Social Construction of the Objective World

Dagfinn Føllesdal is Professor in Philosophy at the University of Oslo and Stanford University. He studied science and mathematics in Oslo and Göttingen 1950-57, philosophy at Harvard.Ph.D. Harvard 1961, then taught at Harvard and later at Oslo (1967-99) and Stanford. About 30 books written and edited, 200 articles, translated into nineteen languages, 20 articles reprinted in anthologies. Føllesdag has been appointed the Chair of committees and boards appointed by the Norwegian Government, the Norwegian Research Council, UNESCO and other international organizations.