Universitetet i Bergen : Historisk Filosofisk fakultet : Filosofisk institutt

Erik Brown
Professor
Born 1943. Research interests include epistemology, philosophy of mind, action theory and ethics.

Kevin Cahill
Associate Professor
Born 1963. Cahill holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia (2001) where he completed a dissertation with the title The Moral Dimension of Wittgenstein's Thought. His main interests are in problems in Twentieth Century Philosophy, especially the relationship between Analytic and Continental Philosophy, issues concerning rationality, ethics, and the nature of persons, and in questions in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences. His publications include:
— “Bildung and Decline”, Forthcoming in Philosophical Investigations.
— “The Concept of Progress in Wittgenstein’s Thought”, Review of Metaphysics,September, 2006, Volume LX (1), pp. 71-100.
— “Ethics and the Tractatus: A Resolute Failure”, Philosophy, January, 2004, Volume 79 (1), 2004, 33-55.
— “The Tractatus, Ethics, and Authenticity”, Journal of Philosophical Research,Volume 29, 2004, 267-288

Paola de Cuzzani
Professor
Born 1952. She holds a master in moral philosophy (dissertation: La fenomenologia morale di Remo Cantoni, University of Genova, Italy, 1976) , Ph.D (Dissertation Conatus, individuo, modo in Spinoza, University of Genova, Italy, 1982) and a degree in Protestant Theology (Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg D.E.A awarded October 1985 and D.E.A. (Philosophy) awarded November 1986 at Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, 1985-86 (dissertation: Ontologie éthique et ontologie historique. Le lien entre le "Conatus sese conservandi" et le "Fluire del tempo: Spinoza et Vico, Université de Strasbourg, 1986.
She was research fellow under The Italian Research Council for Science and the Humanities, and she was involved in research related to ethical problems in modern philosophy. She was vice-director of Centre for Medical Ethics (University of Oslo, Norway). In addition to an involvement in medical ethics research, she was also director for the doctoral programs at the Centre. She is now full professor in Philosophy at the UiB.
She was a member of The National Committee for Medical Ethics (NEM) and she is a member of The Regional Committee for the Medical Ethics (REK. Vest). She is director for the bachelor program in History of Ideas in her Department. She was memberof an organisation committee of international and national conferences. Her fields of research are modern philosophy, moral philosophy, philosophy of medicine, in particular French philosophy of medicine concerning the problem of the medicalisation, and medical ethics. In 2003 she published a book on this particular subject. She has also published several articles in French, Italian, English, German and Norwegian concerning the problem of tolerance in the modern philosophy, the interpretation of the woman being in Spinoza’s thinking, the concept of peace, the concept of democracy in relationships with imagination, the importance of epistemology for clinical practice. She is now involved in research concerning the problem of prophetism between political utopia, and scientific prediction. Her research will critically examine the prophetic imagination within the field of science, in order to capture the processes, relationships and connections between it and rational strategies, which together may render new forms of social attitudes. She looks for a way to formulate the problem of the interaction between prophetic imagination and rational forecast in so far as they are strategies of social integration.

Nils Gilje
Professor
Born 1947. Research interests include philosophy of science, political philosophy and history of philosophy.

Anne Granberg
Associate Professor

Hans Marius Hansteen
Assosciate Professor
Born 1968, Cand. Philol (MPhil) thesis in Philosophy from 1994. Ph.D. student from 1996 with the project Natur og historie i Th.W. Adornos kritiske teori. Research interests include social philosophy, rhetoric and environmental philosophy/politics. Publications include a collection of essays, Ordet fanga, Det norske samlaget, Oslo 1996. He is also member of the Board of the Philosophy Department and active member of Retorisk forum since 1988.

Bjørn Holgernes
Associate Professor
Born 1947. Research interests include existensialism, phenomenology, philosophy of religion and science ethics.

Claus Huitfeldt
Associate Professor
Claus Huitfeldt
Born 1957. Magister artium in Philosophy at the University of Trondheim 1984 (Thesis: "Trancsendental Arguments - Deductive and Reflexive".) Director of The Wittgenstein Archives 1990-99, Research Director of Aksis (Section for Culture, Language and Information Technology) 2000-2002, Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy at UoB since 1994.
Current research interests: Text encoding, text theory and knowledge representation.
Home page: http://www.hf.uib.no/i/Filosofisk/claus/

Arild Haaland
Dr. Phil. emeritus

Sanga Intajak
Research fellow
Hjemmeside / See Sanga's Homepage!

Ralph Jewell
Associate Professor
Born 1940. Research interests include history of science and philosophy of science.

Harald Johannessen
Associate Professor

Kjell S. Johannessen
Professor (emeritus)
Born 1936. Research interests include philosophy of science, philosophy of language and philosophy of art.

Kåre Odd Johnsen (Chairman)
Professor
Born 1945. Research interests include logic and epistemology

Gunnar Karlsen
Research fellow
PhD student with project on the possibility of nonconceptual content in perception and action. Research areas include epistemology, philosophy of mind, the relationship between analytic and continental philosophy and the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty.

Eivind Kolflaath
Associate Professor
Hjemmeside / See Eivind's Homepage!

Ivar Russøy Labukt
Research fellow
PhD student working on a Rawlsian justification of utilitarianism. Research interests include ethics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and the problem of free will.

Eilert Jan Lohne
Associate Professor
Born 1942, Magister artium in Philosophy from 1974 with the thesis: Kristendom og marxisme (published in 1977). Research interests include Political Philsophy, Philosophy of Science and Ethics. Publications include Kuhns vitenskapsfilosofi, Stensilserien, Universitetet i Tromsø, 1976 and Etikk i offentlig forvatlning - et videogram med arbeidshefte, Kommuneforlaget 1996. He is also member of the Faculty Board.

Tore Nordenstam
Professor (emeritus)
Born 1934. Studies at the universities of Göteborg, Uppsala and Oxford 1953-61. Ph.D. University of Khartoum, 1965. Lecturer, University of Khartoum, 1961-1966, University of Umeå, 1996-68. Reader, University of Bergen, 1968-81. Chair of Philosophy, University of Bergen 1981-98.
Research interests: practical knowledge, philosophy of the humanities, aesthetics and ethics.
Homepage.

Helge Pettersen
Assistent Professor
Helge Pettersen has been teaching at Filosofisk Institutt, both at the Department of Philosophy itself and at ex.phil and what is now called ex.fac. (preparatory studies) since the end of the 1980s. He has been lecturing on the philosophies of several thinkers, among them Nietzsche, Bataille, Deleuze (and Guattari) and Heidegger. Foci of interest of his has been socalled poststructuralism (a debatable term) and in connexion with that problems of philosophical anthropology, its end or its reinvention with genealogy and the problematic of the body, the interrelated problems of nihilism and fascism.
Helge Pettersen has written books on the philosophies of Nietzsche and Bataille. Nietzsche - lidelse og menneskedannelse (Bergen 1991). Georges Bataille - Vinden fra utsiden (Bergen 2004).

Konrad Rokstad
Associate Professor
Born 1946. Research interests include phenomenology, epistemology and the history of philosophy.

Kristin Sampson
Associate Professor
Dr.art. in Philosophy with the thesis Ontogony. Conceptions of Being and Metaphors of Birth in the Timaeus and the Parmenides. Research interests include ancient philosophy, feminist philosophy and ethics.

Ole Martin Skilleås (Vice-chairman)
Professor
Born 1962.
Ph.D. from The University of Warwick, England. Research interests: philosophy and literature, aesthetics and moral philosophy.
Current projects: one on the ethical interest of autobiographies, and a book on wine and aesthetics - jointly written with Douglas Burnham.
Publications include 'Anachronistic Themes and Literary Value' (British Journal of Aesthetics), 'Knowledge and Imagination in Fiction and Autobiography' (Metaphilosophy), 'Plato's Criticism of Writing' (Philosophical Writings) and Philosophy and Literature: an Introduction (Edinburgh University Press 2001).

Gunnar Skirbekk
Professor (emeritus)
Born 1937. Studies at the University of Oslo 1957-1959, at Sorbonne 1960-61, and at the University of Tübingen 1961-62. Magister artium in Philosophy at the University of Oslo in 1962, dr. philos. at the University of Bergen in 1970. Teaching assistant at the Department of Philosophy in Bergen in 1962, associate professor from 1964, professor in the Philosophy of Science in the same department from 1979, with half-time duties for interdisciplinary work, from 1987 located at the Center for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities. Director at this center from 1987-1991 and 1995-1997. Main research interests: epistemological and normative aspects in scientific discouse and research; political philosophy, esp. discussions on rationality and modernity, and on environment.  Main publications include: Geschichte der Philosophie, Frankfurt a.M. 1993 with Nils Gilje (translation of Filosofihistorie, Oslo),
Rationality and Modernity. Essays in Pragmatic Philosophy, Oslo/Oxford 1993. Rationalité et Modernité, Paris, 1993 (different from the English book with the same title).

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Vigdis Songe-Møller
Professor
Born 1949. Dr. phil. from the University of Tübingen from 1979. Research interests include Ancient philosophy and feminist philosophy. Publications include:
-Zweifältige Wahrheit und zeitliches Sein. Eine Interpretation des parmenidischen Gedichts. Würzburg: Königshausen Neumann, 1980
-Den greske drømmen om kvinnens overflødighet. Essays om myter og filosofi i antikkens Hellas. Oslo: Cappelens upopulære skrifter, 1999
-Tanker om opprinnelsen. Tidlig gresk filosofi fra Hesiod til Demokrit. Oslo: Cappelen Akademisk Forlag 1999
-Philosophy Without Women. The Birth of Sexism in Western Thought. London/New York: Continuum, 2002

Lars Fr. H. Svendsen
Associate Professor
Born 1970. Main areas of interest: History of philosophy (especially Kant), phenomenology, hermeneutics, aesthetics, ethics, philosophy of science, metaphilosophy.
He has published the following books:
1. Kant's Critical Hermeneutics - On Schematization and Interpretation (Oslo: Unipub 1999)
2. A Philosophy of Boredom (London: Reaktion Books 2005, norwegian edition 1999, translated to 20 languages)
3. Kunst - En begrepsavvikling [Art - A Conceptual Unwinding] (Oslo: Scandinavian University Press 2000)
4. Wittgenstein og den europeiske filosofien [Wittgenstein and European Philosophy] (anthology edited with Ståle R.S. Finke. Oslo: Akribe 2001)
5. Mennesket, moralen og genene - En kritikk av biologismen [Man, Morals and Genes - A Critique of Biologism] (Oslo: Scandinavian University Press 2001)
6. Ondskapens filosofi [The Philosophy of Evil]. (Oslo: Scandinavian University Press 2001).
7. Hva er filosofi [What is Philophy]. (Oslo: Scandinavian University Press 2003).
8. Det sanne, det gode og det skjønne: en innføring i filosofi [Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. An Introduction to Philosophy]. Universitetsforlaget, Oslo, 2004. 272 s. (Written in collaboration with Simo Säätelä)
9. Fashion: A Philosophy (London: Reaktion Books 2005, norwegian edition 2004)

Simo Säätelä
Associate Professor
Se Simos hjemmeside / See Simo's Homepage!

Richard Sørli
Research Fellow

Arild Utaker
Professor
Born 1945. Research interests include philosophy of language and philosophical anthropology.

Knut Venneslan
Professor
Born 1938. Research interests include phenomenology, philosophy of history and humanistic studies of labour.

Knut Ågotnes (Chairman)
Associate Professor
Born 1943. Research interests include philosophy of language, ethics and ancient philosophy.
 

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