Kristin Sampson

Stilling: førsteamanuensis

Telefon: 55 58 88 20

E-post: Kristin.Sampson@fof.uib.no

Besøksadresse: Sydnesplass 12-13, 3. etasje

Romnummer: 304

Kristin Sampson, dr. art., is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bergen. She is working mainly in the areas of ancient Greek philosophy and feminist philosophy.

Sampson wrote her doctoral dissertation Ontogony. Conceptions of Being and Metaphors of Birth in the Timaeus and the Parmenides (2006) on Plato, with a focus on the relation between the poetical and the philosophical. She has previously written on Plato also in her thesis for the cand. philol. degree.

Having received a post-doctorate fellowship (2007) Sampson worked on the project The Freedom of the Other. Ethical Consequences of Irigaray’s Conception of Sexual Difference. In this project Sampson investigates possible alternative conceptions of freedom from within an ontological-ethical perspective as articulated by Luce Irigaray. This project is also part of the larger research project Thought as Action (funded by the Norwegian Research Council).

Sampson was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Philosophy at Boston University (USA) in 2002, having been granted the Fulbright Fellowship the Einar Haugen Fellowship in the Humanities for the academic year 2001/2002. In 2008 Sampson was a Visiting Professor at Rutgers University (USA), and in 2010 at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris (France). 

Sampson is presently part of the research project Poetry and Philosophy, funded by the Norwegian Research Council, focusing on Plato. She is a member of two of the research groups at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bergen: The research group for Ancient Philosophy and the research group on Subjectivation and Late Modernity.

Publikasjoner i Cristin

- “Identity and Gender in Plato” in Philosophy and Gender (ed. Cressida Hayes), vol. II: Gender and the History of Philosophy. Hoboken: Taylor & Francis: Routledge 2012. 

 - "I grenseland - mellom innenfor og utenfor", Kraftverk Jubileumsutgave 2011. Tidsskriftet Kraftverk 40, Billedkatalogen NO 4: 2011.

- "Kunst og historie hos Gadamer", Kunstjournalen B-post. 2010/2011.

- "A World of Sexual Difference", Nora. Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. Volume 18 1:2010.

- “Filosofi som lesemåte: Irigarays lesninger av Platon”, Agora 3:2008.

- Kjønnsteori. (ed. Mortensen, Egeland, Gressgård, Holst, Jegerstedt, Rosland & Sampson) Oslo: Gyldendal 2008.

- “Eksistensialistisk og fenomenologisk tilnærming”, “Simone de Beauvoir”, “Ontologisk tilnærming” og “Luce Irigaray” i Kjønnsteori. Oslo: Gyldendal 2008.

- “A Difference of Origin” pp. 17-33 in Sex, Breath, and Force (ed. Ellen Mortensen). Maryland, USA: Lexington Books 2006.

- Ontogony. Conceptions of being and metaphors of birth in the Timaeus and the Parmenides, dr.art.thesis, Fagbokforlaget 2006.

- “Identity and Gender in Plato” pp. 17-33 in Feminist Reflections on the History of Philosophy (ed. by Lilli Alanen and Charlotte Witt). Dordrecht, Boston & London: Kluwer Academic Publishers 2004.

- “The Metaphors of Birth in Plato” pp. 21-35 in Bios, Eros and Thanatos in Ancient and Early Modern Philosophy (ed. by Vigdis Songe-Møller and Vibeke A. Tellmann). Bergen: University of Bergen 2003.

- "What are we searching for in the history of philosophy?" pp. 94-115 in The Philosophical Age, Almanac 24: History of Philosophy as Philosophy. St. Petersburg 2003.

- "Platons problematiske kvinner" in Kjønnsperspektiver i filosofihistorien (red. Hilde Bondevik and Linda Rustad). Oslo: Pax Forlag 1999.

- Selvets logikk i Platons Faidon: en kritikk av Platons plassering av selvet i forhold til motsetningsparene kropp-sjel, dødelighet-udødelighet og femininitet-maskulinitet. University of Bergen 1994.

 

Sampson is currently involved in two research projects:

- The research project Thought as Action. Gender, Democracy, Freedom, funded by the Norwegian Research Council (2008-2012)

- The research project Poetry and Philosophy, led by the research group of Ancient Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bergen:

http://www.uib.no/fof/en/research/research-groups/the-research-group-for-ancient-philosophy

Sampson is also part of two other research groups at the Department of Philosophy at the University in Bergen: "Forskningsgruppe for subjektivering og senmodernitet" og "Forskningsgruppe for filosofi, språk og kunst."