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What is Post-normal Science? A Personal Encounter
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)What is post-normal science? What are the reasons for, and consequences of, encountering it in one’s professional life? Here I share my own experience of readings, practices and discussions with the fathers, supporters and ... -
What is Queer Heritage? Queercache and the Epistemology of the Closet
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The present article explores the possibility of queer heritage. In 2017, artists Kalle Hamm and Dzamil Kamanger organised a community art project called Queercache in Helsinki, and I use it as a case study on the heritagisation ... -
'What is this strange language?' Reflections on the Barbaric in Jean-Jacques Rousseau and François-René de Chateaubriand
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Examining the ideas of the barbarian and barbarism, this article considers and compares the work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and François-René de Chateaubriand in both historical and poetical terms. I argue that both Rousseau ... -
What Is Transcription, Really?
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What is Wrong with Blind Necessity? Schelling’s Critique of Spinoza’s Necessitarianism in the Freedom Essay
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Spinoza’s necessitarianism—the doctrine that everything that is actual is necessary—is an important matter of debate in German Idealism. I examine Schelling’s discussion of Spinoza’s necessitarianism in his 1809 Freedom ... -
“What Was That Word? It’s Part of Ensuring Its Future Existence” Exploring Engagement Collectives at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This paper provides an empirical analysis of an initiative to establish a Community of Practice on citizen engagement at the European Commission’s (EC) Joint Research Centre (JRC). This initiative is one of the more recent ... -
What´s topic got to do with it? A study of code-switching behavior in Norwegian upper secondary school students
(Master thesis, 2015-05-14)In this MA thesis, the effect that topic has on code-switching in native Norwegian students at upper secondary school is investigated. The first hypothesis of the thesis claims that topics that are typically Norwegian, ... -
Wheat or chaff? A Compound Selection Model Based on Look-Up Data
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Which compounds should be included in general-purpose dictionaries is often an open question that is answered with a case-by-case consideration of all compounds above a certain corpus frequency threshold. Another way to ... -
When cyborgs walk among us
(Master thesis, 2020-12-23)Denne avhandlingen har som mål å forklare og diskutere hva en kyborg er, og hvilke konsekvenser vi kan støte på i fremtiden når kyborgteknologi implementeres inn i livene våre. Teknologi utvikles og forbedres i et raskt ... -
When Galba was still alive: A comparative study of Tacitean vocabulary and language
(Master thesis, 2013-05-12)This thesis explores a particular Tacitean phrase, which occurs twice in his corpus. I argue that this phrase is intentionally ambiguous and reflects Tacitus' clever use of heightened rhetoric. "Incolumi adhuc Galba" occurs ... -
When laypeople are right and experts are wrong: Lessons from love canal
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Love Canal, a suburban town in New York State built on a waste disposal site of a former chemical factory, provoked one of the first major environmental controversies. It involved scientists, citizens and politicians, ... -
«WHEN NOT IN ROME»: Romersk turisme i Peloponnes
(Master thesis, 2022-06-03)While largely seen as a modern phenomenon, tourism was a big part of the Graeco-Roman world. People traveled to see famous artwork, sculptures and games, to name a few. However, as normal as tourism seems to have been, it ... -
Where was Providence? Religiøs tvil i Thomas Hardys Tess of the D'Urbervilles
(Master thesis, 2014-05-15)Denne masteroppgaven tar for seg tematikken rundt religiøs tvil i Thomas Hardys roman, Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Gjennom en nærstudie av romanens hovedperson, Tess, sin ferd gjennom narrativet, vil jeg peke på hennes ... -
Whitman on TweetDeck: Community and Self Through Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass and Blogging
(Master thesis, 2022-05-20)Denne avhandlinga tek for seg dikt-eposet Leaves of Grass (Gresstrå på norsk) av Walt Whitman og tradisjonen han etablerte gjennom verket, i relasjon til blogging. Leaves kom først ut i 1855 og er eit verk som ikkje har ... -
Who succeeds and who fails? Exploring the role of background variables in explaining the outcomes of L2 language tests
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This study explores whether and to what extent the background information supplied by 10,155 immigrants who took an official language test in Norwegian affected their chances of passing one, two, or all three parts of the ... -
Why general artificial intelligence will not be realized
(Journal article, 2020-06)The modern project of creating human-like artificial intelligence (AI) started after World War II, when it was discovered that electronic computers are not just number-crunching machines, but can also manipulate symbols. ... -
Why Only Efficiency, and Not Efficacy, Matters in Psychotherapy Practice
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-05-07)Evidence-based practice in psychology consists of two quality parameters. One of these quality parameters is efficacy and the other is efficiency. In this article, it is argued that the only relevant parameter for determining ... -
Why so many published sensitivity analyses are false: A systematic review of sensitivity analysis practices
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-04)Sensitivity analysis provides information on the relative importance of model input parameters and assumptions. It is distinct from uncertainty analysis, which addresses the question ‘How uncertain is the prediction?’ ... -
Why the child cannot be happy
(Master thesis, 2017-06-13)Intetkjønnsformer av adjektiver i norsk og svensk dannes ved en regelmessig og produktiv regel der man legger et intetkjønnsmorfem /-t/ til stammen av adjektivet. Det finnes unntak i at enkelte adjektiv ikke følger denne ... -
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 ...