About me
I am an associate professor and senior lecturer in philosophy, specializing in practical philosophy.
I’m a researcher, teacher, and aspiring author.
Philosopher in Umeå
I’m an associate professor of philosophy at Umeå University. I have previously held post-doc positions and fixed-term lecturer jobs at Stockholm University and the University of Gothenburg, done research at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences at Uppsala, and taught courses in philosophy at the Senior Citizen’s University in Stockholm.
My research focuses on free will, moral responsibility, rationality, respect, and the philosophy of psychiatry. I’ve also done research and published in applied ethics, primarily animal ethics.
I currently teach courses within the broader domains of moral philosophy and political philosophy and have previously taught various courses in history of philosophy.
I received my Ph.D. in philosophy in 2012 at Stockholm University with a dissertation titled Practical Perspective Compatibilism, in which I developed a Kantianism-inspired version of compatibilism. In 2020, I received the Swedish academic title of docent at Umeå University.
Nowadays, I write fiction as well as scholarly texts.
CONTACT
My academic, peer-reviewed papers can be found on Philpeople
My Swedish-language Instagram features my drawings, as well as photos of my dogs.
I have a mostly English-language Facebook page as Sofia Jeppsson, and a separate author page, Sofia Jeppsson, författare , where I post drawings I make of characters and scenes from my fictional stories.
CONTACT
My academic, peer-reviewed papers can be found on Philpeople
My Swedish-language Instagram features my drawings, as well as photos of my dogs.
I have a mostly English-language Facebook page as Sofia Jeppsson, and a separate author page, Sofia Jeppsson, författare , where I post drawings I make of characters and scenes from my fictional stories.
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Two new publications: On patronizing praise and madness and problems of knowledge
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Two new publications: On patronizing praise and madness and problems of knowledge
I have published two new papers. I have written Patronizing Praise together with Daphne Brandenburg. The paper focuses on subtle cases, in which it might be difficult to pinpoint why the praise feels [...]