Happy to share that I’ve been awarded the Canadian Philosophical Association’s Nontenured Faculty Essay Prize for my paper, “Engineering the Concept of Pain for Clinical Practice.” Many thanks to the CPA! www.acpcpa.ca/articles/202...

Returning for another round of scientific sightseeing. #VSS2025

I just finished teaching a seminar course on Animal minds at Dartmouth, had a great time, and wrote a new 1000-Word Philosophy essay!

ལོ་གསར་ལ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས་ཞུ། Happy Losar!

We have a new essay!

"Philosophy of Pain" by Tiina Carita Rosenqvist

1000wordphilosophy.com/2025/01/08/p...

#pain #philosophy #philosophyofpain #whatispain

"Academics from poorer backgrounds introduce more novel scientific concepts, but are less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations, Nobel Prize nominations, and awards."

Sometimes I wonder what compelled my ancestors to settle in this unforgiving region, but I’m glad they did. It’s been a glorious week in Finland. Back to the US tomorrow.

It was good to be back at Tampere University, if only for a couple of days.

Our backyard this morning.

Writing a grant is great for developing ideas, but does your proposal actually affect whether or not you get funded?

Turns out, your full proposal does not affect your ranking much! Whaat? 😯

Simsek et al. 2024: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Hey, I’m no longer just a philosopher of color perception—my first pain-related work is officially out! I was holding out for the SharedIt link (since it’s behind a paywall), but my patience ran out… so here it is (if you’d like access but hit the paywall, let me know): doi.org/10.1007/978-...

Check out this fantastic new contribution to the first-gen philosophers platform by Jennifer Morton! www.firstgenphilosophers.com/contribution...

Hello, Bluesky! I never quite got into Twitter/X, but maybe this will be a better fit.