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Annual Report 2016-2017 with a Summary 2007-2017 Annual Report 2016-2017 Logo and graphic design by Sara Nygaard/ Millimeterpress (www.milli.no). All photographs by Hæge Håtveit (www.newmoon.no), except: pages 10 (top), 41, 51, 93 (top and middle) and 94 (private), and pages 43 (Peder Austrud) and 114 (Annica Thomsson). Layout by Jon Anstein Olsen. Printed by 07 Media AS ANNUAL REPORT 2016-2017 WITH A SUMMARY 2007-2017 ANNUAL REPORT 2016-2017 WITH A SUMMARY 2007-2017 Contents EDITORIAL 4 Workshop highlights: Olav Gjelsvik DISPOSITIONAL THEORIES AND THEORIES ABOUT DISPOSITIONS 48 ANNUAL REPORT 2016-2017 CONFLICT AND CONFLICT SOLUTION IN ISRAEL AND PALESTINE 50 ORGANIZATION 8 LONG-TERM GUEST RESEARCHERS 52 NEW TEAM MEMBERS 10 BEING A GUEST RESEARCHER AT CSMN 54 Caroline T. Arruda DISPUTATION AND AWARD 14 Grethe Netland and Sebastian Watzl EVENTS 56 Agency activities: TALKS ABROAD 58 LINGUISTIC AGENCY 16 ACCOUNTS AND BUDGET 70 MORAL AGENCY 22 RATIONAL AGENCY 28 PUBLICATIONS 72 SPEAKERS 82 Common internal activities: THE PPPE CLUB 34 THE CSMN COLLOQUIUM 36 TEN YEARS AS A CENTER OF EXCELLENCE WORK IN PROGRESS SEMINAR 38 SUMMARY 2007-2017 88 THINKERS, FAST AND SLOW 40 STAFF SEMINAR 42 LOOKING BACK TO LOOK FORWARD 96 The CSMN Closing Conference ANNUAL LECTURE 2016 44 THE VIEW FROM THE HOSTING DEPARTMENT 114 Susan Wolf Beate Elvebakk We hold that what we have done throughout these ten years Editorial matter. We do not cure sickness nor do we produce inven- tions, but we contribute in our own way: we develop the Olav Gjelsvik basic intellectual foundations for a well-functioning, enlight- ened and just society. CSMN has since the beginning in 2007 had universities in the world, especially for our international profile. We have arranged several and value theory, to theories of global justice, high activity and extensive interaction with postdoc positions. big international conferences, but most events including gender aspects of such questions, to a large number of international universities, have been more moderately sized; intimate and foundational problems in ethics and meta-ethics, research groups and environments. The centre’s CSMN is and has been productive. The productive. The last big event was the closing and to historical studies in ethics and value core group, which has long consisted of eight researchers at the centre have authored a conference, which exhibited a panoramic view of theory. We have made important contributions to researchers, half local, half international, significant number of monographs and books CSMN’s research over the years, and had about philosophy of language and theory of language, today consists of 10 researchers, 7 of whom are (more than 70), of which many have been hundred current and former CSMN scholars to the relationship between semantics and based in Oslo. This group in itself constitutes published at Oxford University Press, some participating. pragmatics, to acquisition of language, to various an extensive international collaboration. The at Cambridge University Press, and one at questions in semantics, and aspects of gram- expansion and strengthening of the group Harvard University Press. Our researchers The areas where the centre has given important matical theory. We have also made important has taken place locally by recruiting interna- have also published a large number of articles contributions to the international research front contributions to philosophical methodology, tional scholars to permanent positions Oslo. (more than 1300), and many in central inter- include the understanding of what intentional hereunder the role of intuitions as a type of In addition to the core group, we have also national journals, and in anthologies with the action is, and the significance of such under- evidence for a philosophical theory. employed leading international researchers best university presses. One year, we had two standing for making sense of a number of human in Professor II positions (part time researcher articles in Journal of Philosophy, which is still relationships and action patterns. One such rela- CSMN has in these ways produced research on a positions) – most of them women. Other world- a kind of gold standard. It must be remembered tionship we have studied in-depth is substance very high level over the full scope of its academic leading researchers are affiliated with us in that this is a field with mainly one or a few addiction, considered as a reduction in freedom. projects and portfolio, in ethics and morality, various functions and ways. As for younger authors per publication. We have also produced important contribu- rationality and cognition, and language and researchers, the centre has developed into a tions to cognition and the relationship between communication. There is reason to highlight renowned academic power-house. We have The centre has grown steadily, as we have perception and thought, and concepts to do with the importance of both global justice and action received excellent applicants from the best hosted and participated in an increasing understanding animals’ actions. Furthermore, research, and the productivity of the research number of research projects with a clear we have given various contributions to ethics occurring in the intersection of philosophy of 4 ANNUAL REPORT 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT 2016-2017 5 language, pragmatics and communication. In public and some parts of the university, also all these areas, there has been, and continues in the humanities, do not yet show much to be, interdisciplinary research of very high taste for the professionalization of philosophy quality, and in this field (communication), that we exemplify. On the other hand, they there are now three projects of the Young may have sound reactions against unsound Research Talent type. In connection with employment of such competences. The very this field and work in philosophical meth- idea of a university requires all of us to be odology, and in cooperation with the rest of somewhat familiar with and respect the the department, there is now a Toppforsk knowledge situation in other disciplines in project (ConceptLab) built around the theme the university, and the knowledge situation in of Conceptual Engineering. (The same people our own when we enter the public dialogue as were in the finals for a new centre of excel- scholars. lence, with the best academic assessment of all at the University of Oslo.) This project Bertrand Russell and Jürgen Habermas have is a collaborative effort between CSMN both argued in their different ways that researchers and others in the department, and there is a real connection between on the underlines the growing integration process, one side, the general influence in academia and the possible long-term consequences of and in society of thinkers with few and bad CSMN. Two new extremely strong postdocs arguments in support of their views, i.e. were hired in a collaborative effort between what Russell called types of irrationalism in CSMN and ConceptLab. philosophy, and, on the other, the weakening of the knowledge-informed public dialogue CSMN has thus decisively contributed to necessary for democracy and, also, the building a strong and vital international strengthening of authoritarianism. The post- philosophy environment at the University of modernist attack on truth, reality, and thereby Oslo. Together with our host department, we knowledge and science has, for instance, have achieved considerable strength; we are had some significant role in the background now doing what we can to keep this environ- of today’s recognized need for a march for ment strong after the centre’s period as a science and the growing authoritarianism. In Centre of Excellence expired in the middle of this perspective, we hold that what we have 2017. done throughout these ten years matter. We do not cure sickness nor do we produce inven- tions, but we contribute in our own way: we FINAL, LARGER PERSPECTIVE develop the basic intellectual foundations for a Finally, let me add some further more well-functioning, enlightened and just society. personal thought at this very end. As philoso- phers we learn to be patient. Both the general 6 ANNUAL REPORT 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT 2016-2017 7 Core group Administration Director of CSMN Personal Autonomy, Olav Gjelsvik Herman Cappelen, Christel Fricke, Administrative Leader: Olav Gjelsvik, Carsten Hansen, Grethe Netland Addiction and Mental Jennifer Hornsby, Thomas Pogge, Disorder Co-Director Edmund Henden Carsten Hansen Bjørn Ramberg, Deirdre Wilson, Administrative Consultant: Caj Strandberg, Sebastian Watzl Lina Tosterud Olav Gjelsvik Jon Anstein Olsen Frøydis Gammelsæter Annual Report Ayna Johansen Innocently Benefiting from Moral Agency Rational Agency Linguistic Agency Injustice Research Directors: Research Directors: Research Directors: Robert Huseby Christel Fricke Olav Gjelsvik Herman Cappelen Alexandra Couto 2016-2017 Carsten Hansen Deirdre Wilson Ole Martin Moen Thomas Pogge Caj Strandberg Bjørn Ramberg Jennifer Hornsby Research Coordinators: Research Coordinators: Sebastian Watzl Robyn Carston Christoph Harbsmeier Jan Terje Faarlund Reflective Mind Alison Jaggar Research Coordinators: Nicholas Allott Raino Malnes Helen Steward Researchers: Timothy Chan Peter Railton Richard Breheny Eline B. Gundersen Øyvind Rabbås Researchers: Josh Dever Anders Nes Henrik Syse Edmund Henden John Hawthorne Hans Olav Melberg Francois Recanati Researchers: Ole Røgeberg Dan Sperber Linguistic and Julia Annas, Emilie Aussant, Natalia Waights Hickman Jason Stanley Cognitive Fac- Alexander Cappelen, Maria tors in
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