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In this paper, I present and criticize Ted Kaczynski’s (“The Unabomber”) theory that industrialization has been terrible for humanity, and that we should use any means necessary, including violent means, to induce a return ...
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According to Frege’s context principle, we must never to ask for the meaning of a word in isolation but only in the context of a sentence. The context principle poses some very hard interpretive challenges; not only are ...
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In this paper I explore the idea that Glue Semantics enriched with additional unary connectives could provide a natural account of some (positive) locality conditions on binding. I argue that the additional connectives can ...
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Pragmatikk som fagfelt kan defineres som studier av språk i bruk, og kan i sin videste form omfatte undersøkelser av både kognitive, sosiale og kulturelle aspekter ved kommunikasjon (Verschueren et al. 1995: 2). Kognitiv ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
In case of a catastrophe, an EXIT-sign mounted in an exhibition at MoMA in 1972 would lead the audience to safety. How can this sign be studied? Is it possible to empirically approach this sign based on different ontology? ...
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In the first book of the Transcendental Dialectic we find Kant’s criticism of four syllogistic proofs about the soul. On his view the proofs are formally invalid. Hence, as opposed to the view of their proponents – the ...
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The traditional distinction between basic (“pure”) and applied science has been much criticized in recent decades. The criticism is based on a combination of historical and systematic epistemic argument. The present paper ...
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Papyrology has always been at the forefront of digital humanities and this monograph is no exception to this practice. The book under review is one of the outcomes of the European Research Council (ERC)-project “Online ...
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Propositional quantifiers are added to a propositional modal language with two modal operators. The resulting language is interpreted over so-called products of Kripke frames whose accessibility relations are equivalence ...
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Syntactic discontinuities are very frequent in classical Latin and yet this data was never considered in debates on how expressive grammar formalisms need to be to capture natural languages. In this paper I show with ...
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This papyrus contains the subscriptions to a contract involving land cultivation and the payment of pactum. The term pactum refers to the “rent to be paid by tenants for their leasehold property”.1 The monastery rented ...
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We often speak as if there are merely possible people—for example, when we make such claims as that most possible people are never going to be born. Yet most metaphysicians deny that anything is both possibly a person and ...
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That a certain principle pervades the whole of the Dionysian corpus has been commonly acknowledged by readers of the works of this intriguing author. The principle is that of participation, which frames the structure of ...
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Glue Semantics is a theory of the syntax-semantics interface according to which the syntactic structure of a sentence produces premises in a fragment of linear logic, and the semantic interpretation(s) of the sentence ...
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The models of contingency in what propositions, properties and relations there are developed in Part 1 are related to models of contingency in what propositions there are due to Robert Stalnaker. It is shown that some but ...
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This papyrus contains the end of a contract, possibly a contract of land renunciation (ἀποταγή), see n. to l. 3. In P.Mon.Apollo I 25, a renunciation contract for monastery property, a monk from the Hermopolite monastery ...
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Robert Stalnaker has recently advocated propositional contingentism, the claim that it is contingent what propositions there are. He has proposed a philosophical theory of contingency in what propositions there are and ...
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Two expressive limitations of an infinitary higher-order modal language interpreted on models for higher-order contingentism – the thesis that it is contingent what propositions, properties and relations there are – are ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
According to propositional contingentism, it is contingent what propositions there are. This paper presents two ways of modeling contingency in what propositions there are using two classes of possible worlds models. The ...
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This article explores the connection between two theses: the principle of conditional excluded middle for the counterfactual conditional, and the claim that it is a contingent matter which (coarse grained) propositions ...
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This paper explores the evidence for dative case syncretism with personal pronouns in post‐Classical Greek based on documentary papyri (300BCE–800CE). Three alternative encodings are examined for the animate goal of transfer ...
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In 1994, John McDowell’s Locke lectures appeared in Mind and World. The book was to become highly influential. It both set the agenda for a number of philosophical debates within contemporary philosophy and framed the ...
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This article studies the notion of plasticity that Sergei Eisenstein identified as key to the practice of animation. But rather than approaching plasticity only in aesthetic terms, the article extends its meaning to consider ...
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Jeg vil i det følgende ved hjelp av flere eksempler fra hverdagslivet diskutere det jeg oppfatter som kostnadene ved å definere moralisering på en ensidig negativ måte. Å anse moralisering – som jeg vil definere som kritikk ...
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The impossibility theorem of Dekel, Lipman and Rustichini has been thought to demonstrate that standard state-space models cannot be used to represent unawareness. We first show that Dekel, Lipman and Rustichini do not ...
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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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It is widely thought that the acceptability of an abstraction principle is a feature of the cardinalities at which it is satisfiable. This view is called into question by a recent observation by Richard Heck. We show that ...
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The papyrus is incomplete, the bottom is missing. Traces of a few faded letters of a previous text are recognizable e.g. in l. 2. The hand is a rather practiced semi-cursive, which can be compared to P.Prag. I 45 (522), ...
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The article is made available in DUO with permission from the publisher; Artforum International.
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)
This paper considers what light experimental work on the development of irony comprehension can shed on the relation between echoic and pretence accounts of irony, and how theoretical debates about the nature of irony might ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
This paper has two central goals. The first is to argue for the metaphysical thesis that there is no such phenomenon as genericity, i.e., to argue for a form of eliminativism about genericity. The second is to defend a ...
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This paper offers three objections to Leslie’s recent and already influential theory of generics (Leslie in Philos Perspect 21(1):375–403, 2007a, Philos Rev 117(1):1–47, 2008): (i) her proposed metaphysical truth-conditions ...
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Many natural languages contain plural vocabulary such as ‘we’, ‘those’, ‘the philosophers’, ‘cooperate’, and ‘gathered’. What is the correct logical analysis of sentences involving such vocabulary? Before we can attempt ...
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This paper investigates a subtype of systematic polysemy which in English (and several other languages) appears to rest on the distinction between count and mass uses of nouns (e.g., shoot a rabbit/eat rabbit/wear rabbit). ...
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Denne artikkelen viser hvordan et av de estetiske aspektene ved bilder, nemlig det mimetiske aspektet, kan redegjøres for ved hjelp av en persepsjonsteori for bilder. Dette utgjør et eksempel på hvordan persepsjonsfilosofi ...
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A theory of normative reasons for action faces the fundamental challenge of accounting for the dual nature of reasons. On the one hand, some reasons appear to depend on, and vary with, desires. On the other hand, some ...
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Aristotle thinks that an account, a logos, of some sort is characteristic of craft, technē. Some scholars think that the logos element of technē is tagged onto experience as a theoretical element not directly engaged in ...
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A new puzzle of modal recombination is presented which relies purely on resources of first-order modal logic. It shows that naive recombinatorial reasoning, which has previously been shown to be inconsistent with various ...
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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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Top and left hand margin preserved. The writing is a practiced cursive. Although the sample is limited, the script is comparable to P.Tebt. II 308 (Tebtynis, 174) or to P.Harrauer 34 (ca. 147), which supports a date into ...
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Disdain and contempt have often been taken to be vicious attitudes. This view has been further defended by Stephen Darwall in his ambitious and elaborate second-personal account of morality. In Th e Second-Person Standpoint, ...
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Luck egalitarianism originated in an attempt to respond to the conservative objection that egalitarianism fails to respect the value of responsibility. In response, luck egalitarians have introduced a distinction between ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2012)
A rectangular parchment strip which bears writing in brown ink by the same hand on both sides. The quality of the writing surface is low. It is so thin that the ink has at places penetrated through to the other side affecting ...
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It is often assumed that we are only blameworthy for that over which we have control. In recent years, however, several philosophers have argued that we can be blameworthy for occurrences that appear to be outside our ...
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The presence of mythological examples in Aphrodite’s speech to Anchises is one of the traits which impart to the (fifth Homeric) Hymn to Aphrodite its distinctive character as the ‘most Homeric’ of the early hexametric ...
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In this paper it is argued that we should not give money to beggars. Rather than spending our welfare budget on the people whom we happen to pass by on the street, we should spend it on those who are genuinely poor and who ...
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This introductory paper raises, partly as a preparation for the other papers in this issue, questions about how philosophy ought to proceed in the light of knowledge we have in surrounding disciplines, with a focus on the ...
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This study presents an analysis of 2 216 European higher education institutions (HEIs) from 27 countries. It investigates determinants of participation in the European Union’s Framework Programme for research and innovation ...
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The paper argues that the correct definition of lying is that to lie is to assert something one believes to be false, where assertion is understood in terms of the notion of the common ground of a conversation. It is shown ...
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The hedonistic theories of Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill are both widely known. Hedonism before Bentham, however, is much less known and, hitherto, no systematic presentation of hedonism's early history has been ...
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Durante l'epoca delle rivoluzioni inglesi e subito dopo, si aprono spazi, seppur limitati, di visibilità femminile. Grazie alla finestra di opportunità dovuta al crollo della censura, alla partecipazione nelle sette radicali ...
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According to a guiding idea in metaethics, there is a necessary link between the concept of normative reasons and the concept of practical rationality. This notion brings up two issues: The exact nature of this link, and ...
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Erik Werenskiolds kunstproduksjon er rikholdig. Hans malerier og illustrasjoner er velkjente. En bondebegravelse (1883–1885), September (1883) med telemarksjentene ved skigarden og illustrasjonen til «Soria Moria slott» ...
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Il pensiero femminista èparte costitutiva del pensiero politico e della sua storia. Esso è sia metodo di indagine, presadi parola e di parte sul mondo erivendicazione della centralità politica delle donne,sia critica ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
The term "fake news" ascended rapidly to prominence in 2016 and has become a fixture in academic and public discussions, as well as in political mud-slinging. In the flurry of discussion, the term has been applied so broadly ...
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Cet essai identifie les directions majeures de la recherche internationale sur l’art nordique depuis l’exposition de Kirk Varnedoe, Northern Light, en 1982. Dans les décennies qui ont suivi cette exposition, une perspective ...
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Based on the homonymy of the Greek nounμῆλον, several mythological sources attest to a tradition according to which the golden μῆλαguarded by the Hesperides were in fact not golden apples, but beautiful sheep. This article ...
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A pragmatic account of referential communication is developed which presents an alternative to traditional Gricean accounts by focusing on cooperativeness and efficiency, rather than informativity. The results of four ...
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Barndomshjemmet, Ålhus prestegård, er et sentralt motiv i Nikolai Astrups kunstnerskap. Prestegården fremstilles på mange forskjellige måter og med en variert grad av klarhet. Med utgangspunkt i Astrups begrep om dunkelhet, ...
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That there is a human right to subsistence is a basic assumption for most moral and political theorists interested in the problem of global poverty, but it is not one exempt from controversy. In this article, I examine ...
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The article elaborates some of the key insights drawn from olga Freidenberg’s analysis of Attic tragedy in Image and Concept, focussing on the implications of her notion of primitive spectactorship for research into other ...
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En uttalelse om at personer med Downs syndrom ikke kan leve fullverdige liv, satte i gang en stor og opphetet debatt i den norske offentligheten i 2017. Denne ga opphav til en mer overordnet debatt om hva akademikere bør ...
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Which comprehension axioms of higher-order logic are acceptable? That is, under what conditions does a formula define a concept or circumscribe some objects? It is well known that unrestricted higher-order comprehension ...
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This chapter discusses four questions concerning the nature and role of the concept of truth in mathematics. First, the question as to whether the concept of truth is needed in a philosophical account of mathematics is ...
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«Fortelleren» er Walter Benjamins utkast til en romanteori: en sosiologisk undersøkelse av hvordan litterær form forholder seg til materielle produksjonsbetingelser, og samtidig en filosofisk analyse av endringer i menneskers ...
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Dummetts notion of indefinite extensibility is influential but obscure. The notion figures centrally in an alternative Dummettian argument for intuitionistic logic and anti‐realism, distinct from his more famous, ...
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A number of cases have arisen over recent decades in which sperm has been extracted from dead and dying men without their prior consent. These extractions are undertaken in order to allow the man's partner to become a ...
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We provide a formal model for the interaction of syntax and pragmatics in the interpretation of anaphoric binding constraints on personal and reflexive pronouns. We assume a dynamic semantics, where e-type expressions ...
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In this article we suggest a new interpretation of the private letter first published as P.Yale 1.78. Improved readings of ll. 1-2 and 6-9 and the address on the verso provide a more coherent grammatical structure and allow ...
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The interrelated aims of this paper are twofold: first, to explore the position and role of Classical Greek paideia within Egyptian monasticism as illuminated by textual finds from the monasteries in the region of Western ...
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Edition, with philological and liturgical commentary, of two Theban 7th/8th century liturgical prayers in Sahidic Coptic from the Berlin Papyrus Collection. The first prayer is an unattested redaction of the intercession ...
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"This special issue of Acta ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia (from now on Acta) interrogates religious practices of reading, writing, praying and engaging with texts, images, architecture, music, and ritual ...
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This article uses analytical concepts from cognitive science to explore and deepen our understanding of how medieval monastics imagined themselves as characters within biblical narratives. It argues that Cistercian monks ...
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Annotated bibliography (in the section Childhood Studies) - this 2018 edition is a thoroughly revised and updated version of the first edition from 2015.
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2010)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
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This article analyses and discusses the references to the Greek hero and demigod Heracles as they appear in the Homeric epics and in Apollonius of Rhodes’ Argonautica. Methodologically, it is based on narratological character ...
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This article explores whether and how network visualization can benefit philological and historicallinguistic study. This is illustrated with a corpus-based investigation of scribes' language use in a lemmatized and ...
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Fra kristendommens første århundrer og fram til vår tid har det vært en stor interesse for Jesu og hans mor Marias barndom. Det nye testamentet, de eldste kristne skriftene, forteller riktignok ikke stort om dette. I de ...
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Historians disagree upon the status of Norway in the period 1380 to 1814, when the ancient kingdom was no longer independent, but ruled by the Danish king. The article studies views on 'the Norwegian', as expressed in ...
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This paper presents an attempt to establish qualitative and quantitative methods for measuring the transitivity of Latin textual genres. Traditionally defined as the capacity of a verb to pass the action from the subject ...
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In this paper I analyse the results of a system of editorial regularization which has been in practice for 125 years. The study of editorial practices in the past and present is executed by means of the new Trismegistos ...
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This study exploits treebanking to investigate how spoken language infiltrated into legal Latin in early medieval Italy. Documents are always formulaic, but they also always contain a ‘free’ part where the case in question ...
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The relationship between the Hymn to Aphrodite (Aphr) and the Hymn to Demeter (Dem) has attracted scholarly attention at least since the late 19th century. 1 An extensive list of verbal parallels has provided the basis for ...