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

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

Tranøy, along with 700 other Norwegian students, was deported to the

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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 Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav 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