Fredrik Nilsen
Job description
I teach FIL-0700/0702 Examen Philosophicum, FIL-1030 History of Philosophy I, and FIL-1031 History of Philosophy II. My research mainly concerns history of philosophy, ethics, and feminism.My research focuses primarily on the history of philosophy, ethics, and feminism. From August 2026 to July 2028, I am leading the research group Philosophy for Modern Times at the Department of Philosophy and First-Semester Studies at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. I am also a board member of The Solidarity Society and The Norwegian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
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Research interests
- History of philosophy ( in particular the Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Early Modernity, the Enlightenment; Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquino, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant).
- The contributions of women thinkers to the history of philosophy (critique of canon) (in particular Elizabeth of Bohemia, Sophie of Hanover, Sophie Charlotte of Preussia, Anne Conway, Margaret Cavendish, Damaris Cudworth Masham, Catharine Trotter Cockburn).
- The contributions of non-western thinkers to the history of philosophy (critique of canon) (in particular African philosophy; Zera-Yaqob, Welde Hiywet, Wilhelm Anton Amo).
- The history of ethics (Aristotle, Kant, Bentham, Mill).
- Normative ethics (virtue ethics, duty ethics, utilitarianism).
- Metaethics (in particular the questions on free will and moral evil; Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Epictetus, Augustine, Aquino, Ockham, Duns Scotus, Leibniz, Rousseau, Kant).
- Philosophy of antiquity (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, epicurianism, stoicism).
- Metaphysics (in particular the question of free will and the mind-body problem; Platon, Aristotle, Descartes, Elizabeth of Bohemia, Spinoza, Leibniz, Sophie of Hanover, Anne Conway, Margaret Cavendish, Kant).
- The history of political philosophy (Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquino, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant).
- The history of hermeneutics (in particular the German tradition; Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Gadamer).
Teaching
FIL-0700/0702 Examen Philosophicum, FIL-1030 History of Philosophy I, and FIL-1031 History of Philosophy II