Research Coordinators
Robyn Carston
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Jan Terje Faarlund
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Andreas Føllesdal
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Alison Jaggar
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Ernie Lepore
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Raino Malnes
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Øyvind Rabbås
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Peter Railton
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Robyn Carston (Professor of Linguistics, University
College London), born and educated in New Zealand, is currently a
professor of linguistics and graduate tutor at University College
London. Her PhD, supervised by Deirdre Wilson, is on the
explicit/implicit distinction in linguistic communication. Her main
research interests are in semantics, pragmatics, relevance theory
and communication, from both a philosophical and a
cognitive-scientific perspective. She has published the monograph
Thoughts and Utterances (Blackwell, 2002), edited several
books and special issues of journals (Lingua, Mind and
Language, Journal of Semantics), and contributed a
number of articles to philosophy and linguistics journals. She has
research collaborations with scholars in Britain, Norway, France
and Japan.
Jan Terje Faarlund, (Professor of Linguistics,
University of Oslo) has since 1998 been a professor of Scandinavian
Linguistics at the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian
Studies at the University of Oslo. Previously he has held seats at
the University of Trondheim/NTNU. He has also held a professorship
at the University of Chicago, and been visiting professor and Guest
Lecturer at several universities abroad, including the University
College , London , Universität Hamburg, Universitá di Studii di
Napoli and Universidad de Salamanca, Spain. Faarlund´s main field
of research is within syntactic theory, theory of grammatical
variation and change, and also Mesoamerican languages. He has also
been involved in work related to typology, scientific theory and
questions concerning language and evolution. Faarlund has published
both in Norway and abroad in the field of grammar and the history
of languages, and also general and theoretical linguistics. He is
elected member of The Philological Society, The Norwegian Academy
of Science and Letters, and the Royal Norwegian Society of Science
and Letters.
Andreas Føllesdal is a
Professor of Political Philosophy at the Norwegian Centre for Human
Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo. Føllesdal studied
psychology, sociology and philosophy at the universities of Oslo,
Bergen and Uppsala (Sweden), before obtaining a PhD in philosophy
from Harvard University in 1991 as a Fulbright Fellow. His
dissertation concerned the normative significance of state borders,
with advisers John Rawls and T. M. Scanlon, and Amartya K. Sen
advising relevant chapters. He was named a Fulbright New Century
Scholar 2002-2003. He participates in several European Union
research projects, is a regular Visiting Scholar at the Harvard
Center for European Studies, and has served on advisory boards in
Norway, Sweden and the United States. He is a member of the
Norwegian Petroleum Fund's Advisory Council on Ethics, and was a
member of the Norwegian Government Biotechnology Advisory Board
1998-2000. During the period 1994-2005 he worked as Research
Professor at ARENA, a research program on the Europeanisation of
the Nation State. He was Full Professor at the Department of
Philosophy, University of Oslo, 1999-2005. Føllesdal publishes in
the field of political philosophy with a focus on issues of
international political theory and Human Rights, particularly as
they arise in the wake of changes in Europe. He has written on
distributive justice, federalism, minority rights, deliberative
democracy, subsidiarity and European citizenship, in such journals
as Journal of Political Philosophy, Law and
Philosophy, Journal of Peace Research,
International Journal on Minority and Group Rights,
Metaphilosophy, and Global Society. He has
published books on democracy in the EU, on the welfare state in
Europe, animal ethics, and on Consultancy in Europe. He has also
contributed to a broad range of anthologies on the political theory
of Europe, and his writings for a general audience have appeared in
Norway, Finland, Iceland, Portugal, The Czech Republic, and China.
Føllesdal is Founding Series Editor of Themes in European
Governance, Cambridge University Press. Føllesdal contributes
regularly to the Norwegian public debates on such topics as
business ethics, religious instruction, and values in public life.
Føllesdal’s current research projects include the Political theory
of Human Rights, the European Union and Federalism, Minority Rights
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Alison
Jaggar is College Professor of Distinction in Philosophy and Women
and Gender Studies, University of Colorado. She teaches classes in
moral and political philosophy and in feminist theory and
methodology. Professor Jaggar has received numerous grants and
fellowships, including a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship and two
fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Jaggar´s books include: Feminist Frameworks, co-edited
with Paula Rothenberg. (McGraw Hill, 1978, 2/e 1984, 3/3 1993);
Feminist Politics and Human Nature (Rowman & Allanheld
& Harvester, 1983); Gender, Body, Knowledge: Feminist
Reconstructions of Being and Knowing, co-edited with Susan R.
Bordo (Rutgers University Press, 1989); Living with
Contradictions: Controversies in Feminist Social Ethics,
(Westview, 1994); Morality & Social Justice,
co-authored with James Sterba et al (Rowman & Littlefield,
1995); The Blackwell Companion to Feminist Philosophy
co-edited with Iris M. Young, (Blackwell 1998); Just
Methods (Paradigm, 2007); and Abortion: Three
Perspectives co-authored with Michael Tooley, Philip Devine
and Celia Wolf-Devine (Oxford 2008). Jaggar is interested in
practical reasoning, especially in contexts of inequality and
cultural difference, and is co-authoring Ethics Across
Borders with Theresa Weynand Tobin. Recently, in addition to
publishing a few articles on terrorism, she has become especially
interested in global gender justice, and plans several research
projects on this topic. Jaggar was a founder member of the Society
for Women in Philosophy and is past chair of the American
Philosophical Association Committee on the Status of Women.
Ernie Lepore is the
Director of the Center for Cognitive Science at Rutgers University
and professor II at University of Oslo. He is the author of
numerous papers in the philosophy of language, philosophical logic,
metaphysics and philosophy of mind. He recently wrote
Insensitive Semantics (2004, Basil Blackwell) and
Language Turned on Itself (Oxford University Press, 2007)
with Herman Cappelen, Donald Davidson (2005, Oxford
University Press) with Kirk Ludwig, Meaning and Argument,
and co-authored, with Jerry Fodor, Holism: A Shopper's
Guide (Blackwell, 1991) and The Compositionality
Papers (Oxford University Press, 2002); and with Sarah-Jane
Leslie What Every Student Should Know (Rutgers Press,
2002). He has edited several books, including Truth and
Interpretation (Blackwell, 1989), and is co-editor with Zenon
Pylyshyn, of What is Cognitive Science? (Blackwell, 1999).
He is also general editor of the Blackwell series "Philosophers and
Their Critics".
Raino Malnes
is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo. His
main areas of research are Political philosophy, moral philosophy,
theory of knowledge, metaphysics and French politics. Malnes
received the Cand. polit. degree in 1982. Raino Malnes was a NAVF
(Norwegian Research Council for Science and the Humanities) scholar
in 1983-84, senior research assistant 1984-88, and associate
professor 1989-93, professor from 1994. He is involved in ongoing
research projects in the fields of Political philosophy, Applied
normative theory and Philosophy of science. His writing spans the
political sciences and philosophy, and includes books on matters
such as international and environmental politics as well as ethical
questions linked to foreign policy. Among his publications are
Valuing the Environment (1995) and Materiell og mental
virkelighet (2002).
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Peter Railton
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