Lilli Alanen

Lilli Gullichsen was born on 16 October 1941 in Pori, Finland.{{Cite web|last1=Heinämaa|first1=Sara|last2=Remes|first2=Pauliina|date=2021-11-02|title=Lilli Alanen 1941–2021|url=https://www.hs.fi/muistot/art-2000008373005.html|access-date=2021-11-02|website=Helsingin Sanomat|language=Finnish|archive-date=2 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211102002749/https://www.hs.fi/muistot/art-2000008373005.html|url-status=live}}{{cite journal|last=Tuusvuori|first=Jarkko S.|date=January 2014|title=Professori Lilli Alasen vieraana: Kokeillen ja tapellen omille teille|url=https://netn.fi/sites/www.netn.fi/files/netn141-03.pdf|url-status=live|journal=Niin & näin|pages=6–12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211023091422/https://netn.fi/sites/www.netn.fi/files/netn141-03.pdf|archive-date=23 October 2021|access-date=2 November 2021|language=fi}} She studied philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris, where she was a student of Ferdinand Alquié, and the University of Helsinki, where she was a student of Ingmar Pörn and Georg Henrik von Wright.

In the 1980s she taught at the University of Pittsburgh in the US and in Helsinki before being named professor of philosophy at Uppsala University in 1997.

Alanen specialised in the history of philosophy, with particular interest in René Descartes and David Hume. She also contributed to feminist philosophy.

In her critically received bookSee, for instance, Sean Crawford, "Descartes's Concept of Mind is a rigorous and imaginative work, and a worthy corrective to the popular image of Descartes's philosophy of mind as narrowly concerned only with the indubitably known immaterial mind of the solitary meditator." Metapsychology, Volume: 8, Number: 36, 2004. on Descartes (2003), Alanen goes beyond mere history, drawing out the historical antecedents and the intellectual evolution of Descartes' thinking about the mind, showing how his emphasis on the embodiment of the mind has implications far more complex and interesting than the usual dualist account associated with his thinking suggests.

Alanen was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018.{{Cite web|title=Lilli Alanen|url=https://www.amacad.org/person/lilli-alanen|access-date=2021-11-02|website=|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|language=en}} She was also a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.{{cite web|title=Gruppe 3: Idéfag|url=https://www.dnva.no/c26849/artikkel/vis.html?tid=40104|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150109221405/http://www.dnva.no/c26849/artikkel/vis.html?tid=40104|archivedate=9 January 2015|publisher=Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters|language=no}}

Alanen was a member of the industrialist Ahlström family. Her mother was a Finnish art collector and patron of the arts Maire Gullichsen and her father the industrialist Harry Gullichsen. Her siblings were the Finnish architect Kristian Gullichsen and Johan Gullichsen, a professor of engineering. The family home at Noormarkku near Pori is the world-famous modernist house Villa Mairea designed by architect Alvar Aalto.Kirsi Gullichsen and Ulla Kinnunen, Inside the Villa Mairea, Alvar Aalto Foundation, Jyväskylä, 2009. In 1964 she married the Finnish artist Sakari Alanen (born 1940), and they had three children. They were divorced in 1989. In 1992, Alanen married the American philosopher Frederick Stoutland (1933–2011).{{Cite web|date=2011-12-07|title=Frederick Stoutland, 78|url=https://www.southernminn.com/northfield_news/archives/article_0dc9e01a-bcf5-554c-8c88-e1abf60e6517.html|access-date=2021-11-02|website=Northfield News|language=en}}

Alanen died on 22 October 2021 in Helsinki.{{Cite web|last=Weinberg|first=Justin|date=2021-10-28|title=Lilli Alanen (1941–2021)|url=https://dailynous.com/2021/10/28/lilli-alanen-1941-2021/|access-date=2021-10-30|website=Daily Nous|language=en-US|archive-date=30 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211030090136/https://dailynous.com/2021/10/28/lilli-alanen-1941-2021/|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|date=2021-10-29|title=Till minne: Lilli Alanen|url=https://www.dn.se/familj/till-minne-lilli-alanen/|access-date=2021-11-02|work=Dagens Nyheter|language=sv}}

• Lilli Alanen, Studies in Cartesian epistemology and philosophy of mind, Acta Philosophica Fennica, Helsinki, 1982.{{Cite journal|last=Beyssade|first=Jean-Marie|date=1983|title=Review of Studies in Cartesian Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind (Acta Philosophica Fennica, vol. 33)|journal=Revue philosophique de la France et de l'étranger|volume=173|issue=4|pages=465–467|issn=0035-3833|jstor=41093590}}
• Lilli Alanen and Sara Heinämaa (eds.), Commonality and Particularity in Ethics, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 1997.
• Lilli Alanen and Charlotte Witt (eds.), Feminist Reflections on the History of Philosophy (The New Synthese Historical Library), Springer, New York, 2004.
• Lilli Alanen, Descartes's Concept of Mind, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2003.Reviews of Descartes's Concept of Mind:
• {{Cite journal|last=Forstrom|first=Joanna|date=2005|title=Descartes's Concept of Mind (review)|journal=Journal of the History of Philosophy|language=en|volume=43|issue=1|pages=115–116|doi=10.1353/hph.2005.0006|s2cid=170820067|issn=1538-4586}}
• {{Cite journal|last=Jolley|first=Nicholas|date=February 2005|title=Descartes's Concept of Mind; Descartes's Theory of Mind|journal=The Philosophical Review|language=en|volume=114|issue=1|pages=118–122|doi=10.1215/00318108-114-1-118}}
• {{Cite journal|last=Cottingham|first=John|date=2004|title=Descartes's Concept of Mind|journal=International Philosophical Quarterly|volume=44|issue=4|pages=594–596|doi=10.5840/ipq200444454|issn=0019-0365}}
• {{cite journal |last1=Lolordo |first1=Antonia |date=Fall 2005 |title=Book Review: Descartes's concept of mind |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jhbs.20121 |journal=Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences |volume=41 |issue=4 |pages=396 |doi=10.1002/jhbs.20121 |access-date=November 2, 2021|url-access=subscription }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Lee |first1=R. T. |date=May 2004 |title=Descartes's concept of mind |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/225778790/FB0DF1CEA84E4007PQ |journal=Choice Reviews |volume=41 |issue=9 |pages=1675 |access-date=November 2, 2021 |id={{ProQuest|225778790}}}}
• {{cite journal |last1=Matthews |first1=Gareth B. |date=June 11, 2004 |title=Or alternatively |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/234348408/FB0DF1CEA84E4007PQ |journal=The Times Literary Supplement |issue=5280 |pages=22 |access-date=November 2, 2021 |id={{ProQuest|234349408}}}}

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• [https://archive.today/20020625204335/http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~scctr/philosophy/alanen.html Bibliography of Alanen's work]

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