Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Oslo, 2002
Kristin Gjesdal specializes in German Idealism, phenomenology and hermeneutics. She studied philosophy at the University of Oslo, and has been a visiting scholar at the Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, and Columbia University, as well as a post-doctoral Fulbright Fellow at the University of Chicago. Her work has appeared in journals including Kant-Studien, Journal of the History of Philosophy, History of Philosophy Quarterly, British Journal of the History of Philosophy, Journal for the British Society of Phenomenology, and Angelaki. She has also written the “hermeneutics”-entry for the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy (co-authored with Bjørn Ramberg). She has articles forthcoming in Hegel-Studien and The Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain.
Kristin Gjesdal has recently completed a book manuscript entitled Gadamer and the Legacy of German Idealism (under contract with Cambridge University Press).
Kristin Gjesdal is on leave for the Academic Year 2008/2009. She has received a Humboldt Fellowship commencing March 2009. During the academic year of 2007/2008, Kristin Gjesdal was a Faculty Fellow at the Center for the Humanities at Temple.
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Contact Information
Office: Anderson Hall Room 742
Mailing Address:
Department of Philosophy
Anderson Hall, Room 742
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA 19122
E-mail: kgjesdal@temple.edu