Biography
Esa Saarinen (b. July 27, 1953 in Hyvinkää, Finland) is a Finnish philosopher who is currently on a five-year appointment as
professor of systems sciences at the Systems Analysis Laboratory of the Helsinki University of Technology,
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teaching applied philosophy, systems intelligence and creative problem solving.
Saarinen completed his Ph.D. degree in 1978 at the University of Helsinki, where he has since held docentship.
His extrovert public persona - he became known as the punk doctor - was reflected in his lectures at the university,
which drew increasingly large audiences until the late 1990s.
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