Department of Philosophy
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Non-Boolean classical relevant logics II: Classicality through truth-constants
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This paper gives an account of Anderson and Belnap's selection criteria for an adequate theory of entailment. The criteria are grouped into three categories: criteria pertaining to modality, those pertaining to relevance, ... -
Robustness and Model Selection in Configurational Causal Modeling
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In recent years, proponents of configurational comparative methods (CCMs) have advanced various dimensions of robustness as instrumental to model selection. But these robustness considerations have not led to computable ... -
Postintensjonal moralsk vilkårlighet
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Jeg har kalt artikkelen «Postintensjonal moralsk vilkårlighet». Tematikken står sentralt i en rekke filosofiske artikler på engelsk, sentrert omkring begrepet «moral luck». Jeg legger vekt på å skille mellom to underklasser ... -
Self-Location in Interactive Fiction
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The aim of this paper is to make sense of a characteristic feature of interactive fictions, such as video game fictions, adventure books and role playing games. In particular, I describe one important way consumers of ... -
Bevissthet
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Denne artikkelen tar for seg noen av de viktigste problemstillingene som har vært debattert innen bevissthetsfilosofien de siste 25 årene. I første del omtales ulike former for bevissthet, og ulike måter å definere bevissthet. ... -
A Typology of the Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Writing of Text Alternatives
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The paper describes the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s writing of text alternatives as it manifests itself in his manuscripts. Decided, undecided and cancelled alternatives are distinguished. Moreover, Wittgensteinian ... -
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 ... -
Extrapolating from model organisms in pharmacology
(Chapter, 2020)In this chapter we explore the process of extrapolating causal claims from model organisms to humans in pharmacology. We describe and compare four strategies of extrapolation: enumerative induction, comparative process ... -
To kalon and the experience of art
(Chapter, 2020)In the Republic, Plato seems to advocate the banning of most extant poetry, because of its corrupting effect on the soul. A central claim in the next section will be that thumos as a specific module or capacity of the soul, ... -
Brandom on Postmodern Ethical Life: Moral and Political Problems
(Chapter, 2020)On Robert Brandom’s reading, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel holds that the conceptual content of language, thought, and action is constituted by normative attitudes, through which participants of a discursive practice assign ... -
Wittgenstein on 'Imaginability' as a Criterion for Logical Possiblity in 'The Big Typescript'
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Throughout his whole work, Wittgenstein seizes on a distinction between logical and physical possibility, and impossibility. Despite this continuity and although, Wittgenstein brings in this distinction in various contexts ... -
Kant og stemmeretten
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Denne artikkelen er et bidrag til debatten om velgeres moralske ansvar. Kristian Skagen Ekeli har i to artikler argumentert for at uvitende borgere har en plikt til ikke å stemme, noe han begrunner ut fra en kantiansk ... -
Coincidence analysis: a new method for causal inference in implementation science
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Background Implementation of multifaceted interventions typically involves many diverse elements working together in interrelated ways, including intervention components, implementation strategies, and features of local ... -
The Movement of Thought : Wittgenstein on Time, Change and History
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-06-25)The Austrio-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein is famous among the public (philosophical and non-philosophical alike) for having written not only one, but two magnum opera―the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921) and ... -
Paraphrase or parasite? The Semiotic Stories of Translation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Translation, for Saussure, assumed the codified rule of language respecting the difference between synchronic and diachronic linguistics. Translation may be regarded as a theoretical possibility, though impossible for the ... -
“Polite Conversation is now Undesirable”: Peace and Agonism in Georg Johannesen’s Rhetoric
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Sometimes, the voice for peace is aggressive, oppositional and agonistic to the point of violence. The Norwegian rhetorician, author and public intellectual Georg Johannesen (1931-2005) was no stranger to forceful rhetoric. ... -
Populism as an Essentially Contested Concept or: On the Dangers of Centrism
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Objective Data Sets in Qualitative Research
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Qualitative researchers sometimes talk about objectivity in relation to qualitative data sets. In this paper, I defend a reconstructed notion of objective qualitative data sets that may serve as a useful and reachable ... -
Issues and challenges associated with data-sharing in LMICs: perspectives of researchers in Thailand
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Data-sharing helps advance scientific research and assures the benefits of research data are maximized. Previous work has highlighted ethical challenges, especially in low- and middle-income countrie (LMIC) countries. This ... -
Reform av formuesskatten
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)I denne artikkelen forsøker vi å vise hva politisk filosofi kan bidra med i diskusjonen om formuesskatt. Først gir vi et prinsipielt forsvar for formuesskatten. Her kombinerer vi innsikter fra John Rawls og Thomas Piketty. ...
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