Dr. Aku Visala
Research Fellow of the Finnish Academy
University of Helsinki
Helsinki, Finland
Biography
Research Fellow of the Finnish Academy
Faculty of Theology, University of Helsinki, Finland
Biography
Aku Visala, PhD (University of Helsinki) is a philosopher of religion whose work is located at the intersection of philosophy, theological anthropology and the cognitive sciences. He is currently a docent in philosophy of religion and Research Fellow of the Finnish Academy at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He has held postdoctoral positions at the universities of Oxford, Princeton and Notre Dame. His publications include Theism, Naturalism and the Cognitive Study of Religion (Routledge 2011), Conversations on Human Nature (Routledge 2015) and Verbs, Bones, and Brain: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Nature (co-edited with Agustin Fuentes, University of Notre Dame Press 2017). Aku is currently working on a five-year project (2016-2021) Free Will at the Crossroads of Theology and Science.
Honoraria Titles
Major Prizes
European Society for the Study of Science and Theology Prize 2011
Religion, Philosophy & History Interests
Christianity-Catholicism, Christianity-Protestantism, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Religion, Theology
Science & Technology Interests
Anthropology, Biology, Evolution, Human Origins, Neuroscience
Website
Publications
Theism, Naturalism and the Cognitive Study of Religion
Routledge 2011
Conversations on Human Nature
Routledge 2015
Co-authors: Agustín Fuentes
Verbs, Bones, and Brains: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Nature
University of Notre Dame Press 2017
Editors:Aku Visala & Agustín Fuentes
