Academic Background: I started out my academic journey in 2017 studying behavioral science at Kristianstad university. After an exchange at Yonsei University in South Korea I returned to Lund, Sweden, and switched disciplines to theoretical philosophy at the department of philosophy at Lund University.
During my third semester at Lund, I became interested in the epistemological consequences of metalogical results, a bit of a tradition at the Lund department. I developed these ideas in my Bachelor thesis where I argued that knowledge is unanalyzable. In my master year I studied logic, philosophy of mind and language, ontology and the philosophy of implicit bias. During this last course I became interested in Eric Schwitzgebel’s theory of beliefs which I then went on to defend in my Master thesis.
After being accepted to McGill university I was elated to come and take advantage of the breadth of expertise that the philosophy department is home too. This quickly had an impact on me in exposing to historical, moral, and continental debates and approaches in philosophy. Especially formative was the course on the ethics of belief where I was exposed to a new set of questions pertaining to beliefs – having previously been primarily interested in the questions pertaining to the metaphysics of belief and traditional epistemology. The questions in the ethics of belief I am interested in concern what reasons can be reasons for belief and what the nature of these reasons are. In this literature I also saw a clear lack of influence from different accounts of the nature of belief. This lacuna inspired me to apply my knowledge of epistemology and philosophy of mind to address the question of how the nature of belief is related to its ethics. This is the project I am currently pursuing for my PhD thesis.