Institutt for filosofi og religionsvitenskap
Recent Submissions
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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 ... -
Time, Death, and Duration
(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 ... -
A Methodological Framework for Developing More Just Footprints: The Contribution of Footprints to Environmental Policies and Justice
(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 ... -
Kant on Temporal Extension: Embodied, Indexical Idealism
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)I defend what I take to be a genuinely Kantian view on temporal extension: time is not an object but a human horizon of concrete particulars. As such, time depends on the existence of embodied human subjects. It does not, ... -
The multiple realizability of general relativity in quantum gravity
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Must a theory of quantum gravity have some truth to it if it can recover general relativity in some limit of the theory? This paper answers this question in the negative by indicating that general relativity is multiply ... -
Hard Environmental Choices: Comparability, Justification, and the Argument from Moral Identity
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)In decision-making based on multiple criteria, situations may arise where agents find their options to be neither better than, worse than, or equal to each other with respect to the relevant criteria. How, if at all, can ... -
From ethics of restriction to ethics of construction: ELSA research in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Current trends in ELSA policies are marked by keywords like collaboration, integration and Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). This article analyzes how these trends have manifested themselves in Norway with the aim ... -
Beyond the West: Towards a New Comparativism in the Study of Esotericism
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)This article has two main objectives: 1) to account for the relation between definitions, boundaries and comparison in the study of “esotericism” in a systematic manner; 2) to argue for an expansion of comparative research ... -
We have never been ELSI researchers – there is no need for a post-ELSI shift
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)This article criticizes recent suggestions that the current ELSI research field should accommodate a new direction towards a ‘post-ELSI’ agenda. Post-ELSI research seeks to avoid the modernist division of responsibility ...
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