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 ...

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 ...

This article explores Kant’s view, found in several passages in his late writings on moral philosophy, that the verdicts of conscience are infallible. We argue that Kant’s infallibility claim must be seen in the context ...

I omfattende og kontroversielle globale politiske spørsmål som klimasaken, synes bruken av borgerrådet å være et lovende tiltak i et grønt demokratisk skifte. Et borgerråd for klima er i det minste et av kravene klimaaktivistene ...

In this chapter we explore the process of extrapolating causal claims from model organisms to humans in pharmacology. We describe and compare four strategies of extrapolation: enumerative induction, comparative process ...

This paper outlines a bicontextual account of fictional reports. A fictional report is a report on something that happens in a fiction, and a bicontextual account is an account that relativizes truth to two contexts. The ...

Philosophical skepticism is a topic that permeates Stanley Cavell’s thinking. The aim of this article is to clarify some strands in Cavell’s conception of philosophical skepticism, and to show the role appeals to what ...

Background: China has become a global player in the field of biosamples research and analysis of genetic data. The Beijing Genomics Institute is a genetics factory where enormous amounts of biosamples/data from all over ...