About Me

I'm a Professor at Simon Fraser University, in Burnaby, British Columbia. I work in philosophy of science, and in metaphysics and epistemology broadly construed. Much of my work relates in one way or another to causation: causal explanation (including how it differs from mathematical explanation), application of causal methodology to case studies in philosophy of science, problems related to mental causation and to the connections between action and causation, and the metaphysics of causation (what I call foundations of causation). I also have ongoing work in time and temporal experience. I take a pragmatist approach to my work, and integrate historical and contemporary philosophical perspectives.

To get in touch, email me at handerse [at] sfu [dot] ca.

Quick note: My last name is spelled AndersEn. If you think an email to me has gone astray, it might be an 'o' instead of an 'e'; and it might be an overly enthusiastic spam filter at SFU. Please use an alternate form of communication if you think this might have happened. I am on Bluesky: @hkandersen.bsky.social