Browsing Department of Philosophy by Document Types "Journal article"
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Abort og fosterreduksjon: En etisk sammenligning
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)De siste årene har fosterreduksjon i økende grad vært gjenstand for debatt i Norge, og intensiteten nådde et foreløpig maksimum da Lovavdelingen leverte tolknings-uttalelsen § 2 - Tolkning av abortloven i 2016 som svar på ... -
Abortion and multifetal pregnancy reduction: An ethical comparison
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In recent years, multifetal pregnancy reduction (MFPR) has increasingly been a subject of debate in Norway. The intensity of this debate reached a tentative maximum when the Legislation Department delivered their interpretative ... -
The Absent ‘Thing’ and the Value of Distance – Social media through an Arendtian lens
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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» ... -
Affirmative citation bias in scientific myth debunking: A three-in-one case study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-09-09)Several uncorroborated, false, or misinterpreted conceptions have for years been widely distributed in academic publications, thus becoming scientific myths. How can such misconceptions persist and proliferate within the ... -
Against telic monism in logic
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Telic monism in logic is the thesis that there is one single philosophically primary goal to logic. A different way to put it is that there is only one canonical application to logic. This thesis is widely present—implicitly ... -
Anti-exceptionalism about logic as tradition rejection
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)While anti-exceptionalism about logic (AEL) is now a popular topic within the philosophy of logic, there’s still a lack of clarity over what the proposal amounts to. currently, it is most common to conceive of AEL as the ... -
The Appearance of Skepticism: Possibility, Conceivability and Infinite Ascent
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The paper articulates a novel strategy against external world skepticism. It shows that a modal assumption of the skeptical argument cannot be justified. -
Are ABM explanations in the social sciences inevitably individualist?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Agent-based models (ABMs) are increasingly important in social science research. They have two obvious apparent virtues: they can model complex macrosociological phenomena without strong assumptions about agents and without ... -
Are Ontologies Trees or Lattices?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Ontologies, it is sometimes said, take the form of a hierarchy or tree: each class is subdivided into distinct subclasses with no cross classifications. But if the purpose of an ontology is to make possible useful inferences ... -
Aristotle’s Take on Inadvertently Made Objects
(Journal article, 2021)The way metaphysicians conceive of inadvertently made objects has consequences for their understanding of the relation between intentions and kinds. Indeed, the very possibility of concrete material objects produced without ... -
Attitudes towards transfers of human tissue samples across borders: An international survey of researchers and policy makers in five countries
(Journal article, 2010-09-16)Background: Sharing of tissue samples for research and disease surveillance purposes has become increasingly important. While it is clear that this is an area of intense, international controversy, there is an absence 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. ... -
Bioethical Implications of Globalization: An International Consortium Project of the European Commission
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2006-01-24)The term “globalization” was popularized by Marshall McLuhan in War and Peace in the Global Village. In the book, McLuhan described how the global media shaped current events surrounding the Vietnam War [1] and also predicted ... -
Boolean Difference-Making: A Modern Regularity Theory of Causation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)A regularity theory of causation analyses type-level causation in terms of Boolean difference-making. The essential ingredient that helps this theoretical framework overcome the problems of Hume’s and Mill’s classical ... -
Boolean negation and non-conservativity I: Relevant modal logics
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Many relevant logics are conservatively extended by Boolean negation. Not all, however. This paper shows an acute form of non-conservativeness, namely that the Boolean-free fragment of the Boolean extension of a relevant ... -
Boolean negation and non-conservativity II: The variable-sharing property
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Many relevant logics are conservatively extended by Boolean negation. Not all, however. This paper shows an acute form of non-conservativeness, namely that the Boolean-free fragment of the Boolean extension of a relevant ... -
Boolean negation and non-conservativity III: the Ackermann constant
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)It is known that many relevant logics can be conservatively extended by the truth constant known as the Ackermann constant. It is also known that many relevant logics can be conservatively extended by Boolean negation. ... -
Brief Notes on Solidarity and Political Imagination
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A brief update on editions offered by the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen and licences for their use (as of June 2018)
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The paper presents the resources offered by the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen (WAB) on Wittgenstein Source. Moreover, it describes the conditions for their use. Finally, the paper also briefly introduces ...