• Rescuing Solidarity from Its Carers. A Response to Professor ter Meulen 

  De Grandis, Giovanni (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)

  The paper points out three serious problems in Ruud ter Meulen’s view of solidarity and of its role in healthcare ethics. First, it is not clear whether and to what extent ter Meulen expects normative concepts to be rooted ...

• Reports from Twin Earth: Both Deep Structure and Appearance Determine the Reference of Natural Kind Terms 

  Haukioja, Jussi; Nyquist, Mons Andreas; Jylkka, Jussi (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)

  Following the influential thought experiments by Hilary Putnam and others, philosophers of language have for the most part adopted semantic externalism concerning natural kind terms. In this article, we present results ...

• Bærekraft, etikk og profitt – Statens pensjonsfond utland i møte med den globale økologiske krisen 

  Nilsen, Heidi Rapp; Carson, Siri Granum (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)

  Mens klimaendringene eskalerer, blir bærekraft en stadig viktigere faktor i den brede finansielle forvaltningen til Statens pensjonsfond utland (SPU). Samtidig er anvendelsen av de etiske retningslinjene mindre synlige enn ...

• Selvbestemmelsesretten – en hellig ku i det sekulære Vesten 

  Materstvedt, Lars Johan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)

  Retten til selvbestemmelse er noe som stadig påberopes i vår vestlige kulturkrets, og gjerne i sterke ordelag i det offentlige ordskiftet – eksempler er i den pågående debatten om legalisering av såkalt aktiv dødshjelp og ...

• Rational Hope against Hope? A Pragmatic Approach to Hope and the Ethics of Belief 

  Fremstedal, Roe (Chapter, 2019)

• Variation in Natural Kind Concepts 

  Cohnitz, Daniel; Haukioja, Jussi (Chapter, 2020)

  Since Kripke's and Putnam's work in the 1970's, most philosophers have assumed that our natural kind concepts are externally individuated. However, both psychologists and philosophers have questioned this assumption, partly ...

• Næss og moderne argumentasjonsteori 

  Reitan, Magne Kristian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)

• Military Power and Ethics in the Grey Area of War – Afghanistan: A Critical Ethical-Philosophical Analysis of the Core Values of the Norwegian Armed Forces: Respect, Responsibility, and Courage 

  Vikan, Cornelia (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2019:358, Doctoral thesis, 2019)

  Sammendrag: Denne artikkel-baserte avhandlingen i anvendt etikk er et bidrag til den internasjonale forskningen innen militæretikk. Den filosofiske tradisjonen Rettferdig krig gir kriterier for hvordan soldater skal ...

• Deep Sea Uncertainty. Studies in Environmental Ethics and Decision-Making 

  Stabell, Espen Dyrnes (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2019:212, Doctoral thesis, 2019)

  The Pilot Programme on Deep Sea Mining The research for this dissertation was conducted as part of an interdisciplinary research project at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), called the Pilot ...

• Anti-representasjonalisme og realisme 

  Knowles, Jonathan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)

  Artikkelen er en kritisk diskusjon av Hubert Dreyfus og Charles Taylors bok Retrieving Realism fra 2015. Artikkelens sentrale anliggende er hvordan vi best skal forstå ideen om «anti-representasjonalistisk» filosofi, og ...

• Scientific knowledge in the age of computation: Explicated, computable and manageable? 

  Efstathiou, Sophia; Nydal, Rune; Lægreid, Astrid; Kuiper, Martin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)

  With increasing publication and data production, scientific knowledge stands not simply as an achievement but also as a challenge. Scientific publications and data are increasingly treated as resources that need to be ...

• Relationalism, Berkeley's Puzzle and Phenomenological Externalism 

  Knowles, Jonathan (Chapter, 2019)

  Relationalism, also called ‘the Relational View’, is a theory of perceptual experience which sees at least a central core of such experience as consisting in a non-representational relation between subjects and features ...

• Pragmatism, Naturalism, and Realism: Pihlström, Price and Beyond 

  Knowles, Jonathan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)

• Acceptable attitudes and the limits of tolerance: Understanding public attitudes to conscientious objection in healthcare 

  Haaland Barlaup, Astrid; Landsverk, Åse Marie; Myskja, Bjørn Kåre; Supphellen, Magne; Magelssen, Morten (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)

  Background The public’s attitudes to conscientious objection (CO) are likely to influence political decisions about CO and trust towards healthcare systems and providers. Few studies examine the public’s attitudes in an ...

• Hvordan kan KRLE-faget fremstille islams mangfold? 

  Nestby, Dag Hallvard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)

  I denne artikkelen gir jeg et bidrag til den faglige diskusjonen om hvordan islam kan fremstilles i grunnskolens KRLE-fag. Ved hjelp av Robert Jacksons tredelte tilnærming til religion prøver jeg å vise at læreplanens syn ...

• Prone to Believe in God: The Cognitive Science of Religion and its Normative Implications for Theist Religion 

  Kvandal, Halvor (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2019:7, Doctoral thesis, 2019)

  Over hele verden danner mennesker oppfatninger om supermenneskelige aktører slik som guder, forfedre-ånder, spøkelser, engler, og demoner. I de abrahamittiske religionene jødedom, kristendom og islam finner vi et kulturelt ...

• It is not magic, it is smith: Comparison in a study of Jewish theology 

  Krawcowicz, Barbara (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)

  In a search for a theoretical framework that would structure and orient a comparative analysis of diverse Jewish theological responses to the Holocaust, the author reached for J.Z. Smith’s discussions of comparative ...

• Distinction between euthanasia and palliative sedation is clear-cut 

  Materstvedt, Lars Johan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)

  This article is a response to Thomas David Riisfeldt’s paper entitled ‘Weakening the ethical distinction between euthanasia, palliative opioid use and palliative sedation’. It is shown that as far as euthanasia and palliative ...

• A Methodological Framework for Developing More Just Footprints: The Contribution of Footprints to Environmental Policies and Justice 

  Oliveira, Rita Vasconcellos (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)

  The rapid growth of human population and associated industrialisation creates strains on resources and climate. One way to understand the impact of human activity is to quantify the total environmental pressures by measuring ...

• Time, Death, and Duration 

  Wyller, Truls (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)

  I argue that the question 'Is there a life after death?' should be put aside as meaningless; the reason for this has nothing to do with materialism or physicalism, however. On the contrary, it is a consequence of temporal ...

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