Vincent F. Hendricks
Vincent Fella Rune Møller Hendricks (born 6 March 1970) is a Danish philosopher and logician. He has a PhD and a habilitation in philosophy and is a Professor of Formal Philosophy and the Director of the Center for Information and Bubble Studies (CIBS) at the University of Copenhagen. He previously taught at Roskilde University and is a member of the Institut International de Philosophie in Paris.
Hendricks studies modern mathematical and philosophical logic and works to bring mainstream and formal ideas in epistemology together. His interests include epistemic reliabilism, counterfactual epistemology, contextualism, epistemic logic, and formal learning theory, as well as a field he helped develop called modal operator epistemology. He introduced modal operator epistemology in The Convergence of Scientific Knowledge (2001) and later explored it further in Mainstream and Formal Epistemology (2006), which won the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title award.
He is editor-in-chief of Synthese Library and New Waves in Philosophy, and he founded ΦLOG – The Network for Philosophical Logic and Its Applications. He also edits ΦNEWS, the newsletter for philosophical logic and its applications. In 2008, he received Denmark’s Elite Research Prize and the Roskilde Festival Elite Research Prize.
In 2012, some philosophers criticized a photo shoot he did featuring young women in school uniforms. He withdrew the pictures and apologized; they were part of a charity drive organized by the Danish charity Youmeshopping.
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