henning.strandin@philosophy.su.se
My research is mainly in causation in the context of the philosophy of science, and with a focus on the role of manipulation and intervention in theories of causation. I'm also interested in the logic of experimentation and causal learning. The title of my thesis is Taking Control -- The Role of Manipulation in Theories of Causation.
My secondary interest is in the history of the philosophy of science, and mainly Francis Bacon and the early early modern period.
Regular teaching
- Introduction to Formal Logic
- Introduction to Philosophy of Science
- Philosophy of Science I
- Knowledge, Science, and Research Methods
Publications
- Taking Control -- The Role of Manipulation in Theories of Causation (thesis)
- Review of Timothy Williamson's Tetralogue in "Tidskrift för politisk filosofi" (Swedish)
- Translation of Richard Dawid's "The No-Miracles Argument without Scientific Realism" for Filosofisk Tidskrift 2018/3. (In Swedish: "No-Miracles-argumentet utan vetenskaplig realism").
Accepted conference papers
- "Relative Specificity and Redundant Causation" (NNPS Workshop, Lund, 2014)
- "Francis Bacon and the Naked Intellect" (Thinking Through The Ages, Tromsö, 2014)
- "How incompatible are the scientifc methods of Bacon and Descartes?" (8th Nordic Early Modern Philosophy Workshop, Stockholm, 2015)
- "Taking Control: How Our Sense Of Agency Can Be A Reliable Sense For Causation" (MuST10, Sydney, 2017)
Administrative work
- Joint Stockholm/Uppsala seminar in the philosophy of science
- On the organizing committee: Philosophy of Language and Mind (PLM) Conference, Stockholm, 2011; The 42nd International Hume Society Conference, Stockholm, 2015; etc.
- Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace
Miscellanous
I partook in a 1-hour discussion about quantum physics on Swedish television. (In Swedish.)
