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Det ondes problem - Kroppsforming, fascisme, etikk
(Master thesis, 2010-05-19)Oppgaven tar for seg spørsmålet om ondskap ut fra en distinksjon mellom det aktive og det reaktive. Denne distinksjonen antyder at hat og destruktivitet kan forstås som uttrykk for en reaktiv tilstand ved kroppen, produsert ... -
Different algorithms, different models
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This study assesses the extent to which the two main Configurational Comparative Methods (CCMs), i.e. Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Coincidence Analysis (CNA), produce different models. It further explains how ... -
The “Diktat für Schlick”: Authorship Research and Computational Stylometry Revisited
(Chapter, 2022)Both the authorship and the dating of the so-called “Diktat für Schlick” (DFS), once attributed to Ludwig Wittgenstein and assigned by Georg Henrik von Wright to the Wittgenstein Nachlass as item 302, are debated topics ... -
Disagreement about logic
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)What do we disagree about when we disagree about logic? On the face of it, classical and nonclassical logicians disagree about the laws of logic and the nature of logical properties. Yet, sometimes the parties are accused ... -
Discontinuities and singularities, data and phenomena: for Referentialism
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The paper rebuts a currently popular criticism against a certain take on the referential role of discontinuities and singularities in the physics of first-order phase transitions. It also elaborates on a proposal I made ... -
Document similarity
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)In recent years, development of tools and methods for measuring document similarity has become a thriving field in informatics, computer science, and digital humanities. Historically, questions of document similarity have ... -
Don’t Join the Joyride:Individual Responsibility for Large Scale Problems
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The paper argues that, counter to Walter Sinnott-Armostrong and Ewen Kingston’s view, we are morally required to refrain from joyguzzling, i.e., driving a fuel-inefficient car for no other purpose than having a good time. ... -
Editorial Approaches to Wittgenstein’s Nachlass: Towards a Historical Appreciation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-07)Building on the unpublished correspondence between Ludwig Wittgenstein's literary executors Rush Rhees, Elizabeth Anscombe and Georg Henrik von Wright, this paper sketches the historical development of different editorial ... -
Eleaticism and Socratic Dialectic: On Ontology, Philosophical Inquiry, and Estimations of Worth in Plato’s Parmenides, Sophist and Statesman.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-05-01)The Parmenides poses the question for what entities there are Forms, and the criticism of Forms it contains is commonly supposed to document an ontological reorientation in Plato. According to this reading, Forms no longer ... -
Emotional Politics – Some notes on anger, resentment and compassion
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The recent upsurge in interest in the role of emotions in politics is not a coincidence, but linked to our current political situation: We have extreme nationalism in India, authoritarians like Erdoğan and Orbán, as well ... -
En Grense for Verden. Analyse av Wittgensteins subjektfilosofiske bemerkninger i Tractatus Logico-philosophicus
(Master thesis, 2014-05-15)Denne avhandlingen ønsker å belyse en obskur og dermed oversett del av Tractatus, delene som omhandler subjektet. Mange spørsmål melder seg i forhold til dette subjektet, som hvordan er disse knyttet til den språkfilosofiske ... -
En sjanse til en åpen fremtid: Foreldres forpliktelser overfor mulige barn
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En tilnærming til forholdet mellom subjektivitet og intersubjektivitet i Søren Kierkegaard sin filosofi via Knud Ejler Løgstrup sin kritikk av Kierkegaard
(Master thesis, 2010-05-20)The area of my inquiry has been the philosophy of the danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), more specifically I have been working with problems related to the concepts of subjevtivity and intersubjectivity, the ... -
Episk krig: Litt om linjen Homer, Herodot, Thukydid
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Epistemisk nytte og permissivisme; gode og dårlige nyheter
(Master thesis, 2022-05-20)En nylig debatt i epistemologi har tatt for seg spørsmålet om hvor tolerant (eng.: permissive) rasjonalitet er: hvorvidt rasjonelle agenter med samme bevis om en påstands sannhet kan komme til forskjellige konklusjoner når ... -
Equality of Opportunity and Inheritance Taxation
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2023)In this chapter, the relationship between inheritance and equality of opportunity is examined within the context of the increasing socioeconomic inequality in recent years. While equality of opportunity is often cited as ... -
Erobringen av massene. Ideologi, propaganda og offentlighet i den tyske fasciseringsprosess
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"An erring conscience is an absurdity": The later Kant on certainty, moral judgment and the infallibility of conscience
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This article explores Kant’s view, found in several passages in his late writings on moral philosophy, that the verdicts of conscience are infallible. We argue that Kant’s infallibility claim must be seen in the context ... -
Et bilde holdt oss fanget En revurdering av George Dickies institusjonelle kunstteori
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Et filosofisk forsvar for kategoriteori som grunnlag for matematikk
(Master thesis, 2022-05-20)Det finnes ikke noe overnaturlig, verden forstås gjennom vitenskap og matematikk som gir innsikt i hvordan naturen fungerer. Matematikk er heller ikke overnaturlig. Det er utgangspunktet for denne oppgaven. Første del av ...