Dagfinn Føllesdal

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Dagfinn Føllesdal (also written Follesdal) (born June 22, 1932 in Askim , Norway ) is Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University and Professor Emeritus at the University of Oslo . In 2006 he received the Lauener Prize for Analytical Philosophy .

Føllesdal has made numerous contributions, some of which have received much attention, on topics in the philosophy of language , phenomenology , existentialism and hermeneutics . Many of his works take part both in contemporary systematic analytical debates and on the other hand reconstruct positions of continental classics, v. a. of the schools just mentioned.

Føllesdal studied at Harvard a . a. with Willard Van Orman Quine .

He is a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen .

Works (in selection)

  • (1967) Knowledge, Identity and Existence , Theoria 33, 1-27.
  • (1968) Quine on Modality , Synthesis 19 / 1-2, 147-157.
  • (1969) Husserl's Notion of Noema , Journal of Philosophy 66/20, 680-687.
  • (1971) Quantification into Causal Contexts , in: Leonard Linksy (ed.): Reference and Modality. Oxford Readings in Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press
  • (1972) Indeterminacy of Translation and Under-Determination of the Theory of Nature , Dialectica 27, 289-301.
  • (1974) Husserl's Theory of Perception , Ajatus 36, 95-103.
  • (1979) Hermeneutics and the Hypothetico-Deductive Method , Dialectica 33 / 3-4, 319-336.
  • (1981) La liberté chez Sartre , Revue Internationale de Philosophie 35/1, 41-; Sartre on Freedom , in: Paul Schlipp (ed.): The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre, La Salle: Open Court 392-407
  • (1982) The Status of Rationality Assumptions in Interpretation and in the Explanation of Action , Dialectica 36/4, 301-316.
  • (1984) (with Guttorm Floistad): Communication and Convention , Synthesis 59/1, 3-.
  • (1990) Noema and Meaning in Husserl , Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 50 / Suppl., 263-271.
  • (1991) with Jitendra Nath Mohanty, Thomas M. Seebohm (eds.): Phenomenology and the Formal Sciences . Contributions to Phenomenology, 8. Dordrecht & Boston: Kluwer
  • (1994) Comments on Quine, Prawitz, Hintikka and Sandu, and Smith , Synthesis 98/1, 175-186.
  • (1996) Analytic Philosophy: What Is It and Why Should One Engage in It? , Ratio 9/3, 193-208. / (1997) What is analytical philosophy? , in: Georg Meggle (ed.): Analyomen 2, Vol. I: Logic, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science. Berlin: de Gruyter.
  • (1999) Mind and Meaning , Philosophical Studies 94 / 1-2, 139-149.

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