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Dr. Bjørn Jespersen is a Lecturer in Theoretical Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Utrecht University. He specializes in philosophical logic and analytic philosophy of language, with competencies spanning epistemology, metaphysics, logic, philosophy of science, technology, and mind. His research focuses on attitudes, modalities, theory of meaning, propositions, predication, modifiers, and hyperintensionality, primarily grounded in Transparent Intensional Logic (TIL).
He held a Marie Curie Fellowship (2014–2016) at the University of Barcelona, researching the unity of propositions. Currently, he co-edits a special Inquiry issue on impossibility and serves as an Evaluator (Remote Reviewer) for the Czech Academy of Sciences’ 2025 Humanities and Arts Panel evaluation. In 2024, he delivered tutorials on impossibility at the University of Padova under an Erasmus exchange program, and in 2025 will present work on Vulcan’s procedural semantics at institutions including the University of Lodz and Università della Svizzera Italiana.
- Research Contributions: Co-authored/co-edited influential works like Procedural Semantics for Hyperintensional Logic (2010, awarded 2011) and Transparent Intensional Logic. Selected Recent Essays (2023).
- Editorships: Special issues of Synthese on structured propositions (2019, 2015), Inquiry on impossibility (forthcoming), and Festschrifts like Logically Speaking (2022).
His teaching includes courses on Mind and World and Knowledge and Science. Jespersen’s work emphasizes interdisciplinary connections between formal logic, semantics, and philosophy, particularly through TIL’s framework. He actively collaborates on projects addressing technical malfunction, de re puzzles, and procedural isomorphism, blending theoretical rigor with applied logic challenges.
