Pekka Mäkelä
Biographic Data
| ID | 4637635 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pekka Mäkelä |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pekka |
| FAMILY NAME | Mäkelä |
| SIGNATURE | MÄKELÄ P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0854-522X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
AI-Extended Moral Agency
Robot Kingdom
What is a robot? In this paper, we discuss some problems for finding one, universally applicable definition of robots. Robots are technological artefacts, and new types of robots are regularly being invented and engineered. Robots are also a common topic in fiction, which continuously affects the way robots are conceived. Moreover, the perception of what counts as a robot in public discourse differs from the standard definitions of robots that ca…
Social Robots in Social Institutions
As robots begin to operate in environments hitherto only occupied by humans, it has become common to introduce social and cultural thinking into robotics research. Starting from the conceptualisation of culture as an emergent property of participatory processes of sense-making, in this paper we argue that cultural robotics cannot be achieved without emotions. To defend this thesis, we will first justify our working concepts, then provide our argu…
David J. Gunkel, Person, Thing, Robot
The mental in intentional action
This special section originates from a workshop `New Horizons in Action and Agency’ that we organized in August 2019 at the University of Helsinki, Finland. The aim of the workshop was to provide a
Social Ontology in the Making
This collection does not only include articles by Raimo Tuomela and his co-authors which have been decisive in social ontology. An extensive introduction provides an account of the impact of the works, the most important debates in the field, and also addresses future issues. Thus, the book gives insights that are still viable and worthy of further scrutiny and development, making it an inspiring source for those engaged in the debates of the fie…
Understanding Institutions without Collective Acceptance
Francesco Guala has written an important book proposing a new account of social institutions and criticizing existing ones. We focus on Guala’s critique of collective acceptance theories of institutions, widely discussed in the literature of collective intentionality. Guala argues that at least some of the collective acceptance theories commit their proponents to antinaturalist methodology of social science. What is at stake here is what kind of …
Collective Agents and Moral Responsibility
Group Action and Group Responsibility
Olympic Success
Absolute and relative rankings of Olympic success are uncorrelated to each other and measure success in quite different ways. The variables used in this study explain absolute success better than relative success. Furthermore, each type of success is better explained by different independent variables. The connection between economic resources, socialist economy and absolute success has been shown more or less clearly in previous studies (Novikov…
Understanding Institutions without Collective Acceptance
Francesco Guala has written an important book proposing a new account of social institutions and criticizing existing ones. We focus on Guala’s critique of collective acceptance theories of institutions, widely discussed in the literature of collective intentionality. Guala argues that at least some of the collective acceptance theories commit their proponents to antinaturalist methodology of social science. What is at stake here is what kind of …
Olympic Success
Absolute and relative rankings of Olympic success are uncorrelated to each other and measure success in quite different ways. The variables used in this study explain absolute success better than relative success. Furthermore, each type of success is better explained by different independent variables. The connection between economic resources, socialist economy and absolute success has been shown more or less clearly in previous studies (Novikov…
Group Action and Group Responsibility
Collective Agents and Moral Responsibility
Understanding Institutions without Collective Acceptance
Francesco Guala has written an important book proposing a new account of social institutions and criticizing existing ones. We focus on Guala’s critique of collective acceptance theories of institutions, widely discussed in the literature of collective intentionality. Guala argues that at least some of the collective acceptance theories commit their proponents to antinaturalist methodology of social science. What is at stake here is what kind of …
Social Ontology in the Making
This collection does not only include articles by Raimo Tuomela and his co-authors which have been decisive in social ontology. An extensive introduction provides an account of the impact of the works, the most important debates in the field, and also addresses future issues. Thus, the book gives insights that are still viable and worthy of further scrutiny and development, making it an inspiring source for those engaged in the debates of the fie…
The mental in intentional action
This special section originates from a workshop `New Horizons in Action and Agency’ that we organized in August 2019 at the University of Helsinki, Finland. The aim of the workshop was to provide a
Social Robots in Social Institutions
As robots begin to operate in environments hitherto only occupied by humans, it has become common to introduce social and cultural thinking into robotics research. Starting from the conceptualisation of culture as an emergent property of participatory processes of sense-making, in this paper we argue that cultural robotics cannot be achieved without emotions. To defend this thesis, we will first justify our working concepts, then provide our argu…
David J. Gunkel, Person, Thing, Robot
Robot Kingdom
What is a robot? In this paper, we discuss some problems for finding one, universally applicable definition of robots. Robots are technological artefacts, and new types of robots are regularly being invented and engineered. Robots are also a common topic in fiction, which continuously affects the way robots are conceived. Moreover, the perception of what counts as a robot in public discourse differs from the standard definitions of robots that ca…
AI-Extended Moral Agency
Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Embodied and Extended Cognition (3 works) · Ontology (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Robot (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Economics (2 works)