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Ylwa Sjölin Wirling

Senior Lecturer

Philosophy and Logic unit
Mail
ylwa.sjolin.wirling@gu.se
Visiting address
Renströmsgatan 6
41255 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 200
40530 Göteborg

About Ylwa Sjölin Wirling

Background

Docent (2022, University of Gothenburg) and PhD (2019, University of Gothenburg) in theoretical philosophy. Born (1988) and raised in Malmö, BA and MA in theoretical philosophy from Lund University, as well as a BA in comparative literature.

Research

My main research interests concern epistemology, philosophy of science, and metaphilosophy, but my work also touches on issues in metaphysics and value theory.

I am an associate senior lecturer in theoretical philosophy here in Gothenburg and a Pro Futura Scientia XVIII fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala, funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond . My research project for Pro Futura, which is what I will mainly be working on during the coming years, concerns what roles epistemic possibility judgements do and should play at various stages in inquiry, and seeks to develop an account of epistemic possibility that can better help us understand the nature, value, and epistemology of such judgements.

Until recently (2020-2023) I was a postdoctoral fellow funded by the Swedish Research council, and as part of this I was a visiting researcher at the University of Manchester, U.K. That research project concerned epistemic value. Prior to that, I was a postdoc at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm (2019-2020), where I worked in a philosophy of science project called “Towards a Methodology of Modal Modelling”, researching scientific modelling practices that scientists and/or philosophers of science take to support possibility claims.

My PhD dissertation was in the epistemology of modality, entitled "Modal Empiricism Made Difficult", and available here.

I have an external academic website here, where you can find more up-to-date information on publications, talks, and work in progress.

Teaching

During the academic year 2025-2026 I am on research leave from all teaching.