EMPLOYMENT
Sept. 2017–Present Førsteamanuensis (Visiting Associate Professor), University of Agder,
Norway
Jul. 2015–Sept. 2017 Marie Curie Fellow (SASPRO Mobility Program), Slovak Academy of
Sciences. Research fellowship on the project The Scope of Formal Semantics.
Aug. 2014–May 2015 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of
Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Aug. 2013–May 2014 Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Miami
Aug. 2007–May 2013 Teaching Assistant/Adjunct Faculty, University of Miami
EDUCATION
Aug. 2006–May 2013 University of Miami, Ph.D. in Philosophy
Aug. 2002–May 2005 University of Oslo, Candidatus philologiae (M.A.)
Aug. 2001–Dec. 2001 University of Oslo,ethics, major subject – an additional full semester to the
B.A.
Aug. 1997–June 2001 University of Oslo, Candidatus magisterii (B.A.), with the equivalent of a
major in philosophy, and minors in history and the history of ideas.
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
Philosophy of Language, Epistemology, Philosophy of Logic
AREAS OF COMPETENCE:
Logic, Metaphysics, Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science, History of Analytic Philosophy
PUBLICATIONS (ORIGINAL ARTICLES):
Haraldsen, Fredrik (forthcoming): “You Cannot Steal Something That Doesn’t Exist: Against Fictionalism about Fiction”. Forthcoming in Dialectica(accepted March 19, 2019). DOI:10.1111/1746-8361.12253
Haraldsen, Fredrik (forthcoming): “How to Pick Out a Dragon: Fiction and the Selection Problem”. Forthcoming in Topoi, special issue on Individual Concepts in Language and Thought(accepted September 19, 2017). DOI: 10.1007/s11245-017-9517-1
Haraldsen, Fredrik (2018): “Rigidity and Triviality”. InSynthese vol. 195(5), April 2018: 1993–1999. DOI: 10.1007/s11229-016-1311-x
Haraldsen, Fredrik (2017): “Kind Term Rigidity and Property Identities”. In Philosophia 45(3), October 2017: 1179–1193. DOI: 10.1007/s11406-017-9822-3
Haraldsen, Fredrik (2017): “The Truth About Sherlock Holmes”. In Organon-F24(3), Special issue on The Semantics of Fictional Discourse, September 2017: 339–365.
Haraldsen, Fredrik (2016): “Essence, Application and Explanation”. In Acta Analyticavol. 31(2), June 2016: 179–189. DOI: 10.1007/s12136-015-0272-x
Haraldsen, Fredrik (2015): “On What Actually Is”. In Erkenntnis vol.80(3), June 2015: 643–656. DOI:10.1007/s10670-014-9667-0
Haraldsen, Fredrik (2013): “What Russell Couldn’t Describe”. In Australasian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 91(3), September 2013: 459–473. DOI: 10.1080/00048402.2012.720266
Haraldsen, Fredrik (2012): “Rigidity, Reference, and Contingent Identity”. In SATS: Northern European Journal of Philosophy13(2), December 2012: 116–127.
BOOK REVIEWS:
Haraldsen, Fredrik (2017): Andrea Bianchi (ed.) “On Reference”. In Organon F, 24(1), 121–127.
Haraldsen, Fredrik (2016): Manuel García-Carpintero & Genoveva Martí (eds.) “Empty Representations: Reference and Non-Existence”. In Organon F, 23(2), 262–273.
BOOK UNDER CONTRACT
Proper Names: A Plea for Pluralism. Synthese Library Series – Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science. Springer (Contract no. 52897). Estimated completion date: August 2019.
DISSERTATION (2013)
The Variety of Names; Committee: Otávio Bueno (chair), Risto Hilpinen, Simon Evnine, Stephen Neale (external member, CUNY)
ARTICLES UNDER REVIEW:
“One-Dimensional Two-Dimensionalism”
“Intensional Epicycles and the Retrograde Motion of Twin Earth”
ARTICLES UNDER DEVELOPMENT:
“Credence and the Ordinary Notion of Belief”
“Suspending Judgment and Deference to Experts” (with Robin Neiman)
“Empirical Predictions for a Theory of Reference”
“Variabilism and Propositional Attitudes”
SELECTED INVITED TALKS
October 2018: “Belief and Confidence”, keynote talk, Comenius University Annual Graduate Student Conference, Bratislava, Slovakia
May 2017: “Deflating Two-Dimensionalism”, Eötvös Loránd University; Budapest, Hungary
June 2016: “Proper Names: A Defense of Pluralism”, Eötvös Loránd University; Budapest, Hungary
April 2016: “Where Be Dragons?” Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Kiev, Ukraine
March 2016: “Where Is Holmes?” Boğaziçi University; Istanbul, Turkey
January 2014: “Suspending Judgment, Ignorance, and Deference”, keynote talk, University of Miami Annual Graduate Epistemology Conference, Miami, USA
SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (Refereed)
September 2018: “Credence and the Ordinary Notion of Belief”, Workshop on “What are Degrees of Belief”, Leeds, UK
October 2016: “Rigidity and Triviality”, WCPA, Alberta, Canada
October 2016: “The Truth About Sherlock Holmes”, Conference: Semantics of Fictional Discourse, Bratislava, Slovakia
September 2016: “How to Talk About Tigers”, SIFA2016, Pistoia, Italy
June 2016: “How Serious Is the Selection Problem?”, CCC Workshop on Proper Names in Fiction, Warsaw, Poland
September 2015: “A Pluralistic Semantics for Proper Names”, ENFA6, Ponta Delgada, Portugal
June 2015: “Proper Names: A Plea for Pluralism”, BCAP 2015, Bucharest, Romania
February 2012: “Russellian Two-Dimensionalism”, Central Division APA
November 2011: “Definite Descriptions, Identifiability, and Selection”, SPR-11 ILCLI International Workshop on Semantics, Pragmatics and Rhetoric, San Sebastián, Spain
September 2010: “Definite Descriptions, Selection, and Rigidity”, Logic and Language Conference, Aberdeen, Scotland
November 2009: “Plural Quantifiers and Iterative Hierarchies”, Florida Philosophical Association, Gainsville, FL
Various commentaries and replies.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Miami:
Undergraduate courses: Fully responsible for every aspect of the curriculum and the teaching, course preparation, student assistance and grading of:
PHI101: Introduction to Philosophy (7 sections)
PHI110: Introduction to Critical Thinking (3 sections)
PHI130: Contemporary Moral Issues (10 sections)
PHI210: Symbolic Logic (2 sections)
PHI215: Logic and Law (2 sections)
PHI340: Theory of Knowledge
PHI341: Philosophy of Language
University of Alabama:
Undergraduate courses: Fully responsible for every aspect of the curriculum and the teaching, course preparation, student assistance and grading of:
PHI100: Introduction to Philosophy (4 sections)
PHI104: Critical Thinking (1 section)
PHI292: Introduction to Ethics (2 sections)
Honors thesis advising.
University of Agder:
Responsible for curriculum development, preparation, teaching, student follow-up and grading:
Examen Philosophicum: History of Philosophy (obligatory course for all students) (2 sections)
Examen Philosophicum: Ethics (obligatory course for all students)
Examen Facultatum: Theory, a general course on the role, history and methods of the humanities (obligatory course for all humanities students) (2 sections)
Epistemology and Philosophy of Science (obligatory: all philosophy majors and minors) (2 sections)
Metaphysics and Philosophy of Mind (obligatory: all philosophy majors and minors) (2 sections)
Philosophical Methods (upper-level course) (2 sections)
Additional grading work for a variety of courses.
Co-teaching: Science and society: philosophy of science, interdisciplinary PhD course (2 times)
Supervisor for Bachelor thesis students, Spring 2018 and Spring 2019.
Responsible for the Bachelor thesis program, Spring 2018 and Spring 2019.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
SASPRO Mobility Fellowship, full-time research fellowship 2015–2017 (SASPRO/FP7-Marie Curie Actions-COFUND scheme, grant number 0086/01/03/-b)
VEGA grant 2/0049/16: Fictionalism in philosophy and science (co-investigator), 2016–2017
Royal Caribbean Cruiseline stipend (managed by NORAM), 2006-07, 2010-11, 2012-13
International Students Summer Grant (University of Miami), Summer 2012
APA Travel Stipend, February 2012
GAFAC travel stipend for graduate students, Oct. 2010, Nov. 2011
Kriloff travel award, Mar. 2012
SERVICE, PROFESSIONAL
Member of the Advisory Board for the journal Organon-F.
Co-organizer, “Modal Metaphysics V: Issues on the (Im)Possible”, Slovak Academy of Sciences, August 2017.
Arranging the first PhilBrat speaker series at the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Spring 2017.
Organizing Committee, “Reasoning and Analytic Methods”, Comenius University, 2017.
Co-organizing the Semantics of Fictional Discourse Conference, Bratislava, October 2016.
Organizing the Dissertation Writing Seminar at the University of Miami, 2011/2012.
Co-organizing the Miami Epistemology Graduate Conference, 2007 and 2010.
Referee for Synthese(including book refereeing), Philosophical Quarterly, andOrganon-F.
SERVICE, ADMINISTRATIVE (examples)
Voting member, Committee for Learning Environment, University of Agder
Member, Program Committee for Philosophy, University of Agder
Committee work at the University of Alabama, incl. chairing the Dept. Service Committee.
OUTREACH (examples)
Press conference presentation (public talk) on The Scope of Formal Semantics, Sept. 2015; Slovak Academy of Sciences.
Panelist, the REFLEX Career – Researcher workshop, Bratislava 2016 (EURAXESS).
Arranging a seminar on How to Apply For Graduate School in the United States, for students at Comenius University, April 2017.
Various popular talks and panel discussions, particularly on truth and post-truth, conspiracy theories, and the meaning of life, at student-organized events and podcasts (2017–19).
Presenting philosophy and philosophical topics (free will, meaning of life) at several local high schools as part of the “Meet an Agder researcher” series, Sept–Nov 2018.