Torjus Midtgarden
Position
Professor
Affiliation
- torjus.midtgarden@uib.no
- Phone number
- +47 55582978
- Visitor address
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Parkveien 9
5007 Bergen - Postal address
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P.O. Box 7805NO-5020 BergenNorway
Torjus Midtgarden
Position
Professor
Affiliation
Research groups
Research
Torjus Midtgarden's work centers on Pragmatism and its contemporary relevance for Social and Political Theory. He has recently studied how Classical Pragmatism (John Dewey), as well as Neo-Pragmatism (Robert Brandom), draws on perspectives from Hegel’s philosophy, and he has explored ways in which Dewey’s Pragmatism bears on current discussions in Critical Social Theory (Axel Honneth, James Bohman). Together with German and French colleagues he currently partakes in explorations of how Dewey’s Pragmatism may be seen as congenial to Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach but also of ways in which it may critically complement the latter by stressing that individuals’ capabilities depend on collective achievements and capabilities and on transactions with non-human nature.
Publications
2020
- Torjus Midtgarden (2020). A wide view of democracy and an inclusive conception of the social. (external link)
- Torjus Midtgarden (2020). Nils Gilje 2019. Hermeneutikk som metode: Ein historisk introduksjon.. (external link)
- Torjus Midtgarden (2020). Peirce’s classification of the sciences. (external link)
- Dag-Erik Berg; Torjus Midtgarden (2020). Ambedkar’s radical moves beyond Dewey’s pragmatism. (external link)
2019
- Torjus Midtgarden (2019). Dewey’s Conceptualization of the Public as Polity Contextualized: The Struggle for Democratic Control over Natural Resources and Technology. (external link)
- Torjus Midtgarden (2019). Peirce’s Concept of Scientific Intelligence: Its Kantian Background and Relevance. (external link)
2013
- Torjus Midtgarden (2013). Conflicting and complementary conceptions of discursive practice in non-metaphysical interpretations of Hegel. (external link)
- Torjus Midtgarden (2013). John Dewey – fridom, deltaking og offentlegheit. (external link)
- Torjus Midtgarden (2013). Practice, judgement, and the challenge of moral and political disagreement: a pragmatist account. (external link)
2002
- Torjus Midtgarden (2002). The relevance of Peirce's conception of a scientific intelligence. (external link)
- Torjus Midtgarden (2002). Arven frå den amerikanske pragmatismen. (external link)
- Torjus Midtgarden (2002). Iconic Aspects of Language and Language Use: Peirce's Work on Iconicity Revisited. (external link)
- Torjus Midtgarden (2002). Peirce on the Notion of Self and Personal Identity. (external link)
2011
- Torjus Midtgarden (2011). The Hegelian Legacy in Dewey's Social and Political Philosophy, 1915-1920. (external link)
- Torjus Midtgarden (2011). Peirce's theory of inquiry and beyond. By Thora Margareta Bertilsson. (external link)
- Brynjulf Stige; Kirsti Malterud; Torjus Midtgarden (2011). EPICURE : et dialogisk redskab til evaluering af kvalitativ forskning. (external link)
2010
2012
2008
2005
- Vincent Colapietro; Torjus Midtgarden; Torill Strand (2005). Introduction. Peirce and Education: The Conflicting Processes of Learning and Discovery. (external link)
- Torjus Midtgarden (2005). On the Prospects of A Semiotic Theory of Learning. (external link)
- Torjus Midtgarden (2005). Måling av pasientsentrert kommunikasjon. (external link)
- Torjus Midtgarden; T Strand (2005). Introduction. Pierce and Education: The Conflicting Processes of Learning and Discovery. (external link)
- Torjus Midtgarden (2005). Pierce on Education: Pragmatism and Peirce's Definition of the Purpose of a University. (external link)
2015
- Torjus Midtgarden (2015). John Dewey and Democratic Participation under Modern Conditions. (external link)
- Kjersti Lea; Matthias Kaiser; Torjus Midtgarden et al. (2015). Intellectual Practicians: An Exploration of Professionalism among Upper Secondary School Teachers with Icelandic Mother Tongue Teachers as a Contextualized Empirical Case. (external link)