Claus Halberg
About
I hold a Master's Degree in philosophy (2006) and a PhD in philosophy and gender research (2013), both earned from the University of Bergen (UoB), Norway. After a period of teaching exphil, exfac and gender studies at UoB, I was a research fellow at the Nantes Institute for Advanced Studies, France, from October 2016 to June 2017, before doing postdoctoral work as a Marie Curie fellow at the Centre for Women's and Gender Research, UoB, July 2017-June 2021, on Project FEMSAG (grant no. 701724). During this latter period, I spent four semesters (Fall 2017-Spring 2019) as a visiting scholar at Program in Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, Duke University, USA.
My research interests are focussed particularly on foundational issues in the life- and mind sciences (above all, the question of the role of the brain in the formation and unfolding of human experience and behaviour), the conflictual relation between existential phenomenology and naturalism, as well as biology vs. culture (or "nature" vs. "nurture") issues in feminist philosophy.
For more information about Project FEMSAG, go to: https://projectfemsag.w.uib.no
Publications
2026
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Halberg, Claus.
(2026)
Should we rethink or retire the nature/culture binary? Material ecofeminism, essentialism and coloniality.
The European Journal of Women's Studies
Academic article
2022
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Halberg, Claus.
(2022)
Neurosexism, Neurofeminism, and Neurocentrism: From Gendered Brains to Embodied Minds.
NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research
Academic article
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Halberg, Claus.
(2022)
«Natur» er også et ord: Om å ta natur på alvor
i feministisk teori.
Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning
Academic article
2019
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Halberg, Claus.
(2019)
Do Brain Decoders Have an Ontological Mind of Their Own? Response to Nikolas Rose.
Body & Society
Academic article
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Halberg, Claus.
(2019)
(Ne pas) avoir foi en les choses : le cognitivisme et le fondement abyssal de la vie.
Academic chapter
2018
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Halberg, Claus.
(2018)
Deleuze kontra fenomenologien: Noen avgjørende forskjeller.
Non-fiction chapter
2017
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Halberg, Claus.
(2017)
Fighting the Good Fight? On Some Recent Transcendentalist
Objections to “Naturalized Phenomenology”.
Études phénoménologiques --- Phenomenological Studies
Academic article
2014
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Halberg, Claus.
(2014)
Emergent Life: Addressing the 'Ontological Diplopia' of the 21st Century with Merleau-Ponty and Deacon.
Discipline filosofiche
Academic article
2013
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Halberg, Claus.
(2013)
The Labour of the Feminine in Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy of Nature.
Universitetet i Bergen
Doctoral thesis
2011
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Halberg, Claus.
(2011)
The Tangible Invisible: Irigaray's Phenomenological Critique of Merleau-Ponty's Notion of the Flesh.
Academic chapter
2008
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Halberg, Claus.
(2008)
Lyset som i sin opprinnelse forblir dunkelt. Irigaray om (kjønns)forskjellens påtagelige usynlighet i Merleau-Pontys Det synlige og det usynlige.
Agora Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon
Academic article
Journal publications
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Halberg, Claus.
(2026)
Should we rethink or retire the nature/culture binary? Material ecofeminism, essentialism and coloniality.
The European Journal of Women's Studies
Academic article
-
Halberg, Claus.
(2022)
Neurosexism, Neurofeminism, and Neurocentrism: From Gendered Brains to Embodied Minds.
NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research
Academic article
-
Halberg, Claus.
(2022)
«Natur» er også et ord: Om å ta natur på alvor
i feministisk teori.
Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning
Academic article
-
Halberg, Claus.
(2017)
Fighting the Good Fight? On Some Recent Transcendentalist
Objections to “Naturalized Phenomenology”.
Études phénoménologiques --- Phenomenological Studies
Academic article
-
Halberg, Claus.
(2008)
Lyset som i sin opprinnelse forblir dunkelt. Irigaray om (kjønns)forskjellens påtagelige usynlighet i Merleau-Pontys Det synlige og det usynlige.
Agora Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon
Academic article
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Halberg, Claus.
(2014)
Emergent Life: Addressing the 'Ontological Diplopia' of the 21st Century with Merleau-Ponty and Deacon.
Discipline filosofiche
Academic article
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Halberg, Claus.
(2019)
Do Brain Decoders Have an Ontological Mind of Their Own? Response to Nikolas Rose.
Body & Society
Academic article
Part of book/report
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Halberg, Claus.
(2011)
The Tangible Invisible: Irigaray's Phenomenological Critique of Merleau-Ponty's Notion of the Flesh.
Academic chapter
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Halberg, Claus.
(2018)
Deleuze kontra fenomenologien: Noen avgjørende forskjeller.
Non-fiction chapter
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Halberg, Claus.
(2019)
(Ne pas) avoir foi en les choses : le cognitivisme et le fondement abyssal de la vie.
Academic chapter
Student thesis or dissertation
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Halberg, Claus.
(2013)
The Labour of the Feminine in Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy of Nature.
Universitetet i Bergen
Doctoral thesis
Teaching
Courses
Outreach
2015
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LectureHalberg, Claus; Mennerat, Adele. (2015) Partner choice, cooperation, and parental investment: perspectives from evolutionary biology and feminist science studies. Open seminar
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Conference lectureHalberg, Claus. (2015) Deleuze contra phenomenology: Differences that make a difference. The 8th Deleuze Studies International Conference
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Feature article
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Conference lectureHalberg, Claus. (2015) Origins without causes: The phenomenological discourse on the origins of man. The 2015 bi-annual meeting of the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology
2014
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LectureHalberg, Claus. (2014) '...lik den konstante larmen fra en storby': Utsidens instans i Merleau-Pontys persepsjonsfenomenologi. Aesthetics of our Age. Thinking Sense, Feeling, and the Body in Contemporary Modernity
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Conference lectureHalberg, Claus. (2014) Thinking Emergence at the Interface Between Phenomenology and Biology: Some Recent Contributions. Gjesteforelesning ved Centre d'Ethique Contemporaine, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier
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Conference lectureHalberg, Claus. (2014) If the Reversibility of the Flesh is the Answer, What, Then, Was the Question? In Search of the Question at the Heart of Merleau-Ponty's Fundamental Thought. At the Limits of Phenomenology: 12th Annual Meeting of the Nordic Society for Phenomenology
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Conference lectureHalberg, Claus. (2014) 'The Light Which, Illuminating the Rest, Remains at Its Source in Obscurity': In Search of the Question Behind Merleau-Ponty's Thought of Flesh. The Historicity of Human Existence and the 'Flesh'
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Conference lectureHalberg, Claus. (2014) Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy of Nature: Naturalizing Phenomenology or Phenomenalizing Nature?. Gjesteforelesning ved Centre d'Ethique Contemporaine, Université Paul Valery, Montpellier
2013
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Conference lectureHalberg, Claus. (2013) Feminism After Poststructuralism: Grappling with Neurosexism. Feminism after Poststructuralism: Literature and Philosophy - seminar in honor of Toril Moi's 60th anniversary
2012
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LectureHalberg, Claus. (2012) Kjønn i rommet mellom "født sånn" og "blitt sånn": Noen påminnelser fra Simone de Beauvoirs Det annet kjønn. Forum for feminisme og queer teori
2011
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Conference lectureHalberg, Claus. (2011) Zeigen, Greifen og motorisk intensjonalitet: Problemet om motorikkens "grunn" i Merleau-Pontys analyse av tilfellet Schneider. Instituttseminar
2008
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Conference lectureHalberg, Claus. (2008) Production and Reduction of Difference - Touching on the Double Gesture in Irigaray's Rewriting of Merleau-Ponty's Notion of "the Flesh". Luce Irigaray and the Canon of Philosophy
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Conference lectureHalberg, Claus. (2008) Flesh as Desire. In Memory of Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Environment, Embodiment and Gender
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Conference lectureHalberg, Claus. (2008) Mimesis and Polemics in Irigaray's Reading of Merleau-Ponty. Framlegging av det vitenskapsteoretiske innlegget for doktorgraden
2007
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Conference lectureHalberg, Claus. (2007) Sexual difference, sexuate difference. The fifth annual meeting of the Nordic Society for Phenomenology
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LectureHalberg, Claus. (2007) Fallogosentrisme? Luce Irigaray og den feministiske kritikken av filosofien. Feministisk Forskningscafé
2006
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Conference posterHalberg, Claus. (2006) The figure of the mother in Irigaray's reading of Heidegger. Luce Irigaray and the future of sexual difference
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Conference lectureHalberg, Claus. (2006) Dekonstruksjon og fenomenologi i Irigarays filosofiske tilnærming til kjønnsforskjellen. Kjønnsforskning NÅ!