clas weber
I'm a senior lecturer and decra fellow at the university of western australia and have been until recently a humboldt fellow at the university of tübingen. I work on topics in the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and metaphysics. before coming to perth, I worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the university of oslo.
I did my phd at the australian national university under the supervision of david chalmers. in my leisure time, I enjoy the thrill of cooking, baking, and gardening. I also like playing piano, drums, and soccer, and fermenting stuff. I'm married to astghik mavisakalyan. we have two children.
publications
philosophy (selection)
selective optimism about mind-uploading. unpublished manuscript.
determinacy of the self and imagination from the inside. unpublished manuscript.
de se modal illusions. unpublished manuscript.
a puzzle about first-person imagination. philosophical studies 2023.
de se puzzles and frege puzzles. inquiry 2022, vol. 65 (with stephan torre) (local file).
material people in logical space. australasian journal of philosophy, 2021 vol. 99 (local file).
what is special about de se attitudes? in: routledge handbook of linguistic reference, 2020. (local file) (with stephan torre).
being at the centre: self-location in thought and language in: about oneself: de se thought and communication. m. garcia-carpintero & s. torre (eds.), OUP, 2016.
indexical beliefs and communication: against stalnaker on self-location. philosophy and phenomenological research, 2015, vol. 90 (local file).
centered communication. philosophical studies 2013, vol. 166 (local file).
epistemic two-dimensionalism and arguments from epistemic misclassification. australasian journal of philosophy 2013, vol. 91 (local file) (with edward elliott and kelvin mcqueen).
eternalism and propositional multitasking: in defence of the operator argument. synthese 2012, vol. 189 (local file).
interdisciplinary
gendered language and gendered violence. glo discussion paper, no. 1127. (with lewis davis & astghik mavisakalyan).
pro-environmental behavior and subjective well-being: culture has a role to play, ecological economics, 2024, vol. 217. (with astghik mavisakalyan & swati sharma).
heaven can wait: future tense and religiosity. journal of population economics 2021 (local file) (with astghik mavisakalyan and yashar tarverdi).
talking in the present, caring for the future: language and environment. journal of comparative economics 2018, vol 46. (with astghik mavisakalyan and yashar tarverdi).
linguistic structures and economic outcomes. journal of economic surveys 2018, vol. 32 (local file) (with astghik mavisakalyan).
public engagement
could you move from your biological body to a computer? the conversation, 2023.
imagination from the first-person perspective, possibility, and the self. the junkyard, 2023.
living in the cloud - the philosophical prospects of mind-uploading, raising the bar perth, 2023.
future tense: how the language you speak influences your willingness to take climate action. the conversation, 2018.
workshops (organizer)
self in mind: perspectives on self and self-representation. perth november 25 & 26, 2019.
the problem of the de se: perspectives from linguistics and philosophy. oslo march 9 & 10, 2017.
contact
clas weber; school of philosophy, university of western australia; 35 stirling highway, 6009 crawley, australia.
tel: +61 8 6488 3234; email: clas.weber @ uwa.edu.au