Knut Erik Tranøy

Knut Erik Tranøy (10 December 1918 – 19 March 2012) was a Norwegian philosopher.

Knut Erik Tranøy
Born	(1918-12-10)10 December 1918 Kristiania, Norway
Died	19 March 2012(2012-03-19) (aged 93)
Awards	Order of St. Olav (2002)
Education
Education	University of Cambridge (PhD, 1953)[1]
Doctoral advisor	C. D. Broad[2]
Philosophical work
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic
Institutions	University of Bergen University of Oslo
Main interests	Ethics

During World War II Tranøy, along with 700 other Norwegian students, was deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. He was appointed professor at the University of Bergen from 1959, and at the University of Oslo from 1978. His main contributions have been in fields of ethics, particularly in medicine and science. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1979. He was decorated as Knight, First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 2002.^[3][4]

He resided at Fossum terrasse.^[5]

Selected works

• Tysklandsstudentene (1946) (co-authored with Michael Sars)
• On the Logic of Normative Systems (1953, thesis)
• Thomas Aquino som moralfilosof. 1957.
• The Moral Import of Science. Essays on Normative Theory, Scientific Activity and Wittgenstein (1998)