Department of Philosophy
Recent Submissions
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What Is a Work by Wittgenstein
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The paper deals with the question “What is a work by Wittgenstein?” and suggests a number of indicators that are intended as complementary to Joachim Schulte’s three criteria for answering the question. The paper holds ... -
Bias and Debiasing Strategies in Qualitative Data Collection
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)A widespread view has it that qualitative research in the social sciences is of poor quality because it lacks effective debiasing methods. In this paper, I zoom in on researcher bias in qualitative data collection. First, ... -
Models and monism
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)In this paper, I critically examine the monist interpretation of the logic-as-model view that Erik Stei puts forth in Logical Pluralism and Logical Consequence. I will argue that, in addition to the three dimensions presented ... -
Cognitivism about religious belief in later Wittgenstein
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion has traditionally been grounded in non-cognitivism about religious belief. This paper shows that the Wittgensteinian tradition has wrongly neglected a significant movement towards ... -
The other of the other in Luce Irigaray’s reinterpretation of Plato’s myth of the cave
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Immanuel Kant. En innføring i hans teoretiske filosofi
(Working paper, 1966)Hensikten med dette arbeid består i å formidle forståelse for Kants filosofi - særlig da for dens teoretiske del. Utgangspunktet ligger i "Kritik der reinen Vernunft", og det blir forsøkt å fremstille de vesentligste tanker ... -
Kampen om arbeidsplassene. En rapport fra BMV Laksevåg AS
(Report, 1992-06-09)Bemanningsreduksjoner, oppsigelser og nedleggelse står på dagsordenen i en rekke norske bedrifter. Arbeidsplasser forsvinner i en situasjon, hvor arbeidsløsheten herjer og hvor det samtidig satses sterkt på etablering av ... -
Hvorfor lese Platon i dag?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Denne artikkelen tar for seg spørsmålet om hvorfor vi skal lese Platon i dag. Skal vi i det hele tatt lese Platon i dag? Og i så fall, hvorfor? Eller hvorfor ikke? Noe av bakgrunnen for spørsmålsstillingen er en konflikt ... -
The good life as the life in touch with the good
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)What makes your life go well for you? In this paper, we give an account of welfare. Our core idea is simple. There are impersonally good and bad things out there: things that are good or bad period, not (or not only) good ... -
Choosing to help others at a cost to oneself elevates preschoolers' body posture
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Young children sometimes help others at a cost to themselves, but little is known about the emotional mechanisms underlying this behaviour. Here, 5-year-old children (n = 96, 45 girls, mean age = 5.57 years, SD = 1.79 ... -
Review Mechanisms for Advanced Medical Therapies in Japan and Thailand: A Proposal for the Use of Expert Clinical Benefit Assessments at Designated Institutions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Advanced new therapies, such as stem cell and gene therapies and xenotransplantation, represent challenges for regulatory and ethical review. Major drug agencies, such as in the U.S., India, and Europe, have asserted ... -
Anti-Exceptionalism about Logic (Part I): From Naturalism to Anti-Exceptionalism
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)According to anti-exceptionalism about logic (AEL), logic is not as exceptional in terms of its epistemology and subject matter as has been conventionally thought. Whereas logic's epistemology has often been considered ... -
The exactness of communication
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)According to a widely held view, successful communication does not require the speaker and the hearer to grasp the same proposition. The purpose of this paper is to present and discuss an argument for the thesis that an ... -
Perceiving affordances and the problem of visually indiscernible kinds
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)In this study, I defend the claim that we can perceptually experience what objects afford when we engage with objects belonging to natural or artificial categorical high-level kinds. Experiencing affordances perceptually ... -
Higher-order being and time
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Higher-order metaphysicians take facts to be higher-order beings, i.e., entities in the range of irreducibly higher-order quantifiers. In this paper, I investigate the impact of this conception of facts on the debate about ... -
Three paths to the summit: understanding mountaineering through game-playing, deep ecology and art
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The climb of Gasherbrum IV’s (7,925 m) ‘Shining Wall’ in 1985 by Voytek Kurtyka and Robert Schauer is considered one of the greatest mountaineering achievements in the twentieth century, even though the two climbers did ... -
Inquiry, reasoning and the normativity of logic
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)According to the traditional view in the philosophy of logic facts of logic bear normative authority regarding how one ought to reason. Usually this is to mean that the relation of logical consequence between statements ... -
Mind the gap: noncausal explanations of dual properties
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)I identify and characterize a type of noncausal explanation in physics. I first introduce a distinction, between the physical properties of a system, and the representational properties of the mathematical expressions of ... -
Commonsense morality and contact with value
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)There seem to be many kinds of moral duties. We should keep our promises; we should pay our debts of gratitude; we should compensate those we've wronged; we should avoid doing or intending harm; we should help those in ... -
Simplified semantics for further relevant logics I: unreduced semantics for E and Π′
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This paper shows that the relevant logics E and Π′ are strongly sound and complete with regards to a version of the “simplified” Routley-Meyer semantics. Such a semantics for E has been thought impossible. Although it is ...
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