Mikko Puumala
 VTT, DSocSci


mimapuu@utu.fi




ORCID identifierhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5991-1798

TEERC website




Areas of expertise
Environmental ethics; space ethics; moral philosophy; climate ethics; philosophy of sustainability; philosophical methodology

Research community or research topic
Environmental Ethics for the Solar System

Biography




Research

I'm currently a TIAS Postdoctoral Fellow (2025-2028), working on my project Environmental Ethics for the Solar System. The aim of the project is to lay the philosophical groundwork for rigorous, systematic, and multidisciplinary discussion on how humanity should treat the rest of the accessible Solar System, provide tools for designing sustainable space regulation, and support argumentation for space diplomacy. The research is in the fields of environmental philosophy and space ethics. The overarching questions addressed in the project include 1) what kind of environmental values diverse space environments of the Solar System possess, 2) what kind of sustainability issues and limits there are to treating those environments as resources, and 3) what kind of ways of managing those resources are justified.

I also serve as the Director of the Turku Environmental Ethics Research Center (TEERC).



Teaching

I have taught environmental ethics, philosophical methods, and moral philosophy in the philosophy unit, and sustainable development in Turku School of Economics.



Publications


Last updated on 2025-19-09 at 11:01