Institutt for filosofi og religionsvitenskap
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Staying within planetary boundaries as a premise for sustainability: On the responsibility to address counteracting sustainable development goals
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Sustainable development, as explained through the three pillars of environment, society and economy, is a well-known concept and has been used extensively in recent decades. There is finally a growing acknowledgement that ... -
Hvilket forhold burde vi ha til rus? - En filosofisk undersøkelse
(Bachelor thesis, 2019)I denne teksten skal vi undersøke to spørsmål, det første er om rusbruk er forenlig med en autentisk væremåte, mens det andre er om rusforsvaret Friedrich Nietzsches kommer med i sitt verk “Tragediens fødsel” også er ... -
Rescuing Solidarity from Its Carers. A Response to Professor ter Meulen
(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
(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
(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
(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 ... -
Variation in Natural Kind Concepts
(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
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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
(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
(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
(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?
(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
(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
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Acceptable attitudes and the limits of tolerance: Understanding public attitudes to conscientious objection in healthcare
(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?
(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
(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
(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
(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 ...
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