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Theories of Independent Intelligences as a Lakatosian Research Program
2022
AbstractTheories of different and independent types of intelligence constitute a Lakatosian research program, as they all claim that human intelligence has a multidimensional structure, consisting of independent cognitive abilities, and that human intelligence is not characterized by any general ability that is of greater practical importance, or that has greater predictive validity, than other, more specialized cognitive abilities. This paper argues that the independent intelligences research program is degenerating, since it has not led to novel, empirically corroborated predictions. However, despite its flaws, the program provides an illustrative example of some of the philosophical prob…
Ecological Sensibility: Recovering Axel Honneth’s Philosophy of Nature in the Age of Climate Crisis
2020
What is “critical” about critical theory? I claim that, to be “critical enough”, critical theory’s future depends on being able to handle today’s planetary climate crisis, which presupposes a philo...
Plikt til samarbeid, invitasjon til konflikt? Sykepleierrollen i norske høysikkerhetsfengsel
2020
A decidable multi-modal logic of context
1997
We give a logic for formulas Á¡± Ã, with the informal reading ”à is true in the context described by Á”. These are interpreted as binary modalities, by quantification over an enumerable set of unary modalities c¡± Ã, meaning ”à is true in context c”. The logic allows arbitrary nesting of contexts. A corresponding axiomatic presentation is given, and proven to be decidable, sound, and complete. Previously, quantificational logic of context restricted the nesting of contexts, and was only known to be decidable in very special cases.
Det såkalte selvbedraget : En fenomenologisk og analytisk kritikk av forestillingen om å bli bedratt av seg selv
2019
Masteroppgave religion REL500 - Universitetet i Agder 2019 Understanding self-deception, the way this term is still applied, has prompted both philosophers, psychologists and others in finding solutions to the dilemma by suggesting theories as to the construction of and motivation behind the phenomenon. Some of these theories compromise the core issue - that p and ~p cannot be true at the same time. Other theories work around the dilemma by offering rather dubious assumptions like boundaries between parts of the mind.My suggestion is a rather clear-cut definition by which self-deception is congruent with Moor's paradox. The self-deception then disappears because the contradiction is cast as…
Group epistemic value
2021
AbstractSometimes we are interested in how groups are doing epistemically in aggregate. For instance, we may want to know the epistemic impact of a change in school curriculum or the epistemic impact of abolishing peer review in the sciences. Being able to say something about how groups are doing epistemically is especially important if one is interested in pursuing a consequentialist approach to social epistemology of the sort championed by Goldman (Knowledge in a social world. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999). According to this approach we evaluate social practices and institutions from an epistemic perspective based on how well they promote the aggregate level of epistemic value ac…
An Arctic Archive for the Anthropocene
2019
Author's accepted manuscript (postprint). Available from 25/10/2020.
A uniform quantificational logic for algebraic notions ofcontext
2002
A quantificational framework of formal reasoning is proposed, which emphasises the pattern of entering and exiting context. Contexts are modelled by an algebraic structure which reflects the order and manner in which context is entered into and exited from. The equations of the algebra partitions context terms into equivalence classes. A formal semantics is defined, containing models that map equivalence classes of certain context terms to sets of first order structures. The corresponding Hilbert system incorporates the algebraic equations as axioms asserted in context. In this way a uniform logic for arbitrary algebras of context is obtained. Soundness and completeness are proved. In semig…
Angstens filosofi
2003
Angst har vært et viktig tema i nyere filosofi. Etter en kort introduksjon til fenomenologisk metode, gis det i denne artikkelen en presentasjon av Søren Kierkegaards, Martin Heideggers og Jean-Paul Sartres bidrag til angstens filosofi. Her relateres angstfølelsen til erfaring av intethet og til den grunnleggende eksistensielle friheten. Med utgangspunkt i denne filosofiske teorien gis en drøfting av hvordan angsten kan oppfattes som et uttrykk for en indre spenning. Til slutt vises det hvordan den filosofiske angstteorien kan relateres til konkrete angstformer og angstlidelser.
Sivil ulydighet i økokrisens tid
2022
Extinction Rebellions bruk av sivil ulydighet som protestform mot det de oppfatter som en rovdrift på jordsystemet er omstridt. I denne artikkelen fremsettes det jeg kaller et økoargument for sivil ulydighet og hevder at slik protest er akseptabelt som en moralsk, demokratisk og transnasjonal håndtering av natur- og klimakrisen. Jeg kritiserer her John Rawls’ rettferdighetsargument og Jürgen Habermas’ demokratiargument for sivil ulydighet fordi de representerer en antroposentrisme som forsterker denne krisen snarere enn å bidra til å løse den. Som et alternativ, bygger økoargumentet på et økosentrisk natursyn og en økologisk demokratimodell.