Rasmus Jaksland
About
I am PhD in Philosophy from NTNU. From the University of Copenhagen, I hold a BA and MA in philosophy and a BSc and MSc in physics. Before joining NTNU, I was at University of Agder, University of Copenhagen, and Princeton University.
I am PI of the research project Entanglement Metaphysics without Spacetime (EMwiS), a Researcher Project for Early Career Scientists funded by the Research Council of Norway. The projects seeks to establish a new paradigm in metaphysics where entanglement replaces the foundational role of spacetime in our accounts of worlds, individuation, change, and laws of nature.
I am part of the research group Cognition, Meaning, and Reality and enrolled in NTNU's Outstanding Academic Fellows Programme (2026-2030).
Research
Much of my research is driven by questions that arise at the intersection between science and philosophy. This includes metaphysical and epistemological issues in quantum physics, especially as they relate the (alleged) emergence of spacetime in quantum gravity research and its association with quantum entanglement, but also methodological work on naturalism and more particularly, how science can and should inform metaphysics and social theorizing. Aside from these, I have an interest in social epistemology focusing on testimony, disagreement, and belief aggregation.
Entanglement Metaphysics without Spacetime
The project’s central hypothesis is that a world is made by these entanglement relations instead of relations in space and time. Based on this, the project develops spacetime-free accounts of individuation, change, and laws of nature.
Publications
2026
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Jaksland, Rasmus;
Linnemann, Niels.
(2026)
Can the non-identity theory answer the original criticisms of causal theories of spacetime?.
European Journal for Philosophy of Science
Academic article
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Faye, Jan;
Furlan, Stefano;
Jaksland, Rasmus.
(2026)
What Can Wheeler Tell Us About the Bohr–Høffding Relationship?.
HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science
Academic article
2025
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Jaksland, Rasmus.
(2025)
Spacetime from Entanglement: The Emergence of Metric, Gravity, or Topology.
Philosophy of Physics
Academic article
2024
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Jaksland, Rasmus;
Linnemann, Niels.
(2024)
On the Non-identity Causal Theory of Spacetime from Causal Set Theory.
Erkenntnis: An International Journal of Scientific Philosophy
Academic article
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Grimmer, Daniel;
Cinti, Enrico;
Jaksland, Rasmus.
(2024)
Duality, Underdetermination, and the Uncommon Common Core.
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
Academic article
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Jaksland, Rasmus.
(2024)
Naturalized metaphysics in the image of Roy Wood Sellars and not Willard Van Orman Quine.
Metaphilosophy
Academic article
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Jaksland, Rasmus.
(2024)
Naturalized, Fundamental, and Feminist Metaphysics All at Once: The Case of Barad’s Agential Realism.
Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy
Academic article
2023
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Jaksland, Rasmus.
(2023)
Distinguishing two (unsound) arguments for quantum social science.
European Journal for Philosophy of Science
Academic article
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Jaksland, Rasmus.
(2023)
Naturalized metaphysics or displacing metaphysicians to save metaphysics.
Synthese
Academic article
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Jaksland, Rasmus.
(2023)
Decoherence, appearance, and reality in agential realism.
European Journal for Philosophy of Science
Academic article
2022
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Jaksland, Rasmus.
(2022)
A trilemma for naturalized metaphysics.
Ratio
Academic article
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Jaksland, Rasmus.
(2022)
Disagreement in metametaphysical dispute.
Synthese
Academic article
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Jaksland, Rasmus;
Knowles, Jonathan Lewis;
Ladyman, James.
(2022)
The Prospects and Promises of Naturalized Metaphysics.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral thesis
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Jaksland, Rasmus.
(2022)
Dependent philosophical majorities and the skeptical argument from disagreement.
Synthese
Academic article
2021
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Jaksland, Rasmus.
(2021)
Teaching scientific creativity through philosophy of science.
European Journal for Philosophy of Science
Academic article
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Faye, Jan;
Jaksland, Rasmus.
(2021)
What Bohr wanted Carnap to learn from quantum mechanics.
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Academic article
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Jaksland, Rasmus.
(2021)
An apology for conflicts between metaphysics and science in naturalized metaphysics.
European Journal for Philosophy of Science
Academic article
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Faye, Jan;
Jaksland, Rasmus.
(2021)
Barad, Bohr, and quantum mechanics.
Synthese
Academic article
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Jaksland, Rasmus;
Faye, Jan.
(2021)
Did Logical Positivism Influence the Early Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics?.
Academic chapter
2020
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Jaksland, Rasmus.
(2020)
Norms of Testimony in Broad Interdisciplinarity: The Case of Quantum Mechanics in Critical Theory.
Journal for General Philosophy of Science (JGPS)
Academic article
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Jaksland, Rasmus.
(2020)
Old problems for neo-positivist naturalized metaphysics.
European Journal for Philosophy of Science
Academic article
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Jaksland, Rasmus;
Linnemann, Niels.
(2020)
Holography without holography: How to turn inter-representational into intra-theoretical relations in AdS/CFT.
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
Academic article
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Jaksland, Rasmus.
(2020)
Non-supernaturalism: Linguistic Convention, Metaphysical Claim, or Empirical Matter of Fact?.
Philosophia
Academic article
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Jaksland, Rasmus.
(2020)
Entanglement as the world-making relation: distance from entanglement.
Synthese
Academic article
2019
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Jaksland, Rasmus.
(2019)
The multiple realizability of general relativity in quantum gravity.
Synthese
Academic article
2017
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Jaksland, Rasmus.
(2017)
A Dilemma for Empirical Realism: Metaphysical Realism or Instrumentalism.
Philosophia
Academic article
Journal publications
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Jaksland, Rasmus;
Linnemann, Niels.
(2026)
Can the non-identity theory answer the original criticisms of causal theories of spacetime?.
European Journal for Philosophy of Science
Academic article
-
Faye, Jan;
Furlan, Stefano;
Jaksland, Rasmus.
(2026)
What Can Wheeler Tell Us About the Bohr–Høffding Relationship?.
HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science
Academic article
-
Jaksland, Rasmus;
Linnemann, Niels.
(2024)
On the Non-identity Causal Theory of Spacetime from Causal Set Theory.
Erkenntnis: An International Journal of Scientific Philosophy
Academic article
-
Jaksland, Rasmus.
(2025)
Spacetime from Entanglement: The Emergence of Metric, Gravity, or Topology.
Philosophy of Physics
Academic article
-
Grimmer, Daniel;
Cinti, Enrico;
Jaksland, Rasmus.
(2024)
Duality, Underdetermination, and the Uncommon Common Core.
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
Academic article
-
Jaksland, Rasmus.
(2023)
Distinguishing two (unsound) arguments for quantum social science.
European Journal for Philosophy of Science
Academic article
-
Jaksland, Rasmus.
(2023)
Naturalized metaphysics or displacing metaphysicians to save metaphysics.
Synthese
Academic article
-
Jaksland, Rasmus.
(2023)
Decoherence, appearance, and reality in agential realism.
European Journal for Philosophy of Science
Academic article
-
Jaksland, Rasmus.
(2024)
Naturalized metaphysics in the image of Roy Wood Sellars and not Willard Van Orman Quine.
Metaphilosophy
Academic article
-
Jaksland, Rasmus.
(2020)
Norms of Testimony in Broad Interdisciplinarity: The Case of Quantum Mechanics in Critical Theory.
Journal for General Philosophy of Science (JGPS)
Academic article
-
Jaksland, Rasmus.
(2020)
Old problems for neo-positivist naturalized metaphysics.
European Journal for Philosophy of Science
Academic article
-
Jaksland, Rasmus;
Linnemann, Niels.
(2020)
Holography without holography: How to turn inter-representational into intra-theoretical relations in AdS/CFT.
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
Academic article
-
Jaksland, Rasmus.
(2020)
Non-supernaturalism: Linguistic Convention, Metaphysical Claim, or Empirical Matter of Fact?.
Philosophia
Academic article
-
Jaksland, Rasmus.
(2021)
Teaching scientific creativity through philosophy of science.
European Journal for Philosophy of Science
Academic article
-
Jaksland, Rasmus.
(2020)
Entanglement as the world-making relation: distance from entanglement.
Synthese
Academic article
-
Jaksland, Rasmus.
(2019)
The multiple realizability of general relativity in quantum gravity.
Synthese
Academic article
-
Jaksland, Rasmus.
(2017)
A Dilemma for Empirical Realism: Metaphysical Realism or Instrumentalism.
Philosophia
Academic article
-
Jaksland, Rasmus.
(2022)
A trilemma for naturalized metaphysics.
Ratio
Academic article
-
Jaksland, Rasmus.
(2022)
Disagreement in metametaphysical dispute.
Synthese
Academic article
-
Jaksland, Rasmus.
(2024)
Naturalized, Fundamental, and Feminist Metaphysics All at Once: The Case of Barad’s Agential Realism.
Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy
Academic article
-
Faye, Jan;
Jaksland, Rasmus.
(2021)
What Bohr wanted Carnap to learn from quantum mechanics.
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Academic article
-
Jaksland, Rasmus.
(2021)
An apology for conflicts between metaphysics and science in naturalized metaphysics.
European Journal for Philosophy of Science
Academic article
-
Faye, Jan;
Jaksland, Rasmus.
(2021)
Barad, Bohr, and quantum mechanics.
Synthese
Academic article
-
Jaksland, Rasmus.
(2022)
Dependent philosophical majorities and the skeptical argument from disagreement.
Synthese
Academic article
Part of book/report
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Jaksland, Rasmus;
Faye, Jan.
(2021)
Did Logical Positivism Influence the Early Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics?.
Academic chapter
Student thesis or dissertation
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Jaksland, Rasmus;
Knowles, Jonathan Lewis;
Ladyman, James.
(2022)
The Prospects and Promises of Naturalized Metaphysics.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral thesis
Teaching
Supervision
I supervise projects in the philosophy of science and scientific creativity; analytic metaphysics with an emphasis on metaphysical methodology; the use of physics in other fields especially applications of quantum mechanics in the social theory; as well as social epistemology with a focus on disagreement and game theory. I supervise theses and projects at all levels. Students are very welcome to get in touch to discuss the possibility of writing a project under my supervision.
Outreach
2021
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Conference lecture
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Conference lectureJaksland, Rasmus. (2021) Philosophy, physics, and the problems of spacetime emergence. Biennal Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association
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Conference lectureJaksland, Rasmus. (2021) Conflicts between metaphysics and science: The world-making relation in quantum gravity. Metaphysics seminar
2020
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Conference lectureJaksland, Rasmus. (2020) Metaphysical approximation in metaphysics of science. Nordic Network for Metaphysics
2019
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Conference lectureJaksland, Rasmus. (2019) Conflicts between metaphysics and science: The world-making relation in quantum gravity. Metaphysics Colloquium
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Conference lecture
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Conference lectureJaksland, Rasmus. (2019) Metaphysical approximation in metaphysics of science. Fundamentality in Metaphysics and Science
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Conference lectureJaksland, Rasmus. (2019) Conflicts between metaphysics and science: The world-making relation in quantum gravity. Departmental seminar, Department of Philosophy
2018
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Conference lecture
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Conference lecture
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Conference lecture
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Conference lectureJaksland, Rasmus. (2018) Entanglement as the world-making relation. Séminaire de recherches actuelles en philosophie des sciences
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Conference lectureJaksland, Rasmus. (2018) Disagreement in metametaphysical dispute. University of Copenhagen Analytic Philosophy Platform
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Conference lectureJaksland, Rasmus. (2018) Disagreement in metametaphysical dispute. Third European Pragmatism Conference
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Conference posterJaksland, Rasmus. (2018) A Preference for Gauge Theory (over Gravity). First Biennial Midwest Summer School in Philosophy of Physics
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Conference lectureJaksland, Rasmus. (2018) Entanglement as the world-making relation. Joint Stockholm/Uppsala Seminar in the Philosophy of Science
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Conference posterJaksland, Rasmus. (2018) A Preference for Gauge Theory (over Gravity). Hundred Years of Gauge Theory
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Conference lectureJaksland, Rasmus. (2018) Disagreement in metametaphysical dispute. 4th meeting of the Nordic Network in Metaphysics
2017
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LectureJaksland, Rasmus. (2017) Does Gravity Exist? At the Intersection Between Physics and Philosophy. Vitenskapsteoretisk Forum
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Conference lecture