Else Margarete Barth (3 August 1928,

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– 6 January 2015,

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) was a Norwegian philosopher. She was a professor of

analytic philosophy Analytic philosophy is a branch and tradition of philosophy using analysis, popular in the Western world and particularly the Anglosphere, which began around the turn of the 20th century in the contemporary era in the United Kingdom, United Sta ...

at the

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. She died here in January 2015. She was a fellow of the

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Life

She was professor in analytic philosophy at the

, from 1977 till 1993. She made important contributions to empirical logic, study of argumentation and feminist philosophy. In Norway she was best known for her study of

Vidkun Quisling Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling (, ; 18 July 1887 – 24 October 1945) was a Norwegian military officer, politician and Nazi collaborator who nominally headed the government of Norway during the country's occupation by Nazi Germ ...

's idiosyncratic ideology, "Universism". The book on this topic was expanded and issued in English as ''A Nazi Interior: Quisling's Hidden Philosophy''.

Selected publications

*''The Logic of the Articles in Traditional Philosophy'' (1974) *''From Axiom to Dialogue'' (with Erik Krabbe, 1982) *''Problems, Functions and Semantic Roles'' (with Rob Wiche, 1986) *''Logic and Political Culture'' (ed. with E.C.W. Krabbe, 1992) *''Women Philosophers: A Bibliography of Books'' (1992) *''A Nazi Interior: Quisling's Hidden Philosophy'' (2003) *''Feministische mannen. Nederland in de schaduw van Scandinavië'' (Feminist Men. The Netherlands in the Shadow of Scandinavia, with Henk Misset, 2010)

References

1928 births 2015 deaths Norwegian philosophers Scholars of feminist philosophy Academic staff of the University of Groningen Norwegian emigrants to the Netherlands Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters People from Trondheim {{Norway-academic-bio-stub