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R. D. Ingthorsson (born 1968) is an Icelandic philosopher. He is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Ingthorsson represented Iceland in cross-country skiing at the Winter Olympics in Albertville (1992) and Lillehammer (1994).

Education and Academic Career
Ingthorsson completed his BA (1995) and PhD (2002) in Philosophy from Umeå University, Sweden.

After completing his PhD, Ingthorsson stayed on in Umeå as Teaching Fellow until awarded a scholarship from The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education to take up a 12 month Visiting Research Fellowship at Durham University, on an invitation from Prof. Jonathan Lowe.

Ingthorsson returned to Umeå to work as a lecturer in research methodology at the Dept. of Food and Nutrition. In 2008 he was offered a two-year postdoc in the AHRC project The New Ontology of the Mental Causation Debate at Durham University. In 2012 he was awarded a grant from the Swedish Research Council, in the role of principal investigator, for the project "McTaggart´s Paradox", and in 2015 another grant from The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences for the project "Scientific Essentialism: Modernising the Aristotelian Account". Since 1 January 2021 Ingthorsson works at Helsinki University.

Ingthorsson's research is primarily in Metaphysics. He has published articles and books in the philosophy of time, persistence, causation, powers, and truth. His main outputs are the monographs McTaggart´s Paradox and A Powerful Particulars View of Causation. The electronic version of the latter is Open Access and can be accessed through Taylor & Francis or Kindle