I filosofihistorien har jeg jobbet med ulike aspekter ved klassisk tysk filosofi, inkludert Kants moralpsykologi, Hegels metafysikk, sinnsfilosofi og moralfilosofi, og Fichtes epistemologi. De siste årene har jeg i samarbeid med Daniel James forsket på spørsmål om rase og kolonialisme i moderne filosofi, spesielt hos Hegel og svarte radikale tenkere som Angela Davis, Frantz Fanon og Edouard Glissant (hegelantikolonial.wordpress.com). 

I samtidsfilosofien er jeg særlig interessert i kritisk teori og postkolonial tenkning, med fokus på temaer som marginalisering, rasisme og kollektivt minne. Jeg har også arbeidet innenfor sinnsfilosofi og psykologiens filosofi, om temaer som selvviten og patologier ved selvbevissthet.

Jeg har publisert i tiddskrifter som Journal of the History of Philosophy, European Journal of Philosophy, Synthese, og Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. 

Ved Institutt for filosofi og førstesemesterstudier organiserer jeg "Critical Theory Bergen" (sammen med Christopher Senf). Gruppen samler forskere og viderekomne studenter med interesse for kritisk samfunnsteori i bred forstand, og er tilknyttet Forskergruppen for praktisk filosofi. Ta gjerne kontakt med meg hvis du er interessert i å delta på gruppens møter. 

"Hegel, den besværlige filosofen", intervju i Klassekampen, 5.3.22

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

debattinnlegg (med Daniel James) i "Rassismus und Kolonialismus in der Diskussion", Information Philosophie 4(2021), 24-43

Das Untote in Hegel: Warum wir über seinen Rassismus reden müssen, med Daniel James, praefaktisch 27.5.21; replikk av Folko Zander; våre replikker, del 1; del 2.

Bøker

Hegel and Colonialism (med 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, Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2013

Redaksjon

Varieties of Agency: Exploring New Avenues (Research topic, Frontiers in Psychology Cognition, red. med Nivedita Gangopadhyay og Vivian Puusepp, 2025)

Racism and Colonialism in Hegel's Philosophy (Dobbelt temanummer, Hegel Bulletin, red. med Daniel James, 2024), volume 1 / volume 2

The Phenomenology of Joint Action: Structure, Mechanisms, and Functions (Temanummer, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, red. med Nivedita Gangopadhyay, 2024)

Artikler (utvalg)

Forthcoming

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

"G.W.F. Hegel, Frantz Fanon, and Angela Davis on Recognition, Slavery, and Liberation", med Daniel James, i: Matt Congdon/Thomas Khurana, red. 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", med Daniel James, i: Jonas Held/James Conant, red. The Palgrave Handbook on German Idealism and Analytic Philosophy

2026

"Teaching as Memory Making: Conceptualising Critical University Pedagogy in the Wake of #RhodesMustFall" (med Daniel James), i: Bianca Sola Claudio & Filipe Campello, red., 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", anmeldelse av 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) (engelsk versjon: "Rescuing the Enlightenment from the Europeans - and postcolonial theory from the Germans")

"Editorial: Varieties of Agency: Exploring New Avenues" (med Nivedita Gangopadhyay og 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’" (med 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" (med 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" (med 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", med Daniel James, Hegel Bulletin 44(1), 99-126 (2023)

2022

"No Need for Mineness: Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder and Mental State Types", Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, online first (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" (med Josef Bless og Frank Larøi), Review of Philosophy and Psychology 13, 215-236 (2022)

2020

"Brandom on Postmodern Ethical Life: Moral and Political Problems", i Gilles Bouche, red. 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