Søren Overgaard
Associate Professor
Department of Communication
Karen Blixens Plads 8, 2300 København S
My research interests range from the history of twentieth century philosophy (especially phenomenology, Wittgenstein, and ordinary language philosophy) through metaphilosophy to the philosophy of mind. Currently, I am mainly interested in perceptual experience and mindreading (in particular perceptual approaches to mindreading).
In recent years, I’ve taught BA and MA-level courses in philosophy of mind, phenomenology, and existential philosophy. Since 2010, I’ve also been a co-organizer of the annual Copenhagen Summer School in Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind, as well as one of the regular lecturers.
I mainly supervise essays within phenomenology (broadly construed) and the philosophy of mind, including philosophy of perception.
Some recent publications:
Mindreading
Overgaard, S. “The Future of TTOM [commentary on Veissiere et al.]”. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 43, e90 (2020): 45.
Overgaard, S. “Reframing the issue of direct social perception: Comment on ‘Seeing mental states: An experimental strategy for measuring the observability of other minds’ by Cristina Becchio et al.” Physics of Life Reviews 24 (2018): 96-98.
Overgaard, S. “Embodiment and Social Perception”. In A. Avramides, & M. Parrott (eds.), Knowing Other Minds, pp. 127-147. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
Overgaard, S. “Enactivism and the Perception of Others’ Emotions”. In P. French, H. Wettstein, and M. Wrathall (eds.), Midwest Studies in Philosophy 41 (2017): 105-129.
Overgaard, S. “The Unobservability Thesis”. Synthese 194 (2017): 743-760
Overgaard, S. & Michael, J. “The Interactive Turn in Social Cognition Research: A Critique”. Philosophical Psychology 28 (2015): 160-183.
Overgaard, S. “McNeill on Embodied Perception Theory”. The Philosophical Quarterly 64 (2014): 135-143.
Perception
Overgaard, S. “Seeing-as, Seeing-o, and Seeing-that”. Forthcoming in Philosophical Studies.
Overgaard, S. “Naïve Realism and the Problem of Illusion”. Analytic Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.1111/phib.12230
Overgaard, S. “The Vertical-Horizontal Illusion”. Erkenntnis. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-020-00361-x
Overgaard, S. “How Not to Think of Perception”. The Harvard Review of Philosophy 27 (2020): 121-132.
Metaphilosophy
D'Oro, G. & Overgaard, S. (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Philosophical Methodology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Overgaard, S. “How to do things with brackets: The epoché explained”. Continental Philosophy Review 48 (2015): 179-195.
Overgaard, S., Gilbert, P. and Burwood, S. An Introduction to Metaphilosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Overgaard, S. “Against Linguistic Exclusivism”. In B. Mou and R. Tieszen (eds.), Constructive Engagement of Analytic and Continental Approaches in Philosophy, pp. 71-90. Leiden: Brill, 2013.
20th Century Philosophy
Overgaard, S. “Against a Clear Conscience: A Levinasian Response to Williams’s Challenge”. In M. Fagenblat and M. Erdur (eds.), Levinas and Analytic Philosophy, pp. 279-291. New York: Routledge, 2019.
Overgaard, S. “Perceptual Error, Conjunctivism, and Husserl”. Husserl Studies 34 (2018): 25-45.
Overgaard, S. “The Look”. In S. Churchill and J. Reynolds (eds.), Jean-Paul Sartre: Key Concepts, pp. 106-117. Durham: Acumen, 2013.
Luft, S. & Overgaard, S. (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Phenomenology. London: Routledge, 2011.
Overgaard, S. “Royaumont Revisited”. British Journal for the History of Philosophy 18 (2010): 899-924. [Included in the 21st Anniversary Editor’s Choice Collection of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy, a collection comprising 21 articles representing the “excellence of the work that has been published in the journal”.]
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