Frode Alfson Bjørdal


Frode Alfson Bjørdal is philosophy professor emeritus at the University of Oslo, 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.

Career

From 1992 to 1994 he worked at the University of Trondheim, 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.
Eight of his publications are reported upon in Mathematical Reviews; he has written thirteen article appraisals there, as per the references.

Selected works

  • Understanding Gödel's Ontological Argument, in T. Childers, The Logica Yearbook 1998, FILOSOFIA, Prague, 1999, 214-217.
  • Considerations Contra Cantorianism, in M. Pelis & V. Puncochar, The Logica Yearbook 2010, pp. 43–52, College Publications 2011.
  • , in Logic and Logical Philosophy, Vol. 21, No. 4, 323–361.
  • The Evaluation Semantics – A Short Introduction, in M. Pelis & V. Puncochar, The Logica Yearbook 2011, pp. 31–36, College Publications 2012.
  • , Review of Symbolic Logic 4 :106-108, 2011.
  • 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.
  • , Cambridge University Press, 2014, 267pp., $99.00, in
  • Cubes and Hypercubes of Opposition, with Ethical Ruminations on Inviolability, in Logica Universalis Volume 10, Issue 2–3, pp 373–376.
  • at arXiv:1407.3877.
  • Skolem Satisfied - On £ and ₽. A chapter which The Iranian Association for Logic invited me to write for the book Logic Around the World, Andisheh & Farhang-e Javidan, Iran,, 2017, 31-42.
  • , in Logic and Logical Philosophy, Vol 27, No 3, pp. 329–350.

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

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