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Finnur Ulf Dellsén - Professor
–
School of Humanities
Finnur Ulf Dellsén
Íslenska
Professor
Professor of philosophy
Location
Gimli / G-310
Phone
5254391
8667247
Email
fud [at] hi.is
Unit
Faculty of Philosophy, History and Archaeology
Website
http://www.finnurdellsen.com/
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4989-4204
Research portal – Finnur Ulf Dellsén
Under construction throughout the autumn semester 2023
Courses 2023 - 2024
HSP201G - Logic
HSP416G - Metaphysics
HSP438M - Seminar: Philosophical Progress
HSP439M - Direct study in seminar: Philosophical Progress
HSP304G - Epistemology
Education
2014
,
Doktorspróf
,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
,
Philosophy
2011
,
Meistarapróf
,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
,
Philosophy
2007
,
BA
,
University of Iceland
,
Philosophy
Professional Experience
2017 -
2018,
Associate professor,
Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences
2016 -
2017,
Postdoctoral researcher,
University College Dublin
Published works
2023
Scientific progress: By-whom or for-whom?
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Would Disagreement Undermine Progress?
The Journal of Philosophy
2022
The Noetic Approach: Scientific Progress as Enabling Understanding
New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress
Thinking about Progress: From Science to Philosophy
Noûs
Scientific Progress without Justification
Scientific Understanding and Representation
Excessive Testimony: When Less Is More
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
Scientific Progress without Problems
Scientific Understanding and Representation
2021
Disagreement in science: introduction to the special issue
Synthese
Rational understanding: toward a probabilistic epistemology of acceptability
Synthese
We Owe It to Others to Think for Ourselves
Epistemic Autonomy
Understanding scientific progress: the noetic account
Synthese
Consensus versus Unanimity: Which Carries More Weight?
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
Explanatory Consolidation: From ‘Best’ to ‘Good Enough’
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
Are there really no such things as theories?
Metascience
2020
Að treysta sérfræðingum. Hvar, hvenær og hvers vegna?
Ritið
Gildi vísinda og gildin í vísindum — á tímum heimsfaraldurs
Skírnir
The epistemic impact of theorizing: generation bias implies evaluation bias
Philosophical Studies
2019
Should scientific realists embrace theoretical conservatism?
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Scientific Realism in the Wild: An Empirical Study of Seven Sciences and HPS
Philosophy of Science
Divergent Perspectives on Expert Disagreement: Preliminary Evidence from Climate Science, Climate Policy, Astrophysics, and Public Opinion
Environmental Communication
2018
Scientific progress: Four accounts
Philosophy Compass
The epistemic value of expert autonomy
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
Beyond Explanation: Understanding as Dependency Modelling
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
Understanding in epistemology and philosophy of science: a complicated relationship
Metascience
Best Explanations: New Essays on Inference to the Best Explanation
Notre Dame Philosophical Review
Scientific Progress, Understanding, and Knowledge: Reply to Park
Journal for General Philosophy of Science
Promotion as contrastive increase in expected fit
Philosophical Studies
Deductive Cogency, understanding, and acceptance
Synthese
The heuristic conception of inference to the best explanation
Philosophical Studies
2017
Certainty and Explanation in Descartes's Philosophy of Science
HOPOS: Journal of the International Society for History and Philosophy of Science
The Beliefs and Intentions of Buridan's Ass
Journal of the American Philosophical Association
Frá skoðunum til trúnaðar og aftur til baka
Hugur
Ted Poston, Reason and Explanation: A Defense of Explanatory Coherentism, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, 208 pp., €88.39 (Hardback), ISBN 9781137012258.
Dialectica
A classic of Bayesian confirmation theory
Metascience
When Expert Disagreement Supports the Consensus
Australasian Journal of Philosophy
Reactionary Responses to the Bad Lot Objection
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Abductively Robust Inference
Analysis
2016
Scientific progress: Knowledge versus understanding
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A
Hlutdrægni í vísindum
Ritið
Reconstructed Empiricism
Acta Anal
Realism and the absence of rivals
Synthese
The Epistemic Significance of Disagreement
The Philosophical Quarterly
Understanding without Justification or Belief
Ratio
Gagnrýnin og vísindaleg hugsun
Skírnir
There May Yet be Non-causal Explanations (of Particular Events)
Journal for General Philosophy of Science
2015
Tvö viðhorf til vísindalegrar þekkingar -- eða eitt?
Ritið -- tímarit Hugvísindastofnunar
Explanatory Rivals and the Ultimate Argument
Theoria
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