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I received my PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 2013, where I wrote a thesis on joint action and social cognition. My interests are primarily in the philosophy of action, moral psychology and moral responsibility, social ontology and collective intentionality (including shared and collective moral responsibility). Since September 1, I am working at the University of Gothenburg within the Lund Gothenburg Responsibility Project (LGRP).
I have an MSc in Cognitive Science and an MA in Practical Philosophy from Linköping University.
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Past teaching experience at the University of Copenhagen and elsewhere:
- Lecturer (and course co-organizer): Collectivity and Responsibility, National graduate course in philosophy, Spring 2018.
- Lecturer (and course organizer): Cognition and Communication (for Cognitive Science Master students), Lund University, Spring 2018.
Five two-hour lectures/seminars on: ‘Individual cognition/cognitivism’, ‘Embodied, embedded, distributed’, ‘Social constructivism’, ‘Interactionalism’, ‘Joint action’. - Lecturer: Philosophy from 1900 (for first-year theoretical philosophy students), Lund University, Spring 2018.
One two-hour seminar and seven two-hour lectures on: ‘Husserl’s Logical Investigations’, ’Husserl’s Ideas’, ’Heidegger and phenomenology’, ’de Beauvoir’, ’Gadamer’, ’Derrida’ and ’Davidson’. - Lecturer (and course organizer): Social Cognition, University of Copenhagen, Autumn 2016.
Fourteen three-hour classes on: ‘Introduction: Communication, Cooperation and Mindreading’, ‘Meaning and Communicative Intentions’, ‘Common Knowledge’, ‘Joint Intentional Activity’, ‘Implicature’, ‘Understanding in Communication’, ‘Turn-Taking in Conversation’, ‘Deflationary Views: Egocentrism and Automatic Alignment’, ‘Intentional Communication and Cognitive Sophistication’, ‘Essay Writing’, ‘Intentions in the Study of Conversation’, ‘Conversations Across Cultures’, ‘Game Theory, Coordination and Politeness’, and ‘Mindreading and Interaction’. - Lecturer: Self, Agency and Will, University of Edinburgh, Autumn 2011. Four two-hour lectures given on ‘Illusion of Conscious Will’, ‘Phenomenology of Agency’, ‘Shared Intention and Joint Action’, and ‘Sense of Joint Agency’.
- Tutor: Logic, University of Edinburgh, Spring 2010, 3 h/week. Topics covered: Propositional logic and predicate logic (through exercises and discussions of solutions, typically using the semantic tableaux method).
- Tutor: Mind, Matter & Language, University of Edinburgh, Autumn 2009, 3 h/week. Topics covered: Dualism, Behaviourism, Identity theory, Functionalism, Instrumentalism, The Knowledge Argument, Zombies, Embodied Consciousness, Sense and Reference, Rigid Designators.
- Tutor: Philosophy of Science, University of Edinburgh, Spring 2009, 2 h/week. Topics covered: Logical positivism, The problem of induction, Falsificationism, Quine’s “Two Dogmas of Empiricism”, Scientific revolutions and theory change, Theory-ladenness of observation, The Strong Programme.
- Tutor: Technology and Ethics, Linköping University, Sweden, Autumn 2003. I tutored several groups, amounting to a total work time of 14 hours. Topics covered: Critical thinking and argumentation analysis (using case studies related to environmental ethics and bioethics).
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Books (1)
Articles (11)
- Lymer, G. & Blomberg, O. (2019). Experimental Philosophy, Ethnomethodology, and Intentional Action : A Textual Analysis of the Knobe Effect. Human Studies: A Journal for Philosophy and the Social Sciences. Springer.
- Blomberg, O. (2018). We-experiences, common knowledge and the mode approach to collective intentionality. Journal of Social Philosophy, 49, 183-203. Wiley Online Library.
- Blomberg, O. & Petersson, B. (2018). Plikt att kollektivisera?. Tidskrift för politisk filosofi, 22, 36-46. Thales.
- Blomberg, O. & Brozzo, C. (2017). Motor Intentions and Non-Observational Knowledge of Action : A Standard Story. Thought: A Journal of Philosophy, 137-146. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Blomberg, O. (2016). Common Knowledge and Reductionism about Shared Agency. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 94, 315-326. Routledge.
- Blomberg, O. (2016). Shared intention and the doxastic single end condition. Philosophical Studies, 173, 351-372. Springer.
- Blomberg, O. (2015). Shared Goals and Development. Philosophical Quarterly, 65, 94-101. Oxford University Press.
- Ambrosini, E., Blomberg, O., Mandrigin, A. & Costantini, M. (2014). Social exclusion modulates pre-reflective interpersonal body representation. Psychological Research, 78, 28-36. Springer.
- Blomberg, O. (2011). Conceptions of cognition for cognitive engineering. International Journal of Aviation Psychology, 21, 85-104. Taylor & Francis Inc..
- Blomberg, O. (2011). Socially extended intentions-in-action. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 2, 335-353. Springer.
- Blomberg, O. (2007). Disentangling The Thick Concept Argument. SATS Northern European Journal of Philosophy, 8, 63-78. De Gruyter.
Book chapters (5)
- Blomberg, O. & Hindriks, F. (accepted/in press). Collective Responsibility and Acting Together. Routledge.
- Blomberg, O. (2018). Practical Knowledge and Acting Together. Oxford University Press.
- Haug-Warberg, T., Chen, L.-Q., Kattner, U., Hallstedt, B., Costa e Silva, A., Lee, J., Joubert, J.-M., Crivello, J.-C., Zhang, F., Huseby, B. & Blomberg, O. (2016). Thermodynamics. In Schmitz, G. J. & Prahl, U. (Eds.) (pp. 325-384). Wiley-VCH Verlag.
- Blomberg, O. (2015). An Account of Boeschian Cooperative Behaviour. In Misselhorn, C. (Ed.) Philosophical Studies Series (pp. 169-184), 122. Springer.
- Victor, T., Blomberg, O. & Zelinsky, A. (2012). Automating Driver Visual Behavior Measurement. In Gale, A. G., Bloomfield, J., Underwood, G. & Wood, J. (Eds.) (pp. 181-188). Loughborough University.
Conference contributions (1)
Reviews (13)
- Blomberg, O. (2018). Review of Bennett W. Helm: Communities of Respect – Grounding Responsibility, Authority, and Dignity. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 21, 441-443. Springer.
- Blomberg, O. (2018). Review of Kirk Ludwig, From Individual to Plural Agency, Collective Action: Volume 1. Philosophical Quarterly, 68, 626-628. Oxford University Press.
- Blomberg, O. (2017). Review of Gregory Mellema's 'Complicity and Moral Accountability'. Journal of Social Ontology (JSO), 3, 139-142. De Gruyter.
- Blomberg, O. (2017). Review of Lilian O’Brien’s ‘Philosophy of Action’. Metapsychology Online Review, 21.
- Blomberg, O. (2017). Review of Social Ontology and Collective Intentionality: Critical Essays on the Philosophy of Raimo Tuomela with His Responses. Edited by G. Preyer & G. Peter. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. University of Notre Dame.
- Blomberg, O. (2015). Review of "Rational and Social Agency : The Philosophy of Michael Bratman". Journal of Social Ontology (JSO), 1, 377-379. De Gruyter.
- Blomberg, O. (2015). Review of Michael Bratman's 'Shared Agency: A Planning Theory of Acting Together'. Analysis, 75, 346-348. Oxford University Press.
- Blomberg, O. (2014). Review of Bryce Huebner’s ‘Macrocognition: A Theory of Distributed Minds and Collective Intentionality’. Metapsychology Online Review, 18.
- Blomberg, O. (2013). Review of Wolfgang Prinz’s ‘Open Minds: The Social Making of Agency and Intentionality’. Metapsychology Online Review, 17.
- Blomberg, O. (2011). Review of Ian Apperly’s ‘Mindreaders: The Cognitive Basis of “Theory of Mind”’. Metapsychology Online Review, 15.
- Blomberg, O. (2011). Review of Mark Rowlands’ ‘The New Science of the Mind: From Extended Mind to Embodied Phenomenology’. Metapsychology Online Review, 15.
- Blomberg, O. (2009). Review of Matthew Hindman’s ‘The Myth of Digital Democracy’. Metapsychology Online Review, 13.
- Blomberg, O. (2009). Review of Sherry Turkle’s ‘Simulation and Its Discontents’. Metapsychology Online Review, 13.
Research portal (Lund University)
Teaching
Teaching autumn 2019
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