mstbhl

Institut for Business Humaniora og Jura

  • Governance, Culture & Learning Unit
Morten Sørensen
Thaning
Lektor
,
PhD


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+4538152661
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E-mail: mst.bhl@cbs.dk
Morten Sørensen Thaning
Præsentation

What is the connection between freedom and rationality in human action and thought?  What is the nature and limit of responsibility? How can we transmit and cultivate human rationality?  These are the questions at the center of my philosophical research. I am particularly interested in the role and nature of situated judgement as form of rationality that is, on the one hand, not reducible to ‘gut feelings’ but, one the other hand, cannot be captured in general, context-insensitive rules and agent-neutral terms. Currently I am working on the relation between this form of rationality and the conceptions of rationality within contemporary economic theory as well as within current management and organization theory.  In my research I build upon the work of neo-Kantian, contemporary philosophers such as John McDowell and Christine Korsgaard as well as the tradition of phenomenology and hermeneutics, notably Hans-Georg Gadamer and Martin Heidegger. I also draw upon the tradition of Ancient philosophy, in particular Plato and Aristotle. Finally, I work with the thought of Michel Foucault and with the analyses of Giorgio Agamben in order to develop their diagnoses of the forms of power that shape our contemporary society.

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Primære forskningsområder
  • The concepts of freedom, rationality and responsibility and their intrinsic connection
  • The nature and cultivation of situated judgement
  • The nature of rational management and the function of professional judgement
  • The current systems of obligation that shape the government of others and of the self

 

Administrative opgaver

Group leader of the Management Philosophy group

Curriculum Vitae
Link til denne hjemmeside
www.cbs.dk/staff/mstbhl
Kurser
  • Philosophy of the present: Human Capital
  • The notion of work and the nature of the human resource
Udvalgte publikationer
  • (2012) ‘Dialectics and Dialogue in the Lysis’ in Dialogue and Dialectics between Plato and Aristotle, ed. J. L. Fink, Cambridge University Press.
  • (2015) The problem of objectivity in Gadamer’s Hermeneutics in light of McDowell’s Empiricism. Volume I in the Book Series: Contributions to Hermeneutics (book series editor Jeff Malpas and Claude Romano). Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, pp. 1-212.
  • Sverre Raffnsøe, Marius Gudmand-Høyer, Morten S. Thaning (2016) Foucault: A Research Companion. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-465.
  • Gersel, J, Jensen, R.T., Thaning, M.S., (the order of authors is strictly alphabetical) (2017): “McDowell’s new Conceptualism and Difference between Chickens, Colours and Cardinals”. Philosophical Explorations, 20 (1) (20th Anniversary issue).

 

Publikationer sorteret efter:
2024
Morten S. Thaning; Johan Gersel; Michael Pedersen / Concrete Freedom at Work : Hegel’s Normative Conception of Freedom and Its Relevance to Organization Studies.
I: Organization Studies, Vol. 45, Nr. 9, 9.2024, s. 1277-1299
Tidsskriftartikel > peer review
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
Paper > peer review
2023
Morten S. Thaning / Book review: Jussi Backman and Antonio Cimino (ed.), Biopolitics and Ancient Thought
I: Foucault Studies, Nr. 35, 12.2023, s. 243-250
Anmeldelse
Daniel Souleles; Matthew Archer; Morten Sørensen Thaning / Introduction to Special Issue : Value, Values, and Anthropology.
I: Economic Anthropology, Vol. 10, Nr. 2, 2023, 7 s., s. 162-168
Leder > peer review
2022
Johan Gersel; Daniel Souleles; Morten Sørensen Thaning / How Should We Design Access to a Healthcare System?
I: People Before Markets: An Alternative Casebook. . red. /Daniel Scott Souleles; Johan Gersel; Morten Sørensen Thaning. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2022, s. 354-379
Bidrag til bog/antologi > peer review
Daniel Scott Souleles (Redaktør) ; Johan Gersel (Redaktør) ; Morten Sørensen Thaning (Redaktør) / People before Markets : An Alternative Casebook.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2022, 478 s.
Antologi > peer review
Johan Gersel; Morten Sørensen Thaning / Some Philosophical Help With “Neoliberalism”
I: People before Markets: An Alternative Casebook. . red. /Daniel Scott Souleles; Johan Gersel; Morten Sørensen Thaning. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2022, s. 10-53
Bidrag til bog/antologi > peer review
Ana Maria Munar; Marius Gudmand-Høyer; Cathrine Bjørnholt Michaelsen; Morten Sørensen Thaning / Values with Hamlet : Engaging with Value Incommensurability in Tourism Organizations.
I: Critical Tourism Studies 9: With in Dangerous Times. Working Proceedings. WWW : Critical Tourism Studies 2022, 2 s., s. 8-9
Konferenceabstrakt i proceedings > peer review
2021
Morten Sørensen Thaning / Dialectic as a Way of Life : Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Interpretation of Plato.
I: Phenomenological Interpretations of Ancient Philosophy. red. /Kristian Larsen; Pål Rykkja Gilbert. Leiden : Brill 2021, s. 178-201 (Studies in Contemporary Phenomenology, Vol. 20)
Bidrag til bog/antologi > peer review
Mads Kogut; Morten Sørensen Thaning; Niklas Birksted / Intellectual Emancipation as Minimal Humanism : The Relevance of Jacques Rancière in Business School Teaching.
I: Management Learning, Vol. 52, Nr. 2, 4.2021, s. 165-187
Tidsskriftartikel > peer review
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Forskningsprojekter
Bibeskæftigelse
  • Lecture,‘Den økonomiske rationalitet og det fornuftige menneske’ at Testrup Højskole 2019