Rachel Sterken

Researcher - IFIKK
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Email rachel.sterken@ifikk.uio.no
Room Room 436
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Visiting address Georg Morgenstiernes hus Blindernveien 31 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 1020 Blindern 0315 Oslo

Academic interests

Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics

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Background

Sterken's primary area of research is the philosophy of language, however her research also connects to a broad range of issues in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophical logic and social/feminist philosophy. Some of her current research includes interdisciplinary empirical work. Sterken is a research affiliate with ConceptLab at the University of Oslo.

Tags: Philosophy

Publications

  • Hoicka, Elena; Saul, Jennifer; Prouten, Eloise; Whitehead, Laura & Sterken, Rachel (2021). Language Signaling High Proportions and Generics Lead to Generalizing, but Not Essentializing, for Novel Social Kinds. Cognitive Science. ISSN 0364-0213. 45(11), p. 1–29. doi: 10.1111/cogs.13051.
  • Pepp, Jessica Alden; Michaelson, Eliot & Sterken, Rachel (2019). Why we should keep talking about fake news. Inquiry (Oslo). ISSN 0020-174X. p. 1–17. doi: 10.1080/0020174X.2019.1685231.
  • Sterken, Rachel; Michaelson, Eliot & Pepp, Jessica Alden (2019). What's New About Fake News? Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy. ISSN 1559-3061. 16(2), p. 67–94. doi: 10.26556/jesp.v16i2.629. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sterken, Rachel (2019). Linguistic Interventions and Transformative Communicative Disruption . In Burgess, Alexis; Cappelen, Herman Wright & Plunkett, David (Ed.), Conceptual Engineering and Conceptual Ethics. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780198801856. p. 417–434.
  • Sterken, Rachel (2018). The structures of social structural explanation: Comments on haslanger's what is (social) structural explanation? Disputatio. ISSN 0873-626X. 10(50), p. 173–199. doi: 10.2478/disp-2018-0012.
  • Sterken, Rachel (2017). The meaning of generics. Philosophy Compass. ISSN 1747-9991. 12(8). doi: 10.1111/phc3.12431.
  • Sterken, Rachel (2016). Generics, Covert Structure and Logical Form. Mind & Language. ISSN 0268-1064. 31(5), p. 503–529. doi: 10.1111/mila.12118.
  • Sterken, Rachel (2015). Generics in context. Philosophers' Imprint. ISSN 1533-628X. 15(21), p. 1–30. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sterken, Rachel (2015). Generics, Content and Cognitive Bias. Analytic Philosophy. ISSN 2153-9596. 56(1), p. 75–93. doi: 10.1111/phib.12056.
  • Sterken, Rachel (2015). Leslie on Generics. Philosophical Studies. ISSN 0031-8116. 172(9), p. 2493–2512. doi: 10.1007/s11098-014-0429-2. Full text in Research Archive

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