Publications

Polaris Koi, Jukka Sivonen, Vuokko Härmä, Sakari Karvonen & Helena Siipi (2025). “Nudge the rich! The case for targeting the top 10% in behavioural climate policy.” Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 12: 1559.

Polaris Koi (2024). ”Willpower as a metaphor.” In Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility, vol. 8 (eds. Santiago Amaya, David Shoemaker, & Manuel Vargas). Oxford: OUP.

Polaris Koi (2023). ”Accessing self-control.” Erkenntnis 88: 3239–3258.

Polaris Koi (2022). ”Toward informed user decisions about pharmacological cognitive enhancement”. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 31 (4), 545-556.

Polaris Koi (2022). ”Self-control modulates information salience.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, E230. (commentary)

Polaris Koi (2022). ”Demarcation, instantiation and individual traits: realist social ontology for mental disorders.” Philosophical Psychology 35 (6): 793–813.

Helena Siipi & Polaris Koi (2021). ”The ethics of climate nudges: Central issues for applying choice architecture interventions to climate policy”. European Journal of Risk Regulation, 13(2), 218–235.

Polaris Koi (2021). ”Genetics on the neurodiversity spectrum: Genetic, phenotypic and endophenotypic continua in autism and ADHD.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science89: 52–62.

Polaris Koi & Olli I. Heimo (2021). ”Koneoppimisalgoritmit mahdollistavat jo ihmisen parantelun” (Machine learning algorithms enable human enhancement). in Panu Raatikainen (ed.), Tekoäly, ihminen ja yhteiskunta: Filosofisia näkökulmia (AI, humanity and society: Philosophical perspectives). Helsinki: Gaudeamus.

Polaris Koi (2021). ”Born Which Way? ADHD, Situational Self-Control, and Responsibility”. Neuroethics 14: 205–218.

Polaris Koi, Susanne Uusitalo and Jarno Tuominen (2018). “Self-Control in Responsibility Enhancement and Criminal Rehabilitation.” Criminal Law and Philosophy 12: 227–244.

Juha Räikkä and Polaris Koi (2016). “Mahdolliset ja mahdottomat poliittiset järjestelyt” (Possible and Impossible Political Arrangements). in Ilkka Niiniluoto, Tuomas Tahko & Teemu Toppinen (eds.), Mahdollisuus. Helsinki: Suomen Filosofinen Yhdistys (Philosophical Society of Finland).

Non-peer reviewed articles and book chapters

Polaris Koi (2022). “Lectio Praecursoria: Itsekontrollin saavutettavuusteoria ja sen implikaatioita” (The Access Theory of Self-Control and Its Implications). Ajatus 79. 

Polaris Koi & Kaisa Kärki (2020). ”Toimijuuden tutkimus monitieteisessä lukupiirissä” (Study of agency in a multidisciplinary reading group). Niin & Näin 3 (20): 129.

Polaris Koi (2018). “Human Enhancement for Freedom.” In Ezio di Nucci & Stefan Storrie (eds.), 1984 and Philosophy. Chicago: Open Court.

Book reviews

Polaris Koi (2019). “Behaving: What’s Genetic, What’s Not, and Why Should We Care? By Kenneth F. Schaffner, New York, Oxford University Press.” Philosophical Psychology.

Polaris Koi (2018). “Review – In Praise of Desire, by Nomy Arpaly and Timothy Schroeder, Oxford University Press, 2014.” Metapsychology online reviews.

Policy brief

Polaris Koi & Helena Siipi (2021). ”Eettisesti kestävillä tuuppauksilla kohti ilmastoviisasta toimintaa.” (Ethically sustainable nudging for climate wise action). Climate-Nudge.