Browsing Institutt for filosofi, ide- og kunsthistorie og klassiske språk by Title
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)Abstract One Health medicine aims to improve health by focusing on the relations between the health of humans, animals, and the environment. However, One Health does not provide a clear idea of these relations, which are ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)Whole body gestational donation offers an alternative means of gestation for prospective parents who wish to have children but cannot, or prefer not to, gestate. It seems plausible that some people would be prepared to ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)Abstract Can discussion with members of the public show philosophers where they have gone wrong? Leslie Cannold argues that it can in her 1995 paper ‘Women, Ectogenesis and Ethical Theory’, which investigates the ways in ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)In this thesis I try to develop a partial theory of normativity and justification. In the first part of the thesis I try to explore the possibility of what I call ’normative pluralism’, a position which holds that there ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)Abstract A familiar argument goes as follows: natural languages have infinitely many sentences, finite representation of infinite sets requires recursion; therefore any adequate account of linguistic competence will require ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)The Roman poet Vergil lived through the tumultuous age of the Roman civil wars of the first century BC, and witnessed as the Roman republic was repeatedly torn apart by rival aristocrats. His great epic, the Aeneid, tells ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)The linguistic turn provided philosophers with a range of reasons for engaging in careful investigation into the nature and structure of language. However, the linguistic turn is dead. The arguments for it have been abandoned ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)There is hardly anyone, who knows anything about Plato and his philosophy, who would claim that Plato did not think that geometry is beautiful. Therefore, I focus primarily on two questions. The first question is why Plato ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)I argued in ‘Pro‐life arguments against infanticide and why they are not convincing’ that arguments presented by pro‐life philosophers are mistaken and cannot show infanticide to be immoral. Several scholars have offered ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)This paper seeks to account for the wickedness of the non-identity problem – or lack thereof. Within the field of bioethics, the non-identity problem is particularly relevant due to progress within assisted reproductive ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)There has been very little art historical writing on the topic of paintings of interiors, conceived as an entity, and as a phenomenon of nineteenth and early twentieth-century art. Although Scandinavian art is perhaps ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)Each of our sensory modalities—vision, touch, taste, etc.—works on a slightly different timescale, with differing temporal resolutions and processing lag. This raises the question of how, or indeed whether, these sensory ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)Denne masteroppgaven omhandler Jay DeFeos verk The Wise & Foolish Virgins fra 1958. Verket stammer fra San Francisco, men tilhører i dag Wenneslandsamlingen i Kristiansand. Verket fremstår som et diptyk, hvor motivet er ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)Denne oppgaven handler om Ludwig Wittgensteins forhold til religion og består av tre deler. Den første er en eksposisjon av Wittgensteins tanker om religion (med særlig henblikk på religiøs nødvendighet). Den andre delen ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)P.Würzb. 32 transmits two intercessory prayers, each consisting of a string of requests and topics prayed for. The question of who is prayed for at r.14–17 of the papyrus has generated scholarly controversy. In a contribution ...
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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2011)This thesis is about mental and linguistic representation. It addresses the question of how people understand words, how they are used to convey meaning and how this meaning is acquired. I take a theoretical approach to ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)Moral error theory, the view that moral discourse is factually defective, is an influential view in contemporary metaethics. Although it has long been recognized that the arguments for this view might generalize and apply ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Abstract Well-functioning modern democracies depend largely on expert knowledge and expert arrangements, but this expertise reliance also causes severe problems for their legitimacy. Somewhat surprisingly, moral and political ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)