Department of Philosophy
Recent Submissions
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Are Ontologies Trees or Lattices?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Ontologies, it is sometimes said, take the form of a hierarchy or tree: each class is subdivided into distinct subclasses with no cross classifications. But if the purpose of an ontology is to make possible useful inferences ... -
Introduction to the special issue ‘The phenomenology of joint action’
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The contributions collected in this special issue explore the phenomenology of joint action from a broad range of different disciplinary and methodological angles, including philosophical investigation (both in the analytic ... -
Hva er en rettferdig modell for inntak på videregående skole?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Debatten om inntak til videregående skole er sentral i norsk utdanningspolitikk. Men selv om mange refererer til rettferdighetsidealer i debatten, blir disse sjelden systematisk undersøkt. Artikkelen analyserer fire modeller ... -
The international regime of drug control may violate the human right to life and security
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Critics of the international regime of drug control have often pointed to its criminogenic effects, maintaining that drug criminalization gives rise to a profitable illicit drugs market which in turn sustains organized ... -
Unhealthy behaviors associated with mental health disorders: a systematic comparative review of diet quality, sedentary behavior, and cannabis and tobacco use
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background: There are well-established literatures documenting the associations between mental disorders and unhealthy behaviors such as poor diet quality, sedentary behavior, and cannabis and tobacco use. Few studies have ... -
Intentionality in Pain: Individual Responses and Outcomes in the Experience of Pain
(Master thesis, 2024-05-30)This study investigates why individuals who experience the same pain instance may have different long-term outcomes, focusing on the mental and emotional transformations that follow pain rather than immediate reactions. ... -
Relevance through topical unconnectedness: Ackermann and Plumwood’s motivational ideas on entailment
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Ackermann’s motivational spin on his theory of rigorous implication is analyzed and it is shown to contain en equivalent idea to Plumwood’s notion of suppression freedom. The formal properties these ideas back turn out to ... -
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 ... -
Wittgenstein on Mathematical Symbolism: A Response to Stenlund’s Historical Interpretation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)In recent work, Sören Stenlund (2015) contextualizes Wittgenstein’s philosophy of mathematics as aligned with the tradition of symbolic mathematics. In the early modern era, mathematicians began using purely formal methods ... -
Premature Death as a Normative Concept
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The practical goal of preventing premature death seems uncontroversial. But the term ‘premature death’ is vague with several, sometimes conflicting definitions. This ambiguity results in several conceptions with which not ... -
Reactivity in the Human Sciences
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The reactions that science triggers on the people it studies, describes, or theorises about, can affect the science itself and its claims to knowledge. This phenomenon, which we call reactivity, has been discussed in many ... -
Why the Moral Equality Account of Hypocrisy Does Not Fail After All
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The Moral Equality Account of Hypocrisy (ME) is a prominent theory of why hypocrites lack moral standing to blame. Hypocrites make exceptions for themselves and thereby implicitly deny moral equality, which is an essential ... -
Logical Instrumentalism and Anti-exceptionalism about Logic
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This paper critically examines logical instrumentalism as it has been put forth recently in the anti-exceptionalism about logic debate. I will argue that if one wishes to uphold the claim that logic is significantly similar ... -
The Partially Impartial Spectator
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)According to Adam Smith, we appeal to the imagined reactions of an ‘impartial spectator’ when justifying moral judgements of others and aspire to be impartial spectators when making judgements of ourselves. However, ... -
Personargumenter mot stortingspolitikere
(Master thesis, 2024-02-01)Sammendrag Denne oppgaven handler om bruk av personargumenter mot stortingspolitikere. Argumentasjonsteoretisk regnes personargumenter vanligvis som feilslutninger, fordi de forkaster en uttalelse på grunn av den som ... -
Interactive Dynamic Presentation (IDP) and Semantic Faceted Search and Browsing (SFB) of the Wittgenstein Nachlass
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)In 2000 the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen (WAB) published the CD-ROM edition of Wittgenstein’s Nachlass: The Bergen Electronic Edition (BEE). Moreover, since then WAB has worked towards complementing ... -
Wittgenstein on the Anthropological Grounds of Mathematics
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-12-01)Ludwig Wittgensteins senere syn på matematikk har vært gjenstand for omfattende debatt innenfor filosofien. Denne avhandlingen tar for seg en kritisk gjennomgang av forskjellige alternative tolkninger av de relevante ... -
Kan sjølvmord vere rasjonelle? Og i så fall, kva vil det seie for nullvisjonen for sjølvmord?
(Master thesis, 2023-09-01)I 2020 fremja regjeringa ein nullvisjon for sjølvmord i Noreg. I denne avhandlinga argumenterer eg for at eit normativt ideal om null sjølvmord ikkje kan vere riktig, då rasjonelle sjølvmord faktisk er moglege. For å ... -
Social Rights at Work
(Chapter, 2022)This chapter explores connections between social rights and labour rights within a human rights framework. Social human rights tend to be marginalized both in philosophical debates about human rights and in international ... -
The PC Algorithm and the Inference to Constitution
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Gebharter has proposed using one of the best known Bayesian network causal discovery algorithms, PC, to identify the constitutive dependencies underwriting mechanistic explanations. His proposal assumes that mechanistic ...