Most of my research to date has focused on questions about disagreement. Some of the questions I am interested in have to do with the nature of disagreement. This includes questions like the following:

• What does it take for us to disagree?

• Are there different kinds of disagreement?

• Can we disagree without any of us being wrong?

However, I am also interested in the role that disagreement plays in different philosophical debates. This includes questions like the following:

• What is the epistemic and practical significance of disagreement?

• To what extent is disagreement about taste different from moral disagreement?

• To what extent is moral disagreement different from scientific disagreement?

The fact that questions about disagreement are relevant to a many different areas of philosophy, is one of the things that I find attractive about disagreement as a research topic. While my background is in philosophy of language and epistemology, I am interested in a wide range of topics, both related and unrelated to disagreement, in metaethics, metaphysics, philosophy of logic, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of science.

More information about my published research is available on my website.

In addition to my other responsibilities, I am currently the department research coordinator and I am in charge of the Bergen Logic Group.

Academic article

• Zahle, Julie; Huvenes, Torfinn Thomesen (2024). Examen philosophicum fra allmenndannelse til ekspertdannelse. (external link)
• Huvenes, Torfinn Thomesen (2024). The exactness of communication. (external link)
• Huvenes, Torfinn Thomesen (2022). Individuation by agreement and disagreement. (external link)
• Huvenes, Torfinn Thomesen; Stokke, Andreas (2016). Information Centrism and the Nature of Contexts. (external link)
• Huvenes, Torfinn Thomesen (2015). Epistemic modals and credal disagreement. (external link)
• Dimmock, Paul; Huvenes, Torfinn Thomesen (2014). Knowledge, conservatism, and pragmatics. (external link)
• Huvenes, Torfinn Thomesen (2014). Disagreement Without Error. (external link)
• Huvenes, Torfinn Thomesen (2012). Varieties of disagreement and predicates of taste. (external link)

Doctoral dissertation

• Huvenes, Torfinn Thomesen (2011). On the Contrary. Disagreement, Context, and Relative Truth. (external link)

Interview Journal

• Holmen, Heine Alexander; Huvenes, Torfinn Thomesen (2006). Doing Metaphysics as if Kant Never Happened: An Interview with John Hawthorne. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.