René Rosfort

René Rosfort

 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9766-9741

  • Karen Blixens Plads 16

    2300 København S

Personal profile

Teaching

Three recurring courses in English every semester

  • Philosophy of Gender (Mondays 10:30am-1:00pm)
  • Philosophy of Mental Health (Tuesdays 1:30-4:00pm)
  • The Ethical Brain: Philosophy and Neuroscience (Thursdays 1:30-4:00pm)

A recurring Kierkegaard seminar in English every semester

  • A reading of a work by Søren Kierkegaard (Mondays from 2:00-4:00pm, between 15-17 sessions per semester)

Areas of supervision

  • Classical and contemporary ethical issues
  • Philosophical, ethical, and therapeutic aspects of mental illness
  • Philosophy of existence, phenomenology, and hermeneutics
  • Philosophical and ethical aspects of gender, sexuality, and identity
  • Søren Kierkegaard
  • Immanuel Kant
  • Paul Ricoeur

Primary fields of research

  • Ethics
  • Mental illness
  • Hermeneutical phenomenology
  • Philosophy of Existence
  • Gender studies
  • Søren Kierkegaard
  • Immanuel Kant
  • Paul Ricœur

Knowledge of languages

Speaking/Reading/Writing: Danish, Italian, English

Reading: German, French, Latin, Ancient Greek

CV

Born in Copenhagen, April 1975

Education

  • 1995-1996: Classical Archaeology, University of Copenhagen
  • 1996-2003: MA in Theology, University of Copenhagen
  • 2005-2008: PhD Student at the Centre for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen
  • 2008 (June): PhD Thesis successfully defended.

Employment

  • 2008: PostDoc at The Department for Systematic Theology, University of Copenhagen
  • 2009 - 2012: PostDoc at the Department for Systematic Theology, Center for Naturalism and Christian Semantics, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen. 3 year research grant from Carlsbergfondet
  • 2012 - 2014: PostDoc at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen. 2 years research grant from NovoZymes
  • 2014 - 2015: External Lecturer at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen.
  • 2015: Associate Professor at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen
  • 2023: UCPH Promotion Programme to Full Professor

Study Abroad

  • 2000-2001: Studies at the Department of Philosophy, Università degli studi di Firenze
  • 2005-2008: 12 months at the Department of Philosophy, Università degli studi di Firenze.

Further Education

  • 2006: Courses in Neurophysiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen
  • 2007: Master Course in Clinical Psychopathology, Scuola Bolognese di Psicoterapia Cognitiva, Bologna, Italy
  • Leadership Course - Leading Research

Awards

  • 2002: Gold Medal from The University of Copenhagen for the Prize Essay: Imagination in Kant and Kierkegaard.

Keywords

  • Faculty of Theology
  • Ethics
  • Phenomenology
  • Hermeneutics
  • Philosophy of Existence
  • Mental illness
  • Gender Studies
  • Søren Kierkegaard
  • Immanuel Kant
  • Paul Ricoeur

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