My primary field of interest is the history of modern philosophy; in 2007, I obtained my Ph.D. on Spinoza’s philosophy. I currently work on the Kone Foundation project The Emergence of Pessimism. I am also a member of the Editorial Board of the newly launched Journal of Spinoza Studies (University of Groningen Press) and lead the multidisciplinary Romantic Era Research Group.
In the history of modern philosophy, two major strands have interested me the most: the relationship metaphysics has, on one hand, to developments in early-modern science, and, on the other, to evolving views of moral agency up to and beyond Kant. Accordingly, I have published on both so-called practical and theoretical topics in the era that spans, roughly, from Descartes to Nietzsche.
I will present “On the Possible Crusian Elements in Kant’s Theory of Moral Agency” in the conference Probability and the Soul – Metaphysical and Epistemological Issues in German and British Early Modern Philosophy (University of Tartu, 29 August 2025); here is the handout, here the full paper.
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