Person

Researcher
- Division of History of Ideas and Sciences
- Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences
Teaching Staff
- Practical Philosophy
- Department of Philosophy
Contact information
E-mail frits.gavertssonkultur.luse
Mobile +46 76 848 27 07
Room LUX:C355
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30
I am currently part of the interdisciplinary project The Somerville-group and the introduction of historical arguments in philosophy funded by The Bank of Sweden Centenary Foundation, which aims to highlight and analyse the pioneering efforts made by a group of female philosophers including G. E. M. Anscombe, Iris Murdoch, Mary Midgley and Philippa Foot, in particular with regards to historical modes of argument and connections to earlier continental thought.
I am also currently working on exemplifying how engagement with fiction can be seen as furthering moral understanding from a moral perfectionist perspective through a series of close readings of John Williams’s novels and how a rapidly changing Artworld context necessitates novel understandings of role-specific duties and commitments on both an individual and collective level.
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
Books (1)
Articles (9)
- Gåvertsson, F. (2020). Platonic Perfectionism in John Williams’ Stoner. SATS Northern European Journal of Philosophy, 21, 39-60. De Gruyter.
- Gåvertsson, F. (2020). Readings, reconstructions, and reception : Three case studies of Anglophone reception of Cartesian ethics. Lychnos: årsbok för idé- och lärdomshistoria, 2020, 13-32. Lärdomshistoriska samfundet, Uppsala universitet.
- Gåvertsson, F. (2019). Somervilleskolas filosofiska program. Filosofisk tidskrift, 40, 39-47. Thales.
- Mähringer, G. (2019). Är självständigt tänkande en illusion?. Filosofisk tidskrift, 40, 57-65. Thales.
- Gåvertsson, F. & Andersson, H. (2018). Pietetsfullt hanterande av mänskliga kvarlevor. Filosofisk tidskrift, 39, 15-27. Thales.
- Gåvertsson, F. (2017). Философия истории в аналитической традиции. History of Philosophy/Istoriya Filosofii, 22, 78-91.
- Gåvertsson, F. (2017). Ethical Pluralism and Moral Conflict in Aeschylus's Oresteia. Philosophy and Literature, 41, 24-39. Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Gåvertsson, F. (2016). Medicinanalogin i antik etik. Filosofisk tidskrift, 37, 35-42. Thales.
- Gåvertsson, F. (2016). Response to Asger Kirkeby-Hinrup. Organon F, 23, 125-127. Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences.
Book chapters (1)
Conference contributions (4)
- Gåvertsson, F. (2016). Moral Development, Friendship and Self-deception in Dame Margaret Drabble’s The Millstone.
- Gåvertsson, F. & Andersson, H. (2016). Möjliga och rimliga positioner inför ställningstaganden gällande pietetsfullt hanterande av mänskliga kvarlevor.
- Gåvertsson, F. (2015). Arguing from Reception History for the Viability of Rational Reconstruction: A Case Study Involving The Reception of Cartesian Ethics in an Anglophone Context From 1650.
- Gåvertsson, F. (2015). Can Eudaimonism Serve as a Framework for a Theory of Rights?.
Reviews (5)
- Gåvertsson, F. (2022). The Somerville Group and the re-shaping of anglophone moral philosophy. Lychnos. Årsbok för idé- och lärdomshistoria, 319-323. Lärdomshistoriska samfundet, Uppsala universitet.
- Gåvertsson, F. (2021). Aristoteles: Första analytiken, övers., inl., kommentarer. Per-Erik Malmnäs. Lychnos. Årsbok för idé- och lärdomshistoria, 2021, 377-379. Lärdomshistoriska samfundet, Uppsala universitet.
- Gåvertsson, F. (2021). Attempts at reviving earlier thought. Lychnos. Årsbok för idé- och lärdomshistoria, 2021, 369-372. Lärdomshistoriska samfundet, Uppsala universitet.
- Gåvertsson, F. (2020). Martha Nussbaum. Lychnos: årsbok för idé- och lärdomshistoria, 2020, 339-341. Lärdomshistoriska samfundet, Uppsala universitet.
- Gåvertsson, F. (2016). Samuel Scheffler’s Death and the Afterlife. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 19, 1053-1056. Springer.
Articles in specialist publications and popular press (2)
- Gåvertsson, F. (2016). Vad ska jag göra med mig själv?. Modern filosofi, 1, 66-71. Vetenskapsmedia i Sverige AB, Vetenskapsmedia i Sverige AB.
- Gåvertsson, F. (2015). De gamla grekerna. Modern filosofi, 1, 79-79. Vetenskapsmedia i Sverige AB.
Miscellaneous (1)
Teaching
Other tasks and qualifications

Researcher
- Division of History of Ideas and Sciences
- Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences
Teaching Staff
- Practical Philosophy
- Department of Philosophy
Contact information
E-mail frits.gavertssonkultur.luse
Mobile +46 76 848 27 07
Room LUX:C355
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30
Links
- 2nd Graduate Workshop on Fiction and Philosophy
- A Good Read: on the relevance of fiction for philosophy (Swedish national public service radio)
- Epicureanism, pleasure and death (Swedish Public Service Radio)
- On literature and philosophy at svenskfilosofi.se (in Swedish)
- Stoicism and the good life (Swedish Public Service Radio)