Person

Senior Lecturer, Reader
- Theoretical Philosophy
- Department of Philosophy
Assistant Head of Department, Deputy Head of Department
- Department of Philosophy
Contact information
E-mail tobias.hansson_wahlbergfil.luse
Phone +46 46 222 36 94
Room LUX:B551
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30
I am Associate Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, Deputy Head of Department and Assistant Head of Department managing research and doctoral studies at the department.
I was awarded my PhD in December 2009. The dissertation (a compilation thesis) was about how physical, macroscopic objects persist through time, given B-time.
Over the last years my research has focused primarily on social ontology. Autumn 2011 I was granted funding by the Swedish Research Council (VR) for my project "Social Ontology and Theories of Persistence", and autumn 2015 I was granted funding by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) for my project "Causation in the Social Domain".
I have been a visiting researcher at the following institutions:
Centre for Time, University of Sydney, Australia, July-December 2006;
Institute of Philosophy, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, May 2017;
Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, USA, April 2018.
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
- Causation in the Social Domain (research leader)
- Social Ontology and Theories of Persistence (research leader)
Books (1)
Editorships (1)
Articles (19)
- Hansson Wahlberg, T. (accepted/in press). Sparse Causation and Mere Abundant Causation. Philosophical Studies. Springer.
- Hansson Wahlberg, T. (2021). The Creation of Institutional Reality, Special Theory of Relativity, and Mere Cambridge Change. Synthese, 198, 5835-5860. Springer.
- Hansson Wahlberg, T. (2020). Causal Powers and Social Ontology. Synthese, 197, 1357-1377. Springer.
- Hansson Wahlberg, T. (2019). Active Powers and Passive Powers - Do Causal Interactions Require Both?. Philosophia, 47, 1603-1612. Springer.
- Hansson Wahlberg, T. (2019). Why the Social Sciences are Irreducible. Synthese, 196, 4961-4987. Springer.
- Hansson Wahlberg, T. (2017). Meso-level Objects, Powers, and Simultaneous Causation. Metaphysica, 18, 107-125. Springer.
- Hansson Wahlberg, T. (2014). Causally Redundant Social Objects: Rejoinder to Elder-Vass. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 44, 798-809. SAGE Publications.
- Hansson Wahlberg, T. (2014). Elder-Vass on the Causal Power of Social Structures. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 44, 774-791. SAGE Publications.
- Hansson Wahlberg, T. (2014). Institutional Objects, Reductionism and Theories of Persistence. Dialectica, 68, 525-562. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Hansson Wahlberg, T. (2014). The Endurance/Perdurance Controversy is No Storm in a Teacup. Axiomathes, 24, 463-482. Springer.
- Hansson Wahlberg, T. (2011). Can Persistence be a Matter of Convention?. Axiomathes, 21, 507-529. Springer.
- Hansson Wahlberg, T. (2010). Names Introduced with the Help of Unsatisfied Sortal Predicates: Reply to Aranyosi. Axiomathes, 20, 511-514. Springer.
- Hansson Wahlberg, T. (2010). The Tenseless Copula in Temporal Predication. Erkenntnis, 72, 267-280. Springer.
- Hansson Wahlberg, T. (2009). 4-D Objects and Disposition Ascriptions. Philosophical Papers, 38, 35-72. Taylor & Francis.
- Hansson Wahlberg, T. (2009). Endurance Per Se in B-time. Metaphysica, 10, 175-183. Springer.
- Hansson Wahlberg, T. (2009). Is Phosphorus Hesperus?. Axiomathes, 19, 101-102. Springer.
- Hansson Wahlberg, T. (2008). Can I be an instantaneous stage and yet persist through time?. Metaphysica, 9, 235-239. Springer.
- Hansson Wahlberg, T. (2007). The problem(s) of change revisited. Dialectica, 61, 265-274. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Hansson Wahlberg, T. (2006). Too Many Dispositional Properties. SATS Northern European Journal of Philosophy, 7, 37-42. De Gruyter.
Book chapters (2)
- Hansson Wahlberg, T. (2019). Are there any Institutional Facts?. In Hansson Wahlberg, T. & Stenwall, R. (Eds.) Maurinian Truths : Essays in Honour of Anna-Sofia Maurin on her 50th Birthday (pp. 83-88). Department of Philosophy, Lund University.
- Hansson Wahlberg, T. (2013). Dissolving McTaggart's Paradox. In Svennerlind, C., Almäng, J. & Ingthorsson, R. (Eds.) Johanssonian Investigations (pp. 240-258), 5. Ontos Verlag.
Conference contributions (1)
Supervision at Lund University (1)
Teaching

Senior Lecturer, Reader
- Theoretical Philosophy
- Department of Philosophy
Assistant Head of Department, Deputy Head of Department
- Department of Philosophy
Contact information
E-mail tobias.hansson_wahlbergfil.luse
Phone +46 46 222 36 94
Room LUX:B551
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30