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Non-Boolean classical relevant logics I
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Relevant logics have traditionally been viewed as paraconsistent. This paper shows that this view of relevant logics is wrong. It does so by showing forth a logic which extends classical logic, yet satisfies the Entailment ... -
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, ... -
Nonindexical contextualism. Ikke-indeksikalsk kontekstualisme
(Master thesis, 2017-12-20) -
The Normative force of logic. Logikkens normative kraft
(Master thesis, 2016-11-21)Logic and reasoning appear to be closely connected. What the exact relationship is might be contentious, but that such a relationship exists seems uncontroversial. Gilbert Harman, however, has argued in a number of texts ... -
A note on the cut-elimination proof in "truth without contra(di)ction"
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This note shows that the permutation instructions presented by Zardini in "Truth without contra(di)ction" (RSL, 2011) for eliminating cuts on universally quantified formulas in the sequent calculus for the non-contractive ... -
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 ... -
Obligations of low income countries in ensuring equity in global health financing
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-09-08)Background. Despite common recognition of joint responsibility for global health by all countries particularly to ensure justice in global health, current discussions of countries’ obligations for global health largely ... -
Obligations of poor countries in ensuring global justice: The case of Uganda
(Journal article, 2014)Obligations of global justice rest mainly on the global rich but also to a lesser extent on the global poor. The governments of poor countries are obliged to fulfill requirements of non-aggression, good governance and ... -
Occupying a Square? : A Recognition Theory of Social Movements in the Age of Wealth-Induced Political Inequality
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-01-20)Vår tid er preget av sosiale konflikter. Fra og med Den arabiske våren og de spanske Indignados i 2011 har vi sett et tilbakevendende globalt konfliktfenomen i form av alt fra Occupy Wall Street og den israelske sosiale ... -
Om angst og kreativitet med henblikk på forholdet mellom eksistensiell og patologisk angst
(Master thesis, 2012-02-01)Kierkegaard was the first to dedicate a book to the philosophical study of anxiety. The Danish thinker showed that mans anxiety is inseparable from his specifically human relation to himself and his world. Man exists; he ... -
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, ... -
Om metaforens virkning. Et kantiansk bidrag
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2004)Den første delen av denne artikkelen presenterer et av de mest sentrale temaene innenfor filosofiens behandling av metaforen i nyere tid, nemlig spørsmålet om hvorvidt metaforen er et semantisk eller pragmatisk fenomen. I ... -
On Continuity: Rush Rhees on Outer and InnerSurfaces of Bodies
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)This article presents an edited excerpt from a hitherto unknown fragmentary treatise by Rush Rhees. In the treatise, Rhees gives his account of the problem of continuity that he had started elaborating before he became ... -
On the possibility of Resolute Transcendentalism in the Later Wittgenstein
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-06-03) -
On the Practical Impossibility of Being Both Well-Informed and Impartial
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Adam Smith argued that the ideal moral judge is both well-informedand impartial. As non-ideal moral agents, we tend only to be truly well-informed about those with whom we frequently interact. These are also those with ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Partially Impartial Spectator
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)According to Adam Smith, we appeal to the imagined reactions of an ‘impartial spectator’ when justifying moral judgements of others and aspire to be impartial spectators when making judgements of ourselves. However, ... -
The PC Algorithm and the Inference to Constitution
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Gebharter has proposed using one of the best known Bayesian network causal discovery algorithms, PC, to identify the constitutive dependencies underwriting mechanistic explanations. His proposal assumes that mechanistic ... -
Personargumenter mot stortingspolitikere
(Master thesis, 2024-02-01)Sammendrag Denne oppgaven handler om bruk av personargumenter mot stortingspolitikere. Argumentasjonsteoretisk regnes personargumenter vanligvis som feilslutninger, fordi de forkaster en uttalelse på grunn av den som ...