Maria Svedberg

PhD, Research Fellow/Lecturer

From May 2017 to June 2021, I'm the Principal investigator on the project, 'Power over the past and the laws of nature: implications for moral responsibility', with my colleague at Uppsala Erik Carlson. The project is funded by the Swedish Research Council.

During the fall of 2017 I am a visiting research fellow at The University of Manchester.

Research interests: Free will and moral responsibility

Philosophical interests: Metaphysics, ethics and decision theory.

Academic Background

• Principal Investigator for the project Power over the Past and the Laws of Nature: Implications for Moral Responsibility, Uppsala University, May 2017‒April 2020.
• Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California Riverside, July 2016‒April 2017.
• Lecturer (fixed-term position), Stockholm University, January 2016‒June 2016.
• Postdoctoral Fellow/Lecturer (fixed-term position), Stockholm University, April 2015‒December 2015.
• Ph.D. in Practical Philosophy, Stockholm University, March 2015.
• Lecturer (fixed-term position), Stockholm University, July 2014‒December 2014.
• Ph.D. Fellow, Stockholm University, October 2007‒December 2013.
• M.A. in Practical Philosophy, Stockholm University, August 2007.
• Lecturer/instructor, Stockholm University, December 2006‒September 2007.

International Research Visits

• Visiting Research Fellow, University of Manchester, August 2017‒
• Visiting Graduate Student, University of California Riverside, February 2012‒July 2012.
• Visiting Graduate Student, Florida State University, March 2011‒May 2011.

Publications

• "Consequentialism and Free Will: The Conditional Analysis Resuscitated" (with Torbjörn Tännsjö). The Harvard Review of Philosophy XXIV (2017): 23‒41.
• "Bibliometric Analysis of Two Subdomains in Philosophy: Free Will and Sorites" (with Per Ahlgren, Peter Pagin and Olle Persson). Scientometrics 103 (2015): 47‒73.
• The Consequence Argument: An Essay on an Argument for the Incompatibility of Free Will and Determinism. Doctoral Thesis in Practical Philosophy. Stockholm: Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University, 2014.
• Recension av Thomas Pink 'Kort om fri vilja'. Filosofisk tidskrift, 2012/3.
• ”John Perrys invändning mot konsekvensargumentet”. Filosofisk tidskrift, 2008/4.

Teaching

Stockholm University

• Applied Ethics (2006)
• Argumentation, Semantics and Logic* (2007‒2014)
• Freedom of the Will* (2008‒2010)
• Metaethics II* (2014‒2015)
• Metaethics I* (2015‒2016)
• The History of Philosophy* (2016)
• Free Will and Moral Responsibility* (2016)
• Normative Ethics: Future Generations* (2017)

Uppsala University

• Ethics* (2014‒2015)
• Metaethics II* (2014)
• Metaethics I* (2016)
• Metaphysics* (2017‒)
• Critical Thinking* (2018‒)

*Lecturer

Conference Presentations (selection)

"Consequentialism and Free Will: The Conditional Analysis Resuscitated" at:

• The 68th New Mexico Texas Philosophical Society Annual Meeting (2017), University of New Mexico
• Women in Philosophy: Philosophy in Action (2017), Uppsala University

"David Lewis’s Local Miracle Compatibilism" at:

• The British Postgraduate Philosophy Association Conference (2012), University of Edinburgh
• The Graduate Philosophy Conference on Free Will (2012), Florida State University
• The Society for Exact Philosophy Conference (2012), Ohio State University
• The 16th Oxford Philosophy Graduate Conference (2012), University of Oxford

"The Relevance of the Consequence Argument" at:

• The 15th Oxford Philosophy Graduate Conference (2011), University of Oxford

Invited Talks

"Free Will and Determinism: David Lewis’s Local Miracle Compatibilism" at:

• The Colloquium at California State University Long Beach, April 26, 2012.

"Alternative Pasts and Practical Reasoning" at:

• The Stockholm June Workshop in Philosophy, June 3, 2014.

"Consequentialism and Free Will: The Conditional Analysis Resuscitated" at:

• The Royal Institute of Philosophy Colloquium, Manchester Metropolitan University, October 12, 2017.