Timo Airaksinen (Ph.D. Turku University, Finland 1975) is Professor of Ethics and Social Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Finland. He is a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge and Vice-President of the Philosophical Society of Finland and the International Berkeley Society. He is Managing Editor of Hobbes Studies. He has written The Philosophy of the Marquis de Sade (Routledge, 1995), The Philosophy of H. P. Lovecraft (Lang , 1988), and The Ethics of Coercion and Authority (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988). He has also written high school and university textbooks in philosophy and non-religious moral education. He is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Praxiology series within which he co-edited Practical Philosophy and Action Theory (Transaction, 1993) and Praxiology and the Philosophy of Technology (Transaction 2008). He is a Life Honorary Member of the Learned Society of Praxiology. His research interests include individual safety/security, trust, and secrets, mainly from the point of view of justice and power. He has been interested in professional ethics for a long time.