What Am I Thinking About?
I work on normative philosophy, in the broadest possible sense of the term. Put more rigorously, my AOS:s are metaethics, philosophy of action, and normative ethics, and my AOC:s are epistemology, political philosophy, and the philosophy of the social sciences. But really I am interested in all kinds of issues that intersect with my main research interests, regardless of which philosophical or other scholarly fields they ordinarily are thought to belong to.
My overarching research project involves developing and defending a Humean constituvist picture of agency and various practical norms. This project ranges across normative domains and philosophical subfields. Right now, at Vienna, I am in particular exploring normative and ontological connections and tensions between individual and collective agency.
You can find my published or accepted philosophical work (in both English and Swedish) below. I avoid uploading my WiP papers to guarantee the blindness of the peer review processes they are or will be involved in, but do not hesitate to get in touch with me if you would like to know more about my research.
My overarching research project involves developing and defending a Humean constituvist picture of agency and various practical norms. This project ranges across normative domains and philosophical subfields. Right now, at Vienna, I am in particular exploring normative and ontological connections and tensions between individual and collective agency.
You can find my published or accepted philosophical work (in both English and Swedish) below. I avoid uploading my WiP papers to guarantee the blindness of the peer review processes they are or will be involved in, but do not hesitate to get in touch with me if you would like to know more about my research.
Journal Articles
- Leffler, Olof (forthcoming). "Contingency, Sociality, and Moral Progress", in Journal of the American Philosophical Association. [Full details TBC.]
- Leffler, Olof (forthcoming). "Rationality, Shmationality: Even Newer Shmagency Worries", in Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy. [Full details TBC.]
- Leffler, Olof (2022). "How Simple is the Humean Theory of Motivation?", in Philosophical Explorations, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 125-140.
- Leffler, Olof (2021). "A Reason to Know", in Journal of Value Inquiry. [Published Online First in 2021, full details TBC.]
- Leffler, Olof (2019). "New Shmagency Worries", in Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 121-145.
- Leffler, Olof (2016). "The Foundations of Agency - and Ethics?", in Philosophia, Vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 547-563.
Book Chapters
- Leffler, Olof (2020). "Reasons Internalism, Cooperation, and Law", in Garcia-Godinez, Miguel; Mellin, Rachel & Tuomela, Raimo (eds.). Social Ontology, Normativity, and Law, Berlin, GER: de Gruyter, pp. 115-132.
- Leffler, Olof (2014). "Om rättfärdigandereflektion" ("On Justification by Reflection"), in Alarcon, Meri; Amundsen Bergström, Matilda; Kaveh, Tanja & Pettersen, Andrea Vilde (eds.). Meningens motstånd, Göteborgs universitet: Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion, SWE: pp. 35-39.
Book Reviews
- Leffler, Olof (2018). “Recension av Social Contract Theory for a Diverse World – Beyond Tolerance (Ryan Muldoon)” (“Review of Social Contract Theory for a Diverse World – Beyond Tolerance (Ryan Muldoon)”), in Tidskrift för Politisk Filosofi, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 46-51.
- Leffler, Olof (2016). “Recension av From Morality to the End of Reason (Ingmar Persson)” (“Review of From Morality to the End of Reason (Ingmar Persson)”), in Filosofisk Tidskrift, Vol. 2016, No. 1, pp. 60-65.
Dissertation
- Leffler, Olof (2019). The Constitution of Constitutivism, PhD Dissertation, University of Leeds, UK.