jgbhl

Department of Business Humanities and Law

  • Governance, Culture & Learning Unit
Johan
Gersel
Postdoc
,
PhD


Room: POR/18.B-2.147
Tel:
+4538153634
E-mail: jg.bhl@cbs.dk
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My philosophical research has predominantly been focused on the epistemic and practical role of reasons and rationality. I have investigated the restraints that a realist theory of mental content, scientific postulates, and moral truth place on a non-skeptical account of our reasoning. My PhD and my early work focused on the how we should conceive of experience in order to conserve its role as an epistemic reason for thought about an objective mind-independent reality. This interest has in my later work become accompanied by a wider concern with how we should conceive of self-conscious reasoning in both practical and theoretical deliberation. My work takes its primary historical inspiration from Plato, Kant and Frege, while relying on the work of their modern interpreters such as John McDowell, Charles Travis, Christine Korsgaard, and Robert Brandom. In my published work I have defended a disjunctive account of perception and reasoning in general. Beyond continued research in this area, I also work on the project of teasing out the consequences of conceiving of epistemology and moral deliberation as guides to a distinctively self-conscious practical concern with determining what to think and what to do. This stand opposed to the predominant conception of these fields as concerned with the descriptive endeavours of figuring out who has knowledge and who acted morally.  

In my recent work within management and economic theory, my focus on reasoning and deliberation has led me to work on stakeholder theory, and how we can conceive of the role of corporate governance in ways different from the idea of mere coordination or adjudication between inherently opposed atomistic and self-interested individuals. I have also worked on the importance role that a deliberative commitment to realist truth has in preserving the social cohesion of society. My work on scientific realism has led me to challenge both the scientific credentials of agency theory as an account of human motivation, as well as the prescriptive and policy advising aspirations of modern economic theory.

 

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2024
Morten S. Thaning; Johan Gersel; Michael Pedersen / Concrete Freedom at Work : Hegel’s Normative Conception of Freedom and Its Relevance to Organization Studies.
In: Organization Studies, Vol. 45, No. 9, 9.2024, p. 1277-1299
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Johan Gersel / McDowell’s Overlooked Argument for Disjunctivism : Realism, Self-consciousness, and Knowledge.
In: Synthese, Vol. 204, No. 1, 7.2024
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Marius Gudmand-Høyer; Morten Sørensen Thaning; Josefine Lykkegaard; Johan Gersel / Ontology and Organizational Ontologies : Overview and Avenues.
Paper presented at 40th EGOS Colloquium 2024, 2024
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2023
Johan Gersel / How to Infer What Persistent Things Are Up to : A Fregean Puzzle for Traditional Fregeans.
In: Inquiry, Vol. 66, No. 1, 1.2023, p. 92-121
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2022
Johan Gersel; Daniel Souleles; Morten Sørensen Thaning / How Should We Design Access to a Healthcare System?
In: People Before Markets: An Alternative Casebook. . ed. /Daniel Scott Souleles; Johan Gersel; Morten Sørensen Thaning. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2022, p. 354-379
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Daniel Souleles; Johan Gersel / Introduction : Why Are You Here?.
In: People before Markets: An Alternative Casebook. . ed. /Daniel Scott Souleles; Johan Gersel; Morten Sørensen Thaning . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2022, p. 1-9
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Daniel Scott Souleles (Editor) ; Johan Gersel (Editor) ; Morten Sørensen Thaning (Editor) / People before Markets : An Alternative Casebook.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2022, 478 p.
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Johan Gersel; Morten Sørensen Thaning / Some Philosophical Help With “Neoliberalism”
In: People before Markets: An Alternative Casebook. . ed. /Daniel Scott Souleles; Johan Gersel; Morten Sørensen Thaning. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2022, p. 10-53
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Johan Gersel / The Motivating Role of Truth in Reasoning : A Defence of Object-dependent Fregean Senses.
In: Erkenntnis: An International Journal of Scientific Philosophy, Vol. 87, No. 6, 12.2022, p. 2701-2714
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2020
Johan Gersel; Morten Sørensen Thaning / The Plight to Choose : Cultivating Practical Deliberation in Management Learning and Education.
In: Journal of Management Education, Vol. 44, No. 5, 10.2020, p. 663-676
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