Olav Gjelsvik

 Stilling : Professor

Adresse : IFIKK

 Universitetet i Oslo

 PB 1020 Blindern

 0315 Oslo

Besksadresse: Rom 320, Niels Treschows hus

Telefon : 228 56976

E-post : olav.gjelsvik@ifikk.uio.no

Olav Gjelsvik stiller til valg som representant for fast vitenskapelige ansatte, i universitetsstyret.

Presentation

Olav Gjelsvik studied nordic languages and literature, history, and philosophy at the University of Oslo, and philosophy at University of Oxford where he received his D.Phil in philosophy in 1986. He had then recently joined the department of philosophy in Oslo as a research fellow. He spent the year 1989-90 at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1991 he was appointed associate professor in philosophy in Oslo, and from 1994 full professor.

Interests:

Gjelsviks research interests include the philosophy of language, mind, and science, and general epistemology and metaphysics.

Scholarships:

1982-84: Brynie-Jordan Scholarship at Balliol College

1983-86: Anderson Scholarship, Balliol College

1984-85: British Council Scholarship

1985-86: Overseas Research Scholarship, awarded by the committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom

1989-90: Norwegian Research Council Fellowship to do research at the University of California, Berkeley

1989-90: Scholarship from the Norway-America Association to do research at the University of California, Berkeley

1994-95: Scholarship from the Norwegian Research Council to do work in the Addiction Project (Addicton-Rationality and Irrationality, project running from 1993 to 1997, organised by Jon Elster.)

1995:Scholarship from the London School of Economics, University of London, to be a Visting Scholar at The Centre for Philosophy Science.

2001: Scholarship from the Norwegain Research Council to do research at the University of Oxford.

Positions:

1986-90 Research fellow, Department of Philosophy, University of Oslo

1989-90 Honorary Research Associate, University of California, Berkeley

1991- 94 Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Philosophy, University of Oslo

1994- Professor of Philosophy, University of Oslo

2000-01 Visiting Fellow, Balliol College, University of Oxford.

2003/4 Director of the international project “Towards a New Understanding of the Mental “at the Centre for Advanced Study, The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

Scentific Societies:

Member/Fellow of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters since 2002.

Offices:

Many offices at the University of Oslo, Chairman of the Section of Philosophy, 1991-92.

Chairman, Department of Philosophy, 1997-2000.

Norwegian National Representative for the European Society for Analytic Philosophy.

Chairman of The Section of Philosophy, 2003 until 2005.

Talks: Talks at many conferences and at many European and American Universities through the years.

Edited:

Synthese no 1. 1994, with a preface.

Publications:

1) "A Kripkean Objection to Kripke´s Argument against Identity-Theories", Inquiry 1987, pp. 435-450.

2) "Freges Begreper" (Frege´s Concepts) Norsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift, 1987, pp.213-235.

3) "A Note on Objects and Events", Analysis 1988, pp.15-18.

4) "Shootings, Killings and Rifles" Conceptus, 1988.

5) "On the Location of Actions and Tryings", Erkenntnis 1990, pp.39-56.

6) "Representational Content and the Explanation of Behaviour", Inquiry 1990, pp. 333-353.

7) "Dretske on Knowledge and Content", Synthese 1991, pp. 425-441.

8) "Konsepsjoner av språk og forklaring av kommunikasjon", (Conceptions of Language and the Explanation of Communication) i H. Grimen og K. Knapskog, Teori og Narrasjon, Bergen 1992., pp. 210-241.

9) "Korte Tilsvar til Grimen", (Short Replies to Grimen) i Grimen og Knapskog, Teori og Narrasjon, Bergen 1992., pp. 288-300.

10) "Referanse og Intensjonalitet", (Reference and Intentionality), Norsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift, 1993, pp. 43-60.

11) "Davidson´s Use of Truth in Accounting for Meaning", in Language, Mind and Epistemology, Essays on Donald Davidson´s Philosophy, ed. G. Preyer, F. Siebelt, and A Ulfig, Synthese Library, 1994, pp. 21-43.

12) "On Convention T, and Whether a Tarskian Truth-definition Catches Hold of the Classical Conception of Truth" , in James Hill and Petr Kotatko, (ed) Language and Logic. Selected Papers from the Karlovy Vary Meetings on Analytical Philosophy, Prague 1995. (22 pages)

13) "Intention and Alternatives", in Philosophical Studies, 1996, pp. 159-177.

14) "Matters of Metaphysics.", in Theoria. 1996, pp. 73-78.

15) "Tracking Truth and Solving Puzzles", Inquiry, 1997, pp. 209-224.

16) "Mind and Matter", in Georg Meggle (ed) Actions, Norms, Values, Walter De Gruyter, Berlin 1999, pp. 65-79.

17) "Addiction, Weakness of the Will, and Relapse", in J. Elster and O.-J. Skog, (Ed) Getting Hooked, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 47-65.

18) "Freedom of the Will and Addiction" in Jon Elster (ed) Addiction, New York, Russell Sage 1999, pp. 29-54.

19) "The Epistemology of Decision-Making Naturalised", in A. Orenstein and P. Kotatko (eds) Knowledge, Language and Logic. Questions for Quine, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Kluwer Academic Press, 2000, pp. 109-129.

20) "Fisk, smerte og etikk", (Fish, Pain and Ethics) in Føllesdal, Andreas (ed.) Dyreetikk, Fagbokforlaget 2000, pp. 227-245.

21) "Can Two Envelopes Shake the Foundations of Decision-Theory?".

in M.Kiikeri and P. Ylikoski, (ed) Explanatory Connections - Electronic essays dedicated to Matti Sintonen, Helsinki 2001 14pages.

22) “Paradox Lost, but in which Envelope?” Croatian Journal of Philosophy, 2002; 2(6): 353-362.

23) "Reason and Addiction", in Choice, Behavioural Economics and Addiction edited by N. Heather and R. Vuchinich, Elsevier Publishers 2003, pp. 219-238.

24) "Reply to Ainslie" in Choice, Behavioural Economics and Addiction edited by N. Heather and R. Vuchinich, Elsevier Publishers 2003, pp. 245-249.

25) "Experience", in Theoria, nr.2-3 2004, pp. 167-191, a special issue with invited papers on John McDowell´s Mind and World.

26.)“Facing Facts and Facing Motivations”, fortcoming in an issue of the journal Protosoziologie devoted to Stephen Neale’s book Facing Facts.

27)“Radikal Tolkning” (Radical Interpretation) Norwegian Journal of Philosophy 2004, .

28) “Fri vilje, Motivasjon, Addiksjon.”. Lecture for the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, December 11th 2003, published in the Academy’s Proceedings for 2003, Oslo 2004.

29. “ Causal Explanation Provides Knowledge Why”. Forthcoming in a volume in Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science edited by Petri Ylikoski and Johannes Persson.

Manuscript: Book about to be completed entitled

Knowledge, Freedom, and Addiction. (230 pages)

Contents

The are seven separate chapters connected through various applications of the concept of knowledge. The books starts with some arguments in support of a conception of the mental at its most general, but its heart is in action theory and the application of philosophy to questions in social science. The chapters are

Introduction

Ch. 1 Knowledge in understanding others

Ch. 2 Explanation and knowing why

Ch. 3 Agency and knowledge in action

Ch. 4 Freedom of the will and normative knowledge

Ch. 5 Weakness of the will

Ch. 6 Motivation through time and the objectivity of reason

Ch. 7 Understanding addiction