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Name and position

Gunnar Harðarson
Professor in the Faculty of History and Philosophy
Office Hours: By appointment
e-mail: gunhar (at) hi.is

Education

  • Doctorate in History of Philosophy (option: Medieval Philosophy), University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), France, 1984.
  • Maîtrise in Philosophy, University of Montpellier III (Université Paul Valéry), France, 1979.
  • B.A. in Philosophy, Literature and Icelandic Studies, University of Iceland, 1978.

Fields of teaching and research

  • History of Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Art
  • Medieval Studies
  • Icelandic Studies

Selected publications [link]

Recent publications 

  • “Postscript: The Subjectivity of Sturla Þórðarson.” In Sturla Þórðarson: Skald, Chieftain and Lawman, ed. Jón Viðar Sigurðsson and Sverrir Jakobsson. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017, pp. 244–255
  • "The Argument from Design in the Prologue to the Prose Edda." Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 12 (2016), pp. 61–84
  • "Old Norse Intellectual Culture: Appropriation and Innovation." In Intellectual Culture in Medieval Scandinavia, c. 1100–1350, ed. Stefka G. Eriksen. Turnhout: Brepols, 2016, pp. 35–73
  • “Hauksbók og alfræðirit miðalda [Hauksbók and Medieval Encyclopedic Literature]." Gripla 27 (2016), 127–155
  • “Viktorsklaustrið í París og norrænar miðaldir [The Abbey of St Victor in Paris and the Norse Middle Ages].” In Íslensk klausturmenning á miðöldum, ritstj. Haraldur Bernharðsson. Reykjavík: Miðaldastofa Háskóla Íslands, 2016, 119–148
  • "A Divisio Philosophiae in the Medieval Icelandic Manuscript GKS 1812 4o." Cahiers de l’Institut de Moyen-Âge grec et latin 84 (2015), pp. 1–21
  • “Philosophy in Iceland: A Historical and Cultural Introduction.” In Inquiring into Contemporary Icelandic Philosophy, ed. Gabriel Malenfant. Reykjavík: Háskólaútgáfan, 2014, 13–39
  • “Siðfræði Abelards – eða Heloísu? [The Ethics of Abelard – or Heloïse?].” In Hugsað með Vilhjálmi, ed. Róbert H. Haraldsson og Salvör Nordal. Reykjavík, Háskólaútgáfan, 2015, 87–101
  • “Hlutverk Laganna í Krítóni [The role of the Laws in the Crito].” In Hugsað með Platoni, ed. Svavar Hrafn Svavarsson. Reykjavík: Háskólaútgáfan, 2013, 67–87
  • “The method of exposition in Brynjolf Sveinsson’s Commentary (1640) on the Dialectica of Petrus Ramus.” In Ramus, Pedagogy and the Liberal Arts: Ramism in Britain and the Wider World, ed. Steven J. Reid et Emma Annette Wilson. Farnham, Ashgate, 2011, pp. 189–203
  • “Hugsun í verki? Málverk, ljósmynd, heimspeki.” In Sjónarmið: Á mótum myndlistar og heimspeki, Reykjavík, Listasafn Reykjavíkur, 2011, pp. 167–190 (tr. as "Thought at Work? Painting, Photography, Philosophy." In Perspectives: at the convergence of art and philosophy, Reykjavik Art Museum, 2011)
  • “Skýin og Málsvörn Sókratesar [The Clouds and the Apology of Socrates].” Ritið 3/2010: 37–53