Åsa Burman

Åsa Burman is Reader (Docent) in Practical Philosophy at Stockholm University, Sweden, and an affiliated researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies. She is an editor of the Journal of Social Ontology. She holds a Ph.D. from Lund University in Sweden and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Burman works in social ontology and is especially interested in social phenomena such as class, social structures, and social power. Her new book Nonideal Social Ontology: The Power View (OUP 2023) is about these phenomena and the differences between ideal and nonideal social ontology. She taught two summer courses, one in Neuchâtel and one in Budapest this summer, and helped to organize the Social Ontology 2023 conference in Stockholm.