Gunnar Skirbekk

Skirbekk studied at the University of Oslo 1957–59, in Paris 1960–61, and in Tübingen 1961–62. He was later a research assistant for Herbert Marcuse and Avrum Stroll at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) 1966–67; dr.philos. at the University of Bergen in 1970; research at UCSD 1979–80, 1983, and 1991.

He became an assistant teacher at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bergen 1962. He was made associate professor in 1964, and then professor in the philosophy of the sciences and the humanities in 1979. He was made Professeur invité at the University of Nice in Spring 1997. In the Winter 2000–2001 he was Professor at the department of philosophy of Freie Universität Berlin. He was Advisory Professor at East China Normal University from 1998, and Fellow (Kurator) at the Hans Jonas Zentrum in Berlin from 1998. Founder of the Center for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (established 1987) at the University of Bergen, and director from 1987 to 1991, 1995–1997, and 2001–2003.

He received the Lauritz Meltzer Award for most outstanding research at the University of Bergen in the period 1990–1996.^{[2][circular reference]} The Tønnes Andenæs Award, together with Nils Gilje, for Filosofihistorie 1–2 (A History of Western Thought), in 1999. He is translated into more than 20 languages. In 2013 he received the Nynorsk User of the Year award.^{[3][citation needed]}

• Co-editor of Norsk filosofisk tidsskrift (Norwegian Philosophical Journal) 1979–1983
• Member of the editorial board of Praxis International 1980–1993, and of Social Science Studies 1988–1994
• Member of the Overseas Correspondence Board of Chinese Social Sciences Quarterly from 1994
• Member of the editorial board of Redescriptions, Yearbook of Political Thought and Conceptual History from 2004.
• Together with Jürgen Habermas, Hilary Putnam (died 2016) and Patrick Suppes (died 2014), member of the advisory board of Philosophical Analysis (Shanghai) from 2010.
• Member of the board of Nordic institute of philosophy from 1981 to 1998.
• Member of the board of the Norwegian Research Council (Norges almenvitenskapelige forskningsråd) 198–89.
• Member of the governmental Commission for the Freedom of Expression, 1996–1999.
• Norwegian coordinator of "Marco Polo" 1994–2005, a program of comparative studies of cultural modernization in Europe and East Asia, established in 1994, at the University of Bergen and East China Normal University in Shanghai.
• Member of the scientific committee of Noèsis from 2015.
• Member of the international editorial board of Danish Yearbook of Philosophy from 2019.