Dagfinn Føllesdal | |
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| Born | 22 June 1932 |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy (early) Continental philosophy (hermeneutics)[1] (late) |
| Doctoral advisor | Willard Van Orman Quine |
| Doctoral students | John Haugeland |
Main interests | Philosophy of language |
Dagfinn Føllesdal (born 22 June 1932) is a Norwegian-American philosopher. He is the Clarence Irving Lewis Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Stanford University, and professor emeritus at the University of Oslo.[2]
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Biography and career
Føllesdal was born in Askim. After earning his bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Oslo, he attended Harvard University and earned his Ph.D. in 1961 under Willard Van Orman Quine. He taught at Harvard University from 1961 to 1964, and began teaching at Stanford University in 1968.
Føllesdal is a member of the Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature,[3] the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters,[4] the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences,[5] and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[6]
He resides at Tanum.[7] He is a practicing Roman Catholic. He regularly participates in the sport of Orienteering.[8]
Philosophical work
Føllesdal has written extensively on topics relating to the philosophy of language, phenomenology, existentialism, and hermeneutics. He was a pupil of Quine and is among the leading experts on the indeterminacy of translation.
Bibliography
- Referential Opacity and Modal logic. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1966
- "Quine on Modality." Synthese (December 1968), 19(1-2):147-157.
- "Husserl's Notion of Noema." Journal of Philosophy (October 1969), 66(20):680-687.
- "Indeterminacy of Translation and Under-Determination of the Theory of Nature." Dialectica (1973), 27:289-301.
- "Essentialism and Reference." In Lewis Hahn, ed., The Philosophy of W. V. Quine, pp. 97–115. La Salle: Open Court, 1986.
- "Indeterminacy and Mental States." In Perspectives on Quine. Oxford & Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 1990.
- "In What Sense Is Language Public?" In Paolo Leonardi, ed., On Quine: New Essays. New York & Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
- "Absorbed Coping, Husserl and Heidegger." In Mark A. Wrathall and Jeff Malpas, eds., Heidegger, Authenticity, and Modernity: Essays in Honor of Hubert L. Dreyfus, Volume 1, pp. 251–257. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2000.
References
- ^ Bjorn Ramberg; Kristin Gjesdal. "Hermeneutics". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved 2017-09-12.
- ^ "Dagfinn Kåre Føllesdal - Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas". www.hf.uio.no. Retrieved 2019-08-22.
- ^ "Det Norske Akademi for Sprog og Litteratur" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature. Archived from the original on 10 February 2009. Retrieved 25 April 2009.
- ^ "Gruppe 3: Idéfag" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 28 October 2009.
- ^ "The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences: Dagfinn Føllesdal". Archived from the original on 2017-09-12. Retrieved 2009-05-01.
- ^ Gibson, Roger F. (2005). "Føllesdal, Dagfinn Kaare (1932–)". Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers. A&C Black. p. 829. ISBN 9781843710370.
- ^ "75 år 22. juni: C.I. Lewis Professor Philosophy / professor emeritus Dagfinn Føllesdal" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 15 June 2007.
- ^ "Results for Dagfinn Føllesdal in International Orienteering". Archived from the original on 2023-05-14. Retrieved 2023-05-12.
External links
- Stanford faculty profile Archived 2015-09-08 at the Wayback Machine
- Interview with Dagfinn Føllesdal by Øystein Linnebo and Einar Duenger Bøhn in Norsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift (01/2020; Vol. 55). (also here)
- Interview with Dagfinn Føllesdal on some topics related to linguistics and communication Archived 2011-07-25 at the Wayback Machine. The interview belongs to the series Multi-Media Encyclopaedia of Philosophical Sciences.
- An Interview with Dagfinn Føllesdal by Carl Korsnes for Filosofisk supplement 2/2015. (also here)
- Bibliography
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