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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Data Imbalances in Coincidence Analysis: A Simulation Study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)In this paper, we investigate the conditions under which data imbalances, a common data characteristic that occurs when factor values are unevenly distributed, are problematic for the performance of Coincidence Analysis ... -
Simplified Semantics for Further Relevant Logics II: Propositional Constants
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)It is shown how to model propositional constants within the simplified Routley-Meyer semantics. Various axioms and rules allowing the definition of modal operators, implicative negations, enthymematical conditionals, and ... -
Evaluating Boolean relationships in Configurational Comparative Methods
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Configurational Comparative Methods (CCMs) aim to learn causal structures from datasets by exploiting Boolean sufficiency and necessity relationships. One important challenge for these methods is that such Boolean relationships ... -
Looking and Making Visible
(Chapter, 2023)Drawing has been seen as the most intellectual in character among the forms of art, and croquis drawing has been taught within an academic and scientific framework, as theoretical knowledge about the human body was considered ...
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