VILLE PÄIVÄNSALO

Doctor of Theology (Helsinki, 2005)

Lecturer in theological and social ethics (Helsinki, 2008- )

Between the June of 2005 and the July of 2008, before his current appointment, Päivänsalo served as the scientific secretary of the History of Mind research unit, as a research fellow on the project Legitimacy and Ethics funded by the Academy of Finland, and as a Helsinki University post doctoral research fellow. He specializes in John Rawls's (1921-2002) social liberalism and subsequent accounts of justice and development as well as their relations to Christianity.

Address: Department of Systematic Theology, P.O. Box 33 (Aleksanterinkatu 7), FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland

Email: ville.paivansalo at helsinki.fi
Telephone: +358-9-191 22101, +358-40-560 5244
Fax : +358-9-191 23033

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Monographs

• Balancing Reasonable Justice: John Rawls and Crucial Steps Beyond (Aldershot: Ashgate 2007).
• Balances of Reasonable Justice: Rawls and beyond, diss. (Helsinki: Tyylipaino Oy 2005).

Articles

• "Responsibilities for Human Capabilities: Avoiding a Comprehensive Global Program," Human Rights Review, Online First (14 November 2009).
• "Responsibilities for Global Health: The Efficiency of the Health Impact Fund?," Public Health Ethics 1:3 (2008).
• "Rawls, Religion, and a Lutheran Perspective on Eartly Governance" in Lidenskab og Stringens: Festskrift til Svend Andersen. Eds. Kees van Kooten & Ulrik Nissen (Copenhagen: Anis 2008), 371-382.
• "National Justice and Global Extensions: John Rawls's Model and an Alternative" in Political Practices and International Order: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Societas Ethica, Oxford 2006. Eds. Stefan Heuser & Hans Ulrich (Zurich: LIT 2007), 194-207.
• "Kohti poliittista katsomuksellisuutta. Rawlsin käsityksen muunnelma ja piispojen puheenvuoro" [Towards a Political Stance: Rawls's Theory Revisited and Bishops' Statement], in Aku Visala (ed.), Kirkko ja usko tämän päivän Suomessa (Helsinki: STKS 2007), 193-219.
• "Kansojen oikeus. Monitasoisen oikeudenmukaisuuden perusmalli" [The Law of Peoples: A Basic Model of Multilevel Justice], Vartija 7/2007, 62-67.
• "The Values of Information Society," Transport Museums: Journal of the International Association of Transport & Communications Museums 27 (2006), 42-27.
• "Plurality of Evils and Reasonable Liberalism," in Evil, Law and the State: Issues in State Power and Violence, e-book (Oxford, UK: Learning Solutions 2006), 255-264.
• "Culturally Specific Welfare and Rawlsian Justice," in Societas Ethica Jahresbericht / Annual 2003 (Aarhus, Denmark: Societas Ethica 2004), 121-133.
• "Taking Viewpoints of Fairness and Care," Studia Theologica 58:2 (2004), 123-139.
• "Tunteet ja oikeudenmukaisuus. Platonin ja Nussbaumin näkökulmia" [Plato and Nussbaum on Emotions and Justice], Psykologianopettaja 2/2005, 23-25.
• "Uskonto, ulkoinen järjestys ja sisäiset ihanteet" [Religion, Public Order, and Inner Ideals], Vartija 118 (5-6/2005), 191-193.
• "Ihmisarvo ja ihmisoikeudet kristinuskossa" [Human Dignity and Human Rights in Christianity], in Ihmisoikeusraportti: Ihmisoikeusliiton ja Suomen Helsinki-komitean julkaisu 4/2001, 4-5.
• "John Rawlsin oikeudenmukaisuuskäsitys tarkentuu" [Refinements in John Rawls' Conception of Justice], Teologinen aikakauskirja 6/2000, 510-516.
• "Johdanto" [Introduction], in Prosessia ja rautalankaa: Gradun tekijän opas (Helsingin yliopiston systemaattisen teologian laitoksen julkaisuja XIII, Helsinki: STL 1997), 10-13.
• "Asian ja ajatuksen esittäminen asiatekstissä" [Expressing Thoughts Clearly in Writing], in Prosessia ja rautalankaa: Gradun tekijän opas (Helsingin yliopiston systemaattisen teologian laitoksen julkaisuja XIII, Helsinki: STL 1997), 70-79.

Edited Works

In Finnish

Updated on 10 December 2008