Severi Hämäri

Curriculum vitae

• Basic degree: Master of Arts
• University: Helsinki
• Major: Theoretical philosophy; Minor: Mathematics
• Date of completion: 6/10/2008
• The title and grade of Master's Thesis: The Tarskian Truth, On some background assumptions and consequences of a truth definition (in Finnish), Magna Cum Laude Approbatur
• The title of minor's Laudatur Thesis: On the reflection principle in set theory (in Finnish)

• Date of acceptance as a doctoral student: 1/1/2009
• Major subject: Theoretical philosophy
• University: Helsinki, Finland
• Names of supervisors at Helsinki: Docent, University Lecturer Panu Raatikainen, Docent, University Lecturer Tapani Hyttinen
• State: All but dissertation
• Title of the dissertation project proposal: Eliminability and Analyticity

• Rafal Urbaniak and K. Severi Hämäri, Busting a myth about Lesniewski and definitions (appeared i-First atFeb. 1^st 2012 in History and Philosophy of Logic: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01445340.2011.583771139)
• K. Severi Hämäri, The Report of Department of Mathematics and Statistics' (UH) Equality Project (2007-2008) (in Finnish), Yliopistopaino, Helsinki, 2008.

• Finnish: mother tongue
• English: native-like skill level
• Swedish: good, German: basics, Latin: Basics

• With Rafal Urbaniak, Busting a myth about Lesniewski and definitions presented at 14th Congress of Logic, Philosophy and Methodology of Science, Nancy, France, 2011;
• On Elimination, Composition, and Sense – A Conceptual Study of J. Horty's Interpretation of Frege's Account of Definitions, presented at Congress for Doctoral Students in Philosophy, Tampere, Finland, Nov. 2011

• In the research seminar of logic, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Helsinki: 'Mathematical Perspective on a Philosophical Topic - Tarski and Truth Definitions' (Dec. 3rd 2008), and 'What is the standard theory of definitions?' (Nov. 3rd 2010)

• In the research seminar of logic, Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies: 'Busting a Myth about Leśniewski and Definitions' (based on a jointly written paper with Rafal Urbaniak, May 13^th 2011)

• Subject teachers education program (STEP) (English as a medium of teaching), Department of education studies, University of Helsinki; accepted as a student: 5/31/2011; estimated completion of the degree in education: 5/31/2012

• 2009: Researcher in an Academy of Finland project, Reference to abstract entities, led by G.Sandu
• 2010: Finnish Cultural Foundation: 21.000 e for PhD research

• Part time teacher, Department of mathematics and statistics, University of Helsinki, 2002-2008;
• Research assistant, the Equality project of the Department of mathematics and statistics, University of Helsinki, April-May 2008

• Organizer of the weekly meetings of graduate students in philosophy at Helsinki, Post-grad coffee, 2010-2011