Jussi K. Niemelä
About Me
I’m a natural sciences oriented skeptic, atheist, humanist and freethinker; politically green, but not correct; my outlook is liberal cosmopolitanism; I also write poems, rock lyrics and write science books, book reviews & articles; I’m the Chairman of The Union of Finnish Freethinkers, a member of the board of The Finnish Skeptics’ Society, The Finnish Darwin Society, Helsinki Humanists and the Finnish Humanist Union, and the Chairman of the Helsinki Freethinkers, and the editor-in-chief of the Humanisti (The Humanist) and Vapaa Ajattelija (Free Thinker) magazine (under IHEU).
Interests
- Bushido
- stoicism
- Epicureanism
- science (sosiobiology
- behavioural genetics
- evolutionary psychology
- intelligence research
- cognitive science of religion)
- philosophy(epistemology
- philosophy of science
- ethics
- axiology
- consciousness
- humanism
- cosmopolitanism
- liberal education
- human rights; Hume
- Nussbaum
- Sihvola
- Russell
- Nietzsche
- Dennett
- Niiniluoto
- Kierkegaard
- Schopenhauer)
- nature
- literature
- music
- films
- art
- bicycling
- sauntering
- lyrics
- poetry
- pseudo-science criticism (e.g. postmodernist women's studies
- queer-theory
- psychoanalysis
- postmodernism in general).
Favorite Movies
- Andrei Tarkovski: The Mirror
- Stalker
- Sacrifice
- Solaris
- Nostalgia
- Andrei Rublev
- Ivan's Childhood
- Akira Kurosawa
- Jari Halonen: Aleksis Kiven elämä
- Lipton Cockton
- Mika Kaurismäki: Arvottomat
- Valehtelija
- Klaani
- Rosso
- Aki Kaurismäki: Mies vailla menneisyyttä
- Ariel
- Varjoja paratiisissa
- Boheemielämää
- Rikos ja rangaistus
- Kauas pilvet karkaavat
- Juha
- I hired a contract killer
- Auli Mantila: Neitoperho
- Luis Bunuel
- Federico Fellini
- Francois Truffaut
- Vittorio de Sica: Ladri di biciclette
- David Cronenberg: Dead Ringers
- Jim Jarmusch
- David Lynch
- Michael Haneke
- Werner Herzog.
Favorite Music
Favorite Books
- Hagakure
- Go Rin No Sho
- Bushido
- Martha C. Nussbaum
- Juha Sihvola
- Aleksis Kivi
- Franz Kafka
- James Joyce
- Milan Kundera
- Virginia Woolf
- August Strindberg
- John Steinbeck
- Ernest Hemingway
- Moliére
- George Orwell
- J.M. Coetzee
- Philip Roth
- Dave Eggers
- Aksel Sandemose
- Anton Tshehov
- Nikolai Gogol
- Fedor Dostojevski
- Marja-Liisa Vartio
- Pentti Saarikoski
- Eeva-Liisa Manner
- Edith Södergran
- Hannu Salama
- Timo K. Mukka
- Yrjö Kokko
- Juhani Aho
- Volter Kilpi
- F. E. Sillanpää
- Paavo Haavikko
- Joel Lehtonen
- Arvid Järnefelt
- Veikko Huovinen
- Auli Mantila
- Matti Yrjänä Joensuu
- Matti Rönkä
- Esa Sariola.
My Blogs |
Team Members |
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| Go Rin No Sho |
