【Basic information】
Name：Aki Lehtinen
Gender：Male
Academic Title：Professor
Education：PhD (MEBA (=Master of Economics and Business Administration), MSocSci,MPhil)
Office：Room 530, College of Philosophy, Nankai University
Email：aki.lehtinen@helsinki.fi
Areas of Research：Modelling and simulation, philosophy of economics
Academic Organization Memberships：INEM board member (until the end of 2022)
【Bio】
Aki Lehtinen is a talent professor of philosophy at Nankai University, Tianjin, China. He has written on modelling, simulation and robustness, philosophy of game theory, and social choice theory and voting. His most recent work is on confirmation in climate models, philosophy of macroeconomics, generalisation in modelling. He is currently working on the philosophy of meta-analysis, simulated data, fictional accounts of modelling and an epistemic account of model-identity.
【Education】
Title of Docent
University of Helsinki, practical philosophy
11. January 2011
Doctor of Philosophy
Erasmus Institute for Economics and Philosophy
Rotterdam, The Netherlands 10.10.2007
PhD thesis: The welfare consequences of strategic voting
Master of Social Sciences
University of Helsinki, Faculty of Social Sciences
Finland 16.12.1998
Major subject: practical philosophy
Minor subject: economics
Master’s thesis: Observability and interpersonal comparisons of utility
Master of Philosophy
Erasmus Institute for Economics and Philosophy
Rotterdam, The Netherlands 5.6.1998
Master of Economics and Business Administration
Turku School of Economics and Business Administration
Finland 20.3.1996
Major subject: economics
Minor subject: business administration and management
Master's thesis in Finnish: Yhteinen etu ja äänestäminen; Tutkimus strategisen käyttäytymisen vaikutuksista äänestystuloksiin ja julkishyödykkeiden tarjontaan (The general will and voting; an investigation of the consequences of strategic voting for voting results and the supply of public goods)
Certificat d’ Etudes Politiques
Institut d’Etudes Politiques
Aix-en-Provence, France 5.6.1991
【Work Experience】
- University researcher
Faculty of the Social Sciences, University of Helsinki 1.1.2018 – 30.10.2018
- Professor of the philosophy of the social sciences (50%)
Practical philosophy, University of Helsinki 15.2.2015-31.12.2017
- Principal investigator
University of Helsinki three-year grants, a project on Climate ethics and economics 1.1.2014-30.12.2016
- University researcher
Academy of Finland, a project on Models and simulations, Department of Political and Economic Studies 1.6.2013-31.12.2017. Between 15.2.2015-31.12.2017 the position was 50%.
- University lecturer
University of Helsinki, Department of Political and Economic Studies 1.1.2013-30.5.2013
- Adjunct professor in practical philosophy (Docentship)
University of Helsinki, Department of Political and Economic Studies 12.1.2011
- Postdoctoral researcher, University researcher
Academy of Finland, a project on Strategic voting, a cursed blessing 1.1.2010-31.12.2012
- Adam Smith Visiting Professor
Department of Philosophy, University of Bayreuth, Germany 15.10.2007-15.2.2008
- Researcher
Academy of Finland, a project on Trends and tensions in intellectual integration 1.1.2007-31.12.2009
- Researcher
Academy of Finland, a project on Economics imperialism 1.1.2004-31.12.2006
- Doctoral student
Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics 1.1.2002-31.12.2003
- Assistant professor
Department of Social and Moral Philosophy, University of Helsinki, 1.9.1998-30.12.1999
【Teaching】
I am currently teaching Methodology of Science for undergraduates, Progress in Contemporary Philosophy of Science and History of Philosophy of Science for master students,. and Topics in Philosophy of Science for graduate students.
【Selected Publications】
Articles
Lehtinen, Aki (2022): “The epistemic benefits of generalisation in modelling II: Expressive power and abstraction”, Synthese, vol. 200, no. 2, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03530-3
Lehtinen, Aki & Kuorikoski, Jaakko (2022): “Computer simulations in economics”, The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of economics, eds. Conrad Heilmann & Julian Reiss, Routledge, pp. 355-369.
Lehtinen, Aki (2021): “The epistemic benefits of generalisation in modelling I: Systems and applicability”, Synthese, vol. 199, no. 3-4, pp. 10343-10370.
Lehtinen, Aki & Kuorikoski, Jaakko (2021): “Uusi taloustieteen metodologia” (’The new methodology of economics’), Kansantaloudellinen Aikakauskirja vol. 117, no. 2, pp. 142-154.
Lehtinen, Aki (2021): The Helsinki Approach to Economic Methodology, Or, how to Espouse the Mainstream?, Journal of Economic Methodology, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 79-87.
Lehtinen, Aki (2021): “Core models in macroeconomics”, Ch. 12 in Modern Guide to Philosophy of Economics, ed. Harold Kincaid and Don Ross, Edward Elgar 2021, pp. 254-283.
Lehtinen, Aki (2020): ”Johdatus ilmastotutkimuksen tieteenfilosofiaan” (”Introduction to the philosophy of climate science”), in Ilmastonmuutoksen filosofia [Philosophy of Climate Change] eds. Simo Kyllönen & Markku Oksanen, Gaudeamus, pp. 46-64.
Other Writings
Lehtinen, Aki & Kuorikoski, Jaakko (2022): “Computer simulations in economics”, The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of economics, eds. Conrad Heilmann & Julian Reiss, Routledge, pp. 355-369.
【Research Grants】
- Nankai University general research grant ‘Philosophy of modelling’ 2021, 150000 RMB
