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Markku Leppäkoski was born in 1944 in Hämeenlinna, Finland. He studied philosophy at the University of Helsinki (under Ketonen and Hintikka) simultaneously working with computers. (First as a programmer and systems analyst, later as a manager of operations and of personal relations.). He left the computer branch and sailed with his schooner to the Mediterranean to start a new life. There he spent a couple of years as a captain on sailing ships, mainly in Greece and Turkey.
Markku defended his doctoral dissertation in theoretical philosophy at Stockholm University, May 1993.
Since 1991 he has been teaching Kant’s philosophy at Stockholm University and had a position as a research fellow in theoretical philosophy 1995-1998. The position was financed by the Swedish Council for Research in the Humanities and the Social Sciences (HSFR). His project is called ‘Modal theory’. In the historical part Kant’s and Wittgenstein’s modal notions are accounted for. In the problem oriented part these accounts are used as a ground for a general theory of modal notions. Assistent professor 1999- .
In the autumn of 1993 Markku took part in a caravan over the Himalayas to the ‘hidden’ Tibetan kingdom of Lo or Mustang.
Markku Leppäkoski has two children: Anna-Mari 1964 and Arvid 1983.
Modality, Kant, Wittgenstein, history of philosophy.
1) The Transcendental How; Kant’s Transcendental Deduction of Objective Cognition, Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1993. Doctoral dissertation in which some of the most central features in Kant’s reasoning in the Critique of Pure Reason are considered. It is investigated how Kant endeavoured to establish transcendental philosophy and accounts of Kant’s various notions of object (transcendental object, thing in itself, noumenon, etc.) are presented. It is explained what it means to answer the question ‘How are synthetic propositions possible a priori?’ An interpretation of formal intuitions and the schemata is given.
The dissertation has been reviewed in The Review of Metaphysics 48 (1995), 663-665 by Prof. Daniel Dahlstrom, the Catholic University of America, Washington D.C. and in Kant-Studien 88 (1997), 353-359 by Prof. Ralf Meerbote, the University of Rochester, New York.
2) ‘The Transcendental Schemata’, in Hoke Robinson (ed.), Proceedings of the Eighth International Kant Congress, vol II.1, Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1995. This paper introduces a way to interpret what Kant meant by the transcendental schemata and it explains their role in Kant’s reasoning. The paper was presented at the Eighth International Kant Congress, in March 1995 in Memphis. The review committee put it as ‘outstanding’ in a ‘Special Distinction’ category (with four other papers). A commentator for this paper was invited: Prof. Jay F. Rosenberg, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His comments, ‘Comments on Professor Markku Leppäkoski, "The Transcendental Schemata’’’ are published in Hoke Robinson (ed.): Proceedings of the Eighth International Kant Congress, vol I.3, Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1995
3) ‘The Role of the Schematism’, presented at the Seventh Kant Conference organized by the Russian Kant Society in Svetlogorsk, Kaliningrad (Königsberg), September 1995, in Russian?
4) ‘The Two Steps of the B-Deduction’, Kantian Review, 2 (1998), 107-116.
5) ‘From Possibile Logicum to Logical Possibility’, in Lars Lindahl, Jan Odelstad and Rysiek Sliwinski (eds) Not Without Cause, Uppsala: Uppsala University, 1998.
6) "The Transcendental Must: Kant's Various Notions of Necessity", in Volker Gerhardt, Rolf-Peter Horstmann, Ralph Schumacher (eds): Kant und die Berliner Aufklärung, Akten des IX. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, Band II, Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter 2001, 783-790.
7) "Kritik av det praktiska förnuftet och det rena förnuftets morallag", introductory essay in Immanuel Kant's Kritik av det praktiska förnuftet, Thales 2004.
8) "Hur ren är Kritik av det rena förnuftet"?, introductory essay in Immanuel Kants Kritik av det rena förnuftet, Thales 2004.
9) "Kant i vår tid - i teoretisk filosofi", Filosofisk tidskrift nr 25, nov 2004.
10) "The concept of 'Reality' in Kant's critical philosophy" in Hamidreza Ayatollahy edg): Papers of International Conference on Two Hundred Years after Kant, Teheran: Allame Tabataba'i University 2005.
Above: in
Königsberg 1995.
Below: in the ‘hidden’ Tibetan kingdom of
Lo (or Mustang) 1993.
