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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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). ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The article is made available in DUO with permission from the publisher; Artforum International.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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’, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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? ...

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 ...

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), ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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» ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Annotated bibliography (in the section Childhood Studies) - this 2018 edition is a thoroughly revised and updated version of the first edition from 2015.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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’, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...