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My main interests are in Skepticism, problems concerning rationality, culture, and ethics, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Wittgenstein, and the relationship between Analytic and Continental philosophy.

Wittgenstein

Origins of Analytic Philosophy

Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Philosophy of Language

Existentialism

Konferanseforedrag

Vitenskapelig artikkel

Vitenskapelig bokkapittel

Antologi

Doktorgradsavhandling

Vitenskapelig monografi

Arbeidsnotat

Tidsskriftomtale

Books -

Towards a Philosophical Anthropology of Culture: Naturalism, Relativism, and Skepticism (New York: Routledge, 2021)

Co-editor with Thomas Raleigh, Wittgenstein and Naturalism (New York: Routledge, 2018)

Co-editor with Martin Gustafsson and Thomas Schwarz-Wenzer, Finite but Unbounded: New Essays in Philosophical Anthropology, Berlin Studies in Knowledge Research (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2017)

The Fate of Wonder: Wittgenstein’s Critique of Metaphysics and Modernity (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011)

Co-editor with Lene Johannessen Considering Class: Essays on The Discourse of the American Dream (Lit-Verlag: Berlin, 2007)

Papers -

“Tractarian Ethics" in The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein, 2^nd ed. (eds.) Hans Sluga and David Stern (Cambridge: Cambridge, 2017) 96-125

“‘A Purely Self-Regarding Ethics’: Response to Sluga” in Ed Dain and Reshef Agam-Segal (eds.) Wittgenstein’s Moral Thought (London: Routledge, 2017) 223-245 

“A Degenerate Case of Action” in Finite but Unbounded: New Essays in Philosophical Anthropology, Berlin Studies in Knowledge Research, (de Gruyter, 2017) 119-132         

“T��� Habitus, Coping Practices and the Search for the Ground of Action”, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 46 (5):498-524                            

“Wittgenstein’s Paganism” in Mark Bevir and Andrius Galisanka, eds., Ludwig Wittgenstein and Normative Inquiry (Leiden: Brill, 2016) 174-191    

“Quietism or Description? McDowell in Dispute with Dreyfus”, The Review of Metaphysics 68 (December 2014) 395-409

“Naturalism and the Friends of Understanding” Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 44(4), 2014, 460-477

“30. Dezember 1929, Zu Heidegger: Was Konnte Wittgenstein sich Denken?” in Ungesellige Geselligkeiten/Unsocial Sociabilities, ed. Esther Ramharter (Berlin: Parerga Verlag, 2011) 97-118

"Explanation, Wonder, and the Cultural Point of the Tractatus”
Norsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift, vol. 44, no. 3-4, 2009, 206-217

“Wittgenstein and the Fate of Metaphysics”
 Sats: Nordic Journal of Philosophy, vol. 9, no. 2. pp. 61-73
                                   
“Bildung and Decline”
Philosophical Investigations, 32:1 January, 2009, 23-43

“Elucidation, Meta-Philosophy, and Hacker’s Use of ‘External Evidence’”
Journal of Philosophical Research, Volume 33, 2008, 73-99
        
 Co-editor with Lene Johannessen
 Considering Class: Essays on The Discourse of the American Dream
 Lit-Verlag: Berlin, 2007

“T��� Concept of Progress in Wittgenstein’s Thought”
 Review of Metaphysics, September, 2006, Volume LX (1), 71-100

“What Kripke Missed: The Antinomical Structure of the Remarks on Rule-following” Ludwig Wittgenstein and Analytic Philosophy: Papers of the Conference on the Occasion of the 115th Anniversaryof his Birth (Sofia, 2005) 22-34

“Ethics and the Tractatus: A Resolute Failure”
 Philosophy, January, 2004, Volume 79 (1), 2004, 33-55

“T��� Tractatus, Ethics, and Authenticity”
Journal of Philosophical Research, Volume 29, 2004, 267-288

Main Collaborator and Co-Applicant (Project Leader, Sorin Bangu)

“Mathematics with a Human Face”

Norwegian Research Council Fripro-Frihumsam Research Grant

2019-2023

 

From 2010 to 2013 I was project leader of the NordForsk Nordic Network for Philosophical Anthropology

I am currently working on a monograph on skepticism and its relation to anthropology.