Frode Bjørdal

Professor emeritus
Bilde av Frode  Bjørdal
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"The test of a first-rate intelligence is
the ability to hold two opposing ideas
in the mind at the same time and still
retain the ability to function."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
 
 
I was born and raised in Ørsta. When I was ten we moved to Ålesund. This is some towns and countries ago.

In Aasen by! I attempted to name a new city resulting from a merger of Ørsta and Volda in honour of Ivar Aasen, whose life work was instrumental in giving the Norwegian language much deeper roots in and forms from its old Norse tradition than what prevailed in the superceded Danicized versions.

A description of interests, as well as some online papers and lists of publications and talks are found below. You can also look me up in Cristin or in Orcid.

Positions

I am a Professor emeritus of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and Classics and the History of Art and Ideas at the University of Oslo and a CAPES researcher at Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte in Natal in Brazil.

Education:

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Barbara, 1993. Advisor: Anthony Brueckner. Committee: Anthony Brueckner, Nathan Salmon and William Forgie.

Candidate in Philosophy (C.Phil) in Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Barbara, 1990.

I studied Philosophy and Logic as a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Stipendiat at the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Universität in Frankfurt am Main, 1985/86. At the time I planned on taking a doctorate there, and I was accepted as a Doktorand (doctoral student), just as those with a German Magister Artium degree, on the basis of my Norwegian education, written work and an oral Zwischenprüfung.

Candidatus magisterii (cand.mag) from the University of Bergen, 1985. I double majored in Philosophy and Economics, and had Logic, Mathematics and Social Science as minors.

Examen artium (reallinjen) at Ålesund Gymnas, 1976/79.

Some of my teachers:

At the University of Bergen I had seminars by Erik Brown, Nile Gilje, Arild Haaland, Kåre Johnsen, Vigdis Songe-Møller and Hans Skjervheim. In Frankfurt I followed seminars by Jürgen Habermas, Karl Otto Apel and Wolfgang Kuhlmann. At UCSB I had seminars from all my committe members as well as by Peter Hylton, Noel Fleming and Charlotte Stough. At UCLA I followed a seminar by David Kaplan and took a gradute seminar in logic by Alonzo Church (with an oral exam) in the spring of 1989.

Former positions:

Associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Tromsø, 1994/96.

University lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Trondheim (now the Norwegian University of Science and Technology), 1992/94.

Teaching Assistant at the University of Calfornia, Santa Barbara, 1989/92.

High-School teacher in Mathematics and Economics at Ålesund Videregående Skole avd. Langhaugen (now Spjelkavik Videregående Skole), 1987/88.

My civil service was for the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen, 1986/87.

Service:

Member of the advisory board for philosophy, Norwegian Research Council, 1994-97.

Referee for Journal of Symbolic Logic

Referee for The Review of Symbolic logic

Referee for Mathematical Reviews

Referee for Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logic

Referee for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 

Referee for Princípios: Revista de Filosofia

Referee for Nordic Journal of Philosophical Logic

Guest position:

During the 2001/02 academic year I was a visitor at the pontifical University of Malta. In the fall of 2001 former university rector professor Fr. Peter Serracino Inglott and I had a seminar on the Problem of Evil for graduate Philosohy and Theology students.

Scholarships awarded:

When a student in Bergen I was twice awarded a scholarship from the L. Melzers Høyskolefond. As mentioned above, I was a DAAD scholar in Frankfurt am Main, 1985/86. The first year of my studies in California, 1988/89, was supported by the Education Abroad Program of the University of California and by Norge Amerika Foreningen through the John D. Archbold scholarship of its Nansen Fund. The following three years of my Californian sojourn was, in addition to my employment as a Teaching Assistant, supported by tuition and fee waivers from the Department of Philosophy through its endowed Ralph W. Church Fund.

Scientific and philosophical interests:

My interests in philosophy and beyond are quite broad; but one must focus. Since before my promotion in 1993 I have primarily been preoccupied with foundational issues in mathematics and semantics. This has resulted in the theory librationism (until recently I used the term "liberalism"), which is inter alia geared to deal with semantical and set theoretical paradoxes. Librationism offers a way to deal with paradoxes that is related to paraconsistent ones, though without giving up on or contradicting any theorems of classical logic. The semantics of librationism has an ancestry in Hans Herzberger's semi inductive approach to deal with semantical paradoxes, and related ones. Unlike paraconsistent approaches, the mathematical strength of librationism is immense (and in an important sense full) though yet to be precisely gauged. A cornucopia of important issues are potentially shed light upon in new and distinct manners by librationism. Many fields of exploration are opened up here, and they are all related to the deeper question as to precisely what mathematics librationism supports.

I have a strong interest in many topics in the philosophy of religion. To those who know their history of philosophy, it should come as no surprise that there is often a strong affinity between mathematical meditation and theological thinking.

 

Emneord: Philosophy, Logic, Philosophical Logic, Foundations of Mathematics, Semantical and Set Theoretical Paradoxes, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion

Publikasjoner

  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2022). Review of "Çevik, Ahmet $\omega$-circularity of Yablo's paradox. Log. Log. Philos. 29 (2020), no. 3, 325--333." . Mathematical Reviews. ISSN 0025-5629.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2022). Review of "Carnielli, Walter; Coniglio, Marcelo E. Twist-valued models for three-valued paraconsistent set theory. Log. Log. Philos. 30 (2021), no. 2, 187--226.". Mathematical Reviews. ISSN 0025-5629.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2022). Review of "Murzi, Julien and Lorenzo Rossi: Non-reflexivity and revenge. J. Philos. Logic 51 (2022), no. 1, 201--218". Mathematical Reviews. ISSN 0025-5629.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2021). Review of "Brendel, Elke Truthmaker maximalism and the truthmaker paradox. Synthese 197 (2020), no. 4, 1647--1660.". Mathematical Reviews. ISSN 0025-5629.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2020). Review of "Priest, Graham Berry's paradox… again. Australas. J. Log. 16 (2019), no. 2, 41--48.". Mathematical Reviews. ISSN 0025-5629.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2020). Review of "Barrio, Eduardo Alejandro Yablo's paradox and omega-paradoxes. Logic and philosophy of logic, 231--251, Stud. Log. (Lond.), 78, Coll. Publ., [London], 2018.". Mathematical Reviews. ISSN 0025-5629.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2019). Humean cum Counterfactual Skepticism and Epistemological Deontologism. I Rodrigues, Tiegue Vieira (Red.), Epistemologia Analítica, Vol .1: debates contemporâneos. Editora Fi. ISSN 978-85-5696-665-0. s. 47–54.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2019). Review of "Sochański, Michał What is diagrammatic reasoning in mathematics? Log. Log. Philos. 27 (2018), no. 4, 567--581.". Mathematical Reviews. ISSN 0025-5629.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2018). Review of Sy-David Friedman`s Evidence for set-theoretic truth and the Hyperuniverse Programme. The hyperuniverse project and maximality, 75–107, Birkhäuser/Springer, Cham, 2018. Mathematical Reviews. ISSN 0025-5629.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2018). All Properties are Divine or God Exists - The Sacred Thesis and its Ontological Argument. Logic and Logical Philosophy. ISSN 1425-3305. 27(3), s. 329–350. doi: 10.12775/LLP.2017.027.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2017). Skolem Satisfied: On £ and ₽. I Pourmadhian, Massoud & Daghighi, Ali Sadegh (Red.), Logic around the World. Andisheh & Farhang-e Javidan. ISSN 9786006386997. s. 31–42.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2017). Review of Field, Hartry; Lederman, Harvey; Øgaard, Tore Fjetland Prospects for a naive theory of classes. Notre Dame J. Form. Log. 58 (2017), no. 4, 461–506. Mathematical Reviews. ISSN 0025-5629.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2016). Review of Jago, Mark Alethic undecidability doesn't solve the liar. Analysis (Oxford) 76 (2016), no. 3, 278–283. Mathematical Reviews. ISSN 0025-5629.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2016). Review of Sheridan, Flash A variant of Church's set theory with a universal set in which the singleton function is a set. Log. Anal. (N.S.) 59 (2016), no. 233, 81–131. . Mathematical Reviews. ISSN 0025-5629.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2016). Review of Hamkins, Joel David; Kikuchi, Makoto Set-theoretic mereology. Log. Log. Philos. 25 (2016), no. 3, 285–308. Mathematical Reviews. ISSN 0025-5629.
  • Bjørdal, Frode (2016). Cubes and Hypercubes of Opposition, with Ethical Ruminations on Inviolability. Logica Universalis. ISSN 1661-8297. 10(2-3), s. 373–376. doi: 10.1007/s11787-016-0149-9.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2015). On the Type-Free Paracoherent Foundation of Mathematics with the Sedate Extension of Classical Logic by the Librationist Set Theory £, and Specifically on Why £ Is Neither Inconsistent nor Contradictory nor Paraconsistent. I Béziau, J.-Y.; Chakraborty, M. K. & Dutta, S (Red.), New Directions in Paraconsistent Logic. Springer. ISSN 9788132227199. s. 509–515.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2015). Review of (the book) Metaphysics of Logic. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. ISSN 1538-1617.
  • Bjørdal, Frode (2012). The Evaluation Semantics - A Short Introduction. I Pelis, Michael & Punchochar, Vit (Red.), The Logica Yearbook 2011. College Publications. ISSN 978-1848900714. s. 31–36.
  • Bjørdal, Frode (2012). Librationist Closures of the Paradoxes. Logic and Logical Philosophy. ISSN 1425-3305. 21(4), s. 323–361.
  • Bjørdal, Frode (2011). The Inadequacy of a Proposed Paraconsistent Set Theory. The Review of Symbolic Logic. ISSN 1755-0203. 4(1), s. 106–108. doi: 10.1017/S1755020310000171. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
  • Bjørdal, Frode (2011). Considerations Contra Cantorianism. I Puncochar, Vit & Pelis, Michael (Red.), The Logica Yearbook 2010. College Publications. ISSN 978-1-84890-038-7. s. 43–52.
  • Bjørdal, Frode (2008). "2+2=4" er misvisande. I Sandmel, Thor & Leirfall, Anita (Red.), Enhet i mangfold. Festskrift for Johan Arnt Myrstad i anledning 60-årsdagen. Unipub forlag. ISSN 978-82-303-1179-0. s. 55–66.
  • Bjørdal, Frode (2006). Minimalistic Liberalism. An adequate, Acceptable, Consistent and Contradictory Foundation. I Bilková, Marta & Tomala, Ondrej (Red.), The LOGICA Yearbook 2005. Filosofia. ISSN 80-7007-229-6. s. 39–50.
  • Bjørdal, Frode (2005). There are Only Countably Many Objects. I Behounek, Libour & Bilková, Marta (Red.), The LOGICA Yearbook 2004. Filosofia Yearbook. ISSN 8070-07-2083. s. 47–58.
  • Bjørdal, Frode (2004). Bør naturen ødelegges? Nihilisme, partialisme, ameliorisme eller optimisme? Det apokalyptiske argument. I Leirfall, Anita (Red.), Non Plus Ultra: Festskrift til Stein Erik Johansen i anledning 50-årsdagen. Tapir Akademisk Forlag. ISSN 82-303-0231-6. s. 211–225. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
  • Bjørdal, Frode (1999). Understanding Gödel's Ontological Argument. I Childers, Timothy (Red.), The Logica Yearbook (1998). Filosofia. ISSN 8070071230. s. 214–217.
  • Bjørdal, Frode (1999). En Metrisk Feil - med Følgesetninger om Barmhjertighetsprinsipp. Opuscula, Examen Philosophicums småskriftserie. ISSN 0806-3656. s. 44–49. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
  • Bjørdal, Frode (1999). Ateistisk Etikk - Anmeldelse av Finngeir Hiorths Etikk for Ateister (utgiver: Oslo Fylkeslag av Human-Etisk Forbund, 1998). Opuscula, Examen Philosophicums småskriftserie. ISSN 0806-3656. s. 77–81. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
  • Bjørdal, Frode (1998). Towards a Foundation for Type free Reasoning. I Childers, Timothy (Red.), The Logica Yearbook (1997). Filosofia. ISSN 8070071095. s. 259–273.
  • Bjørdal, Frode (1997). Bør vi gjøre så godt vi kan? I Leirfall, Anita & Sandmel, Thor (Red.), Festskrift til Johan Arnt Myrstad i anledning 50-års dagen. Tapir Forlag, Trondheim. ISSN 82-519-1367-5. s. 1–2. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
  • Bjørdal, Frode (1997). Er denne druen laget av det den er laget av? I Anniken, Greve & Nesset, Sigmund (Red.), Filosofi i et nordlig landskap. UiT Norges arktiske universitet. ISSN 82-91378-13-4. s. 172–175.
  • Bjørdal, Frode (1997). Om Gyldighet. Opuscula, Examen Philosophicums småskriftserie. ISSN 0806-3656. s. 99–106.
  • Bjørdal, Frode (1996). On Beliefs. Nordic Journal of Philosophical Logic. ISSN 0806-6205. 1(1), s. 79–94.
  • Bjørdal, Frode (1996). Når blir et menneske til? Omsorg: Nordisk tidsskrift for Palliativ Medisin. ISSN 0800-7489. s. 41–42.
  • Bjørdal, Frode (1995). Kontra Asheim om Vaghet. Agora. ISSN 0800-7136. s. 140–143.
  • Bjørdal, Frode (1994). Om Asheim om Vaghet. Agora. ISSN 0800-7136. s. 250–255.

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  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2018). Humean Skepticism and Epistemic Deontologism.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2018). Cartesian Skepticism and Epistemic Deontologism.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2017). Volutionary Reflections.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2017). Volutionary foundational ruminations: paradox, provability, truth and irrefutability.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2017). Volutionary Considerations.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2017). All Properties are Divine or God Exists.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2016). Volutionism.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2016). Volutionísmo.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2016). Todas as Propriedades são Divinas ou Deus Existe.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2016). Volutionary Foundational Visions.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2016). Reciprocity in Infinite Dimensional Hyper Cubes.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2015). The Librationist Domination of Second Order Arithmetic.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2015). Modelling Librationist Set Theory £ with a Sigma-3 Admissible Ordinal.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2015). Librationist motives and perspectives.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2015). Librationist Capture and Domination of Definable Real Numbers.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2015). All Properties are Divine or God Exists.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2014). With Librationism from Paraconsistency to Contrasistency, Incoherency and Complementarity.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2014). Truth degrees in the interval [-1,1] for the librationist system £.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2014). Things as Individuals, Queues, Crowds and Sets.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2014). The Cube of Opposition for Agentual Directives.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2014). On the Librationist Foundational System.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2014). Necessitarianismo Evaluationistica e Escatologia Confidentialista.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2014). Evaluationist Necessitism, Revivalism, Anti-Essentialism and Fictional Realism .
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2014). Deontic Logic without Perfect Possible Worlds.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2014). Definable Real Numbers with Librationist Capture and Domination.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2014). Capture, Collecton, Choice and Domination.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2013). Nominist things and librationist world views.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2013). Librationist Farewells to Modus Ponens and Truth Functionality.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2013). A Sober Librationist Interpretation of ZF.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2012). Negation, Contradiction, Contravalence and Complementarity.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2012). Bør verda vere der? .
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2012). Should the world be there?
  • Bjørdal, Frode (2011). Er det bra at verda er til stade?
  • Bjørdal, Frode (2011). Til spørsmålet om eit liv etter døden er mogeleg: alle objekt er evige og naudsynelege.
  • Bjørdal, Frode (2011). Bør verda vere tilstades?
  • Bjørdal, Frode (2011). Librationist Closures of Paradox and other Mathematical Phenomena - Lecture Abstract for LC2011. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
  • Bjørdal, Frode (2011). The Evaluation Semantics for Modal Logics. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
  • Bjørdal, Frode (2011). Librationist Closures.
  • Bjørdal, Frode (2011). Librationist Closures.
  • Bjørdal, Frode (2011). The Arithmetical Program - An Addendum.
  • Bjørdal, Frode (2011). The Arithmetical Program.
  • Bjørdal, Frode Alfson (2011). A Librationist Quest for Strength.
  • Bjørdal, Frode (2010). Lecture in Oslo: Minimalistisk liberalisme - ein kontradiktorisk grunnlagsteori som respekterer klassisk logikk.
  • Bjørdal, Frode (2010). Lecture in Ghent: Mathematical Librationism Contra Cantorianism.
  • Bjørdal, Frode (2010). Lecture in Hejnice Monastery: Considerations Contra Cantorianism.
  • Bjørdal, Frode (2010). Lecture in Lisbon: Minimalistic Liberalism - a complementary semi-formal resolution that respects classical logic.
  • Bjørdal, Frode (2010). Lecture in Lisbon: Minimalistic Liberalism - A Complementary Semi-Formal Set Theory that Respects Classical Logic, and with Mathematical Power beyond PI(1,1)-CA(0).
  • Bjørdal, Frode (2009). Lecture in Hejnice Monastery: Paraconsistency with Classical Logic.
  • Bjørdal, Frode (2006). Lecture in Villa Lanna: On the Limits of Vague Identity.
  • Bjørdal, Frode (2005). Lecture in Hejnice Monastery: The Banach-Tarski Paradox in the Bialethic Framework of Caption and Its Theory of Sorts.
  • Bjørdal, Frode (2004). Lecture in Hejnice Monastery: Bialethism, Sorts, ZFC and Countability.
  • Bjørdal, Frode (2002). Lecture in Malta: Standard Theism and Egalitarian Optimism.
  • Bjørdal, Frode (2001). Contemporary Arguments for the Existence of God.
  • Bjørdal, Frode (2000). Lecture in Bergen: On the Reality of the Future.
  • Bjørdal, Frode (1999). Lecture in Villa Lanna: An Alternative Semantics for Deontic Logic.
  • Bjørdal, Frode (1998). A Theodicy.
  • Bjørdal, Frode (1998). Lecture at Liblice Chateau: Understanding Gödel's Ontological Argument.
  • Bjørdal, Frode (1997). Lecture in Villa Lanna: Towards a Foundation for Type-Free Reasoning.
  • Bjørdal, Frode (1996). Truth in Perspectives.

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