Faculty of Humanities
Recent Submissions
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Models and monism
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)In this paper, I critically examine the monist interpretation of the logic-as-model view that Erik Stei puts forth in Logical Pluralism and Logical Consequence. I will argue that, in addition to the three dimensions presented ... -
Cognitivism about religious belief in later Wittgenstein
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion has traditionally been grounded in non-cognitivism about religious belief. This paper shows that the Wittgensteinian tradition has wrongly neglected a significant movement towards ... -
Extended peer communities: Creating good and fair knowledges
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This conceptual paper reconstructs an implicit ethical claim of post-normal science, namely that knowledge produced in extended peer communities (EPCs) is both epistemically better and fairer. Post-normal science introduced ... -
Synthetic ethnography: Field devices for the qualitative study of generative models
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Advancements in generative artificial intelligence have led to a rapid proliferation of machine learning models capable of synthesizing text, images, sounds, and other kinds of content. While the increasing realism of ... -
Fishing further inland? The role of the transition to agriculture on fishing practices in the Soconusco region, Mexico
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)In the Soconusco region of Mexico, the abundance of larger-bodied, carnivorous fish decreased relative to smaller-bodied, omnivorous/herbivorous fish between the terminal Late Archaic (4700–4000 BP [2700–2000 BCE]) and ... -
Forteljingar om utdanningssystemet og førestillinga om ein norsk fredstradisjon
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Denne artikkelen undersøkjer i kva grad og på kva måte førestillinga om ein norsk fredstradisjon kan lesast ut av ulike engelskspråklege publikasjonar om det norske utdanningssystemet frå 1940-åra fram til slutten av ... -
Tooth in the spotlight: exploring the integration of archaeological and genetic data to build multidisciplinary narratives of the Past
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The article addresses the challenges posed by the interdisciplinary collaboration that led to the recent Nature article presenting results of the extraction of ancient human DNA from a perforated deer tooth found in Denisova ... -
Political legitimacy in Rawls’ early and late political liberalism – Two diverging interpretations
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This article assesses Frank I. Michelman’s constitution-centered and proceduralist interpretation of Rawls’ conception of political legitimacy and argues that it merits attention because it highlights the institutional ... -
Norse Whetstones in Slavic Areas - Indicators of Long-Distance Networks During the Viking Age and the Middle Ages
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)SCANDINAVIAN ARTEFACTS FROM THE VIKING AGE ONWARDS are found in Slavic areas, suggesting interactions between Slavs and Scandinavians. In this paper, whetstones from present-day Norway are regarded as a proxy for this ... -
A cross-linguistic study of lexical and derived antonymy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Antonymy is the lexical relation of opposition. The nature of the oppositeness may differ – e.g., contradictory (‘true’–‘false’) or gradable (‘tall’–‘short’) – and there may be variation as to the relationship in their ... -
Hvordan forstå endringer i før-moderne sharia? Et nærmere blikk på den rettsvitenskapelige tradisjonen i perioden 1200–1800
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Sharia blir ofte framstilt som noe strengt og uforanderlig. Både konservative muslimer og såkalte islam-kritikere presenterer gjerne sharia som statisk og avledet av Koranen og sunnaen en gang for alle. At endring skjer ... -
The Role of Parental Language Profile and Home Linguistic Environment in Shaping Teenagers' Multilingual Identity
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)In the multilingual context of Norway, language policy at the macro level supports the development of multilingualism. At the meso level, parental language beliefs and ideologies and language practices in interactions among ... -
Reconcilable differences: Using retrospective photogrammetry to bridge the divide between analogue and digital site data collected during long-term excavation projects
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Over the last 30 years, high-resolution site documentation has rapidly developed, with analogue drawings and film photography being replaced with high-precision digital recordings. Today, most archaeological field data ... -
A Mismatched Piece in a Cultural Middle Stone Age Puzzle: Traces of Human Activity Dated to 90 kya (MIS 5) at Sites EDAR 134 and 155 in the Eastern Sahara, Sudan
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This article presents the results of research carried out at two previously unreported Eastern Desert Atbara River project (EDAR) Middle Stone Age (MSA) sites—EDAR 134 and EDAR 155. Luminescence dating results indicate ... -
Investigating level descriptors and their impact on validity
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This article presents a validation study which investigates the relationship between mastery level descriptors and item difficulty in the National Tests of English (NTE) in Norway. The aim is to establish the extent to ... -
Sign duration and signing rate in British Sign Language, Dutch Sign Language and Swedish Sign Language
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)In this article, we look at sign duration and signing rate in corpora of three sign languages – British Sign Language (BSL), Dutch Sign Language (NGT), and Swedish Sign Language (STS). We investigate whether token frequency ... -
Paleolithic eyed needles and the evolution of dress
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Eyed needles are among the most iconic of Paleolithic artifacts, traditionally seen as rare indicators of prehistoric clothing, particularly tailoring. However, recent finds across Africa and Eurasia show that other ... -
Thinking with the primstav today
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Ochre communities of practice in Stone Age Eswatini
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Our species and other hominins have used earth mineral pigments since at least ~500,000 years ago, if not earlier. Its preservation and ubiquity within archaeological records across sub-Saharan Africa are well documented, ... -
Populærkultur og religion i gamle dager. Historiske og komparative innfallsvinkler til medier, mangfold og levd religion
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Kan læreplanmålene i LK20 om populærkultur og medier brukes som innfallsvinkel til å arbeide historisk og komparativt i KRLE og Religion og etikk? Gjennom å drøfte begrepene populærkultur og media opp mot noen konkrete ...