Rasmus Jaksland

I am a PhD fellow in philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies and an affiliate member of the Geneva Symmetry Group, University of Geneva. I work on a project titled “The Prospects of Naturalized Metaphysics” where I investigate the role of science - physics in particular - in metaphysics, and attempt to assess to what degree metaphysics should be informed by and founded in science. As such, the project finds itself at the intersection of my two primary interests: Philosophy of science/physics and metaphysical methodology. 

Aside from my PhD project, I am currently engaged in research in foundational issues in high energy physics, particularly on the nature of spacetime in the light of the AdS/CFT correspondence. I have also done more specialized work in the field of holographic gravity on the relationship between entanglement and spacetime.

Interests

• Philosophy of physics
• Metaphysics and methodology in metaphysics
• History and philosophy of science
• Philosophy of language; semantics in particular.
• Rudolf Carnap and his legacy
• History of analytic philosophy

Education

• Master of science in Physics, Niels Bohr Institute (University of Copenhagen)
• Master of arts in philosophy, University of Copenhagen.
• Bachelor of arts in philosophy, University of Copenhagen
• Bachelor of science in physics, Niels Bohr Institute (University of Copenhagen).

 Research

Jaksland, Rasmus. (2017) A Dilemma for Empirical Realism. Philosophia, 45(3), 1195-1205.

Jaksland, Rasmus. (2017) A Review of the Holographic Relation between Linearized Gravity and the First Law of Entanglement Entropy. Master Thesis: arXiv:1711.10854

Jaksland, Rasmus. (2016) The Possibility of Naturalized Metaphysics. Master thesis. Awarded University of Copenhagen's gold medal.