Christel Fricke (Coordinator/Head of research)
 Christel Fricke
(Professor of Philosophy, University of Oslo) joined the philosophy
section of Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and
Ideas at the University of Oslo in 2003, coming from the University
of Heidelberg in Germany where she got her PhD in 1988 and her
Habilitation in 1998. She taught at different German Universities
(Heidelberg, Giessen, Mannheim, Karlsruhe) and she has stayed as a
visiting scholar and visiting professor at Cambridge University
(Cambridge, UK), Columbia University (New York, US), Emory
University (Atlanta, US) and UFRGS (Porto Alegre, Brazil). She has
extensive experience in directing research and general
administration. Between 2001 and 2003 she co-directed (with
Professor Hans-Peter Schuett, University of Karlsruhe) a research
project on the “Validity and Motivational Force of Moral Norms”.
The project was funded by the Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft. In June 2003, she organized an
international conference in Heidelberg, devoted to the actually
growing interest in Adam Smith as a moral philosopher. She has
edited a volume (in cooperation with Hans-Peter Schuett) with
papers by the internationally leading scholars in this field
(Adam Smith als Moralphilosoph, Berlin 2005 (deGruyter))
which has been very well received. In Oslo, she has co-directed
(with Herman Cappelen) the series of guest-lectures, ‘Filosofisk
Seminar’. Her publications include two books, Kants Theorie des
reinen Geschmacksurteils, Berlin 1990 (deGruyter) and
Zeichenprozess und aesthetische Erfahrung, München 2001
(Fink), as well as a great number of papers. She is interested in
the justification of normativity, the psychology of moral
motivation, moral realism, problems of equality and justice, and
the theory of the emotions.
Homepage
christel.fricke@ifikk.uio.no
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Herman Cappelen
 Herman Cappelen is Arché Professor at the University
of St Andrews. He has earlier been a professor at the University of
Oslo, a CUF Lecturer at the University of Oxford and a fellow of
Somerville College, and professor at Vassar College. Cappelen got
his PhD at UC Berkeley. He has been the director of graduate
studies at the University of Oslo. He is the leader of the project
Shared Content and, with Crispin Wright, the Arché-based
project Contextualism and Relativism (2008 - 2013).
Cappelen has published numerous papers in philosophy of language
and two books (co-authored with Ernie Lepore), Insensitive
Semantics (Blackwell 2004) and Language Turned on
Itself (OUP, 2007).
Homepage
h.w.cappelen@ifikk.uio.no
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Olav Gjelsvik
 Olav Gjelsvik is
professor of philosophy at University of Oslo. He got his PhD. at
Oxford University in 1986. Gjelsvik has been Head of Department and
Head of Section for Philosophy for 8 out of the 12 last years, and
has held many offices at the University of Oslo. He is a very
experienced administrator and director of research. Olav Gjelsvik
has extensive experience both in interdisciplinary projects, in
directing research and in general administration. He participated
from 1994 until 1998 on a large international interdisciplinary
project organized by Jon Elster, Columbia University, with
participants from sociology, decision theory, economics,
psychiatry, and brain science and philosophy. One of the
participants was this year’s Nobel Laureate in economics, Thomas
Schelling. In 2003-04 Gjelsvik directed a large international
philosophy project at the Norwegian Academy of Science, ‘Towards a
New Understanding of the Mental’. He is since 2002 a member of the
Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, where he is now head of
the group that includes psychology, philosophy, and history of
ideas. He has been a visiting scholar at University of Oxford,
University of California at Berkeley, and London School of
Economics in addition to his affiliation to the University of
Oslo.
Homepage
olav.gjelsvik@ifikk.uio.no
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Carsten Hansen
 Carsten Hansen
(Associate Professor of Philosophy, UiO)
Carsten Martin Hansen (Associate Professon in Philosophy,
University of Oslo) got his PhD from Oxford University (1991). He
taught at New York University, before taking up his position at
University of Oslo in 1996. He was a co-founder of the
interdisciplinary ‘Mental Representation Group’ at New York
University (1992-1995), which included philosophers, psychologists,
linguists and computer scientists. In 1991, he participated
in the ESPRIT project: 'MOHAWC: Modeling Human Activities in Work
Context' (RUC/RISØ, Denmark). Here philosophers, psychologists and
physicians studied disease concepts as employed by doctors in
diagnostic contexts. He has lectured to psychiatrists on the
bearing of the philosophy of mind on foundational issues in
psychiatry, and has a research interest in the breakdown of
rationality in the context of major mental illness. Hansen has
extensive experience in supervising Masters and Ph.D. students.
Several of his Masters students have, or are now, pursuing doctoral
degrees at Harvard, Oxford, and Carnegie Mellon University. He is
currently supervising four Ph.D. students at Oslo University. He
has published on issues in the philosophy of language and
metaphysics, as well as philosophy of mind. He is currently working
on questions about mental and special science causation (in
particular with regard to their implications for the mind-body
problem), as well about the nature of truth.
Homepage
carsten.hansen@ifikk.uio.no
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Jennifer Hornsby
Jennifer Hornsby (Professor of Philosophy, Birkbeck College,
University of London) got her PhD at Cambridge University and was
Fellow and Tutor at Corpus Christi College, Oxford from 1979 until
1994 when she moved to Birkbeck College, University of London as
Professor of Philosophy. She has extensive administrative
experience having been Secretary to the Sub-Faculty of Philosophy
in Oxford, Head of her current Department, and a member of the
Management Committee of the Philosophy Program of the
University of London’s School of Advanced Study. She is a member of
the Council of the Aristotelian Society, and of the
Advisory Committee of the newly formed Institute of
Philosophy in London. She has collaborated with academics in
the U.K., Australia, the U.S.A, and Europe, and has particular
connections with Norwegian philosophers, having participated in
“Towards a New Understanding of the Mental” at the
Norwegian Academy in 2003-04. She is co-editor of
Ethics: A Feminist Reader (Blackwell 1992), and of A
Companion to Feminism in Philosophy, Cambridge 2000); and a
General Editor of Blackwell’s Reading Philosophy series,
in which she has co-authored two books. Her scholarly publications
include Actions (Routledge 1980), Simple-Mindedness:
Essays in Defence of Naive Naturalism (Harvard 1997), and
about sixty articles in books or journals on feminist topics and
topics in philosophy of mind, action, and language. Her current
work brings epistemology into the philosophy of action, and takes
on questions about self-knowledge, practical knowledge, knowledge
of language, and the metaphysics of agency.
Homepage
j.hornsby@bbk.ac.uk
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Thomas Pogge
 Thomas Winfried
Menko Pogge (Professor, Columbia University Political Science
Department)is a German philosopher, currently holding a chair at
the department of Political Science at Columbia University. He has
until recently held the position of Professional Fellow at the
Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the Australian
National University. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University
with a dissertation supervised by John Rawls, and has previously
held an appointment at Columbia University. Pogge has written
extensively on political philosophy, especially on Rawls, Immanuel
Kant, cosmopolitanism, and, more recently, extreme poverty. His
book World Poverty and Human Rights (Polity, 2002) is
widely regarded as one of the most important works on global
justice. Pogge's work has been, along with that of Charles Beitz
and Henry Shue, one of the most important in the "first wave" of
work on global justice. Yet what makes Pogge's contribution to the
debate on global justice and the eradication of world poverty
original is his emphasis on negative duties rather than on the
positive duties stressed by Beitz and Shue. According to Pogge, the
global rich have a stringent duty of justice to take decisive steps
toward the eradication of global poverty primarily because they
have violated the negative duty not to contribute to the
imposition of a global institutional order that foreseeable and
avoidably renders the basic socio-economic rights of other human
beings unfulfilled, and not because they must honour a positive
duty to help others in need when they can at little cost to
themselves.
Homepage
tp6@columbia.edu
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Bjørn Ramberg
 Bjørn Torgrim
Ramberg (Professor of Philosophy, University of Oslo) got his Ph.D.
in 1987 at Queen’s University, Canada. Ramberg was the recipient of
a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard (1990-91), and in 2000
was awarded the Research Excellence Award (NOK 200 000) from
Professor Ingerid Dal and Ulrikke Greve Dal Foundation in support
of Humanistic Research. He was granted tenure at Simon Fraser
University (Vancouver, Canada) in 1997, and served as Chair of the
SFU Philosophy Department (1999-2000). Leaving SFU, he directed the
Ph.D. program in philosophy at the University of Oslo
(2000-2005). With Olav Gjesvik, he directed the project
“Towards a New Conception of the Mental,” at the Centre for
Advanced Studies, Oslo, 2003-2004. He currently serves as Head of
Department at the newly amalgamated Department of Philosophy,
History of Ideas, History of Art and Classical Languages at the
University of Oslo. Ramberg has published work in the philosophy of
language and philosophy of mind, on hermeneutics, and on various
aspects of contemporary pragmatism. His current research in
pragmatism focuses on scientific understanding of the mental and of
subjectivity, with particular attention to affect, the construction
of psychological identity, and methodological questions in
cognitive ethology. His publications include the first monograph on
the philosophy of Donald Davidson, Donald Davidson’s Philosophy
of Language (Blackwell, 1989), a definitive volume on the
anti-individualism of Tyler Burge, Reflections and Replies:
Essays on the Philosophy of Tyler Burge (co-edited with Martin
Hahn, MIT Press, 2003), contributions to major volumes on the work
of Davidson, Richard Rorty, and Hans-Georg Gadamer, as well as
entries in the authoritative Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy (online) and The Encyclopedia of
Philosophy (McMillan). Recent essays will appear in volumes
from Blackwell and OUP (forthcoming 2006). Ramberg is engaged in
long-standing collaboration with philosophers from across North
America and Europe, and translations of essays have appeared in
Portuguese, Czech, Italian and German journals and
anthologies.
Homepage
b.t.ramberg@ifikk.uio.no
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Deirdre Wilson
 Deirdre Wilson
(Professor of Linguistics, University College London) is a British
linguist and cognitive scientist. She was trained in philosophy at
Oxford and linguistics at MIT, where she wrote her PhD under the
supervision of Noam Chomsky. Currently Professor of Linguistics at
University College London and a Fellow of the British Academy, she
has been a Lecturer in Philosophy at Somerville College Oxford,
Harkness Fellow in Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT, Visiting
Research Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, and
Invitation Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of
Science. Her main research interest is in pragmatics: her book
Presuppositions and Non-Truth-Conditional Semantics
(Academic Press, 1975) advocated a pragmatic approach to
presuppositions, and her long-standing collaboration with Dan
Sperber (e.g. Relevance: Communication and Cognition ,
Blackwell, 1986/95) has led to publications on a wide variety of
pragmatic topics, from disambiguation and reference resolution to
rhetoric and style. With Robyn Carston, she is currently completing
a three-year research project on lexical pragmatics funded by the
Arts and Humanities Research Council of Great Britain. Her novel
Slave of the Passions (Picador, 1991) was shortlisted for
the Yorkshire Post First Work Award and the Angel Prize for
Literature, and she is now working on a second.
Homepage
deirdre.wilson@ucl.ac.uk
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