Vincent F. Hendricks

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Vincent F. Hendricks (March 6, 1970), is a philosopher and logician. He holds two doctoral degrees (dr. phil and PhD) in philosophy and is Professor of Formal Philosophy at Roskilde University in Denmark and member of IIP, the Institut Internationale de Philosophie.

His work concentrates primarily on bringing mainstream and formal approaches to epistemology together - from epistemic reliabilism, counterfactual epistemology and contextualism to epistemic logic, formal learning theory and what is called 'modal operator epistemology'. Modal operator epistemology, developed first by Hendricks in The Convergence of Scientific Knowledge (Dordrecht: Springer, 2001), since developed further in a number of papers and books - see in particular Mainstream and Formal Epistemology (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006) - is the cocktail obtained by mixing alethic, tense and epistemic logic with elements from formal learning theory in order to study the limiting validity of convergent knowledge.

Vincent F. Hendricks is editor-in-chief of Synthese, Synthese Library and New Waves in Philosophy, he is also the founder of ΦLOG - The Network for Philosophical Logic and Its Applications [1] and chief editor of ΦNEWS - The Newsletter for Philosophical Logic and Its Applications [2].

[edit] Authored and Edited Books

Thought 2 Talk: A Crash Course in Reflection and Expression (New York: Automatic Press / VIP, 2006)
Mainstream and Formal Epistemology (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006)
Formal Philosophy [3] (New York: Automatic Press / VIP, 2005)
Masses of Formal Philosophy [4] (New York: Automatic Press / VIP, 2006)
Game Theory: 5 Questions [5] (New York: Automatic Press / VIP, 2007)
Philosophy of Mathematics: 5 Questions [6] (New York: Automatic Press / VIP, 2007)
Probability and Statistics: 5 Questions (New York: Automatic Press / VIP, 2008)
The Convergence of Scientific Knowledge (Springer, 2001)
Feisty Fragments (London: King's College Publications, 2004)
Logical Lyrics (London: King's College Publications, 2005)
500 CC: Computer Citations [7] (London: King's College Publications, 2005)
Self-Reference (CSLI Publications, 2006)
8 Bridges Between Formal and Mainstream Epistemology, Philosophical Studies, March 2006
Ways of Worlds I, Studia Logica, April 2006
Ways of Worlds II, Studia Logica, November 2006
Interactions: Physics, Mathematics and Philosophy, 1840-1930 (Dordrecht: Springer, 2006)
New Waves in Epistemology (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2006)
Proof Theory (Dordrecht: Springer, 2001)
Probability Theory (Dordrecht: Springer, 2002)
Knowledge Contributors (Dordrecht: Springer, 2003)
First-Order Logic Revisited (Berlin: Logos Verlag 2004)
The Way Through Science and Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Stig Andur Pedersen (London: College Publications, 2006)
Modern Elementary Logic [in Danish] (Copenhagen: Hoest and Soen, 2002)
Tal en Tanke [in Danish] (Copenhagen: Forlaget Samfundslitteratur, 2007)