Mari Mikkola

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Mari Mikkola (born 1977 in Liminka ) is a Finnish philosopher and professor at the Universiteit van Amsterdam . Her research and publications focus on feminist philosophy and pornography .

academic career

Mari Mikkola grew up in Northern Finland . In England she studied philosophy and politics at the University of York and received her PhD in 2005 from the University of Sheffield with a thesis on analytical feminist philosophy. From the winter semester 2010 she was junior professor for practical philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin , from 2016 to 2017 with a temporary professorship. She then taught Feminist Philosophy at Somerville College at the University of Oxford as an Associate Professor from the 2017 winter semester . She was appointed Professor of Philosophy by the University of Amsterdam in 2020 . The chair Mikkola holds is part of the Philosophical Faculty and focuses on metaphysics , history of philosophy, non-western philosophy and philosophy of science .

Mikkola's scientific interests lie in the area of German idealism , especially the philosophies of Kant and Hegel . Her research initially focused on feminist philosophy, particularly feminist metaphysics and gender . More recent work deals with philosophical debates related to pornography, on which she has published a number of articles, book chapters and a monograph.

engagement

Mari Mikkola is co-founder and chairwoman of the board of the "Society for Women in Philosophy Germany - Association for the Promotion of Women in Philosophy" eV, in which female philosophers in German-speaking countries network. She has coordinated the “Nomos Network for Applied Philosophy” with Josep Corbi ( University of Valencia ) and Jesus Vega ( Universidad Autónoma de Madrid ) since summer 2013 and is co-editor of the Journal of Social Ontology at De Gruyter .

Fonts

Monographs
  • Pornography. A Philosophical Introduction. Oxford University Press 2019, ISBN 978-0-19-064006-4
  • The Wrong of Injustice. Dehumanization and its Role in Feminist Philosophy. Oxford University Press 2016, ISBN 978-0-19-060108-9
as editor and author
Book chapters (selection)
  • Is Everything Relative? Anti-realism, Truth and Feminism. In: Allan Hazlett (Ed.): New Waves in Metaphysics , Palgrave-Macmillan (2010)
  • Ontological Commitments, Sex and Gender. In: Charlotte Witt (Ed.): Feminist Metaphysics , Springer (2011), ISBN 978-90-481-3782-4 , pp. 67-83
  • Dehumanization. In: Thom Brooks: New Waves in Ethics , Palgrave Macmillan, London 2011, ISBN 978-0-230-23276-1 , pp. 128-149 ( abstract, Springer Link )
  • The concept of dehumanization and its role in feminist philosophy. In: Hilge Landweer , Catherine Newmark u. a. (Ed.): Philosophy and the potential of gender studies. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-8376-2152-5 , pp. 87-116
  • Pornography, Art and Porno-Art. In: Hans Maes (Ed.) Pornographic Art and the Aesthetics of Pornography . Palgrave Macmillan, London 213, ISBN 978-1-349-34982-1 , pp. 27-42 ( abstract, Springer Link )
  • Feminist Metaphysics as Non-Ideal Metaphysics. In: Pieranna Garavaso (ed.): The Bloomsbury Companion to Analytic Feminism , Bloomsbury Academic, London 2018, ISBN 978-1-4742-9778-3 , pp. 80-102
  • The Function of Gender as a Historical Kind. In: Rebekka Hufendiek et al. (Ed.): Social Functions in Philosophy , Routledge, New York, 2020, ISBN 978-1-138-35132-5
Technical article
  • Elizabeth Spelman, Gender Realism and Women. In: Hypatia (2006) Ed. 21: 77-96.
  • Contexts and Pornography. In: Analysis , No. 4, October 2008, pp. 316-320
  • Gender Skeptics and Feminist Politics. In: Res Publica (2007) Ed. 13: 361-380.
  • Illocution, Silencing and the Act of Refusal. In: Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (2011) Ed. 92: 415-437.
  • Gender Concepts and Intuitions. In: Canadian Journal of Philosophy (2009) Ed. 9, no. 4: 559-583.
  • Kant on Moral Agency and Women's Nature. , Kantian Review (2011) Ed. 16: 89–111.
  • Sex in Medicine: What Stands in the Way of Credibility? In: Topoi . An International Review of Philosophy, 36/2017, pp. 479–488 doi.org/10.1007/s11245-015-9350-3
  • Fixing pornography's illocutionary force: Which context matters? In: Philosophical Studies. An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition (2019), doi.org/10.1007/s11098-019-01357-2
Lexicon article

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Folkart Schweizer, Brigitte Brückner (ed.): Art comes out of the beak as it has grown . Damm and Lindar Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9812268-8-1 , p. 293.
  2. ↑ Interview with Mari Mikkola (Oxford) , in: Praefaktisch . Philosophy blog
  3. ↑ Classifying women. A solution to the feminist problem of universals , University of Sheffield, 2005 (un. Dissertation)
  4. ↑ Mari Mikkola appointed professor of Philosophy , University of Amsterdam, June 9, 2020
  5. ↑ rewiew: Natalie Stoljar: Mari Mikkola, The Wrong of Injustice: Dehumanization and Its Role in Feminist Philosophy. In: Ethics 128, No. 2 (January 2018) pp. 483–487. DOI
  6. ↑ Review in: Hypatia Reviews Online
  7. ^ Feminist Perspectives on Sex and Gender. In: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2008, revised version 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Mikkola, Mari
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Liminka