Assistant Professor, PhD, Cambridge (2007)   Tel: +45 8942 2181 Mobile: +45 6171 8439 Fax: +45 8942 2223 Email:  Office:  bldg. 1467  room 524 Mail address Jens Chr. Skous Vej 7 DK - 8000 Århus C Denmark
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I received my PhD in 2007 from the Faculty of Philosophy at Cambridge University, where I held a Gates Cambridge Scholarship and was a member of Darwin College . My dissertation was on the nature of doxastic normativity, and was supervised by Jane Heal and Simon Blackburn. After completing my PhD, I took up a position at Aarhus University. My primary research interests are in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and metaphysics. I also edit The Philosophical Lexicon, previously edited by Dan Dennett.

From August 2008 to August 2011, I will be working on a research project funded by The Danish Research Council for the Humanities, entitled Causation in Context: a philosophical and empirical investigation into contextual determinants of causation and causal judgment.

In January 2009, I received Danish Ministry of Science and Innovation's 'Young Elite Researcher Prize' . 

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Selected online publications (for full list of publications, follow link above):

'Anaphora and Semantic Innocence' (w. J.P. Smit), Journal of Semantics (forthcoming)

'The truth norm and guidance: a reply to Glüer and Wikforss' , Mind (forthcoming)

'Luck as an epistemic notion', Synthese (forthcoming) 

'Causation', in R. Poli and J. Seibt (eds.), Theory and Application of Ontology, Springer (forthcoming)

'Weighing the aim of belief', Philosophical Studies 145: 395-405 (2009)

'Does doxastic transparency support evidentialism?' , Dialectica, 62: 541-547 (2008)  

'Against essential normativity of the mental', Philosophical Studies 140: 263-283 (2008)

'No norm needed: on the aim of belief', The Philosophical Quarterly, 56: 499-516 (2006)

'Voluntarism and transparent deliberation', South African Journal of Philosophy, 25: 171-176 (2006)

'Williamson on knowledge, action, and causation', Sats - Nordic Journal of Philosophy, 6: 15-28 (2005)

'Davidson, truth, and semantic unity' , Sats - Nordic Journal of Philosophy, 4: 124-146 (2003) 

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Forthcoming edited books:

Metaphysics: 5 Questions , New York: Automatic Press (forthcoming 2009). With contributions from Lynne Rudder Baker, Helen Beebee, Thomas Hofweber, Peter van Inwagen, Barry Loewer, Peter Menzies, Hugh Mellor, Stephen Mumford, Daniel Nolan, Eric Olson, L.A. Paul, Lorenz Puntel, Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra, Gideon Rosen, Jonathan Schaffer, Peter Simons, Barry Smith, Michael Tooley, Achille Varzi, and Dean Zimmerman.

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Work in progress:

'Truth as the aim of epistemic justification' - podcast from presentation at Oslo University here; podcast of Timothy Williamson's reply here.

'How to be a teleologist about epistemic reasons'

'Precaution and margins of error' (with N. Espinoza)

'Causally influential properties and supervenience' 

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Courses taught at Aarhus University:

For details concerning my current teaching, see the Department's page at Aula

Spring 09: Introduction to Philosophy of Mind (undergraduate)

Spring 09: Introduction to Epistemology (undergraduate)

Spring 09: Introduction to Philosophy of Science (undergraduate)

Fall 08: Epistemic Normativity (graduate) 

Fall 08: Introduction to Formal Logic (undergraduate)

Spring 08: Weighing and Comparing Values (graduate)

Spring 08: Introduction to Epistemology (undergraduate)

Spring 08: Introduction to Philosophy of Science (undergraduate) 

Fall 07: Introduction to Critical Reasoning (undergraduate)  

Fall 07: Advanced Topics in Metaphysics (graduate)

Spring 07: Introduction to Epistemology (undergraduate)

Spring 07: Advanced Topics in Epistemology (graduate)