Kristin Sampson
Position
Professor, Philosophy
Affiliation
Research groups
Research
Kristin Sampson, dr. art., is Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bergen. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on Plato, Ontogony. Conceptions of Being and Metaphors of Birth in the Timaeus and the Parmenides (2006), with a focus on the relation between the poetical and the philosophical. Her academic work beyond the doctorate dissertation has proceeded along three various main lines: Firstly, on other parts of the Platonic textual corpus (Symposium, Sophist, Protagoras, Apology, Republic and Laws); secondly, on ancient Greek thinking previous to Plato, going back to Homer and Hesiod; and thirdly within feminist and contemporary philosophy with a special attention to the thinking of Luce Irigaray.
Having received a post-doctorate fellowship (2007) Sampson worked on the project The Freedom of the Other. Ethical Consequences of Irigaray鈥檚 Conception of Sexual Difference, investigating possible alternative conceptions of freedom from within an ontological-ethical perspective as articulated by Luce Irigaray. This project was also part of the larger research project Thought as Action (2008-2012) funded by the Norwegian Research Council.
Sampson was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Philosophy at Boston University (USA) in 2002, having been granted the Fulbright Fellowship the Einar Haugen Fellowship in the Humanitiesfor the academic year 2001/2002. In 2008 Sampson was a Visiting Professor at Rutgers University (USA), and in 2010 at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris (France).
Sampson is part of the research group on Ancient Philosophy (at the Department of Philosophy), which for several years worked on the research project Poetry and Philosophy, focusing on Plato. This project was funded by the Norwegian Research Council (2010-2015). The Ancient Philosophy research group is currently working on a project on politics and philosophy in Ancient Greece. Sampson is also a member of the research group on Subjectivation and Late Modernity at the University of Bergen.
Publications
鈥 鈥颁丑么谤补&苍产蝉辫;Reconsidered in View of a Topology of Sexual Difference鈥 pp. 19-35 in Topologies of Sexual Difference (eds. Louise Burchill, James Sares and Rebecca Hill). New York: State University of New York Press 2025.
鈥 鈥淜j忙rlighetsbegj忙ret hos Platon鈥 Samtiden, s. 10-22, Nr. 5 2025.
鈥 鈥淗va skal vi med Platons Staten i dag?鈥 Prosa, Nr. 2, 2025: https://prosa.no/artikler/kommentarer/hva-skal-vi-med-platons-staten-i-dag
鈥 鈥淲hy Study Plato Today?鈥 Norsk filosofisk tidsskrift, Vol. 59, Nr. 3-4, 2024, pp. 74-83:
鈥 鈥淟uce Irigaray鈥 Store norske leksikon, Autumn 2024:
鈥 鈥淎nti-脴dipus og 酶kologi鈥 pp. 95-111 in special edition of Agora (eds. Gisle Selnes and Hans-Jacob Ohldieck) No. 4. Oslo: H. Aschehoug & Co 2023.
鈥 鈥淟ukke og dygd鈥, p.11, Avisa Hordaland, May 27th 2023.
鈥 鈥淜rafta i naturen鈥, p. 9, Avisa Hordaland, April 1st 2023.
鈥 鈥淢usikk som danning og sjelebot鈥, p. 10, Avisa Hordaland, February 11th 2023.
鈥 鈥淓xamen philosophicums betydning som fellesskapsdannende grunnlag for dialog og refleksjon鈥, Norsk filosofisk tidsskrift, Vol. 57, Nr. 1鈥2, 2022, pp. 54鈥64: https://www.idunn.no/doi/epdf/10.18261/nft.57.1-2.7
鈥 鈥淜j忙rleik som lengt og g氓ve鈥, p. 8, Avisa Hordaland, December 24th 2022.
鈥 鈥淓r livet for kort?鈥, p. 10, Avisa Hordaland, November 5th 2022.
鈥 鈥淗ypatia鈥, Store norske leksikon, Spring 2022:
鈥 鈥淒en rette tida鈥, p. 9, Avisa Hordaland, May 14th 2022.
鈥 鈥淜rig og dialog鈥, p. 8 in Avisa Hordaland, March 26th 2022.
鈥 鈥淪kule og fritid鈥, p. 10 in Avisa Hordaland, February 5th 2022.
鈥 鈥淜vifor feira jol om ein ikkje er oppteken av barnet som vart f酶dd i ein stall for 2000 a虋r sidan?鈥, p. 9 in Avisa Hordaland, December 18th 2021.
鈥 鈥溍 verta sett og 氓 vera鈥, p. 9 in Avisa Hordaland, October 30th 2021.
鈥 鈥淰al og demokrati鈥, p. 10 in Avisa Hordaland, September 11th 2021.
鈥&苍产蝉辫;鈥淭he Art of Politics as Weaving in Plato鈥檚 Statesman鈥, pp. 485-500 in Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought, Volume 37, Issue 3 (2020).
鈥 鈥淐onceptions of Temporality: Reconsidering Time in an Age of Impending Emergency鈥 pp. 769-782 in Theoria, Vol. 86, Issue 6 (2020).
鈥 鈥淭hinking Life through the Early Greeks鈥 pp. 61-75 in Thinking Life with Luce Irigaray (ed. Gail M. Schwab). New York: State University of New York Press 2020.
鈥 鈥淭he Significance of the Ambiguity of Music in Plato鈥 pp. 143-161 in Philosophy as Drama: Plato's Thinking through Dialogue (eds. Hallvard Fossheim, Vigdis Songe-M酶ller, and Knut 脜gotnes). London & New York: Bloomsbury Academic 2019.
鈥 鈥淪ounds of Subjectivity or Resonances of Something Other鈥 pp. 123-140 in Antiquities Beyond Humanism (eds. Emanuela Bianchi, Sara Brill, and Brooke Holmes). Oxford University Press 2019.
鈥 鈥淢yntenes makt鈥 pp. 32-35 in Le monde diplomatique, November 2018.
鈥 鈥淧enger og velstand i antikken鈥 pp. 270-289 in Agora, No. 2-3, H. Aschehoug & Co 2018.
鈥 鈥淒en kjente og den glemte Hypatia鈥 pp. 53-65 in Norsk filosofisk tidsskrift, Vol. 53, No. 2-3. Universitetsforlaget 2018.
鈥 "Den kjente og glemte Hypatia" pp. 14-15 in Klassekampen, October 10th 2018.
鈥 鈥淭he Temporality of Philosophy in the 础辫辞濒辞驳测鈥 pp. 57-71 in Readings of Plato's Apology. Defending the Philosophical Life (ed. Vivil Valvik Haraldsen, Knut Olof Gunnar Pettersson & Oda E. Wiese Tvedt). London: Lexington Books 2018.
鈥 鈥淜aoskomplikasjoner鈥 pp. 57-69 in Deleuze i vest (ed. Helge Pettersen, Terje Hellesen & Remi Nilsen). Bergen: Morgana Press 2018.
鈥 鈥淰isible and Audible Movement in the 笔谤辞迟补驳辞谤补蝉鈥 pp. 199-213 in Plato鈥檚 Protagoras: Essays on the Confrontation of Philosophy and Sophistry (ed. Olof Pettersson & Vigdis Songe-M酶ller) in Philosophical Studies Series. Springer 2017.
鈥 鈥淜忙rlighed: 厂测尘辫辞蝉颈辞苍鈥 pp. 209-229 in Platon: V忙rk og virkning (ed. Jakob L. Fink & Kristian Larsen). Copenhagen: Gyldendal 2016.
鈥 鈥淏eyond the Subject: Early Greek Conceptions of Corporeality鈥, 脕galma, n. 30, ottobre 2015. Roma: Mimesis edizioni 2015.
鈥 鈥淎 Third Possibility: Mixture and Musicality鈥 in The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, Vol. 13 (ed. Burt Hopkins and John Drummond). Routledge 2015.
鈥 鈥淜j酶nnsforskjell som sp酶rsm氓let for v氓r tid鈥 in Salongen. Nettstedet for filosofi og id茅historie. 2014.
鈥 鈥厂么尘补, 迟别肠丑苍锚 and the Somatchnics of Sexual Difference鈥, Somatechnics, Vol. 3, No. 2. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2013.
鈥 鈥淭he Philosophical Significance of the Figure of Diotima鈥, NFT vol. 48, nr. 1. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget 2013.
鈥 鈥淚dentity and Gender in Plato鈥 in Philosophy and Gender (ed. Cressida Hayes), vol. II: Gender and the History of Philosophy. Hoboken: Taylor & Francis: Routledge 2012.
鈥 鈥淚 grenseland - mellom innenfor og utenfor鈥, Kraftverk Jubileumsutgave 2011. Tidsskriftet Kraftverk 40, Billedkatalogen NO 4: 2011.
鈥 鈥淜unst og historie hos Gadamer鈥, Kunstjournalen B-post. 2010/2011.
鈥 鈥淎 World of Sexual Difference鈥, Nora. Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. Volume 18 1:2010.
鈥 鈥淔ilosofi som lesem氓te: Irigarays lesninger av Platon鈥, Agora 3:2008.
鈥&苍产蝉辫;碍箩酶苍苍蝉迟别辞谤颈. (ed. Mortensen, Egeland, Gressg氓rd, Holst, Jegerstedt, Rosland & Sampson) Oslo: Gyldendal 2008.
鈥 鈥淓ksistensialistisk og fenomenologisk tiln忙rming鈥, 鈥淪imone de Beauvoir鈥, 鈥淥ntologisk tiln忙rming鈥 og 鈥淟uce Irigaray鈥 in 碍箩酶苍苍蝉迟别辞谤颈. Oslo: Gyldendal 2008.
鈥 鈥淎 Difference of Origin鈥 pp. 17-33 in Sex, Breath, and Force (ed. Ellen Mortensen). Maryland, USA: Lexington Books 2006.
鈥&苍产蝉辫;Ontogony. Conceptions of being and metaphors of birth in the Timaeus and the Parmenides, dr.art.thesis, Fagbokforlaget 2006.
鈥 鈥淚dentity and Gender in Plato鈥 pp. 17-33 in Feminist Reflections on the History of Philosophy (ed. by Lilli Alanen and Charlotte Witt). Dordrecht, Boston & London: Kluwer Academic Publishers 2004.
鈥 鈥淭he Metaphors of Birth in Plato鈥 pp. 21-35 in Bios, Eros and Thanatos in Ancient and Early Modern Philosophy(ed. by Vigdis Songe-M酶ller and Vibeke A. Tellmann). Bergen: University of Bergen 2003.
鈥 鈥淲hat are we searching for in the history of philosophy?鈥 pp. 94-115 in The Philosophical Age, Almanac 24: History of Philosophy as Philosophy. St. Petersburg 2003.
鈥 鈥淧latons problematiske kvinner鈥 in Kj酶nnsperspektiver i filosofihistorien (red. Hilde Bondevik and Linda Rustad). Oslo: Pax Forlag 1999.
鈥 Selvets logikk i Platons Faidon: en kritikk av Platons plassering av selvet i forhold til motsetningsparene kropp-sjel, d酶delighet-ud酶delighet og femininitet-maskulinitet. University of Bergen 1994.