Browsing Department of Philosophy by Issue Date
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Understanding the futility of countries’ obligations for health rights: realising justice for the global poor
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-06-03)Background: Although health is a right of all individuals without any distinction, the realisation of this right has remained very difficult for the marginalised populations of poor countries. Inequitable distribution of ... -
The Normative force of logic. Logikkens normative kraft
(Master thesis, 2016-11-21)Logic and reasoning appear to be closely connected. What the exact relationship is might be contentious, but that such a relationship exists seems uncontroversial. Gilbert Harman, however, has argued in a number of texts ... -
Viser zombie-argumentet at fysikalisme er en inadekvat teori? Does the zombieargument show that physicalism is inadequate?
(Master thesis, 2016-11-30)I denne masteravhandlingen har jeg presentert og analysert fysikalisme med det mål å finne en formulering som er både nødvendig og tilstrekkelig, slik at den uttrykker minimal fysikalisme. Jeg ender opp med en formulering ... -
Remedial responsibility for severe poverty: justice or humanity?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Remedial responsibility is the prospective responsibility to assist those in great need. With tens of millions of people worldwide suffering from severe poverty, questions about the attribution of remedial responsibility ... -
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 ... -
The Phenomenology of Intuition
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-01)When a person has an intuition, it seems to her that things are certain ways; to many it seems that torturing the innocent for fun is wrong, for example. When a person has an intuition, there is also something particular ... -
Forskningsagendaer, forespørsler og svar i konstruktiv typeteori.
(Master thesis, 2017-06-09)Konstruktiv typeteori ble introdusert av Per Martin-Löf i 1984. Bakgrunnen var å unngå skillet mellom form og mening. Konstruktiv type- teori ble dannet på bakgrunn av Brouwers intuisjonisme fra begynnelsen av 1900-tallet. ... -
Comparative effectiveness research: what to do when experts disagree about risks
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-06-19)Background: Ethical issues related to comparative effectiveness research, or research that compares existing standards of care, have recently received considerable attention. In this paper we focus on how Ethics Review ... -
Philosophy and the ethical transcendence of language: A dialogue between Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida
(Master thesis, 2017-06-22)I dette verket diskuterer jeg transcendencs, språk og filosofi. Jeg orienterer diskusjonen rundt dialogen mellom Emmanuel Levinas og Jacques Derrida og måten denne dialogen utviklet seg på. Jeg viser først hvordan Levinas ... -
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 ... -
Vagueness in emergent levels
(Master thesis, 2017-06-22)I denne tesen, så skal jeg presentere filosfisk emergens, og argumentere for at det er for vagt. Jeg vil gi et overblikk i både vaghet og emergens, med fokus på teorier om emergente nivåer. Jeg vil så argumentere for at ... -
Peter Wessel Zapffes evolusjonære eksistensialisme
(Master thesis, 2017-06-22)Målet med denne avhandlingen er å begrunne påstanden om at Peter Wessel Zapffes filosofi markerer en original og distinkt retning innen den pessimistiske tradisjonen. En retning jeg vil kalle for evolusjonær eksistensialisme. ... -
Historieskrivningens strev
(Doctoral thesis, 2017-09-15)The focal question of this thesis is how the historian tries to resolve the tension built into the writing of history. The perspective on a tension existing in history texts stems from a broader understanding of the writing ... -
Thomas Hobbes naturtilstand og internasjonale relasjoner: Tolkninger av konflikten i Ukraina
(Master thesis, 2017-12-04)Is the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes still relevant in the study of international relations, and, if so, why and how? While the classical, often labeled «realist» interpretation of Thomas Hobbes’ state of nature is a state ... -
Høyere-ordens tanke teori og selv-bevissthet
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Nonindexical contextualism. Ikke-indeksikalsk kontekstualisme
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Judicial review and its discontents: Is judicial review democratically legitimate?
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Scorekeeping
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)An influential suggestion from David Lewis is that we should think of assertions in terms of how they affect the conversational score. This note outlines a way to model conversational scores in such a way that two assertoric ...