Vincent F. Hendricks


Vincent Fella Rune Møller Hendricks is a Danish philosopher and logician. He holds a doctoral degree and a habilitation in philosophy and is Professor of Formal Philosophy and Director of the Center for Information and Bubble Studies 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 in Paris.
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Work

Hendricks's 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, since developed further in a number of papers and books – see in particular Mainstream and Formal Epistemology – 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 Library and New Waves in Philosophy, he is also the first founder of ΦLOG – The Network for Philosophical Logic and Its Applications 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.

Controversies

In 2012, Hendricks attracted criticism from some philosophers for doing a photo shoot that depicts young women dressed in sexy school uniforms in a classroom setting and presenting it on his web site. Hendricks later withdrew the pictures from his web site and apologized. The photos were taken as part of a charity drive arranged by a Danish-language charity "Youmeshopping".

Authored and edited books

  • Feilinge und Gauner, Unsichtbare Feinde - wie Mitläufertum und Egoismus unser Denken vergiften
  • Whataboutmeism: Insights from Game Theory, Behavioral Economics and Moral Philosophy,
  • DET HELT NØDVENDIGE: Om at finde livets balancepunkt
  • Fra Kant til Steen: En samtale om skolens raison d'etre,
  • NOK OM MIG, hvad med dig, hvad synes du om mig
  • The Ministry of Truth: BigTech's Influence on Facts, Feelings and Fictions
  • Sandhedsministeriet: Techplatformenes indflydelse på tidens fakta, følelser og fortællinger
  • Vend Verden: Genvind autonomien i en digital tidsalder
  • Hovedbrud: Naturvidenskab og filosofi
  • Reality Lost: Markets of Attention, Manipulation and Misinformation
  • Postfaktisch: Die neue Wirklichkeit in Zeiten von Bullshit, Fake News und Verschwörungstheorien
  • Kæmp for kloden: Når politik, videnskab og erhvervsliv sammen tager ansvar
  • Introduction to Formal Philosophy
  • FAKE NEWS: Når virkeligheden taber
  • Spræng boblen: Sådan bevarer du fornuften i en ufornuftig verden
  • Infostorms: How to take Information Punches and Save Democracy
  • Social Epistemology: 5 Questions, edited with Duncan Pritchard
  • A Formal Epistemology Reader
  • Handbook of Formal Philosophy
  • Epistemic Logic: 5 Questions
  • Blackwell Companion to Philosophy of Technology
  • Thought 2 Talk: A Crash A Course in Reflection and Expression
  • Mainstream and Formal Epistemology
  • Formal Philosophy
  • Masses of Formal Philosophy
  • Game Theory: 5 Questions
  • Philosophy of Mathematics: 5 Questions
  • Probability and Statistics: 5 Questions
  • Epistemology: 5 Questions
  • The Convergence of Scientific Knowledge
  • Feisty Fragments
  • Logical Lyrics
  • 500 CC: Computer Citations
  • Self-Reference
  • 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
  • New Waves in Epistemology
  • Proof Theory
  • Probability Theory
  • Knowledge Contributors
  • First-Order Logic Revisited
  • The Way Through Science and Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Stig Andur Pedersen
  • Modern Elementary Logic
  • Tal en Tanke
  • Et spadestik dybere
  • Vincent vender virkeligheden
  • Fortsat: flere klummer
  • Oplysningens blinde vinkler: En åndselitær kritik af informationssamfundet
  • NEDTUR! Finanskrisen forstået filosofisk
  • Kampagner: Klummer og kampråb