Morten Sørensen Thaning is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Copenhagen Business School and Program Director of the BA and MA programs in Philosophy and Business Administration. His research focuses on four areas: philosophical hermeneutics (Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer); contemporary American Neo-Kantianism, in particular the philosophy of John McDowell; ancient philosophy, especially Plato; and Michel Foucault’s philosophical diagnoses of the present. He is the author of The Problem of Objectivity in Gadamer’s Hermeneutics in Light of McDowell’s Empiricism (2015) and the co-author of Foucault: A Research Companion (2016), and has recently published work on Heidegger’s concept of freedom and Plato’s conception of dialogue. As a Neubauer Collegium Visiting Fellow, he worked on the concepts of self-understanding and self-alienation in collaboration with James Conant, Robert Pippin, and David Wellbery’s Neubauer Collegium project, The Idealism Project: Self-Determining Form and the Autonomy of the Humanities.

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