Frode Alfson Bjørdal

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Frode Alfson Bjørdal
Born	Frode Bjørdal (1960-01-30) January 30, 1960 (age 61)
Nationality	Norwegian
Alma mater	University of California, Santa Barbara and University of Bergen
Occupation	Academic
Website	www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/personer/vit/filosofi/emeriti/fbjordal/index.html

Frode Alfson Bjørdal is professor emeritus in philosophy at the University of Oslo,^[1] Norway, and professor colaborador at Programa de pós-graduação em filosofia at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte^[2] in Natal, Brazil.

Education[]

Bjørdal did his undergraduate studies in philosophy, logic, mathematics and economics at the University of Bergen, Norway, and was a DAAD-Stipendiat at the Johan Wolfgang von Goethe Universität in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1985/86.^[3][4] He studied philosophy at University of California, Santa Barbara, United States, from 1988 to 1992, and got his PhD from there in 1993.^[5][6]

Career[]

He first worked at the Universities of Trondheim and Tromsø,^[7] and became a professor of philosophy at the University of Oslo where he worked from 1996 to 2013. He is now a professor emeritus at the University of Oslo,^[8] and as from 2013 he is also a professor colaborador at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte.^[9]

Some publication areas[]

Bjørdal has published on alternative set theories, semantics for modal logics and on modal ontological arguments in the Gödelian tradition. Eight of his publications are reviewed in Mathematical Reviews.^[10]

Selected works[]

• Understanding Gödel's Ontological Argument, in T. Childers (ed.), The Logica Yearbook 1998, FILOSOFIA, Prague, 1999, 214-217.^[11]
• Considerations Contra Cantorianism, in M. Pelis & V. Puncochar (eds), The Logica Yearbook 2010, pp. 43–52, College Publications 2011.
• Librationist Closures of the Paradoxes, in Logic and Logical Philosophy, Vol. 21, No. 4 (2012), 323–361.
• The Evaluation Semantics – A Short Introduction, in M. Pelis & V. Puncochar (eds), The Logica Yearbook 2011, pp. 31–36, College Publications 2012.
• The inadequacy of a proposed paraconsistent set theory, Review of Symbolic Logic 4 (1):106-108, 2011.^[12]
• The Isolation of the Definable Real Numbers with Domination and Capture in Librationist Set Theory, lecture at Third St.Petersburg Days of Logic and Computability, Russia, August 24–26, 2015.^[13][14]
• Cubes and Hypercubes of Opposition, with Ethical Ruminations on Inviolability, in Logica Universalis Volume 10, Issue 2–3 (2016), pp 373–376.
• Elements of Librationism at arXiv:1407.3877.
• Skolem Satisfied - On £ and ₽, in Logic Around the World, Andisheh & Farhang-e Javidan, Iran, ISBN 9786006386997, 2017, 31-42.^[15]
• All Properties are Divine or God Exists – The Sacred Thesis and its Ontological Argument, in Logic and Logical Philosophy, Vol 27, No 3 (2018), pp. 329–350.

References[]

External links[]

• Home page at the University of Oslo
• Orcid
• Cristin - Current Research Information System in Norway