Tommi Vehkavaara

FL

Opetusamanuenssi

Huone: Pinni B4134
Vastaanotto: Ke 14-15
Puhelin: (03) 3551 7575
Sähköposti: tommi.vehkavaara@uta.fi

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Publications

Special interests

Biosemiotics; Semiotic naturalism; C.S. Peirce's philosophy (categories, semeiotic, pragmaticism, and realism); Mark Bickhard's interactivism; Evolutionary epistemology; Logic (and other Normative sciences)

Present research

"Mental models of life" (representations and self-normativity in living systems), existential naturalism

Other (or past) interesets

Philosophy of biology; Classification of Sciences and other natural classifications; Systemstheory and cybernetics: control systems, complexity, emergence and self-organization; Constructivism; Semiology and deconstruction (Saussure and Derrida); Relation of formal and real systems