Jari Kaukua

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Jari Kaukua (born August 18, 1975 in Jyväskylä ) is a Finnish philosopher. He teaches as a professor at Jyväskylä University . His focus is on Arabic philosophy and theology from the 11th century onwards.

Life

In 1999 Kauka was an Erasmus student at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 2001 he did his Masters at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy at Jyväskylä University. In 2007, Kauka received her doctorate with the dissertation Avicenna on Subjectivity . He passed his rigorosum with Peter Adamson at King's College London with eximia cum laude approbatur .

Works

Monographs

  • Self-Awareness in Islamic Philosophy: Avicenna and Beoyond . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. ISBN 9781316191910

Translations

  • René Descartes : Filosofian periaatteet ( Principia philosophiae ), in: Descartes, Teokset III , Gaudeamus: Helsinki, 2003 (with Mikko Yrjönsuuri).
  • L. Annaeus Seneca : Suuttumuksesta ( De ira ), in: T. Kaarakainen & J. Kaukua (eds.): Stoalaisuus , Gaudeamus: Helsinki 2004.
  • Francisco Sanchez: Ettei mitään tiedetä ( Quod nihil scitur ), in: M. Grahn & J. Sihvola (eds.), Skeptisismi , Gaudeamus: Helsinki 2014.

Contributions to edited volumes etc.

  • Ibn Rushd yksimielisyydestä , in: Niin & Nain 37, 2003.
  • Keskiajan arabifilosofiasta , in: Marhaba. Yearbook of the Finnish-Arabic Society , 2005.
  • Itsetietoisuuden aatehistoriallisesta tutkimuksesta , in: Ajatus 64, 2007.
  • Inhimillinen itse ja itsetietoisuus islamilaisessa filosofiassa: Ibn Sina ja Mulla Sadra , Synteesi , 31: 1, 2012.
  • Ibn Sina itsetietoisuudesta , in: Ajatus 69, 2012.
  • Fichten alkuperäisestä oivalluksesta , in: J. Saarinen (ed.): Festschrift for Jussi Kotkavirta , SoPhi 2014.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Official CV
  2. ^ Official website of Jyväskylä University.
personal data
SURNAME Kaukua, Jari
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 18th August 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Jyväskylä