Ole Hjortland's research is on logic and rationality. What makes an argument a good argument? What does it mean to think and act rationally? Are there universal norms for good reasoning? In 2016-2021, Hjortland was the Principal Investigator of a project on the philosophy of logic, funded by the Norwegian Research Council. He is an external member of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (LMU Munich), and an area editor of logic for the journal Ergo.

Hjortland is a member of the research group Bergen Logic Group at the Department of Philosophy.

Education:

Ph.D. University of St Andrews (Arché Research Centre), 2009
M.Litt. University of St Andrews, 2006
B.A. University of Bergen, 2004

LOG110 Introduction to formal logic

LOG111 Deduction and metalogic

FIL126 Philosophy of language

FIL343 Research topic in theoretical philosophy (Truth)

LOG112 Introduction to philosophical logic

2016-2020 Anti-Exceptionalism About Logic (Norwegian Research Council). Principal Investigator.

2015-2016 The Logic of Truth (DFG-CONICET project). Principal investigator (with Eduardo Barrio, Buenos Aires). 

2013-2016 Mathematics: Objectivity by representation (ANR-DFG project). Project member. 

2009-2013 Foundations of Logical Consequence (AHRC project, Arché, St Andrews). Postdoctoral fellow.