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Ingvild Torsen

Associate Professor - Philosophy
Email ingvild.torsen@ifikk.uio.no
Phone +47 22 85 78 50
Room GM 439
Available hours Fall2026: Thursdays 1-2 pm, or by appointment
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Visiting address Blindernveien 31 Georg Morgenstiernes hus 0313 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 1020 Blindern 0315 Oslo

Academic Interests

I work on Heidegger and aesthetics, primarily as the two relate to Post-Kantian philosophy. I am interested in phenomenology and Continental philosophy in general,  in modernism as a philosophical and artistic problem, and in feminist philosophy. 

I have advised MA students working on a wide range of topics, including theses on topics in Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Hegel, Kirkegaard and the self, Social philosophy and narrative theories of identity, Philosophy of technology, Philosophy of work, Phenomenology, Romanticism and Indian philosophy. 

Teaching

I teach our courses in Continental Philosophy, Aesthetics, Feminist Philosophy and lecture for Exphil on a regular basis. Courses taught:

Continental philosophy (MA)

Continental philosophy (BA)

Philosophical aesthetics (joint MA and BA)

Feminist philosophy (BA, joint BA and MA from 2022)

Higher education and employment history

Ph.D. Boston University; Cand.philol. University of Oslo. Previously Assistant Professor at Florida International University and Visiting Assistant Professor at Marquette University.

Tags: Philosophy, Phenomenology, Aesthetics, Continental Philosophy, Heidegger, Hegel, Kant, Tragedy

Publications

  • Torsen, Ingvild (2024). Prejudice and Possibility. How to Philosophize after the Culmination. Hegel Bulletin. ISSN 2051-5367. doi: 10.1017/hgl.2024.30. Full text in Research Archive
  • Torsen, Ingvild (2023). Hegel's Grey Aesthetics. Painting in the Intellectual Realm. In Vinegar, Aron Sascha Morris & Vellodi, Kamini (Ed.), Grey on Grey: At the Threshold of Philosophy and Art. Edinburgh University Press. ISSN 9781474478519. Full text in Research Archive
  • Torsen, Ingvild (2021). Martin Heidegger. In Giovannelli, Alessandro (Eds.), Aesthetics: The Key Thinkers. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 9781350085558. p. 183–190. Full text in Research Archive
  • Torsen, Ingvild (2020). The Persistence of the Body in Sculpture after Abstraction. In Torsen, Ingvild; Gjesdal, Kristin & Rush, Fred (Ed.), Philosophy of Sculpture. Historical Problems, Contemporary Approaches. Routledge. ISSN 9781138615953. p. 111–129. Full text in Research Archive
  • Torsen, Ingvild (2020). Book Symposium: Hegel’s Aesthetics: The Art of Idealism. SGIR Review. ISSN 2577-0233. 3(1-2), p. 2–11. Full text in Research Archive
  • Torsen, Ingvild (2018). The future of Hegelian art history: On the body in late modern sculpture. In Kottman, Paul A. & Squire, Michael (Ed.), The Art of Hegel's Aesthetics. Hegelian Philosophy and the Perspectives of Art History. Brill | Fink. ISSN 9783770562855. p. 303–330. doi: 10.30965/9783846762851_015. Full text in Research Archive
  • Torsen, Ingvild (2018). The Problem of Agency in Heidegger's Interpretation of Van Gogh. In Nichols, David P. (Eds.), Van Gogh among the Philosophers. Painting, Thinking, Being. Lexington Books. ISSN 9781498531351. p. 63–80. Full text in Research Archive
  • Torsen, Ingvild (2016). Disinterest and truth. On Heidegger’s interpretation of Kant’s aesthetics. British Journal of Aesthetics. ISSN 0007-0904. 56(1), p. 15–32. doi: 10.1093/aesthj/ayv045. Full text in Research Archive
  • Torsen, Ingvild (2015). Er det på tide å dumpe Heidegger? Arr - Idéhistorisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7005. Full text in Research Archive
  • Torsen, Ingvild (2014). Robert Pippin’s After the Beautiful. Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernism. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Full text in Research Archive
  • Torsen, Ingvild (2014). "The Origin of the Work of Art" and Its Legacy. In Kelly, Michael (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. Second edition. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780199370320. p. 296–299. Full text in Research Archive
  • Torsen, Ingvild (2014). What was abstract art? (From the point of view of Heidegger). Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. ISSN 0021-8529. 72(3), p. 291–302. doi: 10.1111/jaac.12084. Full text in Research Archive

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  • Torsen, Ingvild; Bøe, Solveig; Vetlesen, Arne Johan & Eliassen, Knut Ove (2022). Symposium: Kommentarer til Arild Utaker, om "den menneskelige forskjellen". Agora Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon. ISSN 0800-7136. p. 239–251. Full text in Research Archive
  • Torsen, Ingvild (2021). PIPPIN, ROBERT B. Philosophy by Other Means: The Arts in Philosophy and Philosophy in the Arts. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. ISSN 0021-8529. 79(4), p. 521–524. doi: 10.1093/jaac/kpab046. Full text in Research Archive
  • Torsen, Ingvild (2020). Hegel's Aesthetics. The Art of Idealism. European Journal of Philosophy. ISSN 0966-8373. 28(4), p. 1107–1109. doi: 10.1111/ejop.12622. Full text in Research Archive

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