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Should we be narrative? Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2024)
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Becoming a caregiver can be a transformative journey with profound, multifaceted implications for well-being. However, existing research predominantly emphasizes the negative aspects of caregiving, ...
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Anti-immigrant backlash has emerged in recent years as a considerable threat to democracy. In many countries illiberal and anti-democratic political forces driven in part by anti-immigrant sentiment have damaged or threaten ...
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I will outline four justifications of regional ecological obligations calling for different political authorities to collaborate for ecological reasons: through voluntary agreement between political entities united by an ...
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The recent dating of the Cerne Abbas Giant came as a surprise. This huge, naked figure was cut into a Dorset hillside not, as many have supposed, in prehistory, nor in the early modern period, but in the early Middle Ages. ...
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Ved sin død i 1810 donerte den norske embetsmannen Halvor Andersen sin samling på ca. 15.000 bøker til det planlagte universitetsbiblioteket i Christiania. Sammen med bøkene fulgte en stor mengde historisk arkivmateriale, ...
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The paper is devoted to the analysis of two seminal definitions of points within the region-based framework: one by Whitehead (1929) and the other by Grzegorczyk (Synthese, 12(2-3), 228-235 1960). Relying on the work of ...
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The article investigates how gender differences in school performance are conceptualized in recent Swedish and Norwegian public commission reports against the backdrop of an increasing public focus on “problem boys” and ...
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Combining high birth rates with gender equality and women’s reproductive choice is often put forward as a Nordic success story. We analyze Norwegian governmental commission reports delivered 1984–2017, ...
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This paper explores how, given a proof, we can systematically transform it into a proof that contains no irrelevancies and which is as strong as possible. I define a weaker and stronger notion of what ...
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Abstract Quine maintained that philosophical and scientific theorizing should be conducted in an untyped language, which has just one style of variables and quantifiers. By contrast, typed languages, such as those advocated ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Ordinarily, the order in which some objects are attached to a scale does not affect the total weight measured by the scale. This principle is shown to fail in certain cases involving infinitely many objects. In these cases, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Book / Bok, 2023)
Growing up and the World of the Child: A Search for Theoretical Interpretants. Leif Ahnström, Professor of Social Geography, University of Oslo (2005)
Foreword by Dagfinn Føllesdal, Professor of Philosophy (emeritus), ...
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Abstract Several studies have investigated the comprehension of decontextualized English nominal metaphors. However, not much is known about how contextualized, non-nominal, non-English metaphors are processed, and how ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Denne oppgava forsøker å undersøke forholdet mellom Navigatio Sancti Brendani (St. Brendans sjøreise) og Immram Maíle Dúin (Máel Dúins sjøreise) gjennom en komparativ analyse av tekstenes struktur, episoder og motiv ved ...
Fornuft og følelser i ei litta vise Om drikkevisers betydning for fellesskap blant studenter i emosjonshistorisk perspektiv Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
De fleste i Norge har mest sannsynlig hørt eller kan minst en drikkevise. Vi har eldgamle tradisjoner for å bruke sang når vi drikker alkohol i fellesskap. Fra vikingtiden, gjennom 1700-tallets Petter Dass og dagens Freddy ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
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The chapter focuses on the interactions between the two major linguistic players in Egypt during the Ptolemaic and Roman periods, Egyptian and Greek. Egyptian was the majority language, while in the aftermath of the country’s ...
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Sheds new light on European and regional book markets, the development of a public sphere and the impact of new media on intellectual, social, religious and political change.
How do you become a citizen? Ever since ...
Necessary Identity -- A Logical and Philosophical Investigation Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
A derivation of the necessity of identity that dates back to Ruth Barcan challenges the once consensus view that identical object(s) are contingently identical. This dissertation argues against the once consensus view and ...
Tracing Mime in Theocritus’ Idylls Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis aims to investigate the transposition of mime in Theocritus’ Idylls through the analysis of Sophron and Herodas’ mimes and the metrical examination of bucolic diaresis. It inquires into the division of Idylls ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Denne masteroppgaven utforsker de norske kunstnerne Per Krohgs (1889-1965) og Julie de Holmberg Krohns (1882-1956) studiereiser til Nord-Afrika mellom årene 1920 og 1929. De bragte med seg flere verk og studier fra reisene, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
I nyere tid har det vært et økende fokus på dyr og menneske-dyr relasjoner i fagfelt innen humaniora og samfunnsvitenskapene. Også i historiske undersøkelser har dyr fått oppmerksomhet. Likevel har fisk i stor grad blitt ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
teamLab Borderless, an exhibition that focuses on flow by using projection art that mimics nature is an exhibition seeking to bring people together in their spaces with encouraging exploration instead of loneliness. This ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Visuelle og litterære fremstillinger av den nakne, døde kvinnekroppen var et gjennomgående fenomen i kunst og litteratur på 1700- og 1800-tallet i Europa. Fenomenet var også fremtredende i anatomiske gjengivelser av ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Samandrag I denne oppgåva set eg lys på eit tema om korleis ein bør gå fram for å undersøke spørsmål knytt til eit godt liv. Formålet mitt kan difor sjåast som eit grunnriss for å seie noko om kva som bør være på plass før ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Denne oppgaven er en idéhistorisk undersøkelse av hvordan læreren, skolelederen og forfatteren Mosse Jørgensen (1921–2009) forsøkte å demokratisere den offentlige skolen, med boka En nødvendig skole: plan for et forsøk ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Lenge har vitenskap, objektivitet, rasjonalitet og fakta blitt forstått som helt uforenelig med indre, emosjonelle prosesser. Ved hjelp av begreper hentet fra emosjonshistorie løfter jeg frem språket i brevkorrespondansen ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
In my thesis, I will analyze one of the earliest editions of Passional Christi und Antichristi from Wittenberg, which is held by the British Library. This edition is printed by Johann Rhau Grünenberg. With inspiration from ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Min hypotese er at Munch gjennom dannelsesreiser tilegnet seg kunnskap som førte til at han fylte kunstnerskapet sitt med formale elementer med opphav i renessansekunst og kunst fra antikken som er mulige å identifisere ...
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Historikeren Gerhard Schøning hevdet at den norrøne overleveringens flertydige omtale av Odin skjulte ikke mindre enn tre ulike historiske skikkelser som hadde gitt seg ut for å være, og blitt akseptert som, den norrøne ...
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Infants by 6 months recognize that speech communicates information between third parties. We investigated whether 6-month-olds always expect speech to communicate or whether they also consider social features of communication, ...
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‘Everyone knows what attention is’ according to William James. Much work on attention in psychology and neuroscience cites this famous phrase only to quickly dismiss it. But James is right about this: ‘attention’ was not ...
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This review provides an overview of the ethics of extinctions with a focus on the Western analytical environmental ethics literature. It thereby gives special attention to the possible philosophical grounds for Michael ...
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Biological conservation practices and approaches take many forms. Conservation projects do not only differ in their aims and methods, but also concerning their conceptual and normative background assumptions and their ...
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Rethinking Conceptual Autonomy Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis develops a method for Metasystemic Conceptual Engineering based on a revision of the concept of conceptual autonomy. The emphasis in conceptual engineering has typically been on a) individual concepts or words ...
Medieringsprosesser og tolkningsgrunnlag i nordisk fotografi: En undersøkelse av Kåre Kivijärvi og Matti Saanios fotografier i museer og publikasjoner. Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
The thesis is a descriptive and aesthetic investigation concerning the rehabilitation of ancient buildings converted into museums and their exhibition layout. It is carried out through direct observation, the analysis of ...
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Signed in 1959, the Antarctic Treaty is usually hailed as an example of what states can achieve when they leave aside their interests and truly collaborate. It was over 30 years ago, however, that the last significant legal ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Many of us go to the Internet to gather information relevant to our questions. Yet, much of the information on the Internet is irrelevant for answering them. How, then, can the Internet be a source of relevant information? ...
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Abstract In this paper, I argue that a realist account of the modality of moral supervenience is superior to a non-cognitivist account. According to the recommended realist account, moral supervenience amounts to strong ...
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Abstract That nature, including insentient entities such as trees, rivers, or ecosystems, should be recognized as right-holders is an enticing thought that would have substantial practical repercussions. But the position ...
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It is generally accepted that there is a visual field, but the analogous notion of an auditory field is rejected by many philosophers on the grounds that the metaphysics or phenomenology of audition lack the necessary ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Den overordnede rammen for oppgaven er japonisme i europeisk malerkunst på slutten av 1800-tallet. Hensikten med oppgaven har vært å analysere appropriasjoner fra japanske tresnitt, ukiyo-e, på områdene tematisk innhold, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Norwegian landscapes of the late 19th century, represented in the modernist paintings in Naturalist and Impressionist manner, discussed in the light of the aesthetic theory of the “sublime” in nature, as a form for painterly ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
In the following essay I assess three naturalistic readings of Nietzsche and offer an interpretation of Nietzsche’s naturalism. I argue that the three naturalistic readings confront some interpretive and philosophical ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
I denne oppgaven diskuterer jeg muligheten for en filosofi i dans gjennom det begrepslige rammeverket til Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Som en kroppslig erfaring undersøker jeg hvordan det å være tilskuer til dans dypest sett kan ...
The Nordic Drinking Horn - a Relic? Its ecology and cultural legacy Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
The Selfie Portrait An anthropology of the selfie: Visual selves and the identities they inhabit Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Reformasjonen gjorde det krevende for briter å bevege seg rundt om i Europa og fordi, men det stoppet ikke den skotske reisende William Lithgow. Han skrev om fyrstedømmer, republikker, kongedømmer og øysamfunn. I tillegg ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
På slutten av 1700-tallet hadde det vokst fram en økonomisk og herskapelig handelselite i Christiania, kjent som handelspatrisiatet i Christiania. Disse menneskene utgjorde en liten eksklusiv gruppe som aktivt deltok i og ...
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The use of the Norwegian intonation pattern Polarity Focus highlights the polarity of a contextually given thought and enables the speaker to signal whether she believes it to be a true or false description of some state ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Trans* philosophy, given its recent emergence, is in the process of establishing itself within the discipline. This thesis argues that trans* philosophy is an illuminatory project that confers intelligibility onto trans* ...
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Mange studieretninger har grunnemner innen matematikk, fysikk, kjemi og statistikk som del av studieprogrammet. Erfaringsmessig er det vanskelig å motivere studenter i disse fagene som for mange kun blir støttefag. Disse ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Denne oppgaven analyserer hvordan Roy Anderssons filmer gjør bruk av religiøse tematikker og bilder. Filmene utforsker tematikker som kristenhumanisme, gudstro og tvil, samt kritikk av institusjonell kristendom i en svensk ...
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Abstract Most work in the epistemology of testimony is built upon a simple model of communication according to which, when the speaker asserts that p, the hearer must recover this very content, p. In this paper, I argue ...
Are we better selfless Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Unge Kunstneres Samfund (UKS) er et visningssted for samtidskunst og en medlemsorganisasjon for kunstnere stiftet i 1921. Denne organisasjonshistoriske masteroppgaven tar for seg kvinnerepresentasjon i UKS fra 1921 til ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This paper explores a theory-based physicalism conditional on string theoretical frameworks in modern physics, with an aim to provide a novel response to Frank Jackson´s Knowledge Argument against physicalism. This presents ...
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When the ancient Greek heritage was rehabilitated in the Renaissance, its students were first and foremost aspiring humanists, almost as a rule men. An early exception was Ippolita Maria Sforza (1445–88), the eldest daughter ...
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Abstract Thin Objects has two overarching ambitions. The first is to clarify and defend the idea that some objects are ‘thin’, in the sense that their existence does not make a substantive demand on reality. The second ...
The Motions of Rhythm: A study of rhythm in Gustav Vigeland and Rudolf von Laban's art Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
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Saint Birgitta of Sweden (d. 1373), one of the most famous visionary women of the late Middle Ages, lived in Rome for the last 23 years of her life. Much of her extensive literary work was penned there. Her Celestial ...
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Objective Staff’s attitudes to the use of coercion may influence the number of coercive interventions employed and staff willingness to engage in professional development projects aimed at reducing the use of coercion ...
Understanding others: feminist pragmatist reflections on Dewey, aesthetic experience and aesthetic injustice Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Revisiting the Worldview Argument: Understanding the Relationship Between Metaphysics and Ethics in Environmental Philosophy Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
An influential idea in environmental ethics has been the claim that today’s environmental crises are rooted in a mechanistic, scientific worldview which entails dualism, anthropocentrism, and instrumentalism. It is therefore ...
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According to Weyl, “‘inexhaustibility’ is essential to the infinite”. However, he distinguishes two kinds of inexhaustible, or merely potential, domains: those that are “extensionally determinate” and those that are not. ...
Mellom hjemmet, kvinnen og vitenskapen - en idehistorisk analyse av tidsskriftet For Hus og Hjem som et forsvarsskrift for hjemmet. Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Kunst og kvalitet. En begrepsanalytisk og pragmatisk tilnærming til kvalitetsvurderinger i den visuelle kunsten Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Oppgaven er en undesøkelse av premissene for kvalitetsvurderinger i den visuelle kunsten. Jeg har stilt spørsmål om hvordan man går fram når man bestemmer normer for kvalitetsvurderinger, formulerer kvalitetskriterier og ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Jeg undersøker bindingsdomenet til det gammelgreske pronomenet ἑαυτοῦ ved hjelp av leksikalsk-funksjonell grammatikk. Jeg kommer frem til at dette pronomenet har to bruksmåter, én refleksiv og én logoforisk, selv om det ...
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Abstract
Contingentists—who hold that it is contingent what there is—are divided on the claim that having a property or standing in a relation requires being something. This claim can be formulated as a natural ...
Astrup encountering Japan: Study of Nikolai Astrup’s deep engagement with Japanese art from a global perspective Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Arkitektur og alderdom: Et nærstudium av bidragsyterne og byggeprosessen til Økern aldershjem 1946 - 1955 Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Denne masteroppgaven er et nærstudium av byggeprosessen til Økern aldershjem (1950 – 55), som ble realisert gjennom et samarbeid mellom arkitektene Sverre Fehn (1924 – 2009) og Geir Grung (1926 – 1989). I forsøk på å belyse ...
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In the present review paper by members of the collaborative research center “Register: Language Users' Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation” (CRC 1412), we assess the pervasiveness of register phenomena across ...
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Abstract Serious actualists take it that all properties are existence entailing. I present a simple puzzle about sentence tokens which seems to show that serious actualism is false. I then consider the most promising ...
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Abstract This paper evaluates the proof-theoretic definition of ground developed by Poggiolesi in a range of recent publications and argues that her proposed definition fails. The paper then outlines an alternative approach ...
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The village of Duved in northern Sweden faces rapid transformation related to the tourism industry, including new housing and recreational facilities in the mountains. Existing places with inherent social values that play ...
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Abstract What is absolutely unrestricted quantification? We distinguish two theoretical roles and identify two conceptions of absolute generality: maximally strong generality and maximally inclusive generality. We also ...
A Tale of Two Hinges: Propositional and Doxastic Hinge Commitments in Duncan Pritchard’s Non-Belief Hinge Epistemology Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
« Nel bianco della carta ». Affective Rhetoric and Literary Memory in the Savorgnan-Bembo Correspondence · The love correspondence between Maria Savorgnan and Pietro Bembo that unfolds in the early years of the sixteenth ...
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Den 30. november 1979 åpnet en ny middelalderutstilling på Historisk museum i Oslo. Utstillingens design var utformet av den internasjonalt anerkjente arkitekten Sverre Fehn (1924–2009) og museets konservator Martin Blindheim ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2023)
Objectives
We investigated the relationship between childhood weight status and academic achievement across sexes and different school subjects in Norway.
Study Design and Setting
We used data from the Norwegian ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Knud Knudsen var en pioner i norsk fotohistorie som fotograferte minst 10 000 bilder og er kjent for å ha dannet bildet av det norske landskapet. Bildene hans er skrevet mye om i norsk kunsthistorie, men isbrefotografiene ...