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ELSA-Etiske,rettslige og samf.m. as

NANOETHOS - Novel challenges for ELSA studies

A keyword in the proposed project is the ethos of science. We take the starting point that ethos of science is a necessary prerequisite for social robust development and application of nanotechnology. As reflected in many recent discussions on the issue o f how the ELSA of nanotechnology should b...

Awarded: NOK 0.38 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

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

Research Stay in Bergen

My current research field is philosophy of art, with particular reference to classic expressivists (Tolstoy, Croce and Collingwood). I am attempting to defend the notion of expression of the classic expressivists by relating it to the Wittgensteinian one and to give a global elucidation of the c...

Awarded: NOK 70,000

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

An Essay on Space and Time

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Awarded: NOK 29,436

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

In genes we trust? Biobanks, commercialisation and everyday life

Genetic testing has created new business opportunities, which are already evident in companies such as deCODEme and 23andMe. These companies present new visions of 'genetic health' - partly relying on the exceptional role of genetics (the secrets are in t he genes), but also partly relying on a t...

Awarded: NOK 3.8 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Etikk i praksis. Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics

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Awarded: NOK 64,999

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Passasjer - En innføring i filosofiens utførelse

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Awarded: NOK 49,999

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Oslo

IS-STP-Statsstipendprogram, utlendinger

Serafinova Valentinova, Silviya Bulgaria 08/09 Kulturavtalestipend

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Awarded: NOK 70,000

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Vestland

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

HUM-Fagkomiteen for humaniora

First Annual Conference for the History of Science in Norway

The aim of the conference is to establish a national network for historians of science in Norway. At present no such organisation exists. Nevertheless, at all the main universities we have strong research groups committed towards developing the history of science as a discipline. By bringing tog...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Oslo

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Hans-Georg Gadamer. Sannhet og metode

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Awarded: NOK 74,999

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Oslo

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

HUM-Fagkomiteen for humaniora

Concept Formation and Knowledge in Early Greek Stoicism.

This doctoral thesis will contribute to the scholarship by giving an account of the function of preconceptions (prolepseis) in the theory of knowledge and concept formation in Early Greek Stoicism. In Early Greek Stoicism, preconceptions (prolepseis) have two essential roles. On the one hand, th...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

HUM-Fagkomiteen for humaniora

Moral responsiblity: Challenges and implications for law and political theory

The research will be presented in five articles which all relate to moral responsibility. I will address challenges to moral responsibility in light of empirical knowledge, i.e., neuroscientific knowledge about the causes of human behaviour and sociologic al knowledge of divergences in people's c...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

IS-DAAD-Forskerutveksl. Norge-Tyskland

Pichler, Alois DAADppp 2008-2009 Tysk-norsk forskerutveksling

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Awarded: NOK 59,213

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Vestland

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Oversettelse til tysk av samtale med Professor Ray Monk

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Awarded: NOK 7,923

Project Period: 2007-2008

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

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

David Hume: En avhandling om menneskets natur

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Awarded: NOK 84,999

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Oslo

IS-NAD-Samarbeid med NORAD-land

Zhang, Jianjun kinesisk spes 2007

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Awarded: NOK 13,740

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Oslo

SFF-Sentre for fremragende forskn

Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, CSMN

CSMN har siden oppstart i 2007 til avslutningen i 2017 hatt et høyt aktivitetsnivå og omfattende interaksjon med en lang rekke internasjonale forskningsmiljøer. Senterets kjernegruppe, lenge åtte forskere; halvt lokal, halvt internasjonal, var ved SFF-periodens avslutning 10 forskere, 7 av de...

Awarded: NOK 98.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2017

Location: Oslo

ETIKKFU-Etikk - forskerutdanning

Videreføring av Nasjonalt etikknettverk - den nasjonale knutepunktsfunksjonen for forskerutdanning og forskning i etikk

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Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

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

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