Tarja Knuuttila#
© Barbara Mair
| Membership Number: | 5912 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
| Affiliated section(s): | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | http://tarjaknuuttila.com/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-0194-6837 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2018 Professor of Philosophy of Science, University of Vienna
- 2013 - 2018 Associate professor (tenured), University of South Carolina
- 2011 - 2014 Fellow, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki
- 2010 - 2011 University researcher, Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies, University of Helsinki
- 2009 - 2010 Research visit to California Institute of Technology
- 2007 - 2009 Postdoctoral researcher, Academy of Finland (tutkijatohtori), Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki
- 2006 Postdoctoral researcher, Departments of Philosophy and Social and Moral Philosophy, University of Helsinki
- 2005 Researcher, Institute of Art Research, University of Helsinki
- 2003 Researcher, Center for Activity Theory and Developmental Work Research, University of Helsinki
- 1988 - 1999 Accounting, auditing and financial management of various profit and non-profit organizations on a free-lance basis
Fields of Scholarship
- General philosophy of science
- Methodology of economics
- Representation
- Philosophy of systems and synthetic biology
- Scientific modeling
- Artifactual and modal perspectives of modeling
Honours and Awards
- Possible Life: The Philosophical Significance of Extending Biology (LIFEMODE) (2019 - 2024). ERC Consolidator Grant
- Towards a Methodology of Modal Modeling (co-PI). Swedish Research Council (SEK 5,551,220; 1.1.2019 – 31.12.2022)
- Understanding by Engineering: Modeling, Experimentation and Engineering in the Emerging Field of Synthetic Biology (2015 – 2020). Academy of Finland, Research Fellowship
- Biological Knowledge through Modeling and Engineering (SYNBIOMODE) (2013 -2017). Academy of Finland, Research Programme on Synthetic Biology (FinSynBio)
- Models and Modelling: A Philosophical Study of the Role and Significance of Models and Computer Simulations in Scientific Inquiry (2007 - 2009). Postdoctoral researcher’s project funded by the Academy of Finland
- KULTA – Modeling the changing consumer needs (€ 100,000, 1.8.2006 – 30.04.2008) (Project leader, Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki). MASI-programme funded by TEKES – The Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation. The consortium included the Laboratory of Computer and Information Science (Helsinki University of Technology) and the National Consumer Research Center
