henning.strandin@philosophy.su.se
(Because the department is updating its web site, I'm still listed as a PhD student here, although I defended my thesis in 2020 and currently have a postdoc position.)
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 interests are in science education and the notion of science literacy, and the history of the philosophy of science and mainly Francis Bacon and the early early modern period.
Teaching
- Current Trends in the Philosophy of Causation
- Introduction to Philosophy of Science
- Philosophy of Science I
- Introduction to Formal Logic
- Knowledge, Science, and Research Methods
Publications and misc. writing
- Taking Control -- The Role of Manipulation in Theories of Causation (PhD thesis)
- "Varför har kausalitet varit så svårt att förstå?" at Svenskfilosofi.se (Swedish)
- 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)
- "Causal Interventionism for Everyone" (2022 Swedish Congress of Philosophy)
Administrative work
- Higher 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.)
