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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(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-07)Building on the unpublished correspondence between Ludwig Wittgenstein's literary executors Rush Rhees, Elizabeth Anscombe and Georg Henrik von Wright, this paper sketches the historical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
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Equality of Opportunity and Inheritance Taxation
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2023)In this chapter, the relationship between inheritance and equality of opportunity is examined within the context of the increasing socioeconomic inequality in recent years. While equality of opportunity is often cited as ... -
Erobringen av massene. Ideologi, propaganda og offentlighet i den tyske fasciseringsprosess
(Arbejdspapirer fra NSU; 11, Journal article, 1982) -
"An erring conscience is an absurdity": The later Kant on certainty, moral judgment and the infallibility of conscience
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)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 ... -
Et bilde holdt oss fanget En revurdering av George Dickies institusjonelle kunstteori
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Et grønt demokratisk skifte? Borgerråd for klima og utlendingers rett til demokratisk deltakelse
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)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 ... -
The Ethics of scarce health resource allocation: Towards equity in the Uganda health care system
(Master thesis, 2011-05-13)The central ideas in this work are health as a moral entitlement and equity in health. It is a discourse on distributive justice in health and takes Uganda as a case study. It describes Uganda health system especially the ... -
Evaluating Boolean relationships in Configurational Comparative Methods
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Configurational Comparative Methods (CCMs) aim to learn causal structures from datasets by exploiting Boolean sufficiency and necessity relationships. One important challenge for these methods is that such Boolean relationships ... -
The exactness of communication
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)According to a widely held view, successful communication does not require the speaker and the hearer to grasp the same proposition. The purpose of this paper is to present and discuss an argument for the thesis that an ... -
Examen philosophicum fra allmenndannelse til ekspertdannelse
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Denne diskusjonen tar utgangspunkt i vårt arbeid i 2021 med å omorganisere examen philosophicum ved Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet ved Universitetet i Bergen. På bakgrunn av dette arbeidet, legger vi fram vår ... -
Examen philosophicums betydning som fellesskapsdannende grunnlag for dialog og refleksjon
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Examen philosophicum (ex.phil.) er noe det store flertallet av studenter i Norge må ta. Dette gir faget en særskilt mulighet til å virke fellesskapsdannende. Samtidig har det i de senere år vært en tendens til å utvikle ... -
Exploring the Metaphysics of Hegel's Racism: The Teleology of the ‘Concept’ and the Taxonomy of Races
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This article interprets Hegel's hierarchical theory of race as an application of his general views about the metaphysics of classification and explanation. We begin by offering a reconstruction of Hegel's hierarchical ... -
Expressing logical disagreement from within
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Against the backdrop of the frequent comparison of theories of truth in the literature on semantic paradoxes with regard to which inferences and metainferences are deemed valid, this paper develops a novel approach to ... -
Extrapolating from model organisms in pharmacology
(Chapter, 2020)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 ...