Frode Alfson Bjørdal Explained

Alma Mater:University of California,
Santa Barbara and
University of Bergen
Occupation:Academic
Birth Date:30 January 1960
Birth Name:Frode Bjørdal
Nationality:Norwegian

Frode Alfson Bjørdal is philosophy professor emeritus at the University of Oslo,[1] Norway.

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. He studied philosophy at University of California, Santa Barbara, United States, from 1988 to 1992, and got his PhD from there in 1993.[2] [3]

Career

From 1992 to 1994 he worked at the University of Trondheim (now Norwegian University of Science and Technology), and from 1994 to 1996 at the University of Tromsø. He worked at the University of Oslo from 1996 to 2013, and is now a professor emeritus there.

Some philosophical publication areas

Bjørdal has published on alternative set theories, semantics for modal logics and on modal ontological arguments in the Gödelian tradition.

Mathematical genealogy, and mathematical reviews

Although a philosopher by training, his work earned him an entry in the Mathematics Genealogy Project.[4] Eight of his publications are reported upon in Mathematical Reviews;[5] he has written thirteen article appraisals there, as per the references.

Selected works

EduRank's 92nd of 97 in its 2024 ranking of the University of Bergen's notable alumni

https://edurank.org/uni/university-of-bergen/alumni/

Video of invited lecture for Faculty of Arts - Al Mustansiriyah University - Baghdad, Iraq

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPDPaQOH884

References

  1. Web site: Emeriti - Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas.
  2. Web site: Alumni at University of California at Santa Barbara, Department of Philosophy, University of California, Santa Barbara - PhilPeople.
  3. “Doctoral Dissertations, 1992-93.” The Review of Metaphysics, vol. 47, no. 1, 1993, p. 197. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20129486.
  4. Web site: Mathematics Genealogy Project's page on Frode Alfson Bjørdal.
  5. Web site: Mathematical Reviews.
  6. The Development of Gödel's Ontological Proof. 10.1017/S1755020319000479. 2019. Kanckos. Annika. Lethen. TIM. The Review of Symbolic Logic. 14. 4. 1–19. 10138/323267. 204194884. free.
  7. Web site: 2015:Third St.Petersburg Days of LOGIC and COMPUTABILITY.
  8. Web site: 2015:Third St.Petersburg Days of LOGIC and COMPUTABILITY.
  9. Web site: The Book "Logic around the World" – Ali Sadegh Daghighi.

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