FROM THE PHILOSOPHY OF LYING TOWARDS THE SOCIOLOGY OF (SCIENTIFIC) KNOWLEDGE

Abstract

Lars Fr. H. Svendsen is a Norwegian professor of philosophy at the University of Bergen and a project manager at the research organization Civita. He is the author of a large body of books, translated into more than twenty languages: The Philosophy of Boredom (1999), Art (2000), The Philosophy of Evil (2001), Man, Morality and Genes - A Critique of Biologism (2001), What is Philosophy (2003), The True, the Good and the Beautiful - An Introduction to Philosophy (2004), The Philosophy of Fashion (2004), The Philosophy of Fear (2007), The Philosophy of Work (2008), etc.