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Plato - A Voice for Peace. Political Accountability and Dramatic Staging
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-12-07)With this dissertation I intend to give a contribution to the field peace and peacethematic. The hypothesis of the dissertation is that it is possible to read the Platonic corpus as a body of critique where Plato in the ... -
Platon og poesien
(Master thesis, 2012-05-15)Formålet med denne opgave er at undersøge uoverènstemmelser i Platons syn på poesien. -
“Polite Conversation is now Undesirable”: Peace and Agonism in Georg Johannesen’s Rhetoric
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Sometimes, the voice for peace is aggressive, oppositional and agonistic to the point of violence. The Norwegian rhetorician, author and public intellectual Georg Johannesen (1931-2005) was no stranger to forceful rhetoric. ... -
“Political cohesion, friendship and hostility”
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019) -
Politiske idéer og politisk praksis – belyst ved den tyske fascisme
(Journal article, 1979) -
Populism as an Essentially Contested Concept or: On the Dangers of Centrism
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020) -
Postintensjonal moralsk vilkårlighet
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Jeg har kalt artikkelen «Postintensjonal moralsk vilkårlighet». Tematikken står sentralt i en rekke filosofiske artikler på engelsk, sentrert omkring begrepet «moral luck». Jeg legger vekt på å skille mellom to underklasser ... -
The Power of Powers: Dispositions, Essences, and Laws of Nature
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-04-24)This thesis aims to articulate a dispositionalist theory of possibility. The standard way of explaining possibility, and modality in general, is by reference to possible worlds. At the same time, discontentment with possible ... -
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 ... -
Priority setting in health care: Lessons from the experiences of eight countries
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2008-01-21)All health care systems face problems of justice and efficiency related to setting priorities for allocating a limited pool of resources to a population. Because many of the central issues are the same in all systems, the ... -
Qualitative Comparative Analysis and robust sufficiency
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Some methodologists take the search target of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) to be causal INUS-conditions, others contend that QCA should instead be used to search for some form of sufficiency that is more substantive ... -
Reactivity and Good Data in Qualitative Data Collection
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Reactivity in qualitative data collection occurs when a researcher generates data about a situation with reactivity, that is, a situation in which the ongoing research affects the research participants such that they, say, ... -
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 ... -
Reflections on a Prominent Argument in the Wittgenstein Debate
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013-10)Does the way authors treat their own works tell us something about how these works are to be understood? Not necessarily. But then a standard argument against the “New Wittgenstein” comes under question. The argument is: ... -
Reform av formuesskatten
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)I denne artikkelen forsøker vi å vise hva politisk filosofi kan bidra med i diskusjonen om formuesskatt. Først gir vi et prinsipielt forsvar for formuesskatten. Her kombinerer vi innsikter fra John Rawls og Thomas Piketty. ... -
Relative plausibility and a prescriptive theory of evidence assessment
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)While the theory of relative plausibility is presented by Allen and Pardo (2019) as a descriptive theory of the proof process, this commentary discusses their theory as a possible starting point for a prescriptive theory ... -
Relevance and Relationalism
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011-02-25)This paper will provide support for relationalism; the claim that the identity of objects is constituted by the totality of their relations to other things in the world. I will consider how Kit Fine’s criticisms of ... -
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 ...