I am a visiting Fulbright Scholar working on Aristotle’s Philosophy of Action. My current research explores Aristotle’s conception of desire (orexis) and goodness. In particular, I am trying to understand what kind of a property goodness is, how animals (including humans) cognize or discern it, and how Aristotle’s views of desire compare to contemporary theories of desire. This research is co-sponsored by the Ella & Georg Ehrnrooth Foundation and the Fulbright Finland Foundation.

I received my DPhil from Oxford in 2022. The guiding question of my thesis is to determine what philosophy of action might look like for Aristotle by investigating Aristotle’s views on capacities, nature, activities, affections, the relation between agents and patients, and his teleology. I argue that Aristotle’s approach to the explanation of action emerges as a unique approach of its own, not reducible to the main Davidsonian or Anscombian approaches. Prior to the DPhil I completed a MSt in Ancient Philosophy (also at Oxford), and before this a BA in Philosophy at the University of Helsinki (where I am from).