Frode Alfson Bjørdal

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]

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]

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]

• 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.

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