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 presented “Dynamic Monadology and Force Plenarism in Kant” in the RENEW18 conference Kant’s Dynamic Theory of Matter (Brussels 7–8 March, 2024); I gave a revised version of the paper, with the new title “The Early Kant’s Dual Layer Theory of Power,” in the 14th Nordic Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy (University of Tartu, 28–29 September); here is the paper.
I gave a talk titled “Conway’s Hylomorphic Panpsychism” in the conference Spinoza and Anne Conway: Panpsychism, Vitalism, Monism, and Beyond (University of St Andrews, 9 August 2024); here is the paper.
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