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Bilde ab bokens cober samt en collage av Wittgenstein, hans litterære arvinger og Erbacher
New book: "Wittgenstein's Heirs and Editors" (30.09.2020)
When Wittgenstein died, he had commissioned his good friends and students Rush Rhees, Elisabeth Anscombe and Georg Henrik von Wright to publish his surviving manuscripts as they saw fit. In this book, Christian Erbacher gives us an insight into how this work ended in what we know today as the late Wittgenstein's philosophy.
Bergen seen from Floien
BSRS 2021: Science and Society towards the Sustainable Development Goals (29.09.2020)
Digital summer research school.
hiking in mountains
Autoethnography as a research method (28.09.2020)
In March 2020 most of the world went into lockdown as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Challenging times lay ahead for everyone, including the research community.
Cultural roots - scientists at work in the SapienCE project
The Cultural Roots Of Human Cognition (21.09.2020)
The hominin line shares most of its genetic makeup and a great deal of its behavioral repertoire with its closest primate relatives. At some point in the past, however, it set off on a different evolutionary trajectory, culminating in cognitive skills that are impressive both in extent and in the speed at which they have evolved. One goal of SapienCE is to shed light on when this process began... Read more
Framsida av universitetsmuseet
Working life relevancy must be reconsidered (11.09.2020)
Professor emeritus at the University of Bergen, Gunnar Skirbekk, is worried about a new proposal for financing higher education institutions in Norway.
Framside bok: Evidens og etikk
The problem with evidence-based practice in psychology (09.09.2020)
Associate professor at the University of Bergen, Henrik Berg, criticizes evidence-based practice in psychology in a new book.
picture of book cover and author
Hinduism in Europe (08.09.2020)
The two volumes "Handbook of Hinduism in Europe" is the first academic study of Hinduism in all the countries of Europe. Knut A. Jacobsen, professor at AHKR is the editor of the volumes.