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Sofia Jeppsson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Umeå University, Sweden, specializing in practical philosophy. She is an active member of the Health Humanities research group and previously held academic positions at Stockholm and Gothenburg Universities before joining Umeå.
Education:
- PhD in Philosophy (2012) with dissertation Practical Perspective Compatibilism
Her research spans free will, moral responsibility, animal ethics, and philosophy of psychiatry. She developed a Kant-inspired compatibilist theory of free will and has extensively published on madness, psychosis, and mental health ethics. Her work integrates epistemology, phenomenology, and critical psychiatry, particularly examining how psychotic experiences challenge traditional notions of rationality and moral responsibility. Recent publications increasingly focus on the lived experience of mental illness, recovery without normalization, and the intersection of disability with criminal justice.
Publication trends reveal a clear evolution from foundational free will debates (2012-2018) toward philosophy of psychiatry (2019-present). Her recent work (2022-2025) demonstrates deep engagement with madness as both epistemic and ethical phenomenon, frequently analyzing radical psychotic doubt, self-illness ambiguity, and psychiatric disability through interdisciplinary lenses. She consistently connects metaphysical questions about agency to real-world implications in mental healthcare and social policy.
Research Activities:
- Principal Investigator: Responsibility and disability (2019-2021)
- Active member: Health Humanities Research Group
- Interdisciplinary collaborations with psychiatry/psychology scholars (e.g., Chappell, Lodge)
