Author: Sara Heinamaa

Sara Heinänaa is Senior Lecturer of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She also works as Professor of Humanist Women’s Studies at the University of Oslo, and officiates as the president of the Nordic Society for Phenomenology. She has published widely on phenomenology and philosophy of mind-body, focusing on the problems of method, embodiment and affectivity. Her latest publications include Toward a Phenomenology of Sexual Difference: Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Beauvoir (2003), Metaphysics, Facticity and Interpretation (2003), co-edited with Dan Zahavi and Hans Ruin, and Consciousness: From Perception to Reflection (2007), co-edited with Vili Lähteenmäki and Pauliina Remes. Martina Reuter is Academy Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki and member of the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in Philosophical Psychology, Morality and Politics. Among her recent publications are “The Significance of Gendered Metaphors, ” Nora: Nordic Journal of Women’s Studies 14: 3 (2006); and “Mary Wollstonecraft and Catharine Macaulay on the Will, ” in J. Broad & K. Green (eds) Virtue, Liberty, and Toleration: Political Ideas of European Women, 1400-1800 (2007).