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57From Empedocles to Wittgenstein: Historical Essays in Philosophy – Anthony Kenny (review)Philosophical Quarterly 61 (242): 187-189. 2011.
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33The Limits of Rationality: A Critical Analysis of the Practices of Plato's SocratesThe European Legacy 13 (7): 851-861. 2008.In our tradition, Socrates, as he figures in the work of Plato, stands for rationality. In one way, of course, the tendency to treat him as rationality incarnate is not too far of the mark; for Socrates does indeed introduce into our thought and discussions a demand for argument, for stringency and consistency. However, the manner in which Socrates carries out his historically influential elenctic activity belies the shortcomings of this oft-quoted and inspirational picture. It is these irration…Read more
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295. The prooimia, Types of Motivation, and Moral PsychologyIn Christoph Horn (ed.), Platon: Gesetze/Nomoi, De Gruyter. pp. 87-104. 2013.
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19The Ideals of Inquiry: An Ancient History (review)Philosophical Quarterly 66 (265): 857-859. 2016.
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19The Quest for the Good Life: Ancient Philosophers on Happiness (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2015.How should I live? How can I be happy? What is happiness, really? These are perennial questions, which in recent times have become the subject of diverse kinds of academic research. Ancient philosophers placed happiness at the centre of their thought, and we can trace the topic through nearly a millennium. While the centrality of the notion of happiness in ancient ethics is well known, this book is unique in that it focuses directly on this notion, as it appears in the ancient texts. Fourteen pa…Read more
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18Past responsibility: History and the ethics of research on ethnic groupsStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 73 35-43. 2019.
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15The Form of Politics: Aristotle and Plato on Friendship, written by John von HeykingInternational Journal of the Platonic Tradition 12 (2): 183-185. 2018.
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13Aristotle on Virtuous Questioning of MoralityIn Beatrix Himmelmann (ed.), Why Be Moral? An Argument from the Human Condition in Response to Hobbes and Nietzsche, . pp. 65-80. 2015.
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10The Number of Rulers in Plato’s StatesmanPolis 37 (3): 435-448. 2020.This essay poses the question of how many rulers are envisaged in Plato’s Statesman. After pointing out that this is a crucial question for issues concerning non-ideal as well as ideal approaches to political rule, the essay focuses on three relevant aspects of rule in the Statesman: the notion of kingly rule, the limitations posed by human nature, and the importance of self-rule. It is shown how each of these dimensions of Plato’s discussion demonstrates the complexity of the question. Particul…Read more
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9Kommentar til Kallikles-episoden: Gorgias 481b–522eNorsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift 42 (1-2): 80-150. 2007.
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8On Plato's Use of Socrates as a Character in his DialoguesRhizai. A Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science 5 239-263. 2008.In this essay, it is first argued that there are several important motivations for considering as wholly legitimate the question concerning the presence of Socrates in Plato’s work. After sketching how reason in Plato’s dialogues is generally portrayed as embedded in the soul as a whole, I then apply these insights in arguing that this relation between character and thinking should inform our understanding of Plato’s Socrates as well. Socrates is present in the texts because reason, according to…Read more
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7Internet research ethics (edited book)CappelenDamm Academic. 2015.This anthology addresses ethical challenges that arise within the field of Internet research. Among the issues discussed in the book are the following:When is voluntary informed consent from research subjects required in using the Internet as a data source?How may researchers secure the privacy of research subjects in a landscape where the traditional public/private distinction is blurred and re-identification is a recurring threat?What are the central ethical and legal aspects of Internet resea…Read more
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4Philosophy as Drama: Plato’s Thinking through Dialogue (edited book)Bloomsbury Academic. 2019.Plato's philosophical dialogues can be seen as his creation of a new genre. Plato borrows from, as well as rejects, earlier and contemporary authors, and he is constantly in conversation with established genres, such as tragedy, comedy, lyric poetry, and rhetoric in a variety of ways. This intertextuality reinforces the relevance of material from other types of literary works, as well as a general knowledge of classical culture in Plato's time, and the political and moral environment that Plato …Read more
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4The Question of Methodology in Plato’s ProtagorasIn Vigdis Songe-Møller & Olof Pettersson (eds.), Plato’s Protagoras: Essays on the Confrontation of Philosophy and Sophistry, Springer. pp. 9-21. 2016.The Protagoras, one of Plato’s most entertaining and beloved works, is also among his most perplexing. Along with one or two other Platonic dialogues, the Protagoras has defied a unified reading—a reading that makes sense of the dialogue’s various parts as belonging to one whole. It is my aim with this article to suggest a new reading that allows us to see the unifying theme of the Protagoras. In doing this, I will identify a crucial asset of philosophical methodology when this is contrasted wit…Read more
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3The Philosophy of Computer Games (edited book)Springer. 2012.Computer games have become a major cultural and economic force, and a subject of extensive academic interest. Up until now, however, computer games have received relatively little attention from philosophy. Seeking to remedy this, the present collection of newly written papers by philosophers and media researchers addresses a range of philosophical questions related to three issues of crucial importance for understanding the phenomenon of computer games: the nature of gameplay and player experie…Read more
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3Regimer og maktfordeling hos Platonog AristotelesAgora Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon 36 (2-3): 05-19. 2018.
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2Aristotle on Happiness and Old AgeIn Øyvind Rabbås, Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson, Hallvard Fossheim & Miira Tuominen (eds.), The Quest for the Good Life: Ancient Philosophers on Happiness, Oxford University Press Uk. pp. 65-81. 2015.
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2Division as a Method in PlatoIn Jakob Leth Fink (ed.), The development of dialectic from Plato to Aristotle, Cambridge University Press. 2012.
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2Habituation as mimesisIn Timothy Chappell (ed.), Values and Virtues: Aristotelianism in Contemporary Ethics, Oxford University Press. 2006.
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1Aristotle on children and childhoodIn Reidar Aasgaard & Cornelia Horn (eds.), Childhood in History: Perceptions of Children in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds, Routledge. pp. 37-55. 2017.
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1More Than Just Bones: Research and Human Remains (edited book)The National Research Ethics Committees of Norway. 2012.
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1Individual, Society, and Teleology: An Aristotelian Conception of Meaning in LifeIn Beatrix Himmelmann (ed.), On Meaning in Life, De Gruyter. pp. 45-64. 2013.
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1Cross-Cultural Child Research: Ethical Issues (edited book)The National Research Ethics Committees of Norway. 2012.
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1Virtue Ethics and Everyday StrategiesRevue Internationale de Philosophie 2014 (267): 65-82. 2014.
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1The character of Socrates in Plato’s Apology: An Aristotelian analysisIn Vivil Valvik Haraldsen, Olof Pettersson & Oda E. Wiese Tvedt (eds.), Readings of Plato’s Apology of Socrates, Lexington Books. pp. 121-136. 2017.
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1Dialectic as inter-personal activity: Self-refutation and dialectic in Plato and Aristotle / Luca Castagnoli ; The role of the respondent in Plato and Aristotle / Marja-Liisa Kakkuri-Knuuttila ; Division as a method in PlatoIn Jakob Leth Fink (ed.), The development of dialectic from Plato to Aristotle, Cambridge University Press. 2012.
Hallvard Fossheim
University of Bergen
University of Bergen
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University of BergenProfessor
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