Skovgaard-Olsen, Niels

PostDoc. Cognitive Psychology and Decision Science University of Göttingen

PostDoc. DFG Project: Reason Relations, Argumentation, and Conditionals: Applying Ranking Theory to Psychology of Reasoning

Dr. rer. nat. (psychology), Faculty of Economics and Behavioral Sciences, University of Freiburg. Supervisor: Professor Dr. Karl Christoph Klauer. Dissertation defended with summa cum laude (“highest honour”)

Dr. phil. (philosophy), Faculty of Humanities, University of Konstanz. Supervisor: Professor Dr. Wolfgang Spohn. Dissertation defended with summa cum laude (“highest honour”)                                                      

Research visits at Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy and Birkbeck University to collaborate with Prof. Dr. Ulrike Hahn

Associate, What if – an interdisciplinary research group on conditionals and thought experiments with researchers from the fields of philosophy, linguistics, and history. https://whatifkn.wordpress.com/

Organization of Symposium ‚Normativity and Rationality‘ with Dr. Shira Elqayam for the International Conference of Thinking (ICT2016) Brown University.

Award: Best Student paper, New Frameworks of Rationality. (Prize for one of the chapters of my psychology dissertation.)

Grant application and project administration for 3 year PostDoc project as part of New Frameworks of Rationality, DFG

Organization of 1) Journal Club and 2) Reading Group for PhD-Students and Post-Docs at University of Konstanz with Dr. Johannes Schmitt and Dr. Giuliano Bacigalupo.  

Symposium on normative pluralism. ICT-2020 (International Conference of Thinking), Paris. (Invited talk. Postponed to 2021)

Inferentialism and Causality. Symposium on Inferentialism. ICT-2020 (International Conference of Thinking), Paris. (Invited talk. Postponed to 2021)   

Skovgaard-Olsen, N., Stephan, S., and Waldmann, M. (2020). Conditionals and the Hierarchy of Causal Queries. Neuroscience Online Seminar, University of Göttingen (June 22, 2020). Göttingen, Germany.

Skovgaard-Olsen, N., Stephan, S., and Waldmann, M. (2019). Conditional Probabilities and Causal Power. London Reasoning Workshop (July 18, 2019). London, UK.

Skovgaard-Olsen, N. (2019). The Dialogical Entailment Task. Dagstuhl Seminar. (January 14, 2019). Dagstuhl, Germany.

Raidl, E. and Skovgaard-Olsen, N. (2018). Ranking    Theoretic Semantics for Conditionals and the Psychology of Reasoning. What If, Closing Conference (October 12, 2018). Konstanz, Germany.

Skovgaard-Olsen, N. (2018). A Synoptic View on Relevance Effects. New Perspectives on Conditionals and Reasoning. (September 5, 2018). Regensburg, Germany.

Skovgaard-Olsen, N. (2018). A Synoptic View on Relevance Effects. New Perspectives on Conditionals and Reasoning. (September 5, 2018). Regensburg, Germany.

Skovgaard-Olsen, N. (2018). Relevance and Conditionals. London Reasoning Workshop. (July 25, 2018). London, UK.

Skovgaard-Olsen, N., Collins, P., Krzyzanowska, K., Hahn, U., and Klauer, C. K. (2018). Cancellation, Negation, and Rejection. Annual Meeting of New Frameworks of Rationality. (February 19, 2018). Etelsen, Germany.

Skovgaard-Olsen, N., Kellen, D., Krahl, H., Klauer, K. C. (2016). Putting the Relevance Approach and the Suppositional Theory to the Test. Annual Meeting of New Frameworks of Rationality. (March 22, 2016). Etelsen, Germany.

Skovgaard-Olsen, N. (2016). Compositional Reason Relation Semantics. What-if research group, University of Konstanz. (January 12, 2016) Konstanz, Germany.

Skovgaard-Olsen, N., Singmann, H., and Klauer, K. C. (2015). Perceived Relevance and Reason Relations. What-if research group, University of Konstanz. (July 10, 2015). Konstanz, Germany.

Skovgaard-Olsen, N., Singmann, H., and Klauer, K. C. (2015). Perceived Relevance and Reason Relations. Annual Meeting of New Frameworks of Rationality. (March 16, 2015). Etelsen, Germany.

Skovgaard-Olsen, N., Singmann H., and Klauer K. C. (2015). The Relevance Effect and Conditionals. Berkeley, Working Group in the History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics and Science. (September 23, 2015). Berkeley, USA.

Skovgaard-Olsen, N., Singmann, H., and Klauer, K. C.  (2015). Relevance and Reason Relations. Gießener Abendgespräche Kognition und Gehirn. (June 10, 2015). Gießen, Germany.

Skovgaard-Olsen, N., Spohn. W., and Klauer, K. C. (2014). On how to make ranking theory useful for Psychology of Reasoning. Annual Meeting of New Frameworks of Rationality. (March 10, 2014). Etelsen, Germany.

Skovgaard-Olsen, N. (2013). VAT, Representations, and Perceptual Experiences. University of Konstanz. (Juni 6, 2013). Konstanz, Germany.

Skovgaard-Olsen, N., Collins, P., Krzyzanowska, K., Hahn, U., and Klauer, C. K. (2017). Relevance and Conditionals. ECAP9, European Congress of Analytic Philosophy. (August 22, 2017). München, Germany.

Skovgaard-Olsen, N., Kellen, D., Hahn, U. and Klauer, K. C. (2017). Norm Conflicts and Conditionals. Reasoning Club. (May 19, 2017). Turin, Italy.

Skovgaard-Olsen, N., Singmann, H., and Klauer, K. C. (2015). Perceived Relevance and Reason Relations. Danish annual meeting of philosophy, University of Aarhus. (March 7, 2015). Aarhus, Denmark.

Skovgaard-Olsen, N. (2014). Logical Omniscience and Acknowledged vs.Consequential Commitments. AISB50 (Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation for Behaviour), Goldsmiths, University of London. (April 3, 2014) London, UK.

Skovgaard-Olsen, N. (2013). On how to make Philosophical Theories useful for Scientific Purposes. Danish annual meeting of philosophy, Syddansk Universitet.

(March 9, 2013) Odense, Denmark.

Skovgaard-Olsen, N. (2012). Brandom, TCA, and the Social Foundation of Objectivity. Danish annual meeting of philosophy, Roskilde Universitet. (March 2, 2012) Roskilde, Denmark.