Harald Ofstad
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1920 –
Who is Harald Ofstad?
Harald Frithjof Seiersted Ofstad was a Norwegian moral philosopher. He was Professor in Applied Philosophy at Stockholm University for more than 30 years.
Born in Bergen, the youngest son of a high-ranking police officer, Ofstad passed the examen artium in 1939 and completed a degree in law in 1945 before changing to philosophy, which he studied under Arne Næss; he was part of the "Bergen group" and one of the most prominent exponents of Næss' "empirical semantics" approach. He became a cand. mag. in philosophy in 1946, studied in the United States at Yale University and other institutions as a Rockefeller Fellow in 1947–49, and was a University Fellow at the University of Oslo in 1949–54. He was appointed to a professorship in philosophy at the University of Bergen in 1954, but after only one year took a position as professor of applied philosophy at Stockholm University, where he remained until his retirement in 1987. He then returned to Bergen. He died in Oslo in 1994.
He married Erna Magnussen, a historian of literature, in 1945, and published a collection of essays with her in 1961.
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