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Constructing motherhood: Russian women bringing up children in Bergen, Norway
(Master thesis, 2015-06-02)The main objective of this study was to explore how Russian women have constructed motherhood within the Norwegian context. The empirical material came from qualitative, loosely structured interviews with nine middle-class, ... -
Control and Practical Moral Responsibility - A hard incompatibilist solution to the free will problem that doesn`t require a revolution of our reactive attitudes
(Master thesis, 2013-09-03)This thesis is an investigation into the free will debate and the problem of free will. Is free will and moral responsibility possible in a determinate universe? As old as this problem is, philosophers are still grappling ... -
The Cosmopolitan Rights of Foreigners. A Phenomenological Defense of Cosmopolitan Law
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-06-18)This thesis argues that states have cosmopolitan obligations of a moral-legal character. These obligations are articulated as “cosmopolitan law”, which is a Kantian term referring to the morallegal norms that ... -
Crime, Punishment, and Understanding Justice through Injustice
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-08-24)The thesis discusses the justice of state punishment in response to criminal wrongs. The introductory chapter explores the logic of the concept of justice itself, proposing that we understand justice as the function of ... -
Dannelse i kontekst? ELE-tradisjonen i endring
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Den vitenskapelige realisme og anti-realismen: en remis?
(Master thesis, 2017-06-22)Debatten mellom vitenskapelig realisme og anti-realismen har i den siste tiden ikke vist noen tegn til å bevege seg fremover. Hos realistene ser vi at det fremdeles refereres tilbake til Grover Maxwell og Karl Popper når ... -
Desiring the good: motivational development in Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics
(Master thesis, 2011-02-01)According to Aristotle in his Nicomachean Ethics, character-development is closely connected to perception and our emotional pull towards objects of desire. The problem is, though The Ethics is brimming with a variety of ... -
Det ondes problem - Kroppsforming, fascisme, etikk
(Master thesis, 2010-05-19)Oppgaven tar for seg spørsmålet om ondskap ut fra en distinksjon mellom det aktive og det reaktive. Denne distinksjonen antyder at hat og destruktivitet kan forstås som uttrykk for en reaktiv tilstand ved kroppen, produsert ... -
Different algorithms, different models
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This study assesses the extent to which the two main Configurational Comparative Methods (CCMs), i.e. Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Coincidence Analysis (CNA), produce different models. It further explains how ... -
The “Diktat für Schlick”: Authorship Research and Computational Stylometry Revisited
(Chapter, 2022)Both the authorship and the dating of the so-called “Diktat für Schlick” (DFS), once attributed to Ludwig Wittgenstein and assigned by Georg Henrik von Wright to the Wittgenstein Nachlass as item 302, are debated topics ... -
Disagreement about logic
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)What do we disagree about when we disagree about logic? On the face of it, classical and nonclassical logicians disagree about the laws of logic and the nature of logical properties. Yet, sometimes the parties are accused ... -
Discontinuities and singularities, data and phenomena: for Referentialism
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The paper rebuts a currently popular criticism against a certain take on the referential role of discontinuities and singularities in the physics of first-order phase transitions. It also elaborates on a proposal I made ... -
Document similarity
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)In recent years, development of tools and methods for measuring document similarity has become a thriving field in informatics, computer science, and digital humanities. Historically, questions of document similarity have ... -
Don’t Join the Joyride:Individual Responsibility for Large Scale Problems
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The paper argues that, counter to Walter Sinnott-Armostrong and Ewen Kingston’s view, we are morally required to refrain from joyguzzling, i.e., driving a fuel-inefficient car for no other purpose than having a good time. ... -
Editorial Approaches to Wittgenstein’s Nachlass: Towards a Historical Appreciation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-07)Building on the unpublished correspondence between Ludwig Wittgenstein's literary executors Rush Rhees, Elizabeth Anscombe and Georg Henrik von Wright, this paper sketches the historical development of different editorial ... -
Eleaticism and Socratic Dialectic: On Ontology, Philosophical Inquiry, and Estimations of Worth in Plato’s Parmenides, Sophist and Statesman.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-05-01)The Parmenides poses the question for what entities there are Forms, and the criticism of Forms it contains is commonly supposed to document an ontological reorientation in Plato. According to this reading, Forms no longer ... -
Emotional Politics – Some notes on anger, resentment and compassion
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The recent upsurge in interest in the role of emotions in politics is not a coincidence, but linked to our current political situation: We have extreme nationalism in India, authoritarians like Erdoğan and Orbán, as well ... -
En Grense for Verden. Analyse av Wittgensteins subjektfilosofiske bemerkninger i Tractatus Logico-philosophicus
(Master thesis, 2014-05-15)Denne avhandlingen ønsker å belyse en obskur og dermed oversett del av Tractatus, delene som omhandler subjektet. Mange spørsmål melder seg i forhold til dette subjektet, som hvordan er disse knyttet til den språkfilosofiske ... -
En tilnærming til forholdet mellom subjektivitet og intersubjektivitet i Søren Kierkegaard sin filosofi via Knud Ejler Løgstrup sin kritikk av Kierkegaard
(Master thesis, 2010-05-20)The area of my inquiry has been the philosophy of the danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), more specifically I have been working with problems related to the concepts of subjevtivity and intersubjectivity, the ... -
Episk krig: Litt om linjen Homer, Herodot, Thukydid
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)