Maria
Lasonen
Philosopher
I am Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Helsinki.
Currently (2025-26) I am a Visiting Research Fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford.
Until the end of 2023 I led a 5-year research project funded by the European Research Council titled Competence and Success in Epistemology and Beyond.
Before moving back to Finland in 2018, I was an Associate Professor (with tenure) at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor. Before moving to Michigan in 2010 I was at Oxford, where I got a BPhil and DPhil (2010), and was a Fitzjames Research Fellow at Merton College.
Though I mainly work in epistemology, my philosophical interests are broad. I recently wrote a book (The Good, the Bad, and the Feasible, OUP) that aims to formulate my big picture in epistemology and to generalize it to other normative domains.
More recently I have started thinking about the epistemic significance of concepts.
When I’m not doing philosophy, I spend time with my 2 children, enjoy music, and try to get outdoors as much as I can. As an antidote to work and other commitments, I climb with various degrees of obsession.
I am currently running the research project The Many Faces of Inquiry funded by the Kone Foundation.
