# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/timo-airaksinen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:26:19.312Z

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name: "Timo Airaksinen"
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description: "Timo Airaksinen is Professor of Moral Philosophy in the Discipline of Social and Moral Philosophy at Helsinki University. By longstanding tradition in the University of Helsinki, the philosophy faculty is divided into two major areas, the practical and the theoretical. He graduated from the University of Turku in 1971 and defended his doctoral dissertation The Hegelianism of Bradley and McTaggart in 1975. He specializes in ethics and social philosophy, ethics of technology, the history of philosophy, and education. He has written on a wide range of topics dealing with these issues, from the thinking of Hobbes to Marquis de Sade. Airaksinen also regularly contributes to public debate in Finland and has had a column in the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump