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Curriculum Vitae

Brief introduction:
Born 25. februar 1947. Studies of philosophy and physics between 1970-78 at University of Copenhagen. I have for many years been unemployed or worked as a research fellow.

My main areas of interest and research:
Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science and the Arts, Philosophy of Language

Headlines and themes of my current work:
Time,
Realism in science,
Scientific explanations and reasoning.
The relationship between philosophy of science, social science and humanities.

I can supervise students and review papers in the following areas:
Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science and the Arts, Philosophy of Language.Currently teaches a course in Philosophy of Science. I accept papers in the following languages: Danish and English

Degrees, fellowship, et. al.
Mag.art. 1975 og Dr.phil. 1981.
Århus University's silver medal 1971.
Carlsberg/Clare Hall Visiting Fellowship 1982/83.
Carlsbergfondet 1984, 1986, 1989, 1992-94.
Julie Damms Studiefond 1983, 1988, 1991.
Julie von Müllens Fond 1991.
Visiting Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, 1991/92.
CIES Fulbright Award, 1993.
Visiting Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, 1994.
Corresponding member of Academie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences, 1996.

Publications

Philosophy:

Books

(a) Et naturfilosofisk essay om tid og kausalitet (An essay on the natural philosophy of time and causation). Jørgen Paludans Forlag, København 1981. 185 pp.

(b) The Reality of the Future. An essay on time, causation and backward causation. Odense University Press, Odense 1989, 320 pp.

(c) Niels Bohr: His Heritage and Legacy. An anti-realist view of quantum mechanics. In Science and Philosophy. Vol. 6. Kluwer Academic Publishers: Dordrecht/Boston/-London 1991, xxii + 263 pp.

Edited books

(a) with Henry Folse (eds.) Niels Bohr and Contemporary Philosophy. With a preface and introduction by Jan Faye and Henry Folse. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Vol 153. Kluwer Academic Publishers: Dordrecht/Boston/London 1994, xxvii + 376 pp.

(b) with Uwe Scheffler and Max Urchs (eds.) Logic and Causal Reasoning. With an introduction by Jan Faye, Uwe Scheffler and Max Urchs (pp. 1-25). Akademie-Verlag: Berlin 1994. i-ix + 287 pp.

(c) with Uwe Scheffler and Max Urchs (eds.) Perspectives on Time. With acknowledgement and introduction by Jan Faye, Uwe Scheffler and Max Urchs (pp. 1-58). Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Kluwer Academic Publishers: Dordrecht/Boston/London 1997. 460 pp.

(e) with Thomas Söderqvist, Helge Kragh og Alan Rasmussen, Videnskabernes København . ( With acknowledgement and introduction by Th. Söderqvist, J.Faye, Helge Kragh og Allan Rasmussen. (s. 9-23). Roskilde Universitetsforlag 1998, 276 s.

(f) with Uwe Scheffler og Max Urchs, Events, Facts and Things. With acknowledgement and introduction by Jan Faye, Uwe Scheffler and Max Urchs (s xxxx). Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, Rodopi, Amsterdam/Atlanta 1998.

(g) with Henry Folse, Niels Bohr's Philosophical Writings, Volume 4. Med forord og introduktion af Jan Faye og Henry Folse (s xxxx). OxBow Press 1998.

Articles

(a) "Harald Høffdings indflydelse på Niels Bohrs erkendelses-teori" (Harald Høffding's influence on Niels Bohr's epistemology), Filosofiske Studier 1, 1978, 67-89.

(b) "The Influence of Harald Høffding's Philosophy on Niels Bohr's Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics" Danish Yearbook of Philosophy 16, 1979, 37-72.

(c) "Tid og mulige verdener: Et studie i Newtons og hans samtidiges argumenter for absolut tid" (Time and possible worlds: A study of Newton's and his contemporaries' arguments for absolute time), Filosofiske Studier 3, 1980, 7-22.

(d) with Henning Boje Andersen: "Om fremtidige søslag" (On future sea-battles), Museum Tusculanum 40-43, 1980, 149-81.

(e) "Antirealisme og fremtidens virkelighed" (Anti-realism and the reality of the future), Filosofiske Studier 5, 1982, 33-84.

(f) "Tid og mulige verdener II: Tidens retning" (Time and possible worlds II: The direction of time), Philosophia 11, 1-2, 1983, 18-37.

(g) "Tid, kausalitet og entropi" (Time, causality and entropy), Philosophia 11, 1-2, 1983, 56-77.

(h) "A-tid eller B-tid?" (A time or B time?), Philosophia 11, 3-4, 1983, 133-45.

(i) "The Possibility of Backward Causation", Danish Yearbook of Philosophy 21, 1984, 71-84.

(j) "Hvad er videnskabsteori?" (What is theory of science?), Nyere dansk filosofi, Philosophia, Aarhus 1984, 80-87.

(k) "Tiden går - eller gør den?" (Time flows - or does it?), Carlsbergfondets Årsskrift, 1984, 31-36.

(l) "A Note on Helmut Schmidt's "PK Effect on Pre-recorded Targets", Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research 78, 4, 1984.

(m) "Temporal Realism. A Reply to David Favrholdt", Danish Yearbook of Philosophy 22, 1985, 81-85.

(n) "Er alle naturvidenskabelige forklaringer kausale?" (Are all scientific explanations causal?), Filosofiske Studier 8, 1986, 117-41.

(o) "Events", Danish Yearbook of Philosophy 23, 1986, 7-16.

(p) "The Past Revisited", Danish Yearbook of Philosophy 24, 1987, 7-18.

(q) "The Problem of Realism in Quantum Mechanics", Abstracts of 8 International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, vol. 2, 17-22 August 1987, 34-5.

(r) "The Bohr-Høffding Relationship Reconsidered", Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 19, 1988, 321-46.

(s) "Filosofi og naturvidenskab" (Philosophy and natural science), Philosophia 18, 1989, nr.3-4, 119-39.

(t) "Non-separability or Non-locality", Abstracts of 9th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, vol. III, 7-14 August 1991, 22.

(u) "Is the future really real?", American Philosophical Quarterly, 30, 1993, 259-69.

(v) "Niels Bohr og den filosofiske debat" (Niels Bohr and the philosophical debate), Slagmark 21, 1993, 9-18.

(w) "Non-locality or Non-separability? A defense for Bohr's anti-realistic approach to quantum mechanics", in Jan Faye og Henry Folse (eds.): Niels Bohr and Contemporary Philosophy. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 1993, 97-118.

(x) "Virkelighedens sprog eller sprogets virkelighed" (The language of reality and the reality of the language), Philosophia 22, 1-2, 1993, 25-47.

(y) "Once More: Bohr-Høffding", Danish Yearbook of Philosophy 29, 1994, 106-113.

(z) "Causal Beliefs and Their Justification" in Faye, Scheffler, and Urchs (eds.), Logic and Causal Reasoning, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin, 1994, 141-168.

(aa) "Il futuro è veramenta reale?", E. Agazzi (ed.), Nella scienza e nella filosofia, Guida: Napoli, 1995, 121-145.

(ab) "Time's Arrow" in Abstracts of 10th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, 19-26. August 1995, 461.

(ac) "Is the Mark Method Time Independent", in Faye, Scheffler and Urchs (eds.) Perspectives on Time. In Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. 1997, 215-236.

(ad) "Causation, Reversibility, and the Direction of Time", in Faye, Scheffler and Urchs (eds.) Perspectives on Time. In Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. 1997, 237-266.

(ae) "Nye realistiske tolkninger af kvantemekanikken" (New Realist Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics), Filosofiske Studier 16, 1996, 21 pp. (in press).

(af) "Observing the Unobservable?", in E. Agazzi & M. Pauri (reds.), Observability, Unobservability and the Issue of Scientific Realism, Kluwer Academic Publishers. 20 pp. (forthcoming).

(ag) "København og den logiske positivisme" (Copenhagen and the logical positivism), in Th.Söderquist, J.Faye, H.Kragh og F.Rasmussen (red.) Videnskabernes København, 43-58. Roskilde Universitetsforlag, 1998.

(ah) "A Propedeutic to the Metaphysics of Tense" in Aleksander Jokic og Quentin Smith (eds.) Time, Tense and Reference. Oxford University Press (in press).

(ai) "Facts as Truth Makers" in Max Urchs, Jan Faye og Uwe Scheffler (eds.), Events, Facts and Things. Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, Rodopi, Amsterdam/Atlanta 1998 (22 s.)

(aj) "Enhedsvidenskab - fugl Føniks?" (The Unity of Science- bird Pheonix) in Filosofiske Studier 18, 1998,

(al) "Den gådefulde tid" (The Enigmatic Time) in David Favrholdt (red.), (18 s.)

(am) "The Cognitive Limits of Science", i Not Without Cause, Uppsala Philosophical Studies. 1998, (48 s.), 6-31. Festskrift for Paul Needham.

Reviews

(a) "Anmeldelse af Johannes Witt-Hansens Filosofi" (Review of Johannes Witt-Hansens "Philosophy"), Philosophia 14, 3-4, 1986, 130-37.

(b) "Review of Dugald Murdoch Niels Bohr's Philosophy of Physics", Isis 81, 1990, 378-79.

(c) David Favrholdts "Fysik, Bevidsthed, Liv. Studier i Niels Bohrs filosofi" (Review of David Favrholdt's "Physics, Mind, Life. Studies in Niels Bohr's Philosophy), Kritik 111, 1994, 67-70.

(d) Sandro Petrucciolis "Atoms, Metaphors and Paradoxes. Niels Bohr and the construction of a new physics", British Journal for Philosophy of Science 46, 1995, 275-279.

(e) "Dorato on Time and Reality", anmeldelse af Mauro Dorato, "Time and Reality", Epistemologia, XX, 1997, 355-372.

(f) "1,2 kg.", anmeldelse af Jørgen Holmgaards "Teoriens topik". Kritik 133, 1998, 72-75

History of art and culture:

Books

(a) Aase Faye: Danske Støbejernskors (Danish Cast-iron Cross). Worked up and edited by Jan Faye. Arnold Busch - Nyt Nordisk Forlag. 1988. 350 pp.

(b) with Mona Christensen: Landskabsmaleren Vilhelm Petersen (The landscape painter Vilhelm Petersen), Helsingør Kommunes Museer, Marienlyst Slot 1990. 111 pp.

(c) with Mona Christensen: Marinemaleren C.F. Sørensen (The seascape painter C.F. Sørensen), Helsingør Kommunes Museer, Marienlyst Slot 1991, 183 pp.

(d) with Mona Faye; Maleren og Mennesket. Danske Portrætter fra rokoko til guldalderen i filosofisk belysning. (The Painter and Man. Danish Portraits from Rococo to the Golden Age in Philosophical Light) (Manuscript) 200 pp.

Edited Books

(a) with Hannes Stephensen (eds): Marienlyst Slot. Et lystslot og dets have (Marienlyst Palace. A country seat and its garden). With an introduction by Jan Faye og Hannes Stephensen. Christian Ejlers Forlag. 1988. 272 pp.

Articles

(a) "Støbejernsgravkors - et metodologisk lærestykke" (Cast-iron cross - a methodological paradigm), Fortid og Nutid 37, 1987, 225-38.

(b) "Støbejernskorsene på Helsingør Kirkegård" (Cast-iron Cross at the Churchyard of Elsinore), Helsingør Kommunes Museers Årbog 1989, 91-98.

(c) with Mona Faye: "A Painting by Johan Thomas Lundbye executed by Vilhelm Petersen", Journal, 1997, 61-65. Statens Museum for Kunst, København.