In the history of modern philosophy, I have worked on a range of issues in Classical German Philosophy (including Kant’s moral psychology, Hegel’s metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and moral philosophy, and Fichte’s epistemology). Over the last years, I have, in cooperation with Daniel James (hegelantikolonial.wordpress.com), examined issues of race and colonialism in Hegel and Black radical thinkers like Angela Davis and Frantz Fanon. 

In contemporary philosophy, I am particularly interested in critical theory and postcolonial thought, with a focus on topics like marginalization, racism and collective memory. I have also worked on topics in the philosophy of mind and psychology, such as self-knowledge and pathologies of self-awareness. 

My work has appeared in venues like Journal of the History of Philosophy, European Journal of Philosophy, Synthese, and Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. 

At the Department of Philosophy, I coordinate Critical Theory Bergen (together with Christopher Senf), a platform within the Practical Philosophy research group for researchers and advanced students interested in critical theory broadly understood. You are most welcome to contact me if you would like to take part in the meetings.

"Hegel, den besværlige filosofen", interview in Klassekampen, 5.3.22

"Eine Last der Vernunft", with Daniel James, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 6.10.21

statements (with Daniel James) in "Rassismus und Kolonialismus in der Diskussion", Information Philosophie 4(2021), 24-43

Das Untote in Hegel: Warum wir über seinen Rassismus reden müssen, with Daniel James, praefaktisch 27.5.21; reply  by Folko Zander; our replies, part 1; part 2.  

Books

Hegel and Colonialism (with Daniel James), Cambridge University Press 2025 (Cambridge Elements in the Philosophy of G.W.F. Hegel) - open access 

Im Reich der Freiheit. Hegels Theorie autonomer Vernunft (In the realm of freedom. Hegel's theory of autonomous reason), Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2013

Editorship

Varieties of Agency: Exploring New Avenues (Research topic with Frontiers in Psychology Cognition, edited with Nivedita Gangopadhyay and Vivian Puusepp, 2025)

Racism and Colonialism in Hegel's Philosophy (Double themed issue of Hegel Bulletin, edited with Daniel James, 2024), volume 1 / volume 2

The Phenomenology of Joint Action: Structure, Mechanisms, and Functions (Special issue of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, edited with Nivedita Gangopadhyay, 2024)

Articles (selection)

Forthcoming

"Eco-Racism, Colonial Ideology and the Genesis of Hegel’s Theory of Race:
Revisiting the 'Dispute of the New World'", in: Luis Fellipe Garcia & Pavel Reichl, eds. German Idealism and the Question of Colonialism, Routledge

"G.W.F. Hegel, Frantz Fanon, and Angela Davis on Recognition, Slavery, and Liberation", with Daniel James, in: Matt Congdon/Thomas Khurana, eds. The Philosophy of Recognition: Expanded Perspectives on a Fundamental Concept, Routledge

"Hegel and Social Metaphysics: Social Constructionism, ‘Objective Concepts’, and the Case of Occupational Kinds", with Daniel James, in: Jonas Held/James Conant, eds. The Palgrave Handbook on German Idealism and Analytic Philosophy

2026

"Teaching as Memory Making: Conceptualising Critical University Pedagogy in the Wake of #RhodesMustFall" (with Daniel James), in Bianca Sola Claudio & Filipe Campello, eds., Bridging Divides: Rethinking Reparative Politics Through a North-South Dialogue, Routledge (forthcoming 2026)

2025

"Die Aufklärung vor Europa retten - und die postkoloniale Theorie vor Deutschland", review of Dhawan, Nikita, Die Aufklärung vor Europa retten. Kritische Theorien der Dekolonisierung (Rescuing the Enlightenment from the Europeans), Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 73(4), 555-562 (2025) (English version: "Rescuing the Enlightenment from the Europeans - and postcolonial theory from the Germans")

"Editorial: Varieties of Agency: Exploring New Avenues" (with Nivedita Gangopadhyay and Vivian Puusepp), Frontiers in Psychology Cognition, 16 (2025)

"No Need for Mineness: Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder and Mental State Types", Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 24, 411-435 (2025, online first 2022)

2024

"Introduction to the special issue ‘The phenomenology of joint action’" (with Nivedita Gangopadhyay), Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 23, 479-496 (2024)

"Introduction to Part 1 of the Themed Issue, ‘Racism and Colonialism in Hegel's Philosophy’: Rationale and Topics" (with Daniel James), Hegel Bulletin 45(1), 1-5 (2024)

"Introduction to Part 2 of the Themed Issue, ‘Racism and Colonialism in Hegel's Philosophy’: Common Objections and Questions for Future Research" (with Daniel James), Hegel Bulletin 45(2), 181-184 (2024)

2023

"Exploring the Metaphysics of Hegel’s Racism: The Teleology of the ‘Concept’ and the Taxonomy of Races", with Daniel James, Hegel Bulletin 44(1), 99-126 (2023)

2022

"'Å virkelig unnslippe Hegel': Tanker om Hegels rasisme og Fanons antirasisme" ("'To really escape Hegel': Thoughts on Hegel's racism and Fanon's anti-racism"), Agora 40(1), 158-177 (2022)

"Confusions about 'Inner' and 'Outer' Voices: Conceptual Problems in the Assessment of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations" (with Josef Bless and Frank Larøi), Review of Philosophy and Psychology 13, 215-236 (2022)

2020

"Brandom on Postmodern Ethical Life: Moral and Political Problems", in Gilles Bouche, ed. Reading Brandom: On a Spirit of Trust, London: Routledge, 2020

Review of Robert Pippin, "Hegel's Realm of Shadows", SGIR Review 3(1-2), 144-149 (2020)

2019

"Gêneros objetivos e teleologia em Hegel: da natureza à sociedade" ("Hegel on Objective Kinds and Teleology: From Nature to Society"), Revista Eletrônica Estudos Hegelianos 16(27), 1-40 (2019) (English version here)

"An Erring Conscience is an Absurdity: The Later Kant on Certainty, Moral Judgment and the Infallibility of Conscience" (with Erasmus Mayr), Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 101:1, 92-134 (2019)

"What is Wrong with Blind Necessity? Schelling's Critique of Spinoza's Necessitarianism in the Freedom Essay", Journal of the History of Philosophy 57:1, 129-157 (2019)

"Sellars on Self-Knowledge", in Anke Breunig & Stefan Brandt (eds.), Sellars and Twentieth-Century Philosophy, London: Routledge, 2019, 221-239

2018

"Kant, Schopenhauer und Fichte über unser Wissen von unseren körperlichen Handlungen" ("Kant, Schopenhauer and Fichte on our knowledge of our bodily actions"), in: Fichte-Studien 45 (2018)

"Hegel and Arguments for Natural Kind Essentialism", Hegel Bulletin 42(3), 368-394 (2018)

"Bayes and the First Person. Inner Speech, Consciousness of Thoughts and Probabilistic Inference", Synthese 195, 2113–2140 (2018) 

"'Gegenwärtige prosaische Zustände': Hegels melancholische Ästhetik und Schillers politische Eschatologie", in Thomas Oehl & Artur Kok (eds.), Objektiver und absoluter Geist nach Hegel. Kunst, Religion und Philosophie innerhalb und außerhalb von Gesellschaft und Geschichte. Leiden: Brill, 2018, 504-526

2016

"And Yet He Is a Monist. Comments on James Kreines, 'Reason in the World'", Hegel Bulletin, online first, 2016, 1-17

"Hegel's Essentialism. Natural Kinds and the Metaphysics of Explanation in Hegel's Theory of 'the Concept'", European Journal of Philosophy 24 (2016), 760-787

"Hegel on Consciousness, Self-consciousness and Idealism", International Yearbook of German Idealism 11 (2013) (appeared in 2016) 

2015

"Self-knowledge about Attitudes: Rationalism meets Interpretation", Philosophical Explorations 18/2 (2015), 183-198

"Hegel's Modal Argument Against Spinozism. An Interpretation of the Chapter 'Actuality' in Hegel's Science of Logic", Hegel Bulletin 36(1) (2015), 53-79

2014

"Metaphysik der Kontingenz. Kierkegaards anti-nezessitarische und anti-hegelianische Modaltheorie im 'Zwischenspiel' der Philosophischen Brocken" ("Metaphysics of contingency. Kierkegaard's anti-necessitarian and anti-Hegelian theory of modality in the 'Interlude' of Philosophical Fragments"), in: Axel Hutter / Anders Moe Rasmussen (eds.), Kierkegaard im Kontext des Deutschen Idealismus, Berlin / New York: De Gruyter 2014, 151-202