Dagfinn Føllesdal - Curriculum vitae#

Born 1932. Studied science and mathematics in Oslo and Göttingen 1950-57, philosophy at Harvard. Ph.D. Harvard 1961, then taught at Harvard and later at Oslo (1967-99) and Stanford (1966-, C.I. Lewis Professor since 1976).

Visiting professorships at UC Berkeley, Collège de France, École normale supérieure, London School of Economics and the universities of Auckland, Salzburg, and Frankfurt. Shorter stays and lectures at other universities.

Prizes and Awards:

• University of Oslo Research Prize 1995
• Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize, Germany, 1997
• Nansen Prize for Research, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters 2003
• Lauener Prize, Switzerland, 2006
• Dr. honoris causa, University of Stockholm, 2003
• Commander, The Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav, 2009
  

Fellowships:

• Santayana Fellow, Harvard University
• Guggenheim Fellowship
• Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
• Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies
• Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
• Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin
• Fellow, Center for Advanced Study, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
  
  

Special lectures include:

Wolfson College Lecture, Oxford; Gurwitsch lecture, New School for Social Research; American Philosophical Association: Alfred Schutz lecture at California Institute of Technology; Hägerström lectures, Uppsala University; Tanner Lectures, Buenos Aires, Commentator.

Member of scientific academies:

• 1975- Member, Societas Scientiarum Fennica
• 1977- Member, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
  • President 1993,1995,1997
  • Vice President 1992,1994,1996;
  • Chair of the Board of the Academy’s Center for Advanced Study 1990-92
• Chair of the Academy’s Committee for Human Rights 2000-07
• 1979- Member, Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, Trondheim
• 1984- Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Member of the authors group for the Academy's Book Project: "Looking at the Humanities." 2003-06.
  • Initiative for Humanities and Culture 2005-
• 1986- Member, Royal Danish Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 1986- Member, Norwegian Academy of Language and Literature
• 1989- Member, Academia Europaea
  • Chair, Section for Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies
• 1991- Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  • Member of the Committee to select recipients for the Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy 1992-2004
• 1997- Member, Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, Sweden
• 2003- Member, Palestinian Academy for Science and Technology
• 2003- Member, Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen
  

Other professional activities:

1966-68 and 1970-82: Member of the Council, Association for Symbolic Logic. Chair of committees and boards appointed by the Norwegian Government, the Norwegian Research Council, UNESCO and other international organizations.

Editorial work:

Editor, The Journal of Symbolic Logic, 1970-82, member of the editorial board of around 30 journals, encyclopedias and book series.