See also my personal website, which contains preprints of most of my published articles.
Academic Interests
Higher education and employment history
I took up my current position as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo in August 2012. Before that, I was a Professorial Fellow at the Northern Institute of Philosophy, Aberdeen, a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Birkbeck College (January 2010 - July 2012), and a Lecturer and then Reader in Philosophy at the University of Bristol. I have also held Research Fellowships at the Universities of Oxford and Oslo. I obtained a PhD from the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University in 2002 and an MA in Mathematics at the University of Oslo in 1996.
Recent teaching
- FIL1001 Introduction to Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Mind (autumn 2019 and 2020)
- FIL1006 Introduction to Logic (spring 2014)
- FIL2405/4405 Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics (spring 2020 and 2021)
- FIL2506/4630 Inheriting from Frege and Russell (autumn 2014)
- FIL4400 Philosophy of Language and Logic (autumn 2017)
Academic responsibilities and honors
- Head of Research, IFIKK (2021 - )
- Member of Department Board, IFIKK (2013 - 2020)
- Head of Subject ("fagleder"), August 2013 - July 2015 and August 2017 - July 2019
- Member of Academia Europeae and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (both since 2014)
- Editor, Bulletin of Symbolic Logic
- Editorial board of Inquiry, Philosophia Mathematica, SATS: Northern European Journal of Philosophy, Thought
- Executive Committee of Scandinavian Logic Society (08/2012 – )
- Board member of Philosophy of Mathematics Association (07/2015 – 06/2017, 07/2019 –06/2022)
Research projects
- Center for Philosophy and the Sciences (HF "faglige prioriteringer III", 2019 - 2024)
- ConceptLab (NFR Toppforsk, 2016 - 2022)
- Plurals, Predicates and Paradox: Towards a Type-Free Account (ERC Starting Grant, PI, 2010 - 2013)
- Foundations of Structuralism (AHRC, 2010 - 2012)