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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 ... -
A wide view of democracy and an inclusive conception of the social. Roberto Frega’s Democracy Theory and Its Deweyan Legacy
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Widengren, Gnosticism, and the Religionsgeschichtliche Schule
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Widowhood among the Igbo of Eastern Nigeria
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«…wie ich so die blasse gebirgige Ebene betrat…» Gestisk figurering som strategi i Robert Walsers sene prosastykker
(Master thesis, 2023-09-15)Denne masteroppgaven utforsker gestisk figurering som materiell og litterær strategi i den sveitsiske forfatteren Robert Walsers sene prosastykker. Det argumenteres for at Walser i de sene prosastykkene utvikler skrivestrategier ... -
Wind of Change: Discourse Collisions and Coalitions in the Fosen Vind Case
(Master thesis, 2023-05-22)I 2021 annullerte Høgsterett konsesjonane til to vindparkar på Fosenhalvøya i Trøndelag. Vindparkane blei vurdert som eit brot på dei lokale samiske reindriftssamane sin rett til “å dyrke sin eigen kultur”, som er beskytta ... -
A Window into the Early–Middle Stone Age Transition in Northeastern Africa—A Marine Isotope Stage 7a/6 Late Acheulean Horizon from the EDAR 135 Site, Eastern Sahara (Sudan)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This paper presents the results of the analysis of a late Acheulean horizon from the EDAR 135 site, which was discovered in the Eastern Desert, Sudan, in an area heavily transformed by modern mining activity. A lithic ... -
Witchcraft and Slavery in Cartagena de Indias
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The witchcraft trials in the Spanish Inquisition's tribunal in Cartagena de Indias had direct links to the trials in Northern Spain. These trials started just after the trials in the Basque country in 1610-14, and show the ... -
"With His Blood He Wrote". Functions of the Pact Motif in Faustian Literature
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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 ... -
Wittgenstein and the Concept of Learning in Artificial Intelligence
(Master thesis, 2020-06-26)The object of this investigation is to analyze the application of the concept of learning to machines and software as displayed in Artificial Intelligence (AI). This field has been approached from different philosophical ... -
Wittgenstein in (Self-)Translation
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Wittgenstein on 'Imaginability' as a Criterion for Logical Possiblity in 'The Big Typescript'
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Throughout his whole work, Wittgenstein seizes on a distinction between logical and physical possibility, and impossibility. Despite this continuity and although, Wittgenstein brings in this distinction in various contexts ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Wittgenstein on understanding: language, calculus and practice
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2018)