Ida Lina Stina Jansson
Online version, March 2023
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Employment
University of Nottingham,
Associate professor of Philosophy, 2018 (August)-
with a break for maternity leave 2020 (October) - 2021(May)
Assistant professor of Philosophy, 2016 (January)-2018 (July)
Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 2011 (July)-2015 (December)
Education
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
M.Sc. in Mathematical Physics: Gravity, Particles and Fields, School of Mathematics, distinction, 2022
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Ph.D. in Philosophy, 2011
Dissertation: "Explanation and Dependence"
Committee: Lawrence Sklar (chair), Gordon Belot, Laura Ruetsche, and Finn Larson (Department of Physics)
M.A in Philosophy, 2008
University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
B.A. in Physics and Philosophy, first class degree, 2004
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics
Areas of Competence
Epistemology, Logic, and Aesthetics
Peer Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters
The Explanatory Value of Selecting the Appropriate Scale(s), chapter in the Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Physics, eds. Eleanor Knox and Alastair Wilson, 2021
Can Pragmatism about Quantum Theory Handle Objectivity About Explanations?, chapter in Scientific Realism and The Quantum. eds. Steven French and Juha Saatsi, 2020
Network Explanations and Explanatory Directionality, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 375, 2020
Explanatory Abstractions, with Juha Saatsi, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 70(3), 2019
When are Structural Equation Models Apt? Causation versus Grounding, chapter in Explanation Beyond Causation, eds. Juha Saatsi and Alexander Reutlinger, Oxford University Press, 2018
Explanatory Asymmetries, Ground, and Ontological Dependence, Erkenntnis, 82(17), 2017
Quantitative Parsimony: Probably for the Better, with Jonathan Tallant, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 68(3), 2017
Everettian Quantum Mechanics and Physical Probability: Against the Principle of "State Supervenience", Studies In History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 53, 2016
Explanatory Asymmetries: Laws of Nature Rehabilitated, Journal of Philosophy, 112(11), 2015
Causal Theories of Explanation and the Challenge of Explanatory Disagreement, Philosophy of Science, 81(3), 2014
Newton's "satis est": A New Explanatory Role for Laws, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 44(4), 2013
Reviews
Review of Jan Faye, The Nature of Scientific Thinking: On Interpretation, Explanation and Understanding, in International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 29(2), 2015
Review of Michael Strevens, Depth: An Account of Scientific Explanation, in Philosophical Review, 121(4), 2012
Review of Alisa Bokulich, Reexamining the Quantum-Classical Relation: Beyond Reductionism and Pluralism with Gordon Belot in Studies In History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 41(1), 2010
Selected Awards, Prizes, and Grants
Academic Cross-Disciplinary Training Fellowship, Templeton Foundation, 2019-2022
Leverhulme Research Fellowship, 2019-2020 (declined to take up the Templeton ACT fellowship).
"Explanatory versus non-explanatory fictions in science", Singapore Ministry of Education, Tier 1 grant, 2015-2018 (ended upon moving from Singapore by the end of 2015)
Selected Teaching Qualifications and Experience
Senior fellowship with the Higher Education Academy, through Nottingham Recognition Scheme, 2017
Independent Study: Laws of Nature, winter 2015, NTU*
Knowledge and Reality, winter 2014, NTU
Language, Metaphysics, and Metametaphysics, autumn 2017, University of Nottingham
Logic and Paradoxes, fall 2012, winter 2013, winter 2014, winter 2015, fall 2015, NTU
Introduction to Philosophy, fall 2012, fall 2013, NTU
Philosophy of Science, winter 2012, fall 2013, fall 2014, NTU
Philosophy of Science: From Positivism to Postmodernism, autumn 2016, spring 2018, spring 2019, University of Nottingham
Space, Time and Motion, spring 2023, University of Nottingham
Topics in the Philosophy of Science, spring 2017, autumn 2017, autumn 2018, University of Nottingham
Logic and Critical Thinking, fall 2011, winter 2013, fall 2014, NTU
The Methods of Science, fall 2009, University of Michigan
Introduction to Symbolic Logic, spring 2009, University of Michigan
*NTU = Nanyang Technological University
Selected Professional Service
Associate Editor, Studies History and Philosophy of Science, 2023 onwards
Honorary treasurer British Society for the Philosophy of Science, 2017- 2020
Programme committee member for British Society for Philosophy of Science Annual Conference, 2018, 2019, 2020
Programme committee member for Foundations, 2018
Programme committee member for Scientific Realism and The Quantum, University of Leeds, 2017
Co-organiser (with Ian Kidd and Kirsten Walsh) of the 13th Annual UK Workshop on Integrated History and Philosophy of Science, Nottingham, 2017
Co-organiser (with Teru Miyake) of "Mutual Interactions: Second Singapore Workshop on Integrated History and Philosophy of Science in Practice", 2014
Co-editor of The Philosopher's Annual, Volume 28, 2009
Referee for Analysis, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Ergo, Erkenntnis, Foundations of Physics, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Journal for General Philosophy of Science, Mind, Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Philosophy of Science, Ratio, Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Synthese
External Examiner, Philosophy, University of Bristol, 2022
External Examiner, Periodic Review, Philosophy, University of York, 2018
External Examiner, PhD thesis:
- University of Birmingham, 2023
- University of Stockholm, 2020
- University of Sydney, 2017
Mentor (2016-2017, 2017-2018) in The Job Candidate Mentoring Program for Women in Philosophy