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Anders Nes

Anders Nes

Professor
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies

anders.nes@ntnu.no
+4799521468 Plantebiosenteret, 201, Dragvoll
About Publications Teaching Media

About

Areas of specialization or of competence

Philosophy of mind, philosophy of perception, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of language. Also some epistemology and philosophy of action. 

Previous affiliations (selected)

  • Researcher, Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature (CSMN), University of Oslo
  • Career Development Fellow, Christ Church College, Oxford University 
  • Jowett Senior Scholar, Balliol College, Oxford University

Select publications

  • "Perception Needs Modular Stimulus-Control" Synthese, 2023
  • "(Non-)Conceptual Representation of Meaning in Utterance Comprehension." Inquiry, 2022.
  • "The Perception/Cogntion Distinction." Inquiry. 2021. (With K. Sundberg & S. Watzl)
  • Inference and Consciousness. London: Routledge, 2020. Edited w. T. Chan.
  • "Fore- and Background in Conscious Non-Demonstrative Inference." In A. Nes & T. Chan (eds.) Inference and Consciousness, London: Routledge, forthcoming.
  • "Acquaintance, Conceptual Capacities, and Attention." In J. Knowles & T. Raleigh (eds.) Acquaintance: New Essays. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
  • "Assertion, Belief, and 'I believe'-Guarded Affirmation." Linguistics and Philosophy, 39 (1):57-86, 2016.
  • “The Sense of Natural Meaning in Conscious Inference.” In T. Breyer & C. Gutland (eds.) The Phenomenology of Thinking. Philosophical Investigations into the Character of Cognitive Experiences. London: Routledge, 2016.
  • “Thematic Unity in the Phenomenology of Thinking.” Philosophical Quarterly, 62 (246), pp. 84-105, 2012.

Op-eds

  • "Riv ned reklameskjermene!" ("Tear down the advertisement screens!") Dagbladet. 19.07.2022 (Med Sebastian Watzl)

Competencies

  • Philosophy

Publications

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2023

  • Nes, Sven Anders. (2023) Perception needs modular stimulus-control. Synthese. volum 201 (6).
    Academic article

2022

  • Nes, Anders. (2022) (Non-)conceptual representation of meaning in utterance comprehension. Inquiry (Oslo).
    Academic article
  • Nes, Sven Anders. (2022) Elizabeth Anscombe. Store norske leksikon (snl.no 2022).
    Lexical introduction
  • Nes, Sven Anders. (2022) Ruth Barcan Marcus. Store norske leksikon (snl.no 2022).
    Lexical introduction
  • Nes, Sven Anders. (2022) Ruth Garrett Millikan. Store norske leksikon (snl.no 2022).
    Lexical introduction
  • Watzl, Sebastian; Nes, Anders. (2022) Riv ned reklameskjermene. Dagbladet.
    Feature article

2021

  • Nes, Anders; Sundberg, Kristoffer; Watzl, Sebastian. (2021) The perception/cognition distinction. Inquiry (Oslo).
    Academic literature review

2020

  • Nes, Anders. (2020) Fore- and background in conscious non-demonstrative inference. Inference and consciousness.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Nes, Anders. (2020) Introduction: Inference and Consciousness. Inference and consciousness.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Nes, Anders; Chan, Timothy. (2020) Inference and consciousness. Routledge. 2020. ISBN 978-1138557178.
    Academic anthology/Conference proceedings

2019

  • Nes, Anders. (2019) Acquaintance, Conceptual Capacities, and Attention. Acquaintance. New Essays.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2018

  • Nes, Anders. (2018) Handlingsfilosofi. Store norske leksikon (snl.no 2018).
    Lexical introduction
  • Nes, Anders. (2018) Rettspositivisme. Store norske leksikon (snl.no 2018).
    Lexical introduction

2016

  • Nes, Anders. (2016) Assertion, belief, and ‘I believe’-guarded affirmation. Linguistics and Philosophy. volum 39 (1).
    Academic article
  • Nes, Anders. (2016) On What We Experience When We Hear People Speak. Phenomenology and Mind. volum 10.
    Academic article
  • Nes, Anders. (2016) The sense of natural meaning in conscious inference. Phenomenology of thinking.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2015

  • Nes, Anders. (2015) Review of _Cognitive Phenomenology_, edited by Tim Bayne and Michelle Montague. Mind. volum 124 (494).
    Book review

2012

  • Nes, Anders. (2012) Thematic Unity in the Phenomenology of Thinking. The Philosophical Quarterly. volum 62 (246).
    Academic article

2011

  • Nes, Anders. (2011) Review of _Perception, Hallucination, and Illusion_, by William Fish. Mind. volum 120 (479).
    Book review

2009

  • Nes, Anders. (2009) Å innse noe gjennomsiktig - om introspeksjon av opplevelser, til gjenoppliving av Dunlaps problem. Norsk Filosofisk tidsskrift. volum 44 (2).
    Academic article

2008

  • Nes, Anders. (2008) Are Only Mental Phenomena Intentional?. Analysis. volum 68 (3).
    Academic article

Journal publications

  • Nes, Sven Anders. (2023) Perception needs modular stimulus-control. Synthese. volum 201 (6).
    Academic article
  • Nes, Anders. (2022) (Non-)conceptual representation of meaning in utterance comprehension. Inquiry (Oslo).
    Academic article
  • Watzl, Sebastian; Nes, Anders. (2022) Riv ned reklameskjermene. Dagbladet.
    Feature article
  • Nes, Anders; Sundberg, Kristoffer; Watzl, Sebastian. (2021) The perception/cognition distinction. Inquiry (Oslo).
    Academic literature review
  • Nes, Anders. (2016) Assertion, belief, and ‘I believe’-guarded affirmation. Linguistics and Philosophy. volum 39 (1).
    Academic article
  • Nes, Anders. (2016) On What We Experience When We Hear People Speak. Phenomenology and Mind. volum 10.
    Academic article
  • Nes, Anders. (2015) Review of _Cognitive Phenomenology_, edited by Tim Bayne and Michelle Montague. Mind. volum 124 (494).
    Book review
  • Nes, Anders. (2012) Thematic Unity in the Phenomenology of Thinking. The Philosophical Quarterly. volum 62 (246).
    Academic article
  • Nes, Anders. (2011) Review of _Perception, Hallucination, and Illusion_, by William Fish. Mind. volum 120 (479).
    Book review
  • Nes, Anders. (2009) Å innse noe gjennomsiktig - om introspeksjon av opplevelser, til gjenoppliving av Dunlaps problem. Norsk Filosofisk tidsskrift. volum 44 (2).
    Academic article
  • Nes, Anders. (2008) Are Only Mental Phenomena Intentional?. Analysis. volum 68 (3).
    Academic article

Books

  • Nes, Anders; Chan, Timothy. (2020) Inference and consciousness. Routledge. 2020. ISBN 978-1138557178.
    Academic anthology/Conference proceedings

Part of book/report

  • Nes, Sven Anders. (2022) Elizabeth Anscombe. Store norske leksikon (snl.no 2022).
    Lexical introduction
  • Nes, Sven Anders. (2022) Ruth Barcan Marcus. Store norske leksikon (snl.no 2022).
    Lexical introduction
  • Nes, Sven Anders. (2022) Ruth Garrett Millikan. Store norske leksikon (snl.no 2022).
    Lexical introduction
  • Nes, Anders. (2020) Fore- and background in conscious non-demonstrative inference. Inference and consciousness.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Nes, Anders. (2020) Introduction: Inference and Consciousness. Inference and consciousness.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Nes, Anders. (2019) Acquaintance, Conceptual Capacities, and Attention. Acquaintance. New Essays.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Nes, Anders. (2018) Handlingsfilosofi. Store norske leksikon (snl.no 2018).
    Lexical introduction
  • Nes, Anders. (2018) Rettspositivisme. Store norske leksikon (snl.no 2018).
    Lexical introduction
  • Nes, Anders. (2016) The sense of natural meaning in conscious inference. Phenomenology of thinking.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

Teaching

Courses

  • FI3010 - Philosophy of Mind

Media

2019

  • Academic lecture
    Nes, Anders. (2019) A Nonconceptual Content of Understanding. Philosophical seminar. University of Hamburg ; University of Hamburg. 2019-06-03 - 2019-06-03.

2017

  • Lecture
    Nes, Anders. (2017) If perceptions are unconsciously inferred and cognitively penetrated, why are they not based on reasons?. The Thought and Sense Conference. CSMN, Oslo. ; 2017-11-02 - 2017-11-04.

2016

  • Academic lecture
    Nes, Anders. (2016) Experienced Continuity and Continuity in Experience. Mini-workshop in Temporal Experience . The Centre for Philosophical Psychology; University of Antwerp. 2016-12-20.
  • Academic lecture
    Nes, Anders. (2016) Shiftable Particularity in Cognitive and Perceptual Phenomenology. The Cognitive Phenomenology Debate . Faculty of Philosophy, San Raffaele University; Milano. 2016-01-08 - 2016-01-08.

2015

  • Academic lecture
    Nes, Anders. (2015) Reason in Perception. Cognitive penetrability in perception ; 2015-06-24 - 2016-06-26.

2014

  • Academic lecture
    Nes, Anders. (2014) Fore- and Background in the Phenomenology of Reasoning. Workshop on Phenomenal Intentionality and Cognitive Phenomenology . Central European University, Department of Philosophy; Budapest. 2014-11-29 - 2014-11-30.
  • Academic lecture
    Nes, Anders. (2014) Natural Meaning as Norm of Inference. Experience, Belief, and Mental Action: Second Meeting of the European Normativity Network . University of Barcelona; 2014-11-13 - 2014-11-14.
  • Academic lecture
    Nes, Anders. (2014) Perception of Object Persistence and the Intentionalism-Relationism Debate. Departmental seminar, Department of Philosophy, University of Fribourg ; 2014-03-10.
  • Academic lecture
    Nes, Anders. (2014) Phenomenal intentionality and the problem of background beliefs. Perspectives on Intentionality ; 2014-09-24 - 2014-09-25.

2013

  • Academic lecture
    Nes, Anders. (2013) A laugh is an intellectual thing. How to do something for a reason without doing it intentionally. Swedish Congress of Philosophy ; 2013-06-14 - 2013-06-16.
  • Academic lecture
    Nes, Anders. (2013) Basing Relations aim at Normative Reasons. Aims and Norms of Reasoning . The Reflective Mind project, CSMN and University of Southamp; University of Southampton. 2013-01-18 - 2013-01-18.
  • Academic lecture
    Nes, Anders. (2013) Comment on Tim Bayne's "Phenomenal Attitudes". Imperatival Aspects of Perception . CSMN, University of Oslo; 2013-08-28 - 2013-08-29.
  • Academic lecture
    Nes, Anders. (2013) Comments on John Gibbon's "Teleology". Aims and Norms of Judgement, Belief and Reasoning . The Reflective Mind project, CSMN and University of Southamp; 2013-09-13 - 2013-09-13.
  • Academic lecture
    Nes, Anders. (2013) Normativity, Oughts/Reasons, and Reason-Responsiveness. 1st workshop of the European Normativity Network . The European Normativity Network and University of Fribourg; Fribourg. 2013-11-01 - 2013-11-03.
  • Academic lecture
    Nes, Anders. (2013) Phenomenal Intentionality versus the Holism of Nondemonstrative Inference. Consciousness and Intentionality. Brentano's Heritage in Philosophy of Mind. . University of Salzburg; 2013-02-07 - 2013-02-09.
  • Academic lecture
    Nes, Anders. (2013) The Fore- and Background of Reason. The Phenomenology of Thinking . Universities of Heidelberg and of Freiburg; Heidelberg. 2013-02-28 - 2013-03-02.
  • Academic lecture
    Nes, Anders; Stoneham, Tom. (2013) Perceptual Relationism and the Challenge of Persistence Perception. Mini-workshop on philosophy of perception . Department of Philosophy, UiB; 2013-11-14 - 2013-11-14.

2011

  • Academic lecture
    Nes, Anders. (2011) Can there be Entirely Unconscious Agents? The Case of Decorticated Cats. Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN), University of Tübingen ; 2011-06-10 - 2011-06-10.

2010

  • Academic lecture
    Nes, Anders. (2010) Aiming at Good Reasons - On a Commonality Between Acting and Believing for Reasons. Justification Revisited . University of Geneva; Geneve. 2010-03-25 - 2010-03-27.
  • Academic lecture
    Nes, Anders. (2010) Assertion, Belief, and Saying 'I believe so'. Langauge & Rationality Seminar . CSMN; Oslo. 2010-09-30 - 2010-09-30.
  • Academic lecture
    Nes, Anders. (2010) Comments on Joëlle Proust's "On the Nature of Epistemic Norms". Epistemic Norms from a Naturalistic Viewpoint: Interdisciplinary Perspectives . Institut Jean Nicod/Ecole Normale Supérieure; Paris. 2010-10-07 - 2010-10-08.
  • Academic lecture
    Nes, Anders. (2010) Inferential Moorean Absurdities about Reasons for Action. Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association . University College Dublin; University College Dublin. 2010-07-01 - 2010-07-02.
  • Academic lecture
    Nes, Anders. (2010) On the Role of Conceptual Content in Cognitive Phenomenology. Gästföreläsning i filosofi - Umeå . Umeås Universitet; Umeå. 2010-10-14 - 2010-10-14.

2009

  • Academic lecture
    Nes, Anders. (2009) Acting for Admittedly Bad Reasons. CSMN Colloquium ; 2009-10-07.
  • Academic lecture
    Nes, Anders. (2009) Comments on Kathrin Glüer and Åsa Wikforss's "What is Belief?". The Aim of Belief Conference . CSMN; Oslo. 2009-06-11 - 2009-06-13.
  • Academic lecture
    Nes, Anders. (2009) Content, Action, and Normativity. Arché - CSMN Research Seminar ; 2009-05-18.

2007

  • Academic lecture
    Nes, Anders. (2007) Conceptualism, Self-Conscious Thought, and Systematicity. Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London . Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, London Un; Stewart House, University of London. 2007-03-19.

2006

  • Academic lecture
    Nes, Anders. (2006) Hyperintensionality and 'looks' reports. Contents of Experience Conference; Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, London . Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study; University of London. 2006-10-28.

2005

  • Academic lecture
    Nes, Anders. (2005) Conceptual Content and Diaphanous Experience. The 5th Columbia-NYU Graduate Philosophy Conference . Departments of Philosophy at Columbia and NYU; NYU. 2005-04-01.
  • Academic lecture
    Nes, Anders. (2005) Looks and Representational Content in Perception. On ‘The Silence of the Senses’. PhD Seminar, Oslo . IFIKK, University of Oslo; University of Oslo. 2005-11-01.
  • Academic lecture
    Nes, Anders. (2005) Perception and Phenomenal Modes of Presentation. The Edinburgh Graduate Philosophy of Mind Conference . Department of Philosophy, Univeristy of Edinburgh; University of Edinburgh. 2005-07-01.
  • Academic lecture
    Nes, Anders. (2005) Campbell on Conscious Attention and Understanding Demonstratives. The 5th European Conference of Analytical Philosophy . European Society for Analytical Philosophy; Lisbon. 2005-08-20.

2004

  • Academic lecture
    Nes, Anders. (2004) Diaphanousness and Non-Systematicity in Perception. The Ockham Society, Oxford . The Ockham Society, Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford; Oxford. 2004-10-31.
  • Academic lecture
    Nes, Sven Anders. (2004) Generality in Perception. Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association . The Aristotelian Society, the Mind Association; University of Canterbury, Kent. 2004-07-09 - 2004-07-12.
  • Academic lecture
    Nes, Anders. (2004) Demonstrative Concepts and Phenomenal Sorites. The Harvard-MIT Graduate Philosophy Conference . Departments of Philosophy at Harvard and MIT; Cambridge, Mass. 2004-03-09.
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