Torfinn Thomesen Huvenes
Position
Professor
Affiliation
Research groups
Short info
I am also the department research coordinator and the leader of the Bergen Logic Group.
Research
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?
One of the things that I find attractive about disagreement as a research topic is that questions about disagreement are relevant to a many different areas of philosophy. I am for instance interested in the role that questions about disagreement play in epistemology, meta-ethics, philosophy of language, and political philosophy.
More information about my published research is available on my website.