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Olav Gjelsvik Stilling : Professor Adresse : CSMN/IFIKK Universitetet i Oslo PB 1020 Blindern 0315 Oslo Besksadresse: Rom 267, P.A. Munchs hus Telefon : 228 56976 E-post : olav.gjelsvik@ifikk.uio.no 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. CURRICULUM VITAE OLAV GJELSVIK MA. DPhil. Full
name: Olav Gjelsvik, Date
and place of birth: 30.06.56, Røros, Norway Maritial
status: married, one daughter. Address:
Røaveien 16B, 0752 Oslo Present
occupation: Professor in Philosophy, University of Oslo Education: 1972-75:
Examen Artium 1975-80:
Cand. Mag, University of Oslo (1981-82:
National Service) 1982-83:
Visiting Postgraduate Student, Balliol College Oxford 1983-86:
Postgraduate student for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Balliol College,
University of Oxford. Thesis entitled "The Token-Token Identity- Theory
and Recent Theories of Reference" submitted Trinity Term 1986. Graduated
from Oxford as Doctor of Philosophy early 1987. 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 and Oliver Smythies Lecturer, Balliol College, 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. 2007-
Research Director, CSMN, (Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, a centre of excellence
at the University of Oslo, funded by the Norwegian Research Council.)
Director, CSMN Research School. 2010.
Acting Director, CSMN. 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. Chairman
of Group 3, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, 2005-09 Talks: Talks at many conferences and at many
European and American Universities
through the years. Edited: Synthese
no 1. 1994, with a preface. Edited Book: Understanding Choice, Explaining Behaviour, edited with Jon Elster, A. Hylland
and K. Moene, Unipub Publishers, Oslo 2006. Publications by Olav
Gjelsvik: 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”, Special issue of the journal Protosoziologie devoted to Stephen Neale’s book Facing Facts. Edited by Gerhard
Preyer. 2006. pp.157-168. 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”. In Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science: Rethinking Explanation. Edited by Petri Ylikoski and Johannes
Persson. Springer. Dordrecht 2006. pp 71-97.. 30.
“Bullshit Illuminated”, in Elster, Gjelsvik, Hylland and Moene (eds) Understanding Choice, Explaining Behaviour, Oslo 2006, pp. 101-111. 31. “On
Meaning and Experience”. Forthcoming in a volume edited by Wilhelm Essler
on D. Føllesdal’s philosophical contributions. 32.
“Are there Reasons to be Rational”, in a Festschrift
for W. Rabinowicz. (ed. By T.
Rönnow-Rasmussen and others.), Lund 2007. 33.
“David Hume, Natur og Fornuft”. In a collection of articles for the
basic philosophy teaching at the University of Oslo, edited by A. Pedersen, Oslo
2008. 33.
”Avhengighet som skade. Høyesteretts dom i røkesaken reist av Robert Lund.” Tidsskrift for Erstatningsrett, 2008. Pp. 211-222. 34.
”Rationality, Prudence and Procrastination”. In ”The Thief of Time”, eds. White and
Andreou, Oxford University Press 2010. 35.
“Integrering, en skotsk idealist, og CSMN. Svar til Alastair Hannay”. Norsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift, 2009,
p..158-161. 36.
“Darwin og filosofi, (Darwin and Philosophy”. In N.Chr.Stenseth, T.Lie and
D.O.Hessen (ed) Verden ble aldri den
samme, Gyldendal, Oslo, 2009. 37.(with
Edmund Henden): ‘Når er samtykke til rusavhengige personer etisk og juridisk
bindende?’ in Ruyter & Solbakk & Waal (eds.) Rusmiddelbrukeren og forskeren, etiske prinsipper, erfaringer og
ettertanker, SERAF og SME, ISBN:978-82-303-1257-5. (2009) 38.
“Pengar og Fridom. (Money and Freedom)”, in Maaseide og Skirbekk, Filosofi I Vår Tid. Det Norske
Samlaget, Oslo, 2009. 39.
”Nærsynthet og sofistikasjon.”, (Myopia and Sophistication) i Rune Slagstad
(Ed) Essay om Jon Elster til
70årsdagen, med tilsvar fra forfatteren.
Kommer Pax forlag 2010. 40. “A
Radical Approach To Radical Interpretation”, forthcoming in A Reappraisal of Davidson’s Philosophy,
edited by Gerhard Preyer, (probably) Oxford University Press. 41.
“Epistemic Reasons and Epistemic Duties”, forthcoming in The Aim of Belief, ed. Timothy Chan, (probably) Oxford University
Press 42.
“Tenke langt, handle rett”. (Think long, act right), forthcoming in Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift 2010. Manuscript:
Book about to be completed entitled Knowledge, Freedom, and Addiction. (230 pages) Cambridge
University Press is interested, but no contract is signed yet. The work exist
in manuscript form, but there is still a lot to do on it. Contents There
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, where knowledge plays a distinct and fundamental role,
then provides an account of explanation from the concept of knowledge. The
heart of the book is in action theory and the application of philosophy to
questions in social science. I develop a new conception of doing something
intentionally as knowingly making the world be a certain way, and argues that
this account for acting by understanding it from a certain conception of
practical knowledge. The book further argues for a deep connection between
normative knowledge and freedom (freedom is, to put it generically and
simplistically, to translate normative knowledge into action). It then
accounts for weak will and practical reasoning, and thereafter uses prudence
as a model for how to think about the connection between reason and
motivation. The ends with and account of reason and addiction, and addiction
as a case where the freedom of the will erodes. Here recent work in social
natural science is illuminated by portraying its significance for
understanding agency, (by understanding the erosion of agency), and the
account of agency gets to be informed by new knowledge in the empirical
sciences about the underpinnings of full and free agency. 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 and practical reasoning Ch. 6
Motivation through time and the objectivity of reason Ch. 7
Understanding addiction, understanding action Publications from projects Gjelsvik has
directed . Gjelsvik
has from 2004 until 2008 directed the
following with Norwegian Research Council: Moral Responsibility and Practical Deliberation. From 2009 he
directs the project Addiction and
Moral Responsibility, (Norwegian Research Council). Projest participants
include the three young scholars Edmund Henden, Hans Olav Melberg. Ole
Røgeberg. The
first project has resulted in the following publications: 1.
Henden, E (2008): “What is Self-Control?”, Philosophical Psychology Vol. 21, No. 1,
Routledge, Taylor & Francis, pp. 69-90. 2.
Henden, E (2007): “Is Genuine Satisficing Rational?”, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 339-352.. 3.
Henden, E (2007): “Restrictive Consequentialism and Real Friendship”, Ratio-New Series, XX(2), June, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, pp.
179-193. 4.
Henden, E (2006): “The Role of All things Considered Judgements in Practical Deliberation”,
Philosophical Explorations, Vol. 9,
No. 3, Routledge,
Taylor & Francis, pp. 295-308. 5.
Henden, E (2004): “Weakness of Will and Divisions of the Mind”, European Journal of Philosophy 12: 2, Blackwell Publishing Ltd.,
pp. 199- 213. 6.
Henden, E (2004): “Intentions, All-Out Evaluations and Weakness of the Will”, Erkenntnis 61, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 53-74. |
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