Projects per year
Personal profile
Research
My main interest concerns the ontological, epistemological, and moral dimensions of social interaction. Combining analytical, phenomenological, and critical methods, I have written on social cognition, joint action, social normativity, and the moral responsibility of groups. Recently, I have been exploring how these social philosophical issues can help us better understand our relations to AIs and non-human animals as well as the nature of discrimination.
Teaching
I mainly teach at the BA in Philosophy as well as the Minors in Social Minds and Humanistic Approaches to Technology Development with occassional guest appearances elsewhere. I often draw on approaches and texts spanning different philosophical tradition (esp. the so-called analytic and Continental approaches).
I am happy to supervise projects within social philosophy, phenomenology, and ethics broadly construed. I am also an external examinator at the different Danish universities.
Areas of expertise
- Social philosophy
- Phenomenology
- Ethics
- Political philosophy
Projects
- 2 Active
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HARM: Hybrid Agency and Moral Responsibility
Knudsen, N. K. (PI) & Munch, L. A. (CoPI)
Independent Research Fund Denmark
01/03/2025 → 31/10/2028
Project: Research
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GLUE: The Glue of Society: The Social Ontology of Social Cohesion
Knudsen, N. K. (PI)
01/01/2025 → 31/12/2029
Project: Research
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Heidegger's Social Ontology: The Phenomenology of Self, World, and Others
Knudsen, N. K., 2022, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 288 p. (Modern European Philosophy).Research output: Book/anthology/dissertation/report › Book › Research › peer-review
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A Pluralist Approach to Joint Responsibility
Knudsen, N. K., 1 Apr 2023, In: Philosophy & Public Affairs. 51, 2, p. 140-165 26 p.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Treating People as Individuals and as Members of Groups
Munch, L. A. & Knudsen, N. K., Jan 2025, In: Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 110, 1, p. 253-272 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Groups and Second-Person Competence
Knudsen, N. K., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Philosophers' Imprint.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Social Ontology and the Indispensability of Experience
Knudsen, N. K., 2025, (Accepted/In press) Social Ontology and Phenomenology . Spiegel, T. J. (ed.). RoutledgeResearch output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Book chapter › Research
Activities
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Treating People as Individuals and as Members of Groups
Knudsen, N. K. (Lecturer)
Sept 2024Activity: Presentations, memberships, ownership and other activities › Lecture and oral contribution
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Groups and Moral Anger
Knudsen, N. K. (Lecturer)
Sept 2024Activity: Presentations, memberships, ownership and other activities › Lecture and oral contribution
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The Direct Social Perception of What?
Knudsen, N. K. (Lecturer)
Jul 2024Activity: Presentations, memberships, ownership and other activities › Lecture and oral contribution
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Is Social Ontology Phenomenologically Inert?
Knudsen, N. K. (Lecturer)
Jun 2024Activity: Presentations, memberships, ownership and other activities › Lecture and oral contribution
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Groups, Sympathy, and the Second-Person
Knudsen, N. K. (Lecturer)
Dec 2023Activity: Presentations, memberships, ownership and other activities › Lecture and oral contribution