Dr. Simon Jørgensen

Biography

Simon Laumann Jørgensen holds a Bachelor’s degree, a Master’s degree, and a PhD in Philosophy from Aarhus University, Denmark, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and Society at Aalborg University. He has a diverse academic background, including a year studying Comparative Literature at the University of Copenhagen and a year as an Erasmus student at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. His doctoral studies included a tenure as a Visiting Fellow under Professor Nancy Fraser at the New School for Social Research, and participation in courses taught by Professor Fred Neuhouser at Columbia University. He has also been a recipient of a three-month DAAD fellowship at Goethe University Frankfurt under the mentorship of Professor Axel Honneth. Jørgensen has over 20 years of experience in problem-oriented research in social philosophy and political theory, concentrating on themes such as recognition, democracy, and critical theory. He is the Principal Investigator for the project 'Borders of Democracy', which investigates the justifications and exclusions within democratic frameworks, and has received significant funding from the Independent Research Fund Denmark. Notably, he supervised MA William Sjöstedt’s dissertation on intergenerational democracy, which was defended in October 2023.

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