Research interests:
History of philosophy, conceptual history
Intuitive knowledge in philosophy
19th and early 20th century French philosophy, in particular French Spiritualism
Methods in history of philosophy
Classical philology
Dissertation (in Preparation)
Epistemic Vision: A History of Intuitive Philosophical Knowledge
Recent talks:
Intuitive, Abstractive, Symbolic: Cognitive Distinctions in Duns Scotus and Christian Wolff Through Pauline Visual Metaphors, One-Day Wolff Workshop, University of Tampere, 2026.
From Seeing To Blindness: Intuitive Cognition From Christian Wolff to Immanuel Kant, The 2025 Congress for Doctoral Researchers, University of Tampere, 2025.
Cognitio intuitiva, scientia visionis: Leibnizian concepts of intuitive vision, History of Philosophy Seminar, University of Jyväskylä, 2024.
Intuition käsitehistoria: Intellektuaalisen intuition historia näkemismetaforan näkökulmasta, Spring Colloquim of Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä, 2023.
Intuition as seeing: Duns Scotus and Wilhelm of Ockham, History of Philosophy seminar (in Theology), University of Helsinki, 2023.
Duns Scotus and the Immediateness of Intellectual Intuition, Philosophy Research Seminar, University of Jyväskylä, 2023.
Erik Ahlman ja filosofian menetelmät (with Tiia-Mari Hovila), Philosophical Society of Finland’s annual colloquium 2023: Filosofian muuttuvassa suomalaisessa yhteiskunassa, University of Helsinki, 2023.
Intuition käsitehistorian suuntaviivoja antiikkiin: Kirkkoisä Augustinus, Paideia: Turun klassillinen yhdistys, Antiikin tutkimuksen iltapäivä, 2022.
Filosofian ajallinen luonne ja keston käsite Henri Bergsonin filosofisessa menetelmässä, Philosophical Society of Finland’s annual colloquium 2022: Past. Future. Philosophy, University of Oulu, 2022.
Science and the Bergsonian Method, The revival of Bergson in the Twenty-First Century, University of Helsinki, 2021.
Filosofinen intuitio, Filocafé (Kriittinen korkeakoulu), Jyväskylä, 2021.
Metaphilosophical Study of the Methods of Erik Ahlman (with Tiia-Mari Hovila), Summer School ‘Methodology in the History of Philosophy’, University of Groningen, 2021.
Speculative Reconstructions and Search for Unity: A Case Study on Michael Della Rocca’s “holistic” approach to Spinoza, 12th Nordic Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy, University of Gothenbourg 2019.
My research focuses on history of the concept of intuition in the Western philosophical tradition. I approach the intuition from the point of view of the metaphor of seeing basing my research on cognitive metaphor theory. The key figures in my research are John Duns Scotus, Wilhelm of Ockham, René Descartes, Baruch Spinoza, John Locke, Immanuel Kant, Edmund Husserl and Henri Bergson.