Forskningsområde

Metaethics (the metaphysics and epistemology of ethics)

Realism debates in general

Philosophy of language

Political philosophy (including theories of democracy, multiculturalism, tolerance and minority rights, distributive justice)

The philosophy of human rights

Normative ethics

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Academic qualifications Master of Arts (Philosophy) (University of Aarhus, Denmark) M. Litt. (Logic and Metaphysics) with distinction (University of St. Andrews, Scotland). Ph.D. (Logic and Metaphysics) (University of St. Andrews, Scotland).

Chronology (education, studies abroad and teaching experience) Born 7th of January 1967 (1986-89) B.A. in Philosophy, University of Aarhus. (1992) Visiting Student (through the Erasmus programme) at the Department of Philosophy, University of Leeds. (1993-94) M. Litt in Logic and Metaphysics with distinction, University of St. Andrews. Supervisor: Professor Bob Hale. (1990-95) M.A. in Philosophy (Danish 6 year degree mag.art), University of Aarhus. (1996-99) Ph.D. student and Tutorial assistant at University of St. Andrews. (1999-2001) Teaching fellow (full time, non-tenure track position) at Department of Philosophy, University of Southern Denmark. (2000) Ph.D in Logic and Metaphysics, University of St. Andrews. Title: Moral Minimalism. Supervisor: Professor Crispin Wright. (2001) Assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy and The Study of Religion, University of Southern Denmark. (2003) Lent and Easter Term: Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge, UK. (2004-present) Associate Professor in Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and The Study of Religion, University of Southern Denmark.

Other academic positions (1991-95) Member of the board of the Philosophical Society of Aarhus (Chairman 1995). (1991-95) On the editorial commitee of Philosophia, (the Danish journal of philosophy). (2003-5) Fellow of NAMICONA, (Research project on nature, mind and cognition funded by the Danish state research foundation). (2003-present) Member of the board of The Danish Philosophical Association. Editor of the association's Newsletter and Internet Calendar for Danish Philosophy. (2005-6) Core resource faculty in the ReSET project (under the Open Society Institute - HESP) on Comparative Political Theory based at Gorky Ural State University, Ekaterinburg, Russia (2007-present) Academic co-director and core resource Faculty in the ReSET project (under the Open Society Institute - HESP) on Multiculturalism, Religions and the Foundations of Morality in Contemporary Political Thought based at Gorky Ural State University, Ekaterinburg, Russia. (2008-present) Member of the Steering Committee (responsible for theoretical philosophy) of PHIS - The Danish Research Training Programme in Philosophy, History of Ideas and History of Science.

Editorial Boards and Refereeing I have refereed for The Philosophical Quarterly, Res Publica, Res Cogitans (Denmark), Synthese, Sats (Nordic Journal of Philosophy), Philosophia (Israel), Journal of Consciousness Studies and Tidsskrift for Sprogforskning. I have also functioned as book-referee for Oxford University Press. I am currently member of the editorial board of Res Cogitans (Internet Journal of Philosophy) and Sats (Nordic Journal of Philosophy) and Tidsskrift for Sprogforskning. Previously (1991-95): Philosophia, (Denmark).

Invited lectures and guestlectures outside of Denmark

(April 2005) Guest lecture series (Metaethics) at University of Tampere, Finland.

(May 2005) Invited talk at a workshop on Religious and Cultural Minorities: Religious and Cultural Minorities: Theoretical and Practical Issues for Democratic Citizenship ved Università del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli, Italien.

(August 2005) Lecture series on The Use of Game Theory and Economic Analysis in Political and Moral Philosophy, ReSET Summer School on Comparative Political Theory, Ekaterinburg, Russia.

(May 2006) Lecture series on Nationalism, ReSET Winter School on Comparative Political Theory, Ekaterinburg, Russia. (June 2006) Invited commentator at conference on Moral Contextualism, University of Aberdeen, Skotland.

(August 2006) Lecture series on Issues of Identity: Cosmopolitanism and Multiculturalism and Freedom of Speech, ReSET Summer School on Comparative Political Theory, Kaliningrad, Russia.

(November 2006) Lecture series on The Liberal State and Education, ReSET Winter School on Comparative Political Theory, Ekaterinburg, Russia.

(May 2007) Invited keynotespeaker at workshop on Global Ethics, Rovaniemi, Finland.

(August 2007) Lecture series on Multiculturalism, Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogues: Basic concepts and theories, ReSET Summer School on Multiculturalism, Ekaterinburg, Russia.

(December 2007) Invited talk at workshop on Liberal Toleration: Problems and Perspectives, European University Institute, Florence, Italy. (March 2008) Invited talk at workshop on Clashes of Civilizations, University of Bilkent, Turkey.

(April 2008) Invited speaker at international conference on Toleration at the University of St. Petersburg, Russia.

(May 2008) Series of 4 guest-lectures on Multicutluralism - for and against at Bifrost University, Iceland.

(June 2008) Invited speaker for the annual lecture series on philosophy at University of Turku, Finland.