Ongoing and previous research projects (selection):

Speaking about Love, Thinking with Wittgenstein,  2019-

Explorative Inquiries: Analytical Tools for Reflecting on Oneself, Others and the World in Kindergarten, 2017-   (Stiftelsen för Åbo Akademi, Högskolestiftelsen i Österbotten) 

The Philosophical Import of Ordinary Language Philosophy: Austin, Ryle, Wittgenstein, and Their Contemporary Significance, 2016-2017 (Academy of Finland) 

Westermarck and Beyond: Evolutionary Approaches to Morality and Their Critics, 2009-2015 (Kone) 

Emotions in Dialogue: Perspectives from the Humanities, 2009-2011 (Academy of Finland) 

Doctoral thesis: What We Talk About when We Talk About Love, 2008

I defended my doctoral thesis What We Talk About when We Talk About Love in philosophy at Åbo Akademi University in 2008, opponent Alice Crary. In it I discussed how different ways of talking about love can throw light on philosophical discussions regaring emotions, identity, morality and meaning. After the defense I have worked partly as a researcher and partly as a teacher in philosophy, and to some extent in University pedagogy, at Åbo  Akademi University. 

During the academic year 2018-2019 I am a teacher in the course Philosophy of Science common to the whole faculty, as well as the philosophy courses Moral Philiosophy and Modern Currents in Philosophy: Kontinental Philosophy, as well as the course "Social exclusion in a philosophical perspective" in the new Master's program  Social Exclusion. I am also the instructor of the Seminar 1-4 in philosophy, where we thing spring will discuss Stanley Cavell's book Cities of Words. 

I serve as supervisor for Sara Nyman's Master's thesis and the PhD theses of Salla Peltonen, Evelina Salo och Nicholas Lawrence.