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
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)
(Ne pas) avoir foi en les choses : le cognitivisme et le fondement abyssal de la vie.
Schwabe Verlag
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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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
2018
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Halberg, Claus.
(2018)
Deleuze kontra fenomenologien: Noen avgjørende forskjeller.
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 Philsophy of Nature.
Universitetet i Bergen
Universitetet i Bergen
Doctoral dissertation
2011
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Halberg, Claus.
(2011)
The Tangible Invisible: Irigaray's Phenomenological Critique of Merleau-Ponty's Notion of the Flesh.
Hermes Text
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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
Academic article
Journal publications
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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
-
Halberg, Claus.
(2022)
«Natur» er også et ord: Om å ta natur på alvor
i feministisk teori.
Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning
Academic article
-
Halberg, Claus.
(2019)
Do Brain Decoders Have an Ontological Mind of Their Own? Response to Nikolas Rose.
Body & Society
Academic article
-
Halberg, Claus.
(2017)
Fighting the Good Fight? On Some Recent Transcendentalist
Objections to “Naturalized Phenomenology”.
Études phénoménologiques --- Phenomenological Studies
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.
(2008)
Lyset som i sin opprinnelse forblir dunkelt. Irigaray om (kjønns)forskjellens påtagelige usynlighet i Merleau-Pontys Det synlige og det usynlige.
Agora
Academic article
Part of book/report
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Halberg, Claus.
(2019)
(Ne pas) avoir foi en les choses : le cognitivisme et le fondement abyssal de la vie.
Schwabe Verlag
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Halberg, Claus.
(2018)
Deleuze kontra fenomenologien: Noen avgjørende forskjeller.
Chapter
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Halberg, Claus.
(2011)
The Tangible Invisible: Irigaray's Phenomenological Critique of Merleau-Ponty's Notion of the Flesh.
Hermes Text
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Report
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Halberg, Claus.
(2013)
The Labour of the Feminine in Merleau-Ponty's Philsophy of Nature.
Universitetet i Bergen
Universitetet i Bergen
Doctoral dissertation
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. Senter for Kvinne Og Kjønnsforskning (SKOK, UiB) Open seminar , Bergen 2015-10-22 - 2015-10-22
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Academic lectureHalberg, Claus. (2015) Deleuze contra phenomenology: Differences that make a difference. Konstfack, KTH, Stockholm University, Södertörns Högskola... The 8th Deleuze Studies International Conference , Konstfack, Stockholm 2015-06-29 - 2015-07-01
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Academic lectureHalberg, Claus. (2015) Origins without causes: The phenomenological discourse on the origins of man. UQAM, UdeM, CIRST The 2015 bi-annual meeting of the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology , Université du Québec à Montréal 2015-07-05 - 2015-07-10
2014
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Academic 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. Institutt for filosofi og førstesemesterstudier, UiB The Historicity of Human Existence and the 'Flesh' , Sydnesplassen 12-13, UiB 2014-02-06 - 2014-02-07
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LectureHalberg, Claus. (2014) '...lik den konstante larmen fra en storby': Utsidens instans i Merleau-Pontys persepsjonsfenomenologi. Forskergruppen for subjektivering og senmodernitet, FOF, UiB Aesthetics of our Age. Thinking Sense, Feeling, and the Body in Contemporary Modernity , Det norske institutt i Roma 2014-04-09 - 2014-04-09
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Academic 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. HSC-research network, Philosophical Society of Finland At the Limits of Phenomenology: 12th Annual Meeting of the Nordic Society for Phenomenology , Helsinki 2014-04-24 - 2014-04-26
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Academic lectureHalberg, Claus. (2014) Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy of Nature: Naturalizing Phenomenology or Phenomenalizing Nature?. Centre d'Ethique Contemporaine Gjesteforelesning ved Centre d'Ethique Contemporaine, Université Paul Valery, Montpellier , Centre d'Ethique Contemporaine, Université Paul Valéry 2014-06-17 - 2014-06-17
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Academic lectureHalberg, Claus. (2014) Thinking Emergence at the Interface Between Phenomenology and Biology: Some Recent Contributions. CEC, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier Gjesteforelesning ved Centre d'Ethique Contemporaine, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier , Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier 2014-06-20 - 2014-06-20
2013
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Academic lectureHalberg, Claus. (2013) Feminism After Poststructuralism: Grappling with Neurosexism. LLE og SKOK, UiB Feminism after Poststructuralism: Literature and Philosophy - seminar in honor of Toril Moi's 60th anniversary , Litteraturhuset i Bergen 2013-12-06 -
2012
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Popular scientific lectureHalberg, Claus. (2012) Kjønn i rommet mellom "født sånn" og "blitt sånn": Noen påminnelser fra Simone de Beauvoirs Det annet kjønn. Queer Tiger Forum for feminisme og queer teori , Allèhjørnet Thai Restaurant 2012-05-07 - 2012-05-07
2011
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Academic lectureHalberg, Claus. (2011) Zeigen, Greifen og motorisk intensjonalitet: Problemet om motorikkens "grunn" i Merleau-Pontys analyse av tilfellet Schneider. Institutt for filosofi og førstesemesterstudier, UiB Instituttseminar , Bergen 2011-10-27 - 2011-10-27
2008
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Academic lectureHalberg, Claus. (2008) Flesh as Desire. SKOK og FOF, UiB In Memory of Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Environment, Embodiment and Gender , Universitetet i Bergen 2008-10-30 - 2008-10-31
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Academic 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". Senter for tverrfaglig kjønnsforskning, UiO Luce Irigaray and the Canon of Philosophy , Universitetet i Oslo 2008-11-06 - 2008-11-07
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Academic lectureHalberg, Claus. (2008) Mimesis and Polemics in Irigaray's Reading of Merleau-Ponty. Framlegging av det vitenskapsteoretiske innlegget for doktorgraden 2008-06-23 - 2008-06-23
2007
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Academic lectureHalberg, Claus. (2007) Sexual difference, sexuate difference. The Nordic Society for Phenomenology The fifth annual meeting of the Nordic Society for Phenomenology , København 2007-04-20 - 2007-04-22
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Popular scientific lectureHalberg, Claus. (2007) Fallogosentrisme? Luce Irigaray og den feministiske kritikken av filosofien. Nettverk for feministisk teori og kjønnsforskning, UiS Feministisk Forskningscafé , Arkeologisk Museum, Stavanger 2007-03-27 - 2007-03-27
2006
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Academic lectureHalberg, Claus. (2006) Dekonstruksjon og fenomenologi i Irigarays filosofiske tilnærming til kjønnsforskjellen. Senter for Kvinne- og Kjønnsforskning, UiB Kjønnsforskning NÅ! , Stein Rokkans Hus, Nygårdsgaten 5 2006-09-08 - 2006-09-09
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PosterHalberg, Claus. (2006) The figure of the mother in Irigaray's reading of Heidegger. SKOK - UiB; Norsgender et.al Luce Irigaray and the future of sexual difference , Paris 2006-10-19 - 2006-10-20