Career
In her critically received book on Descartes (2003), Alanen goes beyond mere history, drawing out the historical antecedents and the intellectual evolution of Descartes" thinking about the mind, showing how his emphasis on the embodiment of the mind has implications far more complex and interesting than the usual dualist account associated with his thinking suggests. Her mother was Finnish art collector and patronage Maire Gullichsen. Lilli Alanen, Descartes"s Concept of Mind, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2003.
Lilli Alanen and Charlotte Witt (eds), Feminist Reflections on the History of Philosophy (The New Synthese Historical Library), Springer, New York, 2004.
Lilli Alanen and Sara Heinämaa (eds), Commonality and Particularity in Ethics, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 1997. Lilli Alanen, Studies in Cartesian epistemology and philosophy of mind, Acta philosophica Fennica, Helsinki, 1982.
