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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Peter Wessel Zapffes evolusjonære eksistensialisme
(Master thesis, 2017-06-22)Målet med denne avhandlingen er å begrunne påstanden om at Peter Wessel Zapffes filosofi markerer en original og distinkt retning innen den pessimistiske tradisjonen. En retning jeg vil kalle for evolusjonær eksistensialisme. ... -
The Phenomenology of Intuition
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-01)When a person has an intuition, it seems to her that things are certain ways; to many it seems that torturing the innocent for fun is wrong, for example. When a person has an intuition, there is also something particular ... -
The Philosophical Investigations and Syncretistic Writing
(Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2013) -
Philosophy and the ethical transcendence of language: A dialogue between Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida
(Master thesis, 2017-06-22)I dette verket diskuterer jeg transcendencs, språk og filosofi. Jeg orienterer diskusjonen rundt dialogen mellom Emmanuel Levinas og Jacques Derrida og måten denne dialogen utviklet seg på. Jeg viser først hvordan Levinas ... -
The philosophy of logical practice
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)While we now have an increasingly detailed understanding of the varied goals and methods that constitute the sciences and mathematics, our understanding of logic as a research area lags behind. A significant reason for ... -
Plato - A Voice for Peace. Political Accountability and Dramatic Staging
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-12-07)With this dissertation I intend to give a contribution to the field peace and peacethematic. The hypothesis of the dissertation is that it is possible to read the Platonic corpus as a body of critique where Plato in the ... -
Platon og poesien
(Master thesis, 2012-05-15)Formålet med denne opgave er at undersøge uoverènstemmelser i Platons syn på poesien. -
“Polite Conversation is now Undesirable”: Peace and Agonism in Georg Johannesen’s Rhetoric
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Sometimes, the voice for peace is aggressive, oppositional and agonistic to the point of violence. The Norwegian rhetorician, author and public intellectual Georg Johannesen (1931-2005) was no stranger to forceful rhetoric. ... -
“Political cohesion, friendship and hostility”
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019) -
Politiske idéer og politisk praksis – belyst ved den tyske fascisme
(Journal article, 1979) -
Populism as an Essentially Contested Concept or: On the Dangers of Centrism
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020) -
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 ... -
The Power of Powers: Dispositions, Essences, and Laws of Nature
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-04-24)This thesis aims to articulate a dispositionalist theory of possibility. The standard way of explaining possibility, and modality in general, is by reference to possible worlds. At the same time, discontentment with possible ...