David Favrholdt

David Favrholdt was Niels Bohr’s primary philosophical exponent from the 1970s until his death in 2012. We have learned a lot from Favrholdt, but we nonetheless take some exception to his historiography — which focuses on establishing Bohr’s originality, and hence discontinuity between Bohr and all philosophers before him. To Favrholdt’s credit, he was convinced that Bohr had some important new ideas. We don’t disagree with that; we just think that “new” does preclude “connected to, or motivated by, something already existing”.

Primary Sources

• Favrholdt, David. Filosofisk Codex. Om begrundelsen af den menneskelige erkendelse. Lindhardt og Ringhof, 2020.
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• Favrholdt, David. Erkendelse: Grundlag og gyldighed. Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 2008.
• Favrholdt, David. Bevidsthedsproblemet i Harald Høffdings filosofi. Lindhardt og Ringhof, 2022.
• Favrholdt, David. “Om begrundelsen af den menneskelige erkendelse.” Filosofiske Studier (2001)
• Favrholdt, David. “Niels Bohr and realism.” In Niels Bohr and contemporary philosophy, pp. 77-96. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands,
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