Vincent F. Hendricks
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Vincent Fella Hendricks (6 March 1970), is a Danish philosopher and logician. He holds two doctoral degrees (dr. phil and PhD) in philosophy and is Professor of Formal Philosophy at University of Copenhagen
, Denmark. He was previously Professor of Formal Philosophy at Roskilde University
, Denmark. He is member of IIP, the Institut International de Philosophie. Hendricks also holds a visiting professorship at Columbia University
in New York City.
His work deals with modern mathematical and philosophical logic and concentrates primarily on bringing mainstream and formal approaches to epistemology together - from epistemic reliabilism
, counterfactual epistemology and contextualism
to epistemic logic
, formal learning theory and what is called 'modal operator epistemology'. Modal operator epistemology, developed first by Hendricks in The Convergence of Scientific Knowledge (Dordrecht: Springer, 2001), since developed further in a number of papers and books – see in particular Mainstream and Formal Epistemology (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006, winner of CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2006) – is the cocktail obtained by mixing alethic, tense and epistemic logic with elements from formal learning theory in order to study the limiting validity of convergent knowledge.
Vincent F. Hendricks is editor-in-chief of Synthese
, Synthese Library and New Waves in Philosophy, he is also the first founder of ΦLOG – The Network for Philosophical Logic and Its Applications http://www.philog.ruc.dk and chief editor of ΦNEWS – The Newsletter for Philosophical Logic and Its Applications.
In 2008, Vincent F. Hendricks was awarded the Elite Research Prize by the Danish Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation and HRH Crown Princess Mary. In 2008 he was awarded the Roskilde Festival Elite Research Prize.
University of Copenhagen
The University of Copenhagen is the oldest and largest university and research institution in Denmark. Founded in 1479, it has more than 37,000 students, the majority of whom are female , and more than 7,000 employees. The university has several campuses located in and around Copenhagen, with the...
, Denmark. He was previously Professor of Formal Philosophy at Roskilde University
Roskilde University
Roskilde University is a Danish public university founded in 1972 and located in Trekroner in the Eastern part of Roskilde. The university awards bachelor and master's degrees as well as Ph.D...
, Denmark. He is member of IIP, the Institut International de Philosophie. Hendricks also holds a visiting professorship at Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
in New York City.
His work deals with modern mathematical and philosophical logic and concentrates primarily on bringing mainstream and formal approaches to epistemology together - from epistemic reliabilism
Reliabilism
Reliabilism, a category of theories in the philosophical discipline of epistemology, has been advanced both as a theory of knowledge and of justified belief...
, counterfactual epistemology and contextualism
Contextualism
Contextualism describes a collection of views in philosophy which emphasize the context in which an action, utterance, or expression occurs, and argues that, in some important respect, the action, utterance, or expression can only be understood relative to that context...
to epistemic logic
Epistemic logic
Epistemic modal logic is a subfield of modal logic that is concerned with reasoning about knowledge. While epistemology has a long philosophical tradition dating back to Ancient Greece, epistemic logic is a much more recent development with applications in many fields, including philosophy,...
, formal learning theory and what is called 'modal operator epistemology'. Modal operator epistemology, developed first by Hendricks in The Convergence of Scientific Knowledge (Dordrecht: Springer, 2001), since developed further in a number of papers and books – see in particular Mainstream and Formal Epistemology (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006, winner of CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2006) – is the cocktail obtained by mixing alethic, tense and epistemic logic with elements from formal learning theory in order to study the limiting validity of convergent knowledge.
Vincent F. Hendricks is editor-in-chief of Synthese
Synthese
Synthese is a scholarly periodical edited by Johan van Benthem, Vincent F. Hendricks and John Symons specializing in papers in epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science...
, Synthese Library and New Waves in Philosophy, he is also the first founder of ΦLOG – The Network for Philosophical Logic and Its Applications http://www.philog.ruc.dk and chief editor of ΦNEWS – The Newsletter for Philosophical Logic and Its Applications.
In 2008, Vincent F. Hendricks was awarded the Elite Research Prize by the Danish Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation and HRH Crown Princess Mary. In 2008 he was awarded the Roskilde Festival Elite Research Prize.
Authored and Edited Books
- Readings in Formal Epistemology (Cambridge: Cambridge University PressCambridge University PressCambridge University Press is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII in 1534, it is the world's oldest publishing house, and the second largest university press in the world...
, 2012) - Handbook of Formal Philosophy (Dordrecht: SpringerSpringer Science+Business Media- Selected publications :* Encyclopaedia of Mathematics* Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete * Graduate Texts in Mathematics * Grothendieck's Séminaire de géométrie algébrique...
, 2012) - Epistemic Logic: 5 Questions (New York: Automatic Press / VIPAutomatic Press / VIPAutomatic Press / VIP is an independent publishing house founded in 2005. It published interview books featuring prominent scholars and philosophers...
, 2010) - Blackwell Companion to Philosophy of Technology (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009)
- Thought 2 Talk: A Crash A Course in Reflection and Expression (New York: Automatic Press / VIPAutomatic Press / VIPAutomatic Press / VIP is an independent publishing house founded in 2005. It published interview books featuring prominent scholars and philosophers...
, 2006) - Mainstream and Formal Epistemology (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006, winner of CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2006)
- Formal Philosophy (New York: Automatic Press / VIPAutomatic Press / VIPAutomatic Press / VIP is an independent publishing house founded in 2005. It published interview books featuring prominent scholars and philosophers...
, 2005) - Masses of Formal Philosophy (New York: Automatic Press / VIP, 2006)
- Game Theory: 5 Questions (New York: Automatic Press / VIP, 2007)
- Philosophy of Mathematics: 5 Questions (New York: Automatic Press / VIP, 2007)
- Probability and Statistics: 5 Questions (New York: Automatic Press / VIP, 2008)
- Epistemology: 5 Questions (New York: Automatic Press / VIP, 2008)
- The Convergence of Scientific Knowledge (Springer, 2001)
- Feisty Fragments (London: King's College Publications, 2004)
- Logical Lyrics (London: King's College Publications, 2005)
- 500 CC: Computer Citations (London: King's College Publications, 2005)
- Self-Reference (CSLI Publications, 2006)
- 8 Bridges Between Formal and Mainstream Epistemology, Philosophical Studies, March 2006
- Ways of Worlds I, Studia Logica, April 2006
- Ways of Worlds II, Studia Logica, November 2006
- Interactions: Physics, Mathematics and Philosophy, 1840-1930 (Dordrecht: Springer, 2006)
- New Waves in Epistemology (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007)
- Proof Theory (Dordrecht: Springer, 2001)
- Probability Theory (Dordrecht: Springer, 2002)
- Knowledge Contributors (Dordrecht: Springer, 2003)
- First-Order Logic Revisited (Berlin: Logos Verlag 2004)
- The Way Through Science and Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Stig Andur Pedersen (London: College Publications, 2006)
- Modern Elementary Logic [in Danish] (Copenhagen: Hoest and Soen, 2002, 2nd revised edition, 2011)
- Tal en Tanke [in Danish] (Copenhagen: Forlaget Samfundslitteratur, 2007)
- Et spadestik dybere [in Danish] (Copenhagen: dk4 forlag, 2008)
- Vincent vender virkeligheden [in Danish] (Copenhagen: dk4 forlag, 2009)
- Fortsat: flere klummer [in Danish] (Copenhagen: dk4 forlag, 2010)
- Oplysningens blinde vinkler: En åndselitær kritik af informationssamfundet [in Danish] (Copenhagen: Forlaget Samfundslitteratur, 2011)