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Ready to Mouth: Language and Givenness in Being and Time
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Heidegger’s conception of speech (Rede) in Being and Time remains a source of scholarly confusion and disagreement. This paper explains one part of that conception: what it is for the existential ontological foundation of ... -
Anti-Representationalism, Naturalism, and Placement Metaphysics
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)A perennial issue in contemporary philosophy is the question of how, in Wilfrid Sellars’ terms, categories of the ‘manifest image’ relate to those of the ‘scientific image’. A widespread kind of naturalism assumes that the ... -
Ethics of the Artifishial Studies on the Moral Acceptability of Using Genome Editing on Farmed Salmon
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2024:30, Doctoral thesis, 2024)This dissertation is concerned with the use of genome editing technologies on animals, and more specifically with the ethical aspects of using such technologies on farmed salmon. Two research questions are treated: 1) Can ... -
Conceptual Engineering for Externalists
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Why are Actions but not Emotions Done Intentionally, if both are Reason-Responsive Embodied Processes?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Emotions, like actions, this paper argues, are typically embodied processes that are responsive to reasons, where these reasons connect closely with the agent’s desires, intentions, or projects. If so, why are emotions, ... -
Linguistic Theory in tafsīr between 100/400 and 700/1000: Implications for Qur’anic Studies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The article aims to explore the possibility that tafsīr and the Qur’an might share a common linguistic theory, and the methodological relevance of such a relationship for Qur’anic studies. This is done by, firstly, engaging ... -
Art and linguistic bodies: a transformative view
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This article takes its point of departure from the second (embodied) linguistic turn represented by the enactivist notion of humans as linguistic bodies, using resources from Hans Georg Gadamer in order to propose a view ... -
Learning Jazz Language by Aural Imitation: A Usage-Based Communicative Jazz Theory (Part 1)
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)How can imitation lead to free musical expression? This article explores the role of auditory imitation in jazz. Even though many renowned jazz musicians have assessed the method of imitating recorded music, no systematic ... -
Eric Katz on ”De-Extinction”: Ontology, Value and Normativity
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Eric Katz (Citation1992) influentially argued that ecological restoration involves the ‘big lie’ that a successful restoration re-establishes or re-creates all of what was lost through human degradation, and that because ... -
When is a Techno-Fix Legitimate? The Case of Viticultural Climate Resilience
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Climate change is an existential risk reinforced by ordinary actions in affluent societies—often silently present in comfortable and enjoyable habits. This silence is sometimes broken, presenting itself as a nagging reminder ... -
What Self in Self-Organisation? Engaging Varela’s Epistemology for the Co-Embodied Self
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)bodily and joint co-embodied processes so that the self is already and constitutively social. I focus on an early article by Francisco Varela, “Not one, not two”, to argue that his non- dualistic epistemology entails a ... -
Perception needs modular stimulus-control
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Perceptual processes differ from cognitive, this paper argues, in functioning to be causally controlled by proximal stimuli, and being modular, at least in a modest sense that excludes their being isotropic in Jerry Fodor's ... -
Are Natural Kind Terms Ambiguous?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Recent experimental studies have claimed to find evidence for the view that natural kind terms such as “water” are ambiguous: that they have two extensions, one determined by superficial properties, the other by underlying ... -
Against Arguments From Diagnostic Reasoning
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Recent work in cognitive psychology and experimental semantics indicates that people do not categorize natural kinds solely by virtue of their purported scientific essence. Two attempts have been made to explain away the ... -
Metafysikkens uunnværlige elendighet
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Thinking about John Thinking about Cognitive Scientists Thinking about Religion
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Gendering data care: Curators, care, and computers in data-centric biology
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The increase in molecular data and the use of computer technologies in biology have led to the emergence of professional biocurators, who populate biological databases and knowledgebases with high-quality information. ... -
Stakeholder Inclusion as the Research Council of Norway’s Silver Bullet
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Focusing on stakeholder inclusion, this article investigates the consequences of implementing the responsible research and innovation framework in a public funding regime. I use a Norwegian transdisciplinary project as a ... -
Pāli History Beyond the Master-Narrative. The Dhātuvaṃsa's Version of 'Buddha Visits' and the Power of Adaptations
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2023:300, Doctoral thesis, 2023)English summary This study investigates how a local history, the Pāli Dhātuvaṃsa, has adapted the cultural topos of ‘Buddha visits’ to its local setting. This cultural topos of ‘Buddha visits’ has been of high significance ...