Person
Senior Lecturer, Reader
- Theoretical Philosophy
- Department of Philosophy
Assistant 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 and Assistant Head of Department managing research at the department of philosophy.
My dissertation (2009) was on the metaphysics of time and persistence, and I defended the notion that objects "endure" (in the technical sense) in B-time.
Over the last years my research has focused primarily on social ontology and on the philosophy of causation. 2011 I was awarded VR-funding for the project Social Ontology and Persistence, and 2015 RJ-funding for the project Causation in the Social Domain.
I have been a visiting researcher at The Centre for Time, University of Sydney (July-Dec 2006), Institute of Philosophy, University of Neuchâtel (May 2017), and at The Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh (April 2018).
I was Director of Doctoral Studies between 2015-2018, and Assistant Head of Department - managing doctoral studies and research - between 2019-2022. During the latter period I was also Deputy Head of Department.
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. (2022). Sparse Causation and Mere Abundant Causation. Philosophical Studies, 179, 3259-3280. 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
- 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