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Post doctoral fellow Vesa P. J. Arponen, M.A. & M.Sc.

Post doctoral fellow

Vesa P. J. Arponen (Finland, 1980)

M.A. & M.Sc. in Philosophy, Science & Technology Studies

varponen@gshdl.uni-kiel.de
PhD thesis
The Cultural Causes of Environmental Problems: a Wittgensteinian Approach to Social Action
This thesis aims to give a multidisciplinarily grounded account of the cultural causes of environmental problems discussed as a question in philosophical and sociological theory of social action. The work can be seen to revolve around one core idea employed in different but analogous contexts: to dispute the so-called ideological approach in environmentalism and environmental history as well as in philosophical and sociological theory by contrasting it with the so-called organisatory approach in both areas.
Research interests My research interests are in philosophical and sociological theory of human action which I seek to apply in the case of the human collective causing of environmental problems and the human relationship to nature in general. I am particularly interested in developing a view of human sociality and collective action based on Ludwig Wittgenstein's later philosophy.
Selected publications Academia.edu profile
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