I started seriously studying rather late when I was twenty-seven years old. I did have some time to study musicology in the late 1990s, but then I got swept up by my career as a musician. During the year I spent in Paris, I realized that I have been interested in philosophy since I was a child and that I might be interested in studying it.

And I really was! I will always remember the time I borrowed Immanuel Kant’s Prolegomena from the Alexandria Library to study for my first tests. Even the blurb on the back cover grabbed my attention! On Wednesday mornings my wife would wonder how I could be so excited about taking a test. But that is not really surprising for me. Sometimes I got to write about the history of philosophy on a test for two or three hours, other times I got to write about the mysteries of metaphysics.

Actually, I only learned to enjoy studying when I discovered the philosophy courses. I completed my Master’s degree and studies quickly, within two years of starting them. I complemented that degree, which I got in the spring of 2007, with my post-graduate studies when I got a position at the University of Jyväskylä and I could start on my dissertation. For me, studying is a journey of exploration, like diving into the world’s age-old mysteries.