Henrik Lagerlund was previously Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Philosophy Department at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. He works on the history of philosophy; primarily on medieval and Renaissance philosophy, but he has also written on Aristotle and Leibniz. Another interest is the philosophy of food. He has a new book called Matens filosofi: Hur du blir en filosofisk foodie.
At the Stockholm Department, he among other things runs the Stockholm History of Philosophy Workshop – a seminar series that will feature invited speakers in all areas of the history of philosophy.
Erik Åkerlund has a 30 % involvement in the research project over the years 2020 through 2022. He received his PhD from Uppsala university in 2011, with a thesis entitled ”’Nisi temere agat.’ Francisco Suárez on Final Causes and Final Causation’” under the supervision of Tomas Ekenberg. From 2013 he is employed at The Newman Institute, a Jesuit-run university college in Uppsala, from 2018 as director of studies. His main research interests are in Late Medieval and Early Modern philosophy, with the philosophy of Francisco Suárez as a specialization.
His research will focus on the concept of final causation from the 14th and up until the 17th century.
Sylvain Roudaut is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Philosophy at Stockholm University. In 2017, he received his PhD from the University of Rennes under the supervision of Jean-Christophe Bardout with a thesis on medieval theories of hylomorphism.
His task in the project is to investigate on the one hand the reduction of formal causality to efficient causation and, on the other hand, the quantification of qualities and the increasing importance of mathematical techniques in late Aristotelian natural philosophy.