{{Short description|Finnish philosopher (1940–2020)}} {{More citations needed|date=February 2021}} {{Infobox philosopher | name = Raimo Heikki Tuomela | birth_date = 9 October 1940 | birth_place = [[Helsinki]], Finland | death_date = 22 November 2020 | death_place = Helsinki, Finland | alma_mater = [[University of Helsinki]]<br>[[Stanford University]] | institutions = University of Helsinki }} '''Raimo Heikki Tuomela''' (9 October 1940 – 22 November 2020)<ref>[https://dailynous.com/2020/11/27/raimo-tuomela-1940-2020/ Raimo Tuomela (1940–2020).] Daily Nous.</ref> was a Finnish philosopher.
==Career== Tuomela received his first degree of doctor of philosophy in 1968 from the [[University of Helsinki]] and the second one in 1969 from [[Stanford University]]. Tuomela was full professor of philosophy (especially methodology and philosophy of the [[social sciences]]) at the Department of Philosophy, [[University of Helsinki]] in 1971–2008.<ref name=Tuoela1 >{{cite web|title=Raimo Tuomela|url=http://www.helsinki.fi/tint/tuomela/|website=www.helsinki.fi|accessdate=2017-02-19|publisher=University of Helsinki }}</ref>
Having earlier worked and published in many fields of philosophy, especially [[philosophy of science]] and [[philosophy of action]], the theory of [[social action]] has been his main research interest.
Tuomela received several grants and awards, including the [[Alexander von Humboldt Foundation]] Research Award (''Forschungspreis''), awarded in recognition of achievements in research, and the honour prize of [[Finnish Academy of Science and Letters]].<ref>{{cite news | author=Pettersson, Tobias | title=Den blyga pojken från Helsingfors blev internationell kändisfilosof | newspaper=Hufvudstadsbladet | date=14 May 2019 | pages=8–9 | url=http://www.hbl.fi/artikel/den-blyga-pojken-som-blev-internationell-kandisfilosof/ | language=Swedish | url-access=subscription | archive-date=14 May 2019 | access-date=14 May 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190514182129/https://www.hbl.fi/artikel/den-blyga-pojken-som-blev-internationell-kandisfilosof/ | url-status=dead }}</ref>
During the five-year period 1995–2000, Tuomela was Academy Professor at the [[Academy of Finland]]. This research professorship also included a research group working within the general field of the philosophy of social action.
==Books== '''In English''' *''Theoretical Concepts''. Library of Exact Philosophy 10, Springer-Verlag, Wien and New York, 1973, 254 pp. *''Theoretical Concepts and Hypothetico-Inductive Inference'' (together with [[Ilkka Niiniluoto]]). Synthese Library, D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht and Boston, 1973, 262 pp. *''Human Action and Its Explanation: A Study on the Philosophical Foundations of Psychology''. Synthese Library, D. Reidel Publishing Co., Dordrecht and Boston, 1977, 426 pp. *''A Theory of Social Action''. [[D. Reidel]] Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Boston, and Lancaster, 1984, 534 pp. *''Science, Action, and Reality''. D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Boston, and Lancaster, 1985, 274 pp. *''The Importance of Us: A Philosophical Study of Basic Social Notions''. Stanford Series in Philosophy, Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 1995, 470 pp. *''Cooperation: A Philosophical Study'', Philosophical Studies Series, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000, 431 pp. *''The Philosophy of Social Practices: A Collective Acceptance View'', Cambridge University Press, 2002, 274 pp. *''The Philosophy of Sociality'', Oxford University Press, 2007, 318 pp. *''Social Ontology: Collective Intentionality and Group Agents'', 2013, New York: Oxford University Press.
'''In Finnish''' *''Tiede, toiminta ja todellisuus. Tieteellisen maailmankäsityksen filosofiset perusteet'', Gaudeamus, Jyväskylä, 1983.
==See also== * [[Collective intentionality]]
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{official website|http://www.helsinki.fi/tint/tuomela/}}
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