Lilli Kristina Alanen (née Gullichsen; 16 October 1941 – 22 October 2021) was a Finnish philosopher and Professor Emeritus of History of Philosophy at Department of Philosophy at Uppsala University.
[2] Alanen specialised in the history of philosophy, with particular interest in René Descartes and David Hume.
[2] In her critically received book[3] 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.
The family home at Noormarkku near Pori is the world-famous modernist house Villa Mairea designed by architect Alvar Aalto.
[6] In 1964 she married the Finnish artist Sakari Alanen (born 1940), and they had three children.