Knut Erik Tranøy (10 December 191819 March 2012) was a Norwegian philosopher. During

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Tranøy, along with 700 other Norwegian students, was deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. He was appointed professor at the

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from 1959, and at the

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from 1978. His main contributions have been in fields of ethics, particularly in medicine and science. He is a member of the

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from 1979. He was decorated as Knight, First Class of the

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in 2002. He resided at Fossum terrasse.

Selected works

*''Tysklandsstudentene'' (1946) (co-authored with Michael Sars) *''On the Logic of Normative Systems'' (1953, thesis) * *''The Moral Import of Science. Essays on Normative Theory, Scientific Activity and Wittgenstein'' (1998)

References

1918 births 2012 deaths Buchenwald concentration camp survivors Academic staff of the University of Bergen Academic staff of the University of Oslo Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters 20th-century Norwegian philosophers Norwegian ethicists {{Norway-academic-bio-stub