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Sannhet som kunst. Om Martin Heideggers og Theodor W. Adornos syn på "sannhet", om måten de relaterer sannheten til kunsten på, og om den rollen mennesket får i forhold til virkeligheten i denne prosessen
(Master thesis, 2010-05-20)I motsetning til en tradisjonell måte å oppfatte sannhet på som "riktighet" og korrespondanse, hvor mennesket står i sentrum og forvalter sannheten, beskriver både Heidegger og Adorno sannheten som noe "forståelsesoverskridende", ... -
Sartre og Solstad om rollespill og autentisitet
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2005)I denne artikkelen vil jeg vise på hvilke måter Dag Solstads tenkning er i slekt med eksistensialistiske måter å resonnere på, nærmere bestemt med Jean-Paul Sartres filosofi. Sartres filosofi er en understrøm i Solstads ... -
Scorekeeping
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)An influential suggestion from David Lewis is that we should think of assertions in terms of how they affect the conversational score. This note outlines a way to model conversational scores in such a way that two assertoric ... -
Searching for Deep Disagreement in Logic: The Case of Dialetheism
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)According to Fogelin’s account of deep disagreements, disputes caused by a clash in framework propositions are necessarily rationally irresolvable. Fogelin’s thesis is a claim about real-life, and not purely hypothetical, ... -
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 ... -
Sellars on Self-Knowledge
(Routledge Studies in American Philosophy, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2019)Wilfrid Sellars had an elaborate theory of self-knowledge about one’s own thoughts that anticipates some crucial claims and topics of current work on self-knowledge. In this contribution, I reconstruct Sellars’s theory of ... -
A Short Introduction to the Proceedings of the Conference “The Reason of Passions: Emotion and Rationality in the Landscape of (Contemporary) Politics”
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Should we care about the existence and well-being of future generations? An inquiry into the non-identity problem
(Master thesis, 2018-06-30)I vår tidsalder, har klimaendringer stått frem som et av de største utfordringene vi står ovenfor som en samlet menneskehet. Vi har allerede sett endringene i klimaet, og forskere anslår at de fremtidige effektene av ... -
Social Rights at Work
(Chapter, 2022)This chapter explores connections between social rights and labour rights within a human rights framework. Social human rights tend to be marginalized both in philosophical debates about human rights and in international ... -
Structural proof theory for first-order weak Kleene logics
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This paper presents a sound and complete five-sided sequent calculus for first-order weak Kleene valuations which permits not only elegant representations of four logics definable on first-order weak Kleene valuations, but ... -
“Students Can Write!”: How Can Students Explore and Improve their Writing by Using Different Academic Genres, Sources and Voices?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)One purpose of this article is to shed light upon the concept of voice in writing, related to genres and sources in humanities. Another purpose is to participate in the academic discussion on voice. We want to raise awareness ... -
Substitution in Relevant Logics
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This essay discusses rules and semantic clauses relating to Substitution—Leibniz’s law in the conjunctive-implicational form s = t ^ A(s) -> A(t)—as these are put forward in Priest’s books "In Contradiction" and "An ... -
Tenkningens livsvilkår - Problemets genese i møtet mellom liv og tenkning hos Gilles Deleuze
(Master thesis, 2011-02-01)Oppgaven undersøker betydningen av møtet med livet for tenkningens genese og muligheter hos Gilles Deleuze, hovedsakelig med utgangspunkt i Difference et Repetition oglesningene av Henri Bergson. -
Texts: A case study of joint action
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Our linguistic communication often takes the form of creating texts. In this paper, we propose that creating texts or ‘texting’ is a form of joint action. We examine the nature and evolution of this joint action. We argue ... -
Thomas Hobbes naturtilstand og internasjonale relasjoner: Tolkninger av konflikten i Ukraina
(Master thesis, 2017-12-04)Is the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes still relevant in the study of international relations, and, if so, why and how? While the classical, often labeled «realist» interpretation of Thomas Hobbes’ state of nature is a state ... -
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, ... -
Toleranse og anerkjenning, eller: Kva vil det seia å verdsetja mangfald?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)Even though “toleration” and “recognition” designate opposing attitudes (to tolerate something, implies a negative stance towards it, whereas recognition seems to imply a positive one), the concepts do not constitute ... -
Towards a neo-configurational theory of intrinsic motivation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This research seeks to improve our understanding of how intrinsic motivation is instantiated. Three motivation theories, flow theory, self-determination theory, and empowerment theory, have informed our understanding of ... -
Transcriptions, Texts and Interpretation
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Translation as critique of “cultural sameness”. Ricoeur, Luther and the practice of translation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)The article discusses translation as a critical approach to how we see culture. According to the anthropologist Marianne Gullestad culture is part of mechanism of exclusion when it is linked to identity or “sameness”. ...