Åsa Maria Wikforss

Åsa Maria Wikforss is a Professor in Theoretical Philosophy at Stockholm University, specializing in intersections of philosophy of language, mind, and epistemology. Her research focuses on semantic externalism, content externalism, and normativity of meaning, with significant grants from the Swedish Research Council and Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation.

• Ph.D., Columbia University (1996)
• Docent, Stockholm University (2002)

Research interests include challenges to semantic normativity, self-knowledge, and knowledge resistance. She critiques Kripke-Putnam theories of natural kind terms and develops 'reason-providing functionalism' for belief characterization.

• Key publications address transparency of content, semantic externalism, and belief justification
• Organized international workshops on internalism/externalism and Wittgenstein/Davidson

Scientific awards include:

• Swedish Research Council grants (2007-2010, 2013)
• Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation grant (2004-2006)
• Project leadership in CCCOM and Eurounderstanding initiatives

She supervises doctoral students and has co-led Nordic graduate seminars on epistemology and philosophy of mind. Her popular science work addresses knowledge resistance, pseudoscience, and self-knowledge in media debates.