Editors

About the Editor

Miira Tuominen is professor of philosophy at the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy at University of Jyväskylä. She is the leader of the project Nature and Moral Status of Non-Human Animals in Antiquity and Middle Ages financed by the KONE foundation (2019-22). After defending her PhD thesis at the University of Helsinki in 2001, Tuominen has worked in Helsinki, Chicago, Oslo, and Stockholm at Universities and Centers for Advanced Study and since 2008 at the University of Jyväskylä. Her publications cover many different thematic areas in ancient philosophy. In addition to the monographs, Apprehension and Argument: Ancient Theories of Starting Points for Knowledge (2007) and Ancient Commentators on Plato and Aristotle (2009), Miira Tuominen has co-edited several collections of articles and published articles and book chapters on, for example, philosophical psychology, theory of argumentation, happiness or the good life and the arguments about taking one’s own life in Plato’s Phaedo. Her newest work concerns Porphyry’s On Abstinence, and Tuominen has just finished a monograph manuscript on the treatise as well as articles on, e.g., Porphyry’s argument for animal justice, his assumptions concerning gender and femininity in living beings, as well as the role of the notion of law and conventions in the arguments against animal sacrifice.