 Miira Tuominen, PhD (Helsinki 2002) is a researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki. During the Academic year 2002-2003 she is working as a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago. Tuominen is specialized in ancient philosophy. Her dissertation, "Ancient Philosophers on Principles of Knowledge and Argumentation" (defended in Helsinki December the 15th 2001), dealt with philosophers from Plato to Aristotle's Greek commentators of late antiquity. In the field of the philosophy of mind she is concentrated on the ancient conceptions of immediate cognition, especially on the analysis of acts of perception and intellectual acts, but her interests also include conceptions of reasoning psychology. One further topic related to the themes Tuominen studies, consists of the metaphysical background assumptions of the theories of cognition and the ancient theories of argumentative principles. She currently works on a book based on her dissertation.
Homepage at the Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki
Homepage at the Helsinki Collegium of Advanced Studies
Selected publications
Monographs
 Ancient Philosophers on Principles of Knowledge and Argumentation (Reports from the Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki 2/2001), Helsinki 2001. 216 p. (Diss.)
Apprehension and Argument: Ancient Theories of Starting Points for Knowledge (Studies in the History of Mind), Springer forthcoming 2006, ms. 480 pp.
Introduction to the Philosophy of the Commentators 200-600 AD, Acumen Press, 150 pp.
Articles
"Järjen eri aspektit ja hyvän käsittäminen Platonin filosofiassa" [Different Aspects of Reason and Apprehension of the Good in Plato's Philosophy], Tiede & Edistys 27:2 (2002), 120-128.
"Antiikin näkemyksiä käsitteistä" [Ancient Theories of Concepts], Sara Heinämaa, Martina Reuter and Mikko Yrjönsuuri (eds.), Spiritus Animalis. Kirjoituksia filosofian historiasta, Helsinki: Gaudeamus (2003), 45-63.
"Kieltäminen ja negatiiviset propositiot stoalaisessa filosofiassa"
[Denial and Negative Propositions in Stoic Philosophy], Heta Gylling, S. Albert Kivinen and Risto Vilkko (eds.) Kielto, Suomen filosofinen yhdistys (2004), 21-28.
"Induktion ongelman synnystä" [On the Birth of the Problem of
Induction], Ajatus 62 (2005), 9-29.
"Is There Tension between Aristotle's Theory and Practice of Science?: Alexander and Philoponus on Prior Analytics I 27-32", in a volume ed. Frans de Haas On the Commentaries on the Posterior Analytics (forthcoming).
"Assumptions of Normativity: Two Ancient Approaches to Agency", in Pauliina Remes and Juha Sihvola (eds.), Ancient Philosophy of the Self (forthcoming).
Book reviews
"Scott G. Schreiber, Aristotle on False Reasoning: Language and the World in the Sophistical Refutations, Albany: SUNY Press 2003", Classical Bulletin 81/2 (2006), 221-224.
Expert tasks
Member of the European Science Foundation Project "From Philosophy to Science", team 3 led by Prof. Frans de Haas, Leiden.
Member of the Steering Committee, Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki from January 2004 onwards
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