Research
Most of my research focuses on causation and explanation. I am particularly interested in exploring how a scientifically and metaphysically respectable understanding of these notions can inform debates in philosophy of mind and philosophy of AI. I also have some research interests in philosophy of language and epistemology.
Since August 2021, I am employed on my own research project: Causation, Correlation and Sensitivity. The project is funded by a Swedish Research Council international postdoc grant and will take place at Umeå University and Rutgers University over a period of three years. Before starting this project, I was a post-doc on the DFG-funded Determinism, Control, and the Consequence Argument project at the University of Cologne.
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This page provides links to my published work, including my PhD thesis, and lists my work in progress.
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See my CV for more info, such as employment history, teaching experience, and presentations.
Published Work
Offical copies are available via the links, open access PhilArchive drafts can be accessed by clicking the title. Please cite the official copies when available. Feel free to contact me if you have difficulty accessing them.
forthcoming
2022
2022
AI, Opacity, and Personal Autonomy
Philosophy and Technology 35 (4) pp. 1-20
2022
Philosophical Studies 179, pp. 2823–2843
2022
And Therefore (with Alex Sandgren)
Inquiry: Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy
2021
Causal Exclusion without Causal Sufficiency
Synthese 198, pp. 10341–10353
2021
2016
Basic Beliefs and The Perceptual Learning Problem
Episteme (13), pp. 133-149
PhD Thesis
Causal After All: A Model of Mental Causation for Dualists
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Supervision: Pär Sundström (primary supervisor), Gunnar Björnsson, Torfinn Huvenes (2016-2019), and Andreas Stokke (2014-2016)
In the Fall of 2019, I attained my PhD at Umeå University.
In my dissertation, I defend the controversial thesis that a standard dualist ontology of mind can allow for mental causation even if all events have sufficient physical causes. That is to say, I argue that it is possible for dualist mental phenomena to non-overdeterministically cause behavior in worlds where the physical realm is complete. I also critically assess previous proposals to this extent.
The dissertation was shortlisted for the 2020 Mercier Prize for monographs in metaphysics and first philosophy, awarded jointly by the philosophy departments at KU Leuven and Université Catholique de Louvain.
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A full text is available via DiVa.
Hard copies are available upon request.
