Tero
Mäkelä
Doctoral Researcher, Philosophy
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Biography
I did my master's thesis on "Mechanisms of Shame" in 2017, and since then I've been thinking about caring. One might say that the focus of my interest has turned from self-directed topics (shame, subjectivity etc.) to the other-directed phenomena like care, compassion, love... and to related themes in ethics, meta-ethics, philosophical anthropology, what have you...
Teaching
Fall 2022 (co-teaching with Joseph Almog): "Love as the Cement of the Universe?"
Spring 2022: "The Chief Law of Human Existence?" - Exploring compassion through works of Sophocles, Dostoyevsky, Levinas, and modern studies on empathy.
Other presentations
Several presentations in philosophical discussion group Totuus & Tolkku on the topics of:
- The Chief Law of Human Existence? (2022)
- Necessity of the Recognition of the Other (2017)
- Caring and Empathy (2017)
- Mechanisms of Shame (2016)