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8Dialogens betingelserHallvard J. Fossheim, Dialog. En filosofisk tilnærming. Oslo: Cappelen Damm Akademisk 2022Agora Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon 41 (1): 561-572. 2023.
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12Metafysikkens uunnværlige elendighetArmen AvanessianMetafysikk for vår tidExistenz forlag, Oslo 2021, ISBN 9788269190939Norsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift 58 (1): 46-60. 2023.
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16Innledning til temanummer om examen philosophicumNorsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift 57 (1-2): 6-9. 2022.
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961Heller død enn udødeligNorsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift 52 (1-2): 40-56. 2017.«Hva er det vi egentlig mener når vi sier, mennesket er dødelig?» spør Woody Allen i boken The Insanity Defence. Han legger til: «Det er åpenbart ikke et kompliment.»1 Jeg tror Woody tar feil her. Vår dødelighet er et kompliment – eller i det minste av det gode – siden livet uten døden ville være katastrofalt. Udødelige liv fører til dyp kjedsomhet, eksistensiell angst og en radikal form for verdinihilistisk tilværelse. Grunnen er at udødeligheten gjør at vi en gang i fremtiden må konfronteres m…Read more
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378Hvorfor handlingskunnskap ikke er slutningsbasertNorsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift 52 (4): 161-179. 2017.The paper discusses the epistemological basis for how you know what you are doing intentionally (and why). In particular, it challenges and ulimately rejects the claim made by Sarah K. Paul that such knowledge has an inferential basis.
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55Why die – a philosophical apology of deathInternational Journal of Philosophy and Theology 79 (1-2): 136-155. 2017.In the Insanity Defence Woody Allen claims that when we say humans are mortal we are obviously not complimenting them. It is difficult to contradict great comedy, of course, but if what I argue holds, Allen is wrong on this account. Mortality is a compliment – or at least something for which we should be grateful – since life without it threatens with disaster. To live without death also means living in the universe in its more hostile stages under conditions where there can be no meaningful lif…Read more
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826The Primacy of Knowledge: A Critical Survey of Timothy Williamson's Views on Knowledge, Assertion and ScepticismDissertation, University of Oslo. 2007.The following thesis discusses a range of central aspects in Timothy Williamson’s so-called «knowledge-first» epistemology. In particular, it adresses whether this kind of epistemological framework is apt to answer the challenges of scepticism.
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359Action and the problem of evilInternational Journal of Philosophy and Theology 76 (4): 335-351. 2015.Most contemporary action theorists deny the possible existence of intentionally evil actions or diabolic agency. The reason for this is a normative interpretation of agency that appears to be motivated by action theoretic concerns, where agents are conceived as necessarily acting sub specie bonie or under ‘the guise of the good’. I argue that there is nothing in human agency to motivate this view and that diabolic evil is not at odds with inherent features of our nature.
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985Ethics and the Nature of ActionDissertation, University of Oslo. 2011.The following thesis starts from the question «why be moral?» and adresses an action-theoretic strategy for answering this question in the positive by reference to the constitutive natur of actions. In these debates, the epistemology of action has turned into a central issue. The thesis adresses these debates and develops a novel account of the epistemology: an account that may well turn out to provide a ground for the aforementioned constitutivist strategies.
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52Handling og den praktiske kunnskapens metafysikkNorsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift 5-19. 2016.The following paper argues that the epistemology of action can best be understood via a metaphysical framework of knowledge where the latter is conceived as a metaphysically primitive relation holding between a subject (or mind) and a fact. In particular, it argues that we must separate sharply between the knowledge relation itself and the different means by virtue of which knowledge obtains. Once that distinction is in place, we can see that there is no obstacle to argue that ordinary knowledge…Read more
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1328Kunnskapens MetafysikkNorsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift 49 (3-4): 190-202. 2014.This paper discusses and develops an account in the metaphysics of knowledge where knowledge is explained as a metaphysically primitive relation holding between a subject (or mind) and a fact.
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NTNUAssociate Professor
Trondheim, Sor-Trondelag, Norway
Areas of Specialization
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Epistemology |
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Action |
Meta-Ethics |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Value Theory |