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Centerleder Ole Fogh Kirkeby
Kontakt Ole Fogh Kirkeby
Tel: 3815 3766
Email:
ofk.lpf@cbs.dk
C.V.
Professor, Dr. Phil. Ole Fogh Kirkeby, (f.
1947), er gift og har fire sønner.
- OFK has an M.A.
in the Histories of Ideas in 1974 from the
University of Aarhus, Denmark. The
MA thesis was published as a book with the title
"The Logic of Capital and History"(1975).
- From 1974 to
1977 Assistant Professor in The Philosophy of
Science at The University of Roskilde and
granted a scholarship there too from 1977 to
1979 at the Institute of Technology and Society.
- During this
scholarship OFK was engaged in uniting Marxist
economic theory and neo-classical economics into
a synthesis able to predict social development
through theoretical average prices and profits
constructed on the basis of the differences
between technological levels and prices between
trades. The result of this research was the book
"Marxism as an economic science" (1979). A book
highly praised among Scandinavian social
scientists.
- From 1979 to
1983 OFK was engaged in the debates around the
consequences of automation-technology, and the
discussions of a possible, theoretically sound,
content of the concept of "alternative
technology". He had relations with the Danish
Trade Unions as a member of committees dealing
with the consequences of the new
computer-technology for blue-collar workers. He
collaborated with the Institute of Workers´
Control in Nottingham around the subject of
alternative technologies.
- During this
period OFK published a severe critique of the
Marxian concept of technology and of the idea of
an inherent liberating force within capitalist
technological development, the title of which
was "Technology and Control. The revolution of
technology, the technology of revolution"(1983).
He was intensively engaged in the public debate
about Information Technology. During this period
OFK worked as a teacher at the universities of
Roskilde and Copenhagen, in sociology, economics,
the philosophy of science and musical sociology.
He also worked as a professional violinist.
- From 1983-84
OFK was a research librarian within the fields
of mathematical and technological didactics at
the Pedagogical Library of Denmark. Here he
began to concentrate on the new technological
programme related to computer science:
Artificial Intelligence and its meta-programme,
Cognitive Science. From 1984 to 1986, where he
was a senior researcher, and from 1986, where he
was an associate professor in Systems Science,
at The Copenhagen Business School, he wrote what
was probably the first books in Danish on
Artificial Intelligence: "The Thoughts of the
Machine"(1985), "Expert Systems and Artificial
Intelligence"(1987), "Ethics, Planning and
Knowledge Based Systems"(1988), "Genuine
Intelligence. On the Programme of the
Mind"(1989), "The Body-Mind. Artificial
Intelligence. The Art of The Impossible"(1989)
and (together with the engineer Torben Tambo) "The
Clock of God. About the Great Science and its
Culmination within Artificial Intelligence,
Computers and Neural Networks".
- During these
years, 1984 to 1990, OFK was a member of The
Scandinavian Artificial Intelligence Society. He
published the subject article on "Cognitive
Science" in "The Encyclopaedia of Language and
Linguistics" on Pergamon Press (1993) and he
published great many articles on this subject
within scientific magazines. He also had a
long-lasting relation to The Danish
Technological University as a researcher and
teacher creating philosophical programmes for
engineers (1986-1997).
- During the
years 1988-1990 OFK collaborated with The
Technical University of Bratislava in developing
a natural language understanding program. He was
also engaged in testing AI-software.
- From 1986 to
1995 OFK was associate professor in The
Copenhagen Business School at the Institute of
Computer and Systems Science. He had an
intensive activity as a lecturer and consultant
on the cognitive aspects of Information
Technology (Man-machine-interface) and
Artificial Intelligence during these years.
- From 1995 OFK
has been working at the new Department of
Management, Politics and Philosophy at CBS where
he was granted the position as "docent" in 1996.
In 1999 OFK was appointed Research Professor at
Department of Management, Politics and
Philosophy, CBS, within the field of "The
Philosophy of Management".
- From 1990 OFK
devoted all his time to creating a new line
within phenomenological philosophy with its main
accent on the concepts of the "body-mind" and
the "event". In 1994 he became a Doctor of
Philosophy at the University of Aarhus with the
thesis "Event and Body-mind. A
phenomenological-hermeneutic Analysis".
- From 1994 OFK
has written the following books on Philosophy: "World,
Word and Thought. Philosophy of Language and
Phenomenology"(1994), "The Philosophy of
Selfcesseity"(1996), "The Seasons of Words.
Fragments of a Meticulous Philosophy"(Aphorisms,
1996), "On Significance. Tetragrammatonical
Reflections"(1998), and "Secunda Philosophia" in
1999.
- In 1997 OFK
featured in the first Danish television film
about living Danish philosophers. He was a
consultant to the Radio Programme on The History
of the European Philosophy (1994)(broadcasted
four times) and he travelled as a lecturer on
his philosophy all over the country during the
nineties. He also published a lot of articles
within the field of phenomenological and "post-post-modern
philosophy" in scientific magazines and more
public media.
- During this
period OFK was a member of the board of The
Society of Philosophy and Psychology (KUA), and
he represented CBS in the committee set up by
the minister do develop a new "philosophical
propaedeutics" to the higher education
institutions.
- After 1995 OFK
also began working with the topic of "Management
Philosophy". In 1998 he published the book "The
Philosophy of Management. A Radical Normative
Perspective", which was translated into Swedish
and in March 2000, in an enlarged edition
published in Engslish by Springer Verlag. One
might say, that it focuses on a transcendental
concept of ethics and on a shifting of emphasis
from rhetoric to a poetics of management. This
book has already been published in two editions.
It has aroused much interest in management
circles within public and private enterprise, in
the military, and in academic institutions, in
Denmark, Norway and Sweden, and has already let
to a lot of lectures to private and public
organisations and other types of contacts with
management - and to several curricular at
Business Schools.
- In March 2001
OFK published the book "Organisationsfilosofi.
En studie i liminalitet". "Philosophy of
Organizations. A Study in Liminality". This
tries to establish a philosophical basis of
organisational studies.
- In 2002 OFK
published the book “The Loyalty of Employees.”
- From 1995 to
1998 OFK was the leader and head of the planning
group of the new BA and MA study programme in
Philosophy and Economics at the Copenhagen
Business School.
- During this
period OFK were intensively engaged as a public
lecturer on the subject of phenomenological
philosophy. From 1998 OFK was a member of the
research programme "Conjuring up a Region", a
collaboration between Sweden and Denmark. Here
OFK was granted half a year of full research
time (first half of 1999) from The Danish
State's Council of Social Research. During this
period he visited ISTUD in Stresa, Italy.
- Since 1998 OFK
has had an extensive occupation as a public
lecturer about the normative aspects of
management versus leadership (approx. 30
lectures a year). He is a private consultant to
firms and to the state, regarding personal
politics, organisational change and managerial
issues.
- OFK is a member
of the editorial board of the new journal "Tamara.
Journal of Critical Post-modern Organization
Science", and a reviewer of several
international journals, and publishing companies,
among others "The Journal of Pragmatics", and
Blackwell.
- In 2003 OFK,
together with SAS Institute, created a think
tank with the goal to promote good leadership
within the area of public governance.
- In 2003 OFK
founded the Centre of Art & Leadership at the
CBS. The purpose of this centre is to create a
theoretically sound platform for comparing art
and leadership, and for transforming the
produced knowledge into practise. Especially the
phenomenon of a “normative creative” is
investigated.
Ole Fogh Kirkeby is professor within the field
of “Philosophy of Management”.
His main research interests are:
* Philosophy and Phenomenology
* Philosophy and Leadership
* Philosophy and Organisations
* Art and Leadership
Other areas would be philosophy of science,
philosophy of technology and economic philosophy
of science.
Opdateret d.
13. februar 2004 af
Rikke Ørtved |
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