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Bram Vaassen

I am an associate professor in philosophy at Umeå University, where I research and teach in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of science. Most of my research centers around causation.

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Affiliation
Associate professor at Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies Section: Philosophy
Location
A, Humanisthuset Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå

Most of my research focuses on causation and explanation. I am particularly interested in exploring how a scientifically and metaphysically respectable understanding of these notions can inform debates in philosophy of mind and philosophy of AI. I also have some research interests in philosophy of language and epistemology.

I joined the institute for Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies in 2024. Before that I was an associate professor at HumLab. I also finished two post-doctoral research projects. From Fall 2021 to Fall 2024, I was employed on my own research project 'Causation, Correlation and Sensitivity'. The project was funded by a Swedish Research Council international postdoc grant and took place at Umeå University and Rutgers University, where I spent a two-year research visit. From Spring 2020 to Spring 2021, I was a post-doc on the DFG-funded Determinism, Control, and the Consequence Argument project at the University of Cologne.

In the Fall of 2019, I received a PhD in philosophy at Umeå University. My dissertation, defended the controversial thesis that a standard dualist ontology of mind can allow for mental causation even if all events have sufficient physical causes.

See for more information on my research and publications.

Asian Journal of Philosophy, Springer Nature 2024, Vol. 3, (2)
Vaassen, Bram
Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Routledge 2024, Vol. 102, (4) : 978-998
Vaassen, Bram
Analysis, Oxford University Press 2023, Vol. 83, (1) : 98-106
Vaassen, Bram
Philosophical Studies, Springer 2022, Vol. 179 : 2823-2843
Vaassen, Bram
Philosophy & Technology, Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2022, Vol. 35, (4)
Vaassen, Bram
Erkenntnis, Netherlands: Springer 2021, Vol. 86, (3) : 543-552
Vaassen, Bram
Synthese, Springer 2021, Vol. 198 : 10341-10353
Vaassen, Bram
Inquiry
Vaassen, Bram; Sandgren, Alex
Umeå studies in philosophy, 13
Vaassen, Bram
Episteme: A journal of individual and social epistemology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2016, Vol. 13, (1) : 133-149
Vaassen, Bram

Research projects

1 August 2021 until 31 July 2024