Mirja Hartimo – PhD, Docent, University Lecturer in Theoretical Philosophy

I received my Master’s degree in Environmental Economics at the University of Helsinki in 1998. By that time, however, philosophy had become my main interest, and, supported by a Fulbright Fellowship, I entered a doctorate program in Philosophy in the US.

I graduated from Boston University in 2005 with a thesis ”Edmund Husserl’s Phenomenology and the Development of Mathematics in the Late Nineteenth Century” supervised by Jaakko Hintikka. I then returned to Finland where I have taught and researched in various universities (of Helsinki, Tampere, and Jyväskylä), and centers of advanced study: Uppsala (SCAS, 2014) and Oslo (CAS, 2015-2016). I landed in Helsinki: I am now University Lecturer in theoretical philosophy at the University of Helsinki.

My research combines themes in history of analytic philosophy (from Lotze onwards), phenomenology (especially Husserl), philosophy of logic, and philosophy of mathematical practice in various ways and degrees. My great passion is to figure out what is the nature and role of logic in reason in general and in Husserl’s thought in particular. I am presently editing, together with Anssi Korhonen, a special issue of Philosophies on The Vienna Circle. For more about this project, see Philosophies | Special Issue : The Vienna Circle: Shaping Contemporary Analytic Philosophy and Its History (mdpi.com)

Here’s a link to a recently published interview with me (in English and in Spanish) by Pedro Arriaga: Vista de DIÁLOGOS (uaemex.mx)