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IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Truth and Intentionality: A critical examination of the logical and semantical basis of John McDowell's Descriptive Metaphysics.

John McDowell's Kantian-inspired, non-reductive account of the place of mind in nature has generated an intense debate and come under sever scrutiny from virtually all corners of the philosophical community. The various areas of his multifarious thinking have, however, generally been treated apa...

Awarded: NOK 0.33 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Oslo

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Wittgenstein's Doctrine of Formal Concepts and Its Reinterpretation in Logical Empiricism

Wittgenstein's "Tractatus", one of the most influential books in twentieth-century philosophy, contains a paradox that outlines the problem of the logico-syntactic well-formedness of any categorial distinctions. It was not until most recently that the vie w that successfully handling this paradox...

Awarded: NOK 69,999

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Agora, årgangene 2011-2013

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Awarded: NOK 0.58 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2013

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosj.st. hum og sam

Frege and the Distinction between Science, Literature and Philosophy

So far, the project has had results within four areas: 1) A paper that focuses on questions concerning the status of Frege's philosophical writings (paper nr 1 in this report) has been submitted to an internationally renowned journal. Paper nr 2 in this report, a paper on Frege, Wittgenstein and ...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2015

Location: Vestland

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

The centrality of aesthetics for Wittgenstein's philosophical thought

Ludwig Wittgenstein's (1889-1951) conception of philosophy, and its implications, are still the subject of a vivid debate. The aim of my project is to examine different key aspects of this conception in the light of his claim that that aesthetics in some internal sense belongs together with ethi...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Vestland

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

MSH: The Freedom of the Other. Ethical Consequences of Irigaray's Conception of Sexual Difference

The project "The Freedom of the Other. Ethical Consequences of Irigaray's Conception of Sexual Difference" investigates possible alternative conceptions of freedom from within an ontological-ethical perspective as articulated by Luce Irigaray. The projec t argues the ontological relevance of sex...

Awarded: NOK 10,000

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Vestland

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

MSH: Forskningsopphold for fransk forsker ved IKOS, Universitetet i Oslo

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Awarded: NOK 12,000

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

MSH: Forskningsopphold for fransk forsker ved Wittgensteinarkivet, UiB

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Awarded: NOK 6,000

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

The Problem of Method in Wittgenstein's 'Philosophical Investigations'

My research project focuses on a problem of Wittgenstein interpretation that was coined (among other things) the 'Theory vs. Therapy debate' and was provoked largely by a fresh reading of the Tractatus proposed first by Cora Diamond in the 1980s and then further developed by a group of interpret...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

European Existentialism and Postmodernism

The project emphasizes on a presentation of European Existentialism and its "clash" with Postmodern relativism. After the general description of the fundamental Existentialist concepts I will focus more on the relationship between Existentialism and Postm odernism. My target philosophers are Sart...

Awarded: NOK 58,000

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Science, Religion and Political Liberalism - A Critique of Political Liberal "Public Reason"

The project will result in a monograph of around 250 pages. The preliminary title of the dissertation is "On"Public Reason""- A Critique of Rawls' Idea of Public Reason. The dissertation will have an introductory chapter and three subsequent parts, each c omposed of two chapters. The introductor...

Awarded: NOK 96,000

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Vestland

FRIHUM-Fri prosjektstøtte humanistiske fag

Cognition and Communication: New Foundations for Contextualism

Externalism and contextualism are among the most hotly debated topics in recent analytic philosophy, yet there has never been a systematic study bringing the two together. My project starts from precisely such a juxtaposition, with the aim of providing a new theoretical foundation for contextuali...

Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

The Primacy of Knowledge - Research Visit at Rutgers State University

The Philosophy Department at Rutgers State University (New Jersey) has via Department Chair Barry Loewer and Associate Director of the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS) Professor Ernest Lepore granted me the great privilege of being invited ove r to enjoy status as a visiting scholar a...

Awarded: NOK 0.24 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Oslo

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

MSH: Forskningsopphold for fransk forsker ved Wittgensteinarkivet, UiB

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Awarded: NOK 2,800

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Ukjent Fylke

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

MSH: Forskningsopphold for fransk forsker ved Wittgensteinarkivet, UiB

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Awarded: NOK 2,800

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Ukjent Fylke

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

MSH: Forskningsopphold for fransk forsker ved Wittgensteinarkivet, UiB

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Awarded: NOK 2,800

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Ukjent Fylke

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Agora, årgangene 2008-2010

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Awarded: NOK 0.55 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Wittgenstein's philosophical method and the philosophical reception of literature. Research stay at the University of Chicago.

I have been awarded a research grant from the Fulbright scholar program to carry out research at the University of Chicago for the academic year of 2007/08. My appointment runs from August 1, 2007 till June 15, 2008. I am applying to the Research Council of Norway for a Leiv Eiriksson mobility gr...

Awarded: NOK 88,500

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Vestland

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

MSH: Forskningsopphold ved UiO for fransk forsker. Prosjekt: Cultural and Judicial Cosmopolitanism

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Awarded: NOK 11,000

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Ukjent Fylke

HUM-Fagkomiteen for humaniora

Conceptualizing Genetic Information and Genetic Causation in a Systems Biology Framework

There are high stakes both scientifically, socially and morally when questioning the causal role of genes. It has become an important goal in the philosophy of biology to elucidate the causal and conceptual role of genes as well as their scientific, polit ical, ethical and cultural significance. ...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

The Primacy of Action: Technologies and the Lifeworld

This project investigates the question "how does information- & communication technologies shape the forms of learning and construction of meaning." This is handled by first claiming that it cannot be investigated without having a clearly defined general concept of technology; and then by claimin...

Awarded: NOK 70,000

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Agora, årgang 2007

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Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Oslo

HUM-Fagkomiteen for humaniora

Rights, evil, and the moral permissibility of war

My research project addresses the question: on those occasions when war is morally permissible, all things considered, what explains its permissibility? I have two main aims: (i) to argue against an explanation that frames the permissibility of war narro wly in terms of rights and (ii) to argue ...

Awarded: NOK 0.39 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

HUM-Fagkomiteen for humaniora

Comparative Ethics of War

This project aims to develop a better understanding of how just war theories have been assessed within the world's leading religious traditions, including Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism. None of these traditions are static; each has undergone significant transformations over...

Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

HUM-Fagkomiteen for humaniora

Causation, dispositions and laws: A conditional analysis of causal matters

Some of the most urgent questions facing humankind cannot be answered until we understand causation. These questions can be environmental, medical or political. Does motoring cause global warming? Does smoking cause cancer? Did Saddam's actions cause the Iraq war? These are life and death issues....

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-STP-Statsstipendprogram, utlendinger

Eskelinen, Teppo Finsk statsstip 2006/07

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Awarded: NOK 41,500

Project Period: 2006-2006

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosj.st. hum og sam

Shared Content

Introduction to research Topic: Shared Content Speakers, more often than not, succeed in mutual comprehension despite a diversity of beliefs, intentions, interests, goals, audiences, conversational contexts, and perceptual inputs. Not only do we easily un derstand each other despite such differen...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2013

Location: Oslo

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

MSH: Forskningsopphold ved Filosofisk institutt, UiB. Prosjekt: The Idea of Culture

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Awarded: NOK 6,000

Project Period: 2006-2006

Location: Ukjent Fylke

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

MSH: Social autonomy as a democratic ideal

«Forholdet mellom myndigheter og befolkning - betingelser for samfunnsmessig autonomi» Kommunikasjonen mellom myndigheter og befolkning har betydning for et samfunns grad av, og type, demokrati. Prosjektet tar utgangspunkt i hvordan norske myndigheter s elv omtaler det kommunikative forholdet, ...

Awarded: NOK 8,000

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

MSH: Gjesteforskeropphold v/Wittgensteinarkivet, UiB, 22.-25.6.2005

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Awarded: NOK 1,800

Project Period: 2006-2006

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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