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Details for Dr Oystein Linnebo
| Personal details | |
| Name | Dr Oystein Linnebo |
| Job title | Research Associate |
| Department | Department of Philosophy University of Bristol |
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| Qualifications | BA(Gergen), MA(Oslo), PhD(Harvard) |
| Professional details | |
| Keywords | philosophy of logic philosophy of mathematics metaphysics philosophy of language ontology individuation necessary truths |
| Areas of expertise | My main research interests are in the philosophies of logic and mathematics, metaphysics and the philosophy of language. I am particularly interested in questions concerning ontology, individuation, essence, reference (especially to abstract objects), necessity and knowledge of necessary truths. My approach to these questions is broadly Fregean in that I relate them to questions in philosophical logic and the philosophy of language. |