Department of Philosophy
Recent Submissions
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Om G. A. Cohen om penger og frihet
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Er fattige mennesker i liberale kapitalistiske samfunn mindre frie enn rike mennesker? Ifølge mange, både på høyre- og på venstresiden av det politisk-filosofiske spekteret som forsvarer en negativ oppfatning av frihet, ... -
Configurational Causal Modeling and Logic Regression
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Configurational comparative methods (CCMs) and logic regression methods (LRMs) are two families of exploratory methods that employ very different techniques to analyze data generated by causal structures featuring conjunctural ... -
Confused Entailment
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Priest argued in his paper Fusion and Confusion (Priest, 2015a) for a new concept of logical consequence over the relevant logic B, one where premises my be “confused” together. This paper develops Priest’s idea. Whereas ... -
Politiske idéer og politisk praksis – belyst ved den tyske fascisme
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Metainferential Reasoning on Strong Kleene Models
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Barrio et al. (Journal of Philosophical Logic, 49(1), 93–120, 2020) and Pailos (Review of Symbolic Logic, 2020(2), 249–268, 2020) develop an approach to define various metainferential hierarchies on strong Kleene models ... -
Qualitative Comparative Analysis and robust sufficiency
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Some methodologists take the search target of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) to be causal INUS-conditions, others contend that QCA should instead be used to search for some form of sufficiency that is more substantive ... -
Optimizing Consistency and Coverage in Configurational Causal Modeling
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Consistency and coverage are two core parameters of model fit used by configurational comparative methods (CCMs) of causal inference. Among causal models that perform equally well in other respects (e.g., robustness or ... -
Ideologi, propaganda og massebevegelse. Fascismen som lærestykke
(Conference object, 1984) -
Adam Smith og myten om den usynlige hånd
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Adam Smith tillegges ofte en teori om en «usynlig hånd» som skal garantere at hvis alle aktører fremmer sin egennytte, vil man derigjennom også fremme fellesnytten. Ingen av de tre forekomstene av uttrykket «usynlig hånd» ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
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