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I present an analysis of the interpretation of anaphora that takes concepts from type-theoretic semantics, in particular the use of the Sigma and Pi dependent type constructors, and incorporates them into a model-theoretic ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
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In this chapter, I aim to show that concerns beyond the political were involved in the sharp distinction between news and opinion that was articulated in the censorship instruction. I will argue that the structure of the ...
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Epos er ikke bare den eldste sjangeren innen gresk litteratur, men også den mest varige og innflytelsesrike. Eposet fungerer som et rammeverk for den antikke greske litteraturhistorien med verker som Homers Iliaden og ...
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The Carmina Anacreontea (CA) is a collection of ancient Greek poems which recreate the literary inheritance of their model, the archaic Greek poet Anacreon. The poems were written by several anonymous authors from various ...
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A common ground is emerging for social and cultural studies of design. Design history is exploring the socially constructed and networked nature of our material surroundings; at the same time, STS is investigating design ...
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Color adjectives tend to be used redundantly in referential communication. I propose that redundant color adjectives (RCAs) are often intended to exploit a color contrast in the visual context and hence facilitate object ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)
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Her vil jeg løfte fram to tekster som tydelig benytter seg av dens sjangermarkører, og som berører politiske forhold i Skandinavia: den anonymt publiserte Anecdotes de Suèdes fra 1716 og Peter Frederik Suhms «Hemmelige ...
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Well-known results due to David Makinson show that there are exactly two Post complete normal modal logics, that in both of them, the modal operator is truthfunctional, and that every consistent normal modal logic can be ...
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A formal result is proved which is used in Juhani Yli-Vakkuri’s ‘Epistemicism and Modality’ to argue that certain two-dimensional possible world models are inadequate for a language with operators for ‘necessarily’, ...
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This chapter is an introduction to how the combination of two views – semantic minimalism and speech act pluralism (‘SM+SAP’, for short) – can be used to explain some aspects of our practice of making knowledge attributions. ...
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There are two traditional ways to read Kant’s claim that every event necessarily has a cause: the weaker every-event some-cause (WCP) and the stronger same-cause same-effect (SCP) causal principles. The debate on whether ...
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This paper is a study of higher-order contingentism – the view, roughly, that it is contingent what properties and propositions there are. We explore the motivations for this view and various ways in which it might be ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2011)
We show that a paraconsistent set theory proposed in Weber (2010), this journal, is strong enough to provide a quite classical non-primitive notion of identity, so that the relation is an equivalence relation and also obeys ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Building on statistical approaches to poetic meter, this article puts forward a new quantitative method for exploring syllabo-accentual verse that takes into account several formal properties, including rhythm, rhyming, ...
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Taking as a starting point the recent interest of design history in the history of actors, groups or events that fall outside an institutional context, this article discusses methodological challenges related to research ...
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I consider the first-order modal logic which counts as valid those sentences which are true on every interpretation of the non-logical constants. Based on the assumptions that it is necessary what individuals there are and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2012)
Preprint, appears in Vol. 21 No. 4, December 2012.
Special Issue: Logic, Reasoning and Rationality, Guest Editors: Erik Weber, Dietlinde Wouters and Joke Meheus.
With permission from Logic and Logical Philosophy.
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2010)
We show that a paraconsistent set theory proposed in Weber (2010), this journal, is strong enough to provide a quite classical non-primitive notion of identity, so that the relation is an equivalence relation and also obeys ...
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The Norwegian Dependency Treebank is a new syntactic treebank for Norwegian Bokmål and Nynorsk with manual syntactic and morphological annotation, developed at the National Library of Norway in collaboration with the ...
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Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Volume 10, edited by Russ Shafer-Landau, 2015, reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198738695.001.0001
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There is a need for studies that can highlight principles of addiction recovery. Because social relationships are involved in all change processes, understanding how social motivations affect the ...
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From consumer products to architecture to advertising to digital technology, design is an undeniably global phenomenon. Yet despite their professed transnational perspective, historical studies of design have all too often ...
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Pedophilia is bad. But how bad is it? And in what ways, and for what reasons, is it bad? This is a thorny issue, and sadly, one seldom discussed by ethicists. In this paper it is argued that pedophilia is bad only because, ...
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Research on ethical, legal and social aspects (ELSA) of life sciences and new technologies has mainly been focused on impacts and consequences, while the emerging framework of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) ...
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The article explores the brief, but ardent history of the Scandinavian Design Students Organization (SDO) in the late 1960s. Dissatisfied with contemporary design practice and education, a group of students aimed to ...
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Edition with philological, theological and liturgical commentary of a Coptic prayer preserved on a papyrus from the seventh or eighth century in the collection of the University of Oslo Library. The prayer, which accompanied ...
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The view that the soul can exist separately from the body is commonly associated with dualism. Since Plato’s Phaedo (Phd.) argues that the soul is immortal and survives the death of the body, there seems to be reason to ...
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I 1918 ble det utgitt et særtrykk av det danske tidsskriftet Vor Fortid som inneholdt en tidligere upublisert tekst av den danske historikeren, adelsmannen og frie intellektuelle Peter Frederik Suhm (1728-1798). Tittelen ...
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A large number of word forms in natural language are polysemous, that is, associated with several related senses (e.g., line, run, tight, etc.). While such polysemy appears to cause little difficulty in verbal communication, ...
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I denne artikkelen diskuterer jeg fenomenet polysemi, der et språklig uttrykk innehar to eller flere beslektede betydninger (et eksempel er adjektivet frisk, som kan bety ‘uskjemt’, ‘ny’, ‘sunn’, ‘livlig’, ‘dristig’, ...
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This study investigates preschoolers’ ability to understand and produce novel metonyms. We gave forty-seven children (aged 2;9–5;9) and twenty-seven adults one comprehension task and two elicitation tasks. The first ...
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This paper reviews artefacts from monastic dwellings in Western Thebes, Upper Egypt, that transmit forms and variations of the alphabet, in an attempt to contribute to an ongoing scholarly discussion about the forms, aims ...
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I regjeringens strategi for realfag i barnehagen fra 19. august 2015 serverer man et sted et angivelig mønstergyldig eksempel på hvordan man kan drive med eksperimenter og testing av hypoteser. Det lyder slik:
"I en ...
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I det som gjerne betegnes som speidernes Bibel, Scouting for Boys (1908), løftet speiderbevegelsens grunnlegger, Robert Baden-Powell (1857–1941), fram personer som alle speidergutter burde ha som forbilder. Et slikt forbilde ...
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This paper suggests that a main concern of James Tartaglia’s Philosophy in a Meaningless Life is human freedom, and the ways in which it may be served (and hampered) by philosophy. Initial remarks about freedom and nihilism ...
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After first giving an outline of the military practices and principles of Baden-Powell’s scout movement, I explore to what extent these practices and ideals were adopted by two Norwegian scout movements in the period from ...
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Vitenskapen og den vitenskapelige rasjonaliteten rykket inn på stadig flere samfunnsområder på begynnelsen av 1900-tallet, framfor alt i spørsmål knyttet til helse, kriminalitet og oppdragelse. Menneskets kropp og sinn ...
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The notion of potential infinity dominated in mathematical thinking about infinity from Aristotle until Cantor. The coherence and philosophical importance of the notion are defended. Particular attention is paid to the ...
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This Byzantine papyrus from Aphrodite preserves the middle part of a business letter on the recto and the address on the verso. The letter concerns an estate of the monastery of Apa Sourous. The verso contains an account ...
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How do new media affect the question of social memory? Social memory is usually described as enacted through ritual, language, art, architecture, and institutions ? phenomena whose persistence over time and capacity for a ...
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In this paper, we will discuss the prospect of human reproduction achieved with gametes originating from only one person. According to statements by a minority of scientists working on the generation of gametes in vitro, ...
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Copredication is the phenomenon whereby two or more predicates are applied to a single argument, but those predicates appear to require that their argument denote different things. This article focuses on the problem of ...
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The article defends a mild form of pessimism about moral deference, by arguing that deference is incompatible with authentic interaction, that is, acting in a way that communicates our own normative judgment. The point of ...
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PGM P13 consists of a long invocation to Jesus and a request for protection against all possible evils, and can be dated to the early fifth century. Although its reference to Charon and description of the descent of Jesus ...
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I «Den sidste Messias» og Om det tragiske tar Peter Wessel Zapffe til orde for et forplantningsopphør, fordi meningen med livet ikke er å finne og tilværelsen på sitt beste blir tragisk. Teorien har blitt kritisert for å ...
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El objetivo del siguiente artículo es presentar la formación de las poblaciones callampa en Chile durante la segunda mitad del siglo xx (especialmente entre 1950 y 1970), como una manifestación del derecho de necesidad de ...
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Få norske kunstnere har hatt like stor suksess i Paris som Edvard Diriks (1855–1930). I årene mellom 1899 og 1922, som her kalles «den sene franske perioden», var han godt integrert i det internasjonale avantgarde-miljøet ...
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According to a famous argument by Dummett, the concept of set is indefinitely extensible, and the logic appropriate for reasoning about the instances of any such concept is intuitionistic, not classical. But Dummett's ...
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In ‘Moral case for legal age change’, I argue that sometimes people should be allowed to change their age. I refute six immediate objections against the view that age change is permissible. I argue that the objections ...
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Det antas ofte at det som står i tittelen her, er et ikke-eksisterende tema. I den store Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought fra 2000, redigert av Christopher Rowe og Malcolm Schofield, er politisk ...
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The article explores the notion of a meteorology of cinema. Through the close- and co-reading of a string of smaller books—with subjects such as clouds, rain, and snow—the article conceptualises an approach to weather on ...
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Should a person who feels his legal age does not correspond with his experienced age be allowed to change his legal age? In this paper, I argue that in some cases people should be allowed to change their legal age. Such ...
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According to Kant, the arguments of rational psychology are formal fallacies that he calls transcendental paralogisms. It remains heavily debated whether there actually is any formal error in the inferences Kant presents: ...
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Certain passages in Kaplan’s ‘Demonstratives’ are often taken to show that non-vacuous sentential operators associated with a certain parameter of sentential truth require a corresponding relativism concerning assertoric ...
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Given the grim global statistics of extreme poverty and socioeconomic inequalities, moral and political philosophers have focused on the duties of justice and assistance that arise therefrom. What the needy are morally ...
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This paper is part of a larger project concerning potentiality in mathematics. The first and simplest case is the traditional Aristotelian notion of potential infinity. An issue much like that of truthmaking arises in our ...
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Many philosophers and scientists take perceptual experience, whatever else it involves, to be representational. In ‘The Silence of the Senses’, Charles Travis argues that this view involves a kind of category mistake, and ...
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While much of the literature on bilingualism and cognition focuses on group comparisons (monolinguals vs bilinguals or language learners vs controls), here we examine the potential differential effects of intensive language ...
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Climate change is outpacing existing rates of evolution and adaptation for many marine organisms. Human societies are pushing hard to find new solutions to save and protect marine ecosystems, generating research on ...
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The Elizabethan epyllion is a genre of mythological narrative poems that were popular in English Renaissance literature for several decades, with a climax in the 1590s. This chapter traces the history of scholarship on the ...
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An argument going back to Russell shows that the view that propositions are structured is inconsistent in standard type theories. Here, it is shown that such type theories may nevertheless provide entities which can serve ...
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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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I den italienske renessansen får vi et kraftig oppsving av skrivende og publiserende kvinner – og med dem, et stadig større fokus på kvinners tilgang til kunnskapsinstitusjoner som universiteter, akademier, trykkerier og ...
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How are we to read and how translate the brief formulae with which ‟The Sickness unto Death” introduces two forms of ‛authentic despair’? In response to Michael Theunissen’s claim that, to conform with the actual drift of ...
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To be a pedophile, according to the World Health Organization, is to have a sexual preference for children, boys or girls or both, usually of prepubertal or early pubertal age. Pedophilia is widespread—approximately two ...
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Children struggle with the interpretation of pronouns in direct speech (Ann said, “I get a cookie”), but not in indirect speech (Ann said that she gets a cookie) (Köder & Maier, 2016). Yet children's books consistently ...
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Several theorists argue that one does not experience something as being at or coming from a distance or direction in olfaction. In contrast to this, I suggest that there can be a variety of spatial aspects of both synchronic ...
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The epic poems of antiquity that have survived to the present day in their complete form constitute only a small part of what originally was composed. In many cases, we only know the titles and/or have synopses of the ...
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This is a study of the literary modes and transformations of the narratorial νήπιος-comment in Greek epic from Homer to Nonnus. It explores the narrative settings, the typology, and the literary effects of this narrative ...
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This article argues that the name of the aggresive female character mentioned by the sender of the private letter SB VI 9121 is Seraeus, and proposes further that through her this letter connects the family of the veteran ...
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The stylistic and rhetorical aspects of private letters transmitted on papyri from Egypt have been the subject of a fair number of scholarly studies from Koskenniemi’s seminal monograph of 1956 to recent studies which ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
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This article analyses Francesco Giammaria’s Capitolium Novum, a Latin poem describing a tour of the historic center of Rome in 1933, in its historical, architectural, and intellectual contexts. It offers a detailed analysis ...
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Modal structuralism promises an interpretation of set theory that avoids commitment to abstracta. This article investigates its underlying assumptions. In the first part, I start by highlighting some shortcomings of the ...
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“Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)” is a central song on Street-Legal, the album Bob Dylan released in 1978, a short time before his Christian conversion experience and the so-called Christian album trilogy of 1979–1981. Within ...
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This paper reconsiders Janus Lascaris’ Florentine Oration (1493) by analyzing its central argument that the Latin language is Greek (Latina lingua Graeca est). It situates Lascaris’ thesis in the context of ancient ideas ...
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We examine two phenomena which, with the exception of Bogal-Allbritten & Weir (2017), have not been systematically studied together but are clearly related: (a) epistemic adverbs in ad-nominal positions modifying a DP ...
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Many ameliorative projects aim at moral goods such as social equality. For example, the amelioration of the concept MARRIAGE forms part of efforts to achieve equal rights for the LGBT+ community. What does implementation ...
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Many people believe that the abortion debate will end when at some point in the future it will be possible for fetuses to develop outside the womb. Ectogenesis, as this technology is called, would make possible to reconcile ...
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When widespread use of sex‐selective abortion and sex selection through assisted reproduction lead to severe harms to third parties and perpetuate discrimination, should these practices be banned? In this paper I focus on ...
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