Institutt for filosofi og religionsvitenskap
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Arguments from Need in Natural Resource Debates
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)With regard to any natural resource, we can ask whether we should obtain (more of) it. We may further hold that the answer to this question depends, at least in part, on whether there is a need in our society for the ... -
You Can Lead a Horse to Water, But You Can’t Make It Drink
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)As I understand it, the central aim of the field of CSR is to reconcile (in the sense of “consilience”) methods and theories from the natural sciences with research on religion, which though defined in various ways, is ... -
Revelation and Re-evaluation: The Flourishing of Padmasambhava Biography after Yuan Mongol Decline
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Investigating the Links Between Cultural Values and Belief in Conspiracy Theories: the Key Roles of Collectivism and Masculinity
(Journal article, 2021)Research suggests that belief in conspiracy theories (CT) stems from basic psychological mechanisms and is linked to other belief systems (e.g., religious beliefs). While previous research has extensively examined individual ... -
Conspiracy Theories and the Nordic Countries
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Continuity and change: Individualization processes in young Muslim women's knowledge acquisition and practice of Islam in Trondheim
(Doctoral theses at NTNU;2020:372, Doctoral thesis, 2020)Summary The thesis addresses the problem area ‘knowledge acquisition and formation, and their implications for research on individualization processes among European Muslims’, through a lived religion-, a historical- ... -
Lost in Translation? Multiple Discursive Strategies and the Interpretation of Sustainability in the Norwegian Salmon Farming Industry
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The term ‘sustainability’ is vague and open to interpretation. In this paper we analyze how firms use the term in an effort to make the concept their own, and how it becomes a premise for further decisions, by applying a ... -
Holography without holography: How to turn inter-representational into intra-theoretical relations in AdS/CFT
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)We show by means of the AdS/CFT correspondence in the context of quantum gravity how inter-representational relations—loosely speaking relations among different equivalent representations of one and the same physics—can ... -
Old problems for neo-positivist naturalized metaphysics
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)In her paper “Neo-positivist metaphysics” (Philosophical Studies, 160(1), 53–78, 2012), Alyssa Ney promises a naturalized metaphysics that is acceptable even by positivists’ – and specifically Carnap’s – standards. This ... -
Entanglement as the world-making relation: distance from entanglement
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Distance, it is often argued, is the only coherent and empirically adequate world-making relation that can glue together the elements of the world. This paper offers entanglement as an alternative world-making relation. ... -
Norms of Testimony in Broad Interdisciplinarity: The Case of Quantum Mechanics in Critical Theory
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)While much interdisciplinarity brings together proximate fields, broad interdisciplinarity sees integration between disciplines that are perceived to be non-neighboring. This paper argues that the heterogeneity among ... -
Non-supernaturalism: Linguistic Convention, Metaphysical Claim, or Empirical Matter of Fact?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This paper examines our pre-theoretic conception of non-supernaturalism; the thesis that all that exists is natural. It is argued that we intuitively take this thesis to be a substantive, non-dogmatic, empirically justified, ... -
Communication, Cooperation and Conflict
(Journal article, 2012)According to Steven Pinker and his associates the cooperative model of human communication fails, because evolutionary biology teaches us that most social relationships, including talk-exchange, involve combinations of ... -
The Living Transcendental - An Integrationist View of Naturalized Phenomenology
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)In this article I take on the “Transcendentalist Challenge” to naturalized phenomenology, highlighting how the ontological and methodological commitments of Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy point in the direction of an integration ... -
Semantic Burden-Shifting and Temporal Externalism
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Temporal externalism is the view that the meanings and extensions of linguistic expressions can be partly determined by contingent linguistic and/or conceptual developments that take place after the time of utterance. In ... -
Conspiracy Theories in the Classroom: Problems and Potential Solutions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Conspiracy narratives and speculative rumors of a conspiracist nature are intermittently popular in youth culture, as well as in political discourse. The general motivations of conspiracy beliefs relate to essential needs ... -
Teodycea w czasie Zagłady. Wojenne kazania rabina Szlomy Zalmana Unsdorfera (Theodicy during the Holocaust: The War-Time Sermons of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Unsdorfer)
(Journal article, 2019)Many analyses of the Holocaust’s influence on Jewish theology emphasize the dimension of the lack of continuation. From this perspective the Holocaust, as an unprecedented event, made the Jewish theology face new inquiries, ... -
Consolidating RRI and Open Science: Understanding the potential for transformative change
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)In European research and innovation policy, Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and Open Science (OS) encompass two co-existing sets of ambitions concerning systemic change in the practice of research and innovation. ... -
Existence Value, Preference Satisfaction, and the Ethics of Species Extinction
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Existence value refers to the value humans ascribe to the existence of something, regardless of whether it is or will be of any particular use to them. This existence value based on preference satisfaction should be taken ... -
«If you give them your little finger, they’ll tear off your entire arm»: losing trust in biobank research
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Why do some people withdraw from biobank studies? To our knowledge, very few studies have been done on the reflections of biobank ex-participants. In this article, we report from such a study. 16 years ago, we did focus ...
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