Curriculum vitae

Jan-Ivar Lindén (Heidelberg / Helsinki)

Languages:

Fluent in Swedish, Finnish, German, French and English.

Understanding Danish, Norwegian and Italian.

Classical languages: Ancient Greek is better than my Latin

University of Helsinki

Studies in philosophy and history

Dissertation pro gradu  on philosophical hermeneutics (and Paul Ricoeur in particular)

1986 Master degree

University of Heidelberg

Postgraduate studies in philosophy and history

Dissertation Die Störung. Über die Reflexivität der angehaltenen Gewohnheit

1995 Dr. phil. (summa cum laude, highest grade of the examen rigorosum both in philosophy and history)

University of Helsinki

2003 Appointed docent in philosophy at the university of Helsinki (habilitation)

2006 Declared competent for the Chair in History of Ideas by the Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki

Other engagements

since 2008   Curator of the Foundation for Research in Effective History   (www.svst.eu)

2013  Elected member of the academy Societas Scientiarum Fennica (1838)

since 2014   Coordinator of the Centre for Historical Ontology 

(Heidelberg - Helsinki - Leuven, www.c-h-o.eu)

2016  Elected member of the Board of the Nordic society for ancient studies (Platonselskabet)

For further details, see www.c-h-o.eu