Niels Skovgaard-Olsen
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My work focuses on topics in the intersection of philosophy, psychology, and linguistics (or more broadly: cognitive science). Some of it is purely theoretical and other is empirical and the focus is on reasoning and language.
Research Interests
Empirical and theoretical rationality research (psychology, philosophy). Pragmatics and Semantics (linguistics). Psychology of Reasoning. Empirical and theoretical research on norms and agency. Moral Psychology. Psychology of Causality. Computational methods and statistical modelling.
Experience
2023- Privatdozent. Department of Social Psychology and Methodology. Institute of Psychology. University of Freiburg.
2023 Habilitation, venia legendi in Psychology ("right to teach"). University of Freiburg.
2022- PI of research project “Norm Conflicts and Rationality”. German Research Council (DFG). Department of Social Psychology and Methodology. Institute of Psychology. University of Freiburg. https://freidok.uni-freiburg.de/proj/9901
2017-2022 PostDoc Research Associate with teaching and supervision duties. Department of Cognitive and Decision Psychology. Institute of Psychology. University of Göttingen.
2014-2017 PostDoc. DFG Project: Reason Relations, Argumentation, and Conditionals: Applying Ranking Theory to Psychology of Reasoning.
2014-2017 Dr. rer. nat. (PhD in psychology), Faculty of Economics and Behavioral Sciences, University of Freiburg. Institute of Psychology. Supervisor: Professor Dr. Karl Christoph Klauer. Dissertation defended with summa cum laude (“highest honour”).
2012-2014 Dr. phil. (PhD in philosophy), Faculty of Humanities, University of Konstanz. Supervisor: Professor Dr. Wolfgang Spohn. Dissertation defended with summa cum laude (“highest honour”).
Publications
Skovgaard-Olsen, N. and John Cantwell (2023). Norm Conflicts and Epistemic Modals. Cognitive Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2023.101591
Skovgaard-Olsen, N. Collins, P., and Klauer, K. C. (2023). Possible Worlds Truth Table Task. Cognition, 238, 105507. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105507
Skovgaard-Olsen, N. and Klauer, K. C. (2023). Invariance Violations and the CNI Model of Moral Judgment. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 10.1177/01461672231164888
Skovgaard-Olsen, N. and Collins, P. (2021). Indicatives, Subjunctives, and the Falsity of the Antecedent. Cognitive Science, 45(11).https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13058
Skovgaard-Olsen, N., Stephan, S., and Waldmann, M. (2021). Conditionals and the Hierarchy of Causal Queries. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150(12), 2472-2505. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001062
Kern-Isberner, G., Skovgaard-Olsen, N., and Spohn, W. (2021). Ranking Theory and Cognitive Science. In: Knauff, M. & Spohn, W. (eds.), Handbook of Rationality (pp. 337-345). The MIT Press. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262045070/the-handbook-of-rationality/
Skovgaard-Olsen, N. (2020). Relevance and Conditionals: A Synopsis of Open Pragmatic and Semantic Issues. In: Elqayam, S., Douven, I., Cruz, N., Evans, J. (eds.), Logic and Uncertainty in the Human Mind, Routledge (pp. 192-206). https://www.routledge.com/Logic-and-Uncertainty-in-the-Human-Mind-A-Tribute-to-David-E-Over/Elqayam-Douven-Evans-Cruz/p/book/9781138084254
Skovgaard-Olsen, N. (2019). The Dialogical Entailment Task. Cognition, 193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104010
Skovgaard-Olsen, N., Kellen, D., Hahn, U., and Klauer, K. C. (2019). Norm Conflicts and Conditionals. Psychological Review, 126(5), 611-633. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000150
Skovgaard-Olsen, N., Collins, P., Krzyzanowska, K., Hahn, U., and Klauer, C. K. (2019). Cancellation, Negation, and Rejection. Cognitive Psychology, 108, 42-71.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2018.11.002
Skovgaard-Olsen, N., Kellen, D., Krahl, H., and Klauer, K. C. (2017). Relevance differently affects the truth, acceptability, and probability evaluations of ‘And’, ‘But’, ‘Therefore’, and ‘If Then’. Thinking and Reasoning, 23(4), 449-482. https://doi.org/10.1080/13546783.2017.1374306
Skovgaard-Olsen, N., Kellen, D., Hahn, U., and Klauer, K. C. (2017). Conditionals, Individual Variation, and the Scorekeeping Task. In: M. Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink, & E. Davelaar (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. London, UK: Cognitive Science Society. https://www.proceedings.com/35829.html
Skovgaard-Olsen, N., Singmann, H., and Klauer, K. C. (2017). Relevance and Reason Relations. Cognitive Science, 41(S5), 1202-1215. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12462
Raidl, E. and Skovgaard-Olsen, N. (2016). Bridging Ranking Theory and the Stability Theory of Belief. Journal of Philosophical Logic, 46(6), 577-609. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10992-016-9411-0
Skovgaard-Olsen, N. (2016). Motivating the Relevance Approach to Conditionals. Mind & Language, 31(5), 555-79.https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12120
Skovgaard-Olsen, N., Singmann, H., and Klauer, K. C. (2016). The Relevance Effect and Conditionals. Cognition, 150, 26-36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2015.12.017
Skovgaard-Olsen, N. (2015a). Ranking Theory and Conditional Reasoning. Cognitive Science. 40(4), 848-880.https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12267
Skovgaard-Olsen, N. (2015b). The problem of logical Omniscience, the preface paradox, and doxastic commitments. Synthese, 194(3), 917-939.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-015-0979-7
Skovgaard-Olsen, N. (2014). Logical Omniscience and Acknowledged vs. Consequential Commitments. In: Proceedings of AISB50. London, UK: Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behavior. http://doc.gold.ac.uk/aisb50/AISB50-S21/AISB50-S21-Olsen-paper.pdf
Olsen, N. S. (2014). Philosophical Theory-Construction and the Self-Image of Philosophy.
Open Journal of Philosophy. https://10.4236/ojpp.2014.43031
Olsen, N. S. (2010). Reinterpreting Sellars in the Light of Brandom, McDowell, and A. D. Smith. European Journal of Philosophy, 18(4), 510-38. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0378.2009.00360.x
In Review and Under Preparation
Skovgaard-Olsen, N. and Klauer, K. C. (in preparation). Norm Conflicts and Morality: The Conflict Model of Moral Decision-Making.
Dissertations
Skovgaard-Olsen, N. (2023). Reasoning Studies. From Single Norms to Individual Differences. (Habilitation in Psychology, University of Freiburg)
Skovgaard-Olsen, N. (2017). Putting Inferentialism and the Suppositional Theory of Conditionals to the Test. (Psychology Dissertation, University of Freiburg)
Olsen, N. S. (2014). Making Ranking Theory useful for Psychology of Reasoning. (Philosophy Dissertation, University of Konstanz)
For further details:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Niels-Skovgaard-Olsen
https://freidok.uni-freiburg.de/pers/98465
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5654-2947
Scientific Talks
Invited Talks Skovgaard-Olsen, N. & Klauer, K. (2023). Norm Conflicts and Morality: The Conflict Model of Moral Decision-Making. International Moral Psychology (IMP) Seminar Series. (October 02, 2023). Kent, UK.
Skovgaard-Olsen, N. & Klauer, K. (2023). Norm Conflicts and Morality: The Conflict Model of Moral Decision-Making. London Reasoning Workshop. (July 25, 2023). London, UK.
Skovgaard-Olsen, N. (2022). Latent Truth Tables. The 17th Conference of the Swiss Psychological Society (September 5, 2022). Zürich, Switzerland.
Skovgaard-Olsen, N. & Klauer, Christoph, K. (2022). Invariance Violations and the CNI Model of Moral Judgments. London Reasoning Workshop. (July 26, 2022). London, UK.
Skovgaard-Olsen, N. (2022). Norm Conflicts and Might Statements. Logic Colloquium. University of Connecticut (April 1, 2022).
Skovgaard-Olsen, N. (2021). Inferentialism and Causality. Symposium on Inferentialism. ICT-2021 (International Conference of Thinking), Paris. (June 23, 2021).
Skovgaard-Olsen, N. (2021). Normative Pluralism and Might Statements. Symposium on normative pluralism. ICT-2021 (International Conference of Thinking), Paris. (June, 21, 2021).
Skovgaard-Olsen, N., Stephan, S., and Waldmann, M. (2020). Conditionals and the Hierarchy of Causal Queries. University of Amsterdam, Holland (March 15, 2021).
Skovgaard-Olsen, N., Stephan, S., and Waldmann, M. (2020). Conditionals and the Hierarchy of Causal Queries. "If ifs and ands were pots and pans ...": Qualitative and quantitative approaches to reasoning and conditionals (August 28, 2020). Regensburg, Germany.
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., Kellen, D., Hahn, U. and Klauer, K. C. (2018). Norm Conflicts and Conditionals. European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Invited Symposium: Normative and descriptive approaches to human reasoning. (September 13, 2018). Rijeka, Croatia.
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. (2018). A Synoptic View on Relevance Effects. What if, Scientific Retreat. (January 12, 2018). Konstanz, Germany.
Skovgaard-Olsen, N., Kellen, D., Hahn, U. and Klauer, K. C. (2017). Norm Conflicts and Conditionals. Annual Meeting of New Frameworks of Rationality. (March 7, 2017). Etelsen, Germany.
Skovgaard-Olsen, N., Kellen, D., Krahl, H., Klauer, K. C. (2016). Relevance differently affects the truth, acceptability, and probability evaluations of ‘and’, ‘but’, ‘therefore’, and ‘if then’. Symposium with Igor Douven, On “the epistemology of conditionals”. (June 10, 2016). Konstanz, 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.
Conferences Skovgaard-Olsen, N., and Klauer, K. C. (2023). Norm Conflicts and Morality: The Conflict Model of Moral Decision-Making. Third European Experimental Philosophy Conference. (September 15th, 2023). Zürich, Switzerland.
Skovgaard-Olsen, N., and Collins, P. (2021). Indicatives, Subjunctives, and the Falsity of the Antecedent. 43rd Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfs). Workshop SPOCC. (February 25, 2021). Freiburg, Germany.
Skovgaard-Olsen, N., Stephan, S., and Waldmann, M. (2019). Conditionals, Reason Relations, and Causality. EuroCogSci. (September 2, 2019). Bochum, Germany.
Skovgaard-Olsen, N., Kellen, D., Hahn, U. and Klauer, K. C. (2017). Norm Conflicts and Conditionals. Second Workshop of the Experimental Philosophy Group Germany. (November 17, 2017). Osnabrück, 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., David Kellen, Ulrike Hahn, and Karl Christoph Klauer (2017). Conditionals, Individual Variation, and the Scorekeeping Task. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (July 27, 2017). London, UK.
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., Kellen, D., Hahn, U. and Klauer, K. C. (2016). Norm Conflicts and Conditionals. International Conference of Thinking at Brown University. (August 5, 2016) Providence, USA.
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.