Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij – University of Copenhagen

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Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij

Position: Post Doctoral Fellow

Departments: Rutgers University (2009-2010), and Copenhagen University (2010-2012).
Office: 14.2.10.
Phone: TBD
Email: ahlstrom[at]hum.ku.dk

Personal Webpage: http://ahlstromvij.wordpress.com

Education: Ph.D. (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2010), Fil. Dr. (Gothenburg University, 2008), and B.A. (Gothenburg University, 2003).

Research: My primary research interest is in the epistemic good: what it is, and how limited creatures like us can attain it. I'm particularly interested in foundational questions about epistemic normatity (e.g., about the goals of inquiry, and the problems and prospects for epistemic expressivism), and in the ways in which social and cognitive psychology can inform social epistemology on how we may improve our chances of attaining epistemic goods.

Supervision: Any of the above, as well as select topics in traditional epistemology (e.g., skepticism), philosophy of science, and early modern philosophy (particularly Descartes).

Selected Publications

Book Reviews


Selected Presentations

  • "Getting it Right" (with Stephen Grimm), the Aims of Inquiry and Cognition, University of Edinburgh, May 2012.
  • "The Costs of Epistemic Realism," Expressivism and Epistemic Normativity, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, May 2012.
  • "Epistemic Paternalism Defended," the Danish Philosophical Society, Roskilde University, Denmark, March 2012.
  • Commentator for Lucy O’Brien’s "“Self-Knowledge, Passing Thoughts, and Inner Speech," Huatulco, Oaxaca, Mexico, January 2012.
  • "Required Trust," the 3rd Copenhagen Conference in Epistemology: Trust and Inclusiveness, University of Copenhagen, August 2011.
  • "What's so Good about a Wise and Knowledgeable Public?" Lingnan University, Hong Kong, April 2011; Bled, Slovenia, June 2011.
  • "Moderate Epistemic Expressivism," the Danish Philosophical Society, March 2011.
  • "Why Deliberative Democracy (Still) is Untenable," Political Legitimacy and Disagreement, University of Copenhagen, February 2011.
  • Commentator for A. Hiller's "Does Knowledge Have an Independent Truth Condition?" at the Eastern APA-meeting, Boston, December 2010.
  • "Required Trust," the Higher Seminar, Lund University, November 2010; SERG Workshop on Epistemic Trust, University of Copenhagen, December 2010.
  • "Epistemic Paternalism: A Defense," Copenhagen-Lund Workshop in Social Epistemology, University of Copenhagen, November 2010.
  • Commentator for J. Weinberg's "What Good is Disagreement?", Epistemic Norms from a Naturalistic Viewpoint, Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris, October 2010.
  • "Beyond Deliberation," the 3rd Copenhagen Conference in Epistemology: the Epistemology Liberal Democracy, August 2010.
  • "Epistemic Paternalism," SERG Workshop on the Epistemology of Free Speech, Copenhagen, December 2009.
  • "Agency and Amelioration: Re-evaluating a Cartesian Project," SERG Workshop on Disagreement, Copenhagen, August 2009, and Responsible Belief in Face of Disagreement, VU University Amsterdam, August 2009.
  • "Why Reliaiblism is the New Internalism," the University at Albany, SUNY Graduate Conference in Epistemology, April 2008.
  • "Solving the Generality Problem," the 1st Annual Graduate Philosophy Conference at Western Michigan University, December 2007.
  • "Epistemology and Empirical Investigation," the 2007 workshop of the Danish Epistemology Network, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 2007.
  • "On A Posteriori Analysis in Epistemology," the Graduate Student Colloquium at UMass Amherst's Department of Philosophy, March 2007.
  • "An Argument Against Swamping," the 4th Biennial Rochester Epistemology Conference in Rochester, NY, October 2006.


Teaching: 

  • Applied Philosophy, University of Copenhagen
  • Intuitions in Philosophy, U. of Copenhagen
  • Introduction to Economic Philosophy (internal examiner), U. of Copenhagen
  • Topics in Social Epistemology, U. of Copenhagen
  • Introduction to Ethics, UMass Amherst
  • Medical Ethics, UMass Amherst.
  • Introduction to Philosophy, UMass Amherst.
  • The Problems of Philosophy: God, Freedom, and Knowledge, UMass Amherst
  • Philosophical Analysis in Contemporary Epistemology, University of Gothenburg.
     

Fellowships and Research Visits

  • 2009-2010: Rutgers University (Post Doc)
  • 2006-2007: UMass Amherst (Visiting Scholar)
  • 2006: New York University (Visiting Scholar)
  • 2004-2005: New York University (Fulbright Fellow)


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