Blar i Department of Philosophy på utgivelsesdato
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Obligations of poor countries in ensuring global justice: The case of Uganda
(Journal article, 2014)Obligations of global justice rest mainly on the global rich but also to a lesser extent on the global poor. The governments of poor countries are obliged to fulfill requirements of non-aggression, good governance and ... -
Human Rights and the Broken World
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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”. ... -
«Branchements» and «translation» as approaches to culture. An epistemological reflection on some aspects in the thinking of Jean-Loup Amselle and Paul Ricoeur
(Doctoral thesis, 2014-01-17)In this dissertation I reflect on the concept of culture from a political, philosophical and anthropological angle. The perspective from where I attempt to analyze them all together is epistemological. This means two things: ... -
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 ... -
Following the giant's paces-governance issues and bioethical reflections in China
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-10-31)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 ... -
No need for infinite iteration. A Critique of the Collectivist Copernican Revolution in Social Ontology
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)As part of his argument for a “Copernican revolution” in social ontology, Hans Bernhard Schmid (2005) argues that the individualistic approach to social ontology is critically flawed. This article rebuts his claim that the ... -
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 ... -
Climate change denial, freedom of speech and global justice
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)In this paper I claim that there are moral reasons for making climate denialism illegal . First I define climate denialism, and then I discuss its impact on society and its reception in the media. I build my philosophical ... -
Jakten på et fagfelt: den skandinaviske kvinne- og kjønnshistoriens fremvekst i skjæringsfeltet mellom historieforskning og kvinne- og kjønnsforskning
(Doctoral thesis, 2015-03-20)The roots of women’s and gender history have been places within social history, interdisciplinary women’s and gender research, and within 1970s and 1980s new women’s movement. Which of these roots gets emphasised and why, ... -
Fødselens Ontologi: Kjønnsforskjellen i Platons og Batailles tenkning om det erotiske begjær
(Master thesis, 2015-05-15)This thesis will examine the ontology of birth in the thoughts of Bataille and Plato. By making birth, pregnancy and the female body the prism through which the connection between death, sexuality and transgression is ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
Obligations of low income countries in ensuring equity in global health financing
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-09-08)Background. Despite common recognition of joint responsibility for global health by all countries particularly to ensure justice in global health, current discussions of countries’ obligations for global health largely ... -
Antiepikuristiske essays. Ein kritisk undersøking av epikurisme om død, velferd og tid
(Master thesis, 2015-11-20)I oppgåva gjer eg eit forsøk på å sette samtidsdebatten om døden som eit vonde inn i ein større verditeoretisk og velferdsteoretisk samanheng. Eg ser særleg på implikasjonane av epikurismen om døden som eit vonde for ... -
Affirmasjonens puls. En undersøkelse av den undertrykte og revolusjonære kropp hos Gilles Deleuze
(Master thesis, 2015-11-23)In this paper I will address the body as analyzed in the work of Gilles Deleuze and in his collaborations with Félix Guattari. I will attempt to explore the body as a decisive point of reference with regard to the human ... -
Justifying International Legal Human Rights
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On Continuity: Rush Rhees on Outer and InnerSurfaces of Bodies
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)This article presents an edited excerpt from a hitherto unknown fragmentary treatise by Rush Rhees. In the treatise, Rhees gives his account of the problem of continuity that he had started elaborating before he became ... -
Wittgenstein and His Literary Executors
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)Rush Rhees, Georg Henrik von Wright and Elizabeth Anscombe are well known as the literary executors who made Ludwig Wittgenstein’s later philosophy available to all interested readers. Their editions of Wittgenstein’s ... -
Can Resource-Poor Countries Bear any Obligations for Global Distributive Justice? A Reflection on the Distribution of Global health Opportunities
(Doctoral thesis, 2016-05-20)Can resource-poor countries bear any stringent obligations in the pursuit of equity in the distribution of global health opportunities between individuals globally? Distributive justice is primarily about resource transfer ...