Curriculum
Vitae (academic)
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Bjrn Torgrim Ramberg, Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, University
of Oslo Box 1020 Blindern, N-0315
Oslo, Norway Date of Birth: 31 March 1961 (in Oslo, Norway) |
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Education Queens University, Kingston, Canada, Ph.D., May
1988. Dissertation: Daughters of History: Truth and Incommensurability.
Supervisor: Professor Carlos G. Prado. Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, M.A., October
1983. Thesis: The Concept of Truth in Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific
Postscripts. Supervisor: Professor Michael A. Fox. University of Oslo, Norway, 1980-1982: Undergraduate studies in philosophy
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Appointments
Wigeland Visiting Professor, Department of
Philosophy, University of Chicago, January 2nd
– June 30th, 2012. Core Group Member, Centre for the Study of Mind in
Nature (CSMN), 2007-. Head of Department, Department of Philosophy,
Classics, History of Art and Ideas, March 2005-February 2009. Head of research group, with Olav Gjelsvik, at the Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS),
Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, August 2003-June 2004. Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, University of
Oslo, July 1997-. Associate Professor and Philosophy Department Chair,
Simon Fraser University, September 1999-2000. Associate Professor of Philosophy, Simon Fraser
University, September 1997-2000. Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Simon Fraser
University, July 1991-97. Andrew Mellon Faculty Fellow, Department of
Philosophy, Harvard University, 1990-91. Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Queen's
University, 1989-90. Adjunct Lecturer in Philosophy, Queen's University,
Spring Intersession, 1989. Adjunct Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Oslo,
1988-89. Instructor in Philosophy, Queen's University, Fall
1987; Spring 1987; Spring 1985. Teaching Assistant in Philosophy, Queen's
University, 1982-1987. |
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Publications Books: 2003. Reflections and Replies: Essays on Tyler
Burge. Co-edited with Martin Hahn. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 1989. Donald Davidson's Philosophy of Language: An
Introduction. Oxford and New York: Blackwell. Articles and Chapters 2011. Method and Metaphysics: Pragmatist Doubts. In
Jeff Malpas (ed.) Dialogues with Davidson: New
Perspectives on his Philosophy, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. 2011. Triangulation in Action: A Rationalizing Proposal. With Ingvald
Fergestad.
In Cristina Amoretti and Gerhard Preyer
(eds.), Triangulation: From an Epistemological Point of View. Frankfurt-Heusenstamm: Ontos Verlag. 2011. Turning to Hermeneutics: On Pragmatisms
Struggle with Subjectivity. In Matthias Buschmeier
and Espen Hammer (eds.), Pragmatische
Hermeneutic. Beitrge zu
Richard Rortys Kulturpolitik. Zeitschrift fr sthetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft, Sonderheft 11. Berlin: Felix Meiner
Verlag. 2011. Im
Dienste seiner Generation: Rorty ber Zerstrung und Erbauung. In Mike Sandbothe and
Alexander Grschner (eds.), Pragmatismus
als Kulturpolitik: Beitrge zum Werk von Richard Rorty . Berlin:
Suhrkamp. 2010. Richard Rorty: Motvillig
teoretiker? [Richard Rorty: Reluctant Theorist?] In
Jrgen Pedersen (ed.), Moderne
Politisk Teori. Oslo: Pax Forlag. 2010. The New
Loud: Richard Rorty, Quietist? With Hanne Andrea Kraugerud. Common Knowledge, vol. 16(1), 2010, 48-65. 2008. Rorty, Davidson, and the Future of Metaphysics
in America. In Cheryl Misak (ed.), The Oxford
Handbook of American Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press. 2007. Ironism. With Endre Begby, In American
Philosophy. An Encyclopedia. Routledge. 2006. Analytic Philosophy. In John Shook and Joseph
Margolis (eds.), A Companion to Pragmatism. Oxford and New York: Blackwell. 2006. Hermeneutics.
With Kristin Gjesdal. In Edward Zalta
(principal ed.), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. URL: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hermeneutics/
2004. Naturalizing
Idealizations: Pragmatism and the Interpretivist
Strategy. Contemporary Pragmatism, Vol. 1. No. 2. 2003. Illuminating Language: Interpretation and
understanding in Gadamer and Davidson. In Carlos
Prado (ed.), A House Divided: Comparing Analytic and Continental
Philosophers. Amherst, NY: Humanity Books. Czech translation: Osvetlit jazyk, osvetlit jazykem: Interpretace a rozumeni u Gadamera a Davidsona. Filozofický časopis,
vol. 51(4), 567-591. 2001. What Davidson Said to the Sceptic.
In Petr Kotatko, Peter Pagin, Gabriel Segal (eds.), Interpreting
Davidson: Selected papers from the 1996 Karlovy Vary symposium on analytical
philosophy. Palo Alto, California: CSLI Press. 2001. "Richard Rorty."
In Edward Zalta (principal ed.), Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy. URL: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rorty/ 2001. Begrepsoppdrett og sprsmls(mis)dannelse:
Vitenskap, etikk og laksens indre
liv. [Breeding Concepts and (Mis)Shaping Questions: Science, Ethics and the Inner Life of
the Salmon.] In Andreas Fllesdal (ed.), Dyreetikk [Animal Ethics). Oslo: Fagbokforlaget.
2000. Post-Ontological Philosophy of Mind: Rorty
versus Davidson. In Robert Brandom (ed.), Rorty and His Critics. Oxford and
New York: Blackwell. 1999. The Significance of Charity. In Lewis E. Hahn
(ed.), The Philosophy of Donald Davidson. The Library of Living Philosophers,
Vol. XXVI. Chicago and LaSalle, Illinois: Open Court Publishers. 1999. Dennett's Pragmatism. In Jean-Pierre Commetti (ed.), Pragmatism. Revue Internationale
de Philosophie, Special Issue. 1998. Rorty and the Instruments of Philosophy.
Originally published as, Rorty e os Instrumentos da Filosofia. In
Paulo Roberto Margutti Pinto et al. (eds.), Filosofia Analtica, Pragmatismo e Cincia. Belo
Horizonte, Minas Gerais: Editora
da Universidade de Minas Gerais.
English version, 2002: In Michael Peters and Paulo Ghiraldelli
(eds.), 2002. Richard Rorty: Philosophy, Culture and Education. Boulder,
Colorado: Rowman & Littlefield. Italian
version: Un uomo senza argomenti? Rorty e gli strumenti della filsofia. Iride 29, Anno XIII, Aprile 2000. German version: Rorty und die Werkzeuge der Philosophie. In
Mike Sandbothe (ed.), 2000. Die Renaissance des Pragmatismus: Aktuelle Verflechtungen zwischen analytischer und kontinentaler Philosophie. Weilerswist: Velbrueck Wissenschaft. 1997. The Source of the Subjective. In Lewis E. Hahn
(ed.), The Philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer. The
Library of Living Philosophers, Vol. XXIV. Chicago and LaSalle, Illinois:
Open Court Publishers. 1997. Donald Davidson. In Donald Borchert
(ed.) Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume. New York: Simon and
Schuster MacMillan. 1993. Strategies for Radical Rorty: 'But is it
Progress?' In Jocelyne Couture and Kai Nielsen
(eds.), Reconstructing Philosophy? New Essays on Metaphilosophy.
Canadian Journal of Philosophy. Supplementary volume XIX. 1993. Interpreting Davidson: Critical Notice of
Simone Evnine: Donald Davidson (Stanford U.P.,
1991). Dialogue, XXXII. 1988. Charity and Ideology.
The Field Linguist as Social Critic. Dialogue, XXVII. Reprinted in Sharyn Clough (ed.), 2003. Feminism, Social Justice and
Analytic Philosophy: Siblings Under the Skin. Aurora, Colorado: The Davies
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Talks and
Lectures Expressing Subjectivity: Constraints on a pragmatist
view of the explanatory relations between language and the mental. Augst 23rd, 2011.
The 4thNordic Pragmatism Conference, Copenhagen. Science or Politics? On the commitments of
pragmatism. June 9th, 2011. Realism and its Multiple Forms. Helsinki Collegium for Advanced
Studies. Tensions in Pragmatism: On the science and politics
of subjectivity. May 9th, 2011. Naturalism without Mirrors - workshop on the
philosophy of Huw Price, Univrsitet
Zurich. Trouble with the Subjective: Pragmatism and the
Naturalization of Mind. May 6th, 2011. The Balzan-Skinner
Colloquium: Analytic Philosophy in Britain and America: the Forging of a
Tradition, CRASHH, Cambridge University. Animal Subjectivity. April 8th, 2011. Centre for
Mind and Language, University of Hradec Kralove. Turning to Hermeneutics: Pragmatisms Struggle with
Subjectivity. December 2nd, 2010, Department of Philosophy, University of
Helsinki. Method and Metaphysics: Pragmatist Doubts. April
27th, 2010, Ethics Research Institute, Universitt
Zrich. Pragmatism and the Subjective. June 5th, 2009, Zentrm fr interdisziplinre
Forschung, Bielelfeld;
May 14th, 2009, Nordic Pragmatist Network, NTNU, Trondheim; April 10th,
American Philosophy Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, Vancouver,
British Columbia; June 23rd, 2007, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitt,
Frankfurt/M. Healing Minds, Treating Brains: Psychiatry between
biology and subjectivity. August 18th, 2008, Federal University of Rio de
Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro. Richard Rorty, in memoriam. March 21st, 2008.
American Philosophy Association Pacific Division Annual Meeting, Pasadena,
California. Brandoms Inferentialism: The Rortyan Background. April 26th, 2007, The School of Inferentialism, Charles University, Prague. Atheist Doubts: Can science still the urge to
believe? November 9th, 2005, Lund Philosophical Seminar, University of
Lund. Animal Welfare, Ethics and Philosophy. In Norwegian: Dyrevern,
filosofi og etikk. November 1st, 2005, Norwegian Veterinary Society,
autumn course, Stavanger. Interpretation and the knowledge of emotion. April
16th, 2004: Objectivity and
Meaning: Themes from Davidson, International Research Seminar, Oslo, April
15th and 16th 2004. April 28th: The Prague seminar on Interpretation, Prague,
April 26th to 29th, 2004. Who we are and what we are: Emotion at the interface
of subjectivity and science. May
13th, 2004: plenary paper at the XV Inter-Nordic Philosophical Symposium:
SCIENCE – A CHALLENGE TO PHILOSOPHY? Helsinki, May 13–15, 2004. Subjectivity as scientific object: a pragmatist
approach to the sciences of emotion. May 21st, 2004: The LOGOS Group,
Department of Logic, History and Philosophy of Science, University of
Barcelona. Gadamer and
Historicity. Department of Logic, History and Philosophy of Science,
University of Barcelona, Spain, May 1999. Davidson's Notion of the Physical. Department of
Logic, History and Philosophy of Science, University of Barcelona, Spain, May
1999. A Man Without Arguments? Rorty as Philosopher.
Department of Philosophy, University of Stockholm, Sweden, October 1998. On Davidson's Distinction Between the Mental and the
Physical. Department of Philosophy, University of Stockholm, Sweden, October
1998. Intellectual Virtues and Their Names: Putnam versus
Rorty. The 1998 Karlovy Vary Symposium on Analytical Philosophy: Swimming in
H20, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, September 1998. Rorty, Davidson, and Relativism. In Norwegian. A
Third Way: Conference on Relativism, Philosophical Project Centre, Oslo,
Norway, June 1998. Post-Ontological Philosophy of Mind. Rorty versus
Davidson. The Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, May
1998. Is Philosophy an Academic Subject? In Norwegian: Er filosofi er
fag? Fagligpedagogisk dag, University of Oslo,
January 1998. Rorty and the Instruments of Philosophy. The Seminar
on Analytical Philosophy and Pragmatism, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil, August 1997. What Davidson said to the Sceptic. Department of
Philosophy, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, May 1997; Department
of Philosophy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, October
1996. Scepticism,
Representation, and Davidsonian Naturalism. The
1996 Karlovy Vary Symposium on Analytical Philosophy: Interpreting Davidson
Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, September 1996. Symposiast, with
Robert Brandom (Pittsburgh), John McDowell (Pittsburgh), and Richard Rorty
(Stanford), at Anti-Authoritarianism in Epistemology and Ethics: The
Philosophy of Richard Rorty, the Ferrater Mora
Chair in Contemporary Thought, University of Girona,
Spain, 25-29 June 1996. Rorty on Argument and Truth. Keynote Address, Annual
Conference of the Canadian Federation of Graduate Students in Philosophy,
University of Toronto, 12 April 1996. Naturalism in the Philosophy of Language. Department
of Philosophy, University of Bergen, Ustaoset
retreat, Norway, May 1995. Davidson and Fodor on Holism. Department of
Philosophy, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA, November
1994. Pragmatism and Verificationism:
Carnap, Dennett, Rorty. Department of Philosophy,
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, February 1994;
Department of Philosophy, University of Oslo, Norway, April 1994. Dennett's Consciousness Explained. Symposium Paper,
Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Vancouver, Canada, June 1993. Rorty, Putnam and McCarthy on the Transcendence of
Values. British Columbia Tri-University Conference on Philosophy, Vancouver,
Canada, May 1992. On Fllesdal on Urges and
Attitudes. Department of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby,
Canada, September 1991; American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division,
Portland, OR, March 1992; Canadian Philosophical Association, Charlottetown,
P.E.I., Canada, May 1992. The Source of the Subjective. Department of Philosophy,
Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA, January 1990; Department of Philosophy,
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA, January 1990; Department of
Philosophy, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA, February 1990;
Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, ON, Canada, February, 1992;
Canadian Philosophical Association, Charlottetown, P.E.I., Canada, May 1992. Language as Power Tool. Department of Philosophy,
Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada; Department of Philosophy, Wesleyan
University, Middletown, CT, USA; Critical Theory Seminar Series, Queen's
University, Kingston, ON, Canada, October 1989. Intention and Interpretation. Queen's University,
Kingston, ON, Canada, August 1989; Department of Philosophy, Simon Fraser
University, BC, Canada, January 1989. What is a Language? Department of Philosophy, Brown
University, Providence, RI, USA, January 1989. Incommensurability and the Hermeneutics of Radical
Interpretation. Department of Philosophy, Queen's University, Kingston, ON,
Canada, November 1987. Charity and Ideology: The Field Linguist as Social
Critic. Department of Philosophy, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada,
August 1989. Hermeneutics and Free Discourse. Canadian
Philosophical Association, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, May 1984. |
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Referee Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Dialogue, Nous, Erkentniss, Theory and Psychology, Oxford University
Press, Canadian Philosophical Association. |
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Awards,
Memberships Excellence in Research Award, Professor Ingerid Dal and Ulrikke Greve Dal Foundation in support of Humanistic Research,
August 2000. Elected member, Norwegian Academy of Science and
Letters, 2006. |