Thomas Brouwer Awarded Grant for Social Indeterminacy Project

Thomas Brouwer has been awarded a Major Research Grant from the Swedish Research Council for the project Social Indeterminacy.

Together with PI Dr Johan Brännmark (University of Stockholm) and Dr Miguel F. Dos Santos (University of Uppsala), Thomas Brouwer has been awarded a Major Research Grant from the Swedish Research Council for the project Social Indeterminacy. 

The Social Indeterminacy project will run from Jan 2026 to Dec 2028, and will study the different forms that indeterminacy takes in the social realm, the mechanisms by which it arises, and the harms and benefits that it brings. To that aim, it will explore interactions between cutting-edge theories of social facts and theories of indeterminacy.

The project team will be assisted by an advisory board consisting of Åsa Burman (University of Stockholm), Ásta (Duke University), Elizabeth Barnes (University of Virginia), Brian Epstein (Tufts University), Kevin Richardson (Duke University) and Leeds’ own Robbie Williams. The project will include events at both Leeds and Stockholm.

Dr. Thomas Brouwer is Lecturer in Theoretical Philosophy at the School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science at the University of Leeds.