Else M. Barth

Else Margarete Barth (3 August 1928, Strinda – 6 January 2015, Groningen) was a Norwegian philosopher.

She was a professor of analytic philosophy at the University of Groningen. She died here in January 2015.[1] She was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[2]

She was professor in analytic philosophy at the University of Groningen from 1977 till 1993. She made important contributions to empirical logic, study of argumentation and feminist philosophy.[3]

Her contributions on empirical logic focused on the generic way of thinking and reasoning in traditional philosophy. For example outdated logics made German idealist philosophers think that asymmetric relations always had to be conceived in dichotomies.

Her contributions on theory of argumentation concern an analysis of reasoning in terms of rights and duties of people in the role of proponent and opponent in a dialogue.

Her contributions on feminist philosophy emphasize the ways in which social and political reasoning turns out as strategies for disempowerment of women. She pointed out the hidden paradigm behind sexist ideologies.

In Norway she was best known[4] for her study of Vidkun Quisling's idiosyncratic ideology, "Universism".[5] The book on this topic was expanded and issued in English as A Nazi Interior: Quisling's Hidden Philosophy.

Selected publications

References

  1. ↑ Death announcement, Aftenposten 9 January 2015, p. 29
  2. ↑ "Gruppe 3: Idéfag" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Archived from the original on 12 January 2015. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  3. ↑ Else de Jonge: Else Margarete Barth in: Philosophinnen Lexikon, Reclam Leipzig, 1994
  4. ↑ Nekrolog: Else Margarete Barth in: Aftenposten 18 January 2015.
  5. ↑ Dahl, Hans Fredrik; Hans Fredrik Dahl (16 September 1996). "Ny nøkkel til gÃ¥ten Quisling". Dagbladet (in Norwegian). p. 4.
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