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Limits to Levels in the Methodological Individualism-Holism Debate
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)It is currently common to conceive of the classic methodological individualism–holism debate in level terms. Accordingly, the dispute is taken to concern the proper level of explanations in the social sciences. In this ... -
Linguïculture: Thomas A. Sebeok as a revolutionary ethnographer
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Sebeok started his career as an ethnographer, focusing on the verbal art of anthropology to describe the cultures associated with then-called “primitive” languages. He followed Bloomfield’s linguistics to study Boas’ ... -
The Link between Subsistence and Human Rights
(Chapter, 2020)This chapter constitutes an exploration and evaluation of the so-called “linkage argument” in support of the inclusion of a right to subsistence among human rights. While it is uncontroversial that avoiding poverty is ... -
Logical contextualism
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This paper outlines a contextualist version of logical pluralism. One motivation for this idea comes from a desire to block a principal argument against pluralism called ‘the meaning-variance objection’. The paper also ... -
Logical Instrumentalism and Anti-exceptionalism about Logic
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This paper critically examines logical instrumentalism as it has been put forth recently in the anti-exceptionalism about logic debate. I will argue that if one wishes to uphold the claim that logic is significantly similar ... -
Logical Nihilism and the logic of 'prem'.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)As the final component of a chain of reasoning intended to take us all the way to logical nihilism, Russell (2018) presents the atomic sentence ‘prem’ which is supposed to be true when featuring as premise in an argument ... -
Logical Predictivism
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-08)Motivated by weaknesses with traditional accounts of logical epistemology, considerable attention has been paid recently to the view, known as anti-exceptionalism about logic (AEL), that the subject matter and epistemology ... -
Love Redirected: On Adam Smith's Love of Praiseworthiness
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)Why be moral? Why, in the language of Adam Smith, act on what you think is praiseworthy even when it does not get you praise from other people? Because, answers Smith, you love praiseworthiness. But what is this love of ... -
Ludwig Wittgenstein and Us 'Typical Western Scientists'
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2015)This piece continues my efforts to identify the link between the Philosophical Investigations’ (PI) criss-cross form and its conception of philosophy and philosophical methods. In my ‘The Philosophical Investigations and ... -
Makt, frihet og subjektivitet hos Michel Foucault
(Master thesis, 2010-05-20)Makt, frihet og subjektivitet forstås ofte som gjensidig avgrensende størrelser. Makt forstås som grensedragning for subjektets frihet. I denne oppgaven problematiserer jeg denne forestillingen med utgangspunkt i Michel ... -
Mandatory childhood vaccination: Should Norway follow?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Systematic public vaccination constitutes a tremendous health success, perhaps the greatest achievement of biomedicine so far. There is, however, room for improvement. Each year, 1.5 million deaths could be avoided with ... -
Marx' arbeidsverditeori. En kritikk av Hans Skjervheims elementære logiske analyse
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Meining og livsverd: Meaning and life-world
(Master thesis, 2012-05-15)Fenomenologi og strukturalisme er to innflytelsesrike intellektuelle tradisjonar, som oppstod og vart utvikla i løpet av det forrige århundret. Dei vart «grunnlagde» av Edmund Husserl og Ferdinand de Saussure respektivt, ... -
Meningens Fenomenologi og Fenomenologiens Mening - et studie av Edmund Husserls fenomenologi
(Master thesis, 2008-11-14)From a phenomenological point of view, 'meaning' is on the one hand something objective, irreal or ideal. On the other, meaning is something which is manifest in human action and expression. On a linguistic level, Husserl ... -
Metainferential Reasoning on Strong Kleene Models
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Barrio et al. (Journal of Philosophical Logic, 49(1), 93–120, 2020) and Pailos (Review of Symbolic Logic, 2020(2), 249–268, 2020) develop an approach to define various metainferential hierarchies on strong Kleene models ... -
”Mit sprog er en hybrid: norske ord og sætninger i en halvdansk indpakning” - sproglig tilpasning til norsk blandt danskere i Norge som sociolingvistisk eksempel på brug af korrespondanceanalyse
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2012)In my presentation of my study of the linguistic accommodation to Norwegian among Danes in Norway I have shown a sociolinguistic example of the use of multible correspondence analysis. This geometric method is very suitable ... -
Modalitet de re og identitet på tvers av verdener – en komparativ analyse av David Lewis’ og Saul Kripkes filosofi om modalitet
(Master thesis, 2008-11-19)This paper is concerned with modality de re, and how possible worlds best represents this kind of modality. There are mainly two different ways for possible worlds to represent modality de re; either we have trans world ... -
Money talks - også i norsk politikk
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)I debatten om økonomisk ulikhet fremheves det ofte at ulikhet er et problem fordi de som er rike kan oppnå mer makt og innflytelse som resultat av sine økonomiske ressurser. Det er imidlertid ofte uklart hvordan denne ...