheimo, Kotkavirta, Laitinen & Lyyra (eds.): Personhood. (University of Jyväskylä, Publications in Philosophy 68, Jyväskylä, 2004), pp. 220–227. 
  -  “Voidaanko arvot sittenkin johtaa tosiasioista?”
        [“Can Values Be Derived from the Facts After All?”], co-authored with Antti Kauppinen.
In Salmela, M. & Lemetti, J. (eds.): Perversio, Moraali ja Ironia [Perversion, Irony, and Morality]. (Philosophical Studies from the University of Helsinki 7, 2005), pp. 51–64. 
  -  “Parfit ja persoonan muuttuva identiteetti”
        [“Parfit and Change in Personal Identity”], co-authored with Timo Airaksinen.
In Kotkavirta & Niemi (eds.) 2004: Persoona [Person] (Minerva, Jyväskylä, Finland, 2004), pp. 245–254.

E) Book:
   -   Essays on Derek Parfit’s On What Matters, co-edited with John Cottingham, Blackwell, 2009.

Grants and Awards:
  -  Faculty studentship, University of Reading, 2004–2008.
  -  Fees-only award, Arts and Humanities Research Board, 2004–2008.
  -  Dissertation-grant, Finnish Cultural Foundation, Jan.–Dec. 2004.
  -  Dissertation-grant, Finnish Cultural Foundation, Jan.–Dec. 2003.
  -  Junior research fellow, Department of social and moral philosophy, University of Helsinki, 2003–2005. Research project “Practical Reason and Moral Motivation” funded by the Academy of Finland.

Teaching Experience:
University of Birmingham
  -  Independent Studies I, Spring 2011
  -  Contemporary Political Philosophy, Spring 2011
  -  Philosophical Texts, with Joss Walker, Fall 2010
  -  Global Ethics I, with Tom Sorell, Fall 2010
  -  Philosophical Research, Fall 2010 and Spring 2011

University of Reading:
  -  Early Modern Philosophy 1 (Locke and Berkeley), with Ian Folland, Fall 2009.
  -  The Subject of Experience: Persons, Selves, and Self-Awareness, Fall 2009.
  -  Contemporary political philosophy, teaching assistant for Bart Streumer, Fall 2007.
  -  Moral philosophy, teaching assistant for Brad Hooker, Fall 2007. 
  -  Mind and World (A course on Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy), teaching assistant for David Oderberg. (Spring 2006 (two weekly seminars), and Spring 2005 (two weekly seminars)). 
  -  Values and Virtues, teaching assistant for Jonathan Dancy (Fall 2005, three weekly seminars), and for Brad Hooker (Fall 2004, two weekly seminars). 

University of Leeds:
  -  Ethics, Sex, and Love, lecture course (and tutorials), Spring 2009.
  -  Media Ethics, lecture course (and tutorials), Spring 2009.
  -  Continental philosophy, lecture course (and tutorials), Fall 2008.

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill:
  -  Introduction to ethics, teaching assistant for Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, two weekly recitations, Spring 2007.
  -  Bioethics, teaching assistant for Terry Price, two weekly recitations, Fall 2006.

University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland:
  -  Introduction to Philosophy, lecture course, Fall 2005.
  -  Introduction to Political Philosophy, lecture course, Spring 2004.

University of Helsinki:
  -  Ethics, weekly small-group tutorials, Fall 2003 and Fall 2002.

Research Presentations:
A) Conferences (peer-reviewed):
  -  “In Defence of Wide-Scope Reasons”. Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and Mind Association, Open Session, University College, Dublin, Ireland, 9.–11. 7. 2010.
  -  “Saving the Moral Fiction: the Content Challenge”. Fictionalism Conference, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, 15.–17. 9. 2009.
  -  “Act-Consequentialism and Options”. Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA, 6.–9. 8. 2009.
  -  “Realism, Pluralism about Truth, and Discourses”. Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, Open Session, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, 10.–12. 7. 2009. 
  -  “Could We Pass the Buck with Thick Properties?”. Thick Properties Conference, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, 3.–5. 7. 2009.
  -  “Non-Naturalism: the Jackson Challenge”. Fifth Annual Metaethics Workshop, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, 12.–14. 9. 2008. 
  -  “Expressivism is Subjectivist After All”. Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, Open session, University of Aberdeen, 11.–13. 7. 2008; American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting, Pasadena, California, USA, 18.–23. 3. 2008.
  -  “Consequentialism and the Good-Relative-to”. British Postgraduate Philosophy Association Conference, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, 27.–29. 6. 2008; Open Minds, University of Manchester graduate conference, Manchester, UK, 9.–10. 6. 2008. 
  -  “Moral Worth Externalism”. Ohio State University ethics graduate conference, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA, 2.–3. 5. 2008.
  -  “Revising the Buck-Passing Account of Value”. Syracuse University graduate philosophy conference, Syracuse, New York, USA, 4.–5. 4. 2008.
  -  “A Dilemma for Rule-Consequentialism”. Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, Open session, University of Bristol, UK, 6.–8. 7. 2007.
  -  “The Argument from Intransigence for Non-Cognitivism”. Joint session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, Open session, University of Southampton, UK, 7.–9. 7. 2006. 
  -  “The Deceitful Partner Case and Instrumentally Rational Emotions”. International ‘Emotions, Others, and Selves’ Conference, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland, 25.–27. 8. 2005. 
  -  “Is the Ideal Code Self-Undermining?”. International Society of Utilitarian Studies conference, Dartmouth, NH, USA, 11.–14. 8. 2005.
  -  “The Inadequacy of the Communitarian Account of Practical Agency”. International ‘Dimensions of Personhood’ Conference, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, 13.–15. 8. 2004. 
  -  “Reasons and Value – A Common Ground?”. Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, Open session, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, 9.–11. 7. 2004.
  -  “Hume’s Theory of Motivation and the Principles of Causal Reasoning”. The Annual Conference of the International Hume Society, UNLV, Las Vegas, USA, 29. 7.–2. 8. 2003.

B) Invited Presentations:
  -  “Comments on Seal Walsh’s ‘Indeterminacy of Compatibilist Counterfactuals of Consequentialist Theories of Right’”. Symposium on Metaethics, APA Pacific Division Meeting, San Diego, USA, 20. 4. 2011.
  -  “Counter-Examples to Buck-Passing, Again”. Workshop on Practical Reasoning, Scottish Network for Normative Philosophy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, 28.–29. 6. 2009. 
  -  “Restricted Constructivism”. Workshop on Constructivism and Practical Reason, Philosophy department, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, 20. 6. 2009.
  -  “Non-Naturalism: The Jackson Challenge”. Senior Seminar, Philosophy department, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, 19. 2. 2009.
  -  “Revising the Buck-Passing Account of Value”. Workshop on reasons and value, Centre for Ethics and Metaethics, Philosophy department, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, 17. 5. 2008. 
  -  “Minimalist Contractualism”. Monday moral philosophy seminar, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 28. 5. 2007.
  -  “A Comment on Joshua Gert’s ‘Harm and Irrationality’”. On-Line Philosophy Conference (OPC) at
        http://experimentalphilosophy.typepad.com/online_philosophy_confere/, 14. 5. 2006.

C) Other Presentations:
  -  “A New Whole Life Satisfaction Theory of Happiness”. Staff seminar, Philosophy department, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, 11.10.2010.
  -  “Consequentialism and Moral Constraints”. Philosophy department, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK, 22.5. 2009; School of English, Communication, and Philosophy, Cardiff University, Cardiff 21. 7. 2009. 
  -  “Realism, Pluralism about Truth, and Discourses”. Work in Progress Seminar, Philosophy department, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, 29. 1. 2009. 
  -  “Realism about Reasons”. School of English, Communication, and Philosophy, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK, 13. 5. 2008.
  -  “A Dilemma for Rule-Consequentialism”. Work in progress seminar, Philosophy department, UNC, Chapel Hill, USA, 24. 1. 2007.
  -  “Ongelma toiminnan syiden ymmärtämiselle suosimissuhteiden avulla” (“A Problem for Understanding Practical Reasons in Terms of Favouring-Relations”). The Annual Conference of SFY (Philosophy Association of Finland), Helsinki, Finland, 9.–10. 1. 2006. 
  -  “Sopimusteorian metaeettinen ongelma” (“The Metaethical Problem of Contractualism”). Research Seminar, Univ. of Jyväskylä, Finland, 15. 9. 2005. 
  -  “Contractualist Account of Reasons for Being Moral Defended”. International meeting of the Academy of Finland’s research project “Practical Reason and Moral Motivation”, Villa Lante, Rome, Italy, 8.–11. 9. 2004. 
  -  “Voidaanko arvot sittenkin johtaa tosiasioista?” (“Can Values Be Derived from the Facts After All?”), with Antti Kauppinen. Symposium in Honour of Professor Timo Airaksinen, Univ. of Helsinki, Finland, 5. 9. 2003. 
  -  “Parfit ja persoonan muuttuva identiteetti” (”Parfit and Change in Personal Identity”), with Professor Timo Airaksinen. The annual conference of SFY (Philosophy Association of Finland), Jyväskylä, Finland, 13.–14. 1. 2003.

Professional Activities:
  -  Manuscript reviews for Australasian Journal of Philosophy; The Canadian Journal of Philosophy; Diametros; Ethical Theory and Moral Practice; Ethics; International Journal of Philosophical Studies; Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy; The Journal of Value Inquiry; Mind; Pacific Philosophical Quarterly; Philosophia; The Philosophical Quarterly; Polish Journal of Philosophy; Politics, Philosophy and Economics; Ratio; SAGE publishing (a book-proposal); Social Theory and Practice; Southern Journal of Philosophy; and Theoria.                                      
  -  A visiting co-editor for a special issue on Derek Parfit’s On What Matters, Ratio vol. 22, issue 1 (March 2009).
  -  Graduate representative of the British Society for Ethical Theory (July 2005–July 2008).
  -  A member of the organising committee for the ‘Workshop on Moral Judgment and Moral Psychology’ at the University of Helsinki, Finland, 13.–14. 12. 2005. 
  -  Administrator for the ‘Parfit Meets Critics’ conference at the University of Reading, UK, 2.–3. 11. 2006.
  -  A contributor to the Pea Soup blog (http://peasoup.typepad.com/peasoup/) on philosophy, ethics, and academia.
  -  Research assistant for Professor Dorit Bar-On for an article entitled “Expression, Truth, and Reality: Variations on Some Wright Themes”. January 2007, UNC at Chapel Hill.

References:

  -  Brad Hooker, Professor, Univ. of Reading.
        Email: b.w.hooker@reading.ac.uk
        Address: Philosophy department, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AA, UK

  -  Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, Professor, UNC, Chapel Hill. 
Address: Department of Philosophy, CB#3125, Caldwell Hall, UNC/Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3125, USA.

   -  James Lenman, Professor, Univ. of Sheffield.
Address: Department of Philosophy, Arts Tower, Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK.