243 projects

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

Studies in the technical terminology of Greek papyri of medical content: The nomenclature and linguistic history of ancient drug containers

The research to be carried out during Isabella Bonati's Yggdrasil stay at the University of Oslo ultimately sheds light on scientific technical languages and their development from antiquity to modern times. Much as technical terminology has been transfor med over time, the technical vocabulary o...

Awarded: NOK 54,000

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Shaping a domain of knowledge by editorial processing: the case of editing Wittgenstein's work

The project "Shaping a domain of knowledge by editorial processing: the case of editing Wittgensteins work" (Nr.: 213080) describes the history of editing Wittgenstein's Nachlass in its social, philosophical and historical context. The well known philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein did not publis...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2017

Location: Vestland

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

Philosophy of War Mobile researcher: Yuriy Loboda, Ukraine

Among numerous philosophic fields of research like philosophy of law, language, logic, mind, science, biology, history, society etc had emerged new discipline - philosophy of war. Though philosophers from Heraclitus to Bernard Henri-Levy were always inter ested in war and projects of eternal peac...

Awarded: NOK 0.32 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ISPHUM-ISP - Humaniora

Representationalism or Anti-representationalism? Perspectives on intentionality from philosophy and cognitive science

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Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2017

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ISPHUM-ISP - Humaniora

History of Philosophy 600 BC-1800 AD: Research Training

The project, which was a three year collaborative project between the Department of Philosophy, Classics and the History of Arts and Ideas at the University of Oslo, Department of Philosophy at the University of Tromsø and, during the last year of the project, Department of Philosophy at the Univ...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2017

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Poetry and Philosophy. Poetical and Argumentative Elements in Plato´s Philosophy

The primary goal of the project has been to study the complex and seemingly incompatible relationship between philosohical argumentation and poetic, or literary, elements in Plato's dialogues.The insight that Plato's dialogues constitute a proper genre, where poetic and argumentative elements for...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2017

Location: Vestland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Personal Autonomy, Addiction and Mental Disorder

In science, normative thinking about addiction has traditionally been divided between, on the one hand, a medical model which sees addiction as a disease characterized by compulsive and relapsing drug use over which the addict has little or no control and, on the other, a moral model which sees a...

Awarded: NOK 4.3 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2016

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ISPHUM-ISP - Humaniora

Development and organization of two research training courses for PhD students in Philosophy and History of Ideas

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Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2016

Location: Vestland

ISPHUM-ISP - Humaniora

Applied Ethics: Technology and Governance of Health and Natural Resources

ISP FIDE - Applied Ethics: Technology and Governance of Health and Natural Resources has been funded by the Norwegian Research Council for the period 1 April 2012 - 31 mail 2015. The primary goal has been to strengthen Applied Ethics in Norwegian philosophy through active cooperation several of t...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2016

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ISPHUM-ISP - Humaniora

Philosophy, Neuroscience and Ethics - the Bergen Project Development Consortium

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Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2016

Location: Vestland

SAMKUL-Samfunnsutviklingens kulturelle forutsetninger

Resource Scarcity, Environment and Health: Global Justice and International Agreements

The proposal is a collaboration between members of different departments and faculties at the University of Bergen. We also have partners from outside of Bergen, and outside of academia. The project will organize two international conferences during 2012. The first will be an International confe...

Awarded: NOK 0.19 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2014

Location: Vestland

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Norsk filosofisk tidsskrift

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Awarded: NOK 0.67 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2014

Location: Oslo - Oslove

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Pragmatism, Naturalism, Subjectivity

1. The first paper examines the explanatory relation between thought and meaning, as this is handled by Rorty and other neo-pragmatists. I argue that a multi-dimensional notion of mind, acknowledging a range of mental capacities that do not presuppose lan guage, is better suited to the naturalist...

Awarded: NOK 91,000

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ISPHUM-ISP - Humaniora

Tiltak for nettverksutvikling innen faget idéhistorie

Evalueringsrapporten for filosofi og idéhistorie pekte blant annet på behovet for å utvikle nettverk og felles prosjekter innen idéhistoriefaget i Norge. Med denne søknaden ønsker idéhistorie å følge opp denne utfordringen. Prosjektet har sin base på idéh istorie i Oslo (primærsøker) og Bergen, m...

Awarded: NOK 0.55 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2015

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ISPHUM-ISP - Humaniora

Justice in Conflict

Justice in conflict is critically assessing some pressing contemporary conflicts concerning pluralism, democracy and justice from the perspective of political philosophy and normative theories of justice. The aim is to develop theoretical frameworks and c onceptual tools suited to address questio...

Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2017

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Etikk i praksis. Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics

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Awarded: NOK 43,000

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

The Reflective Mind: An Integrated Philosophical Study of Metarepresentation and Reasoning

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Awarded: NOK 12.1 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2017

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIHUM-Fri prosjektstøtte humanistiske fag

Simone de Beauvoir: Philosophy, Literature and the Humanities Internasjonal konferanse om Simone de Beauvoir, Oslo 20.-23.6. 2012

"Det finnes ikke et klart skille mellom filosofi og litteratur", sier Simone de Beauvoir, og hun var da også i hele sitt liv like sterkt opptatt av begge disipliner. Det å uttrykke seg både gjennom filosofi og litteratur handler om å kommunisere med andre , det handler om å vise hvordan andre ten...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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

Naturalising Content

I am applying for a grant to visit the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature (CSMN) at the University of Oslo from the beginning of September 2011 to the end of July 2012. I am currently a PhD student in philosophy based at the Arché research centre at t he University of St Andrews. While at CSM...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

The Wittgensteinian notion of album as a paradigm of comprehension : a manuscript's study.

The Wittgenstein Archives are hosted by the University of Bergen. These archives are unique and have made an outstanding contribution to the Wittgensteinian Studies, They are part of the development of electronic and web-based editions of the Wittgenstein Nachlass, providing many scholars in tha...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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 - Oslove

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

EUROCORES - Communication in Context / Words in Worlds

The theoretical groundwork for the project was completed during the first two years. This resulted in three articles: one which has been published at a top journal (Cohnitz & Haukioja, "Meta-Externalism and Meta-Internalism in the Study of Reference, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 2013), and ...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2015

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Copy-editing 'Religion, War, and Ethics - A Sourcebook'

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Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Causation in Science - An interdisciplinary study of causal processes

To find causes we need scientific methods. But which methods are best at picking out causation? It seems that, in order to find causes, we must have some prior knowledge of what causation is. While scientists deal with the concrete details, it is philosophers who consider in the abstract what it ...

Awarded: NOK 10.1 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2015

Location: Akershus

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Agora, årgangene 2011-2013

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Awarded: NOK 0.58 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2013

Location: Oslo - Oslove

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Etikk i praksis. Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics

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Awarded: NOK 54,000

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

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 Many Faces of Psychiatry

I will examine how Michel Foucault (1926-1984) analyzed Western psychiatry throughout his career, from the time psychiatry appears as a separate and autonomous discipline in the late 18th and early 19th century, to the 20th and 21st centuries. I will tent atively divide Foucault?s analyses into t...

Awarded: NOK 12,000

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Oslo - Oslove