Department of Philosophy
Recent Submissions
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Aristotle’s Take on Inadvertently Made Objects
(Journal article, 2021)The way metaphysicians conceive of inadvertently made objects has consequences for their understanding of the relation between intentions and kinds. Indeed, the very possibility of concrete material objects produced without ... -
A Byzantine Metaphysics of Artefacts? The Case of Michael of Ephesus’ Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-08-11)The ontology of artefacts in Byzantine philosophy is still a terra incognita. One way of mapping this unexplored territory is to delve into Michael of Ephesus’ commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics. Written around 1100, ... -
Variable relativity of causation is good
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Interventionism is a theory of causation with a pragmatic goal: to define causal concepts that are useful for reasoning about how things could, in principle, be purposely manipulated. In its original presentation, Woodward’s ... -
Episk krig: Litt om linjen Homer, Herodot, Thukydid
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Forord
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The “Diktat für Schlick”: Authorship Research and Computational Stylometry Revisited
(Chapter, 2022)Both the authorship and the dating of the so-called “Diktat für Schlick” (DFS), once attributed to Ludwig Wittgenstein and assigned by Georg Henrik von Wright to the Wittgenstein Nachlass as item 302, are debated topics ... -
Confusions about ‘Inner’ and ‘Outer’ Voices: Conceptual Problems in the Study of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Both in research on Auditory Verbal Hallucinations (AVHs) and in their clinical assessment, it is common to distinguish between voices that are experienced as ‘inner’ (or ‘internal’, ‘inside the head’, ‘inside the mind’, ... -
Texts: A case study of joint action
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Our linguistic communication often takes the form of creating texts. In this paper, we propose that creating texts or ‘texting’ is a form of joint action. We examine the nature and evolution of this joint action. We argue ... -
Linguïculture: Thomas A. Sebeok as a revolutionary ethnographer
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Sebeok started his career as an ethnographer, focusing on the verbal art of anthropology to describe the cultures associated with then-called “primitive” languages. He followed Bloomfield’s linguistics to study Boas’ ... -
Hierarchical or Non-hierarchical? A Philosophical Approach to a Debate in Text Encoding
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Is hierarchical XML apt for the encoding of complex manuscript materials? Some scholars have argued that texts are non-hierarchical entities and that XML therefore is inadequate. This paper argues that the nature of text ... -
Functionalism and Personal Identity – The Case of Mr. Jones
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Stanisław Lem’s short story Are you there Mr. Jones?, first published in 1955, is set in a courtroom. The plaintiff is Cybernetics Company – a provider of prosthetics – and the defendant is Harry Jones, a race-car driver. ... -
Erobringen av massene. Ideologi, propaganda og offentlighet i den tyske fasciseringsprosess
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Towards a neo-configurational theory of intrinsic motivation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This research seeks to improve our understanding of how intrinsic motivation is instantiated. Three motivation theories, flow theory, self-determination theory, and empowerment theory, have informed our understanding of ... -
Different algorithms, different models
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This study assesses the extent to which the two main Configurational Comparative Methods (CCMs), i.e. Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Coincidence Analysis (CNA), produce different models. It further explains how ... -
The Natural Meaning of Crime and Punishment: Denying and Affirming Freedom
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The article discusses the link between freedom, crime and punishment. According to some theorists, crime does not only cause a person to have less freedom; it constitutes, in and of itself, a breach of the freedom of others. ... -
Et grønt demokratisk skifte? Borgerråd for klima og utlendingers rett til demokratisk deltakelse
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)I omfattende og kontroversielle globale politiske spørsmål som klimasaken, synes bruken av borgerrådet å være et lovende tiltak i et grønt demokratisk skifte. Et borgerråd for klima er i det minste et av kravene klimaaktivistene ... -
Klimamoralisme
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Denne artikkelen diskuterer klimamoralismens moralske berettigelse. Ifølge et tradisjonelt og relativt utbredt syn i dag, er moralisme og moralisering noe iboende negativt. Jeg gir en forklaring på moralismens dårlige rykte ... -
The Appearance of Skepticism: Possibility, Conceivability and Infinite Ascent
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The paper articulates a novel strategy against external world skepticism. It shows that a modal assumption of the skeptical argument cannot be justified. -
Abortion and multifetal pregnancy reduction: An ethical comparison
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In recent years, multifetal pregnancy reduction (MFPR) has increasingly been a subject of debate in Norway. The intensity of this debate reached a tentative maximum when the Legislation Department delivered their interpretative ...
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