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Cognitive Linguistics and Religion: Surveying the Field
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A Cognitive Perspective on Knowledge How: Why Intellectualism Is Neuro-Psychologically Implausible
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)We defend two theses: (1) Knowledge how and knowledge that are two distinct forms of knowledge, and; (2) Stanley-style intellectualism is neuro-psychologically implausible. Our naturalistic argument for the distinction ... -
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 ... -
Conceptual and terminological confusion around personalised medicine: a coping strategy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Background: The idea of personalised medicine (PM) has gathered momentum recently, attracting funding and generating hopes as well as scepticism. As PM gives rise to differing interpretations, there have been several ... -
Conceptual Engineering for Externalists
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Conscientious objection to intentional killing: an argument for toleration
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Background In the debate on conscientious objection in healthcare, proponents of conscience rights often point to the imperative to protect the health professional’s moral integrity. Their opponents hold that the moral ... -
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. ... -
Conspiracy Mentality and Political Orientation across 26 countries
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)People differ in their general tendency to endorse conspiracy theories (that is, conspiracy mentality). Previous research yielded inconsistent findings on the relationship between conspiracy mentality and political ... -
Conspiracy Theories and the Nordic Countries
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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 ... -
Conspiracy Theory, Altered States, and Alternative Community: Conspiracy Beliefs in a Sample of Nordic Yoga-Practitioners
(Chapter, 2023)Belief in hidden, intentional agency behind events is fundamentally human. However, the cultural discourses on ‘conspiracy theory’, which has relegated such beliefs to the category of stigmatised knowledge claims of the ... -
Constraints on the Precautionary Principle and the Problem of Uncertainty
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-02-16)Kramer and colleagues (2017) propose three constraints on the precautionary principle (PP)—consistency, avoidance of counterproductivity, and proportionality—which should be observed in any application of PP (Kramer et al. ... -
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- ... -
Corporate social responsibility as rectification
(Master thesis, 2010)The paper examines the plausibility of the re-conceptualisation of CSR as rectification for corporations operating in Africa (and other developing nations) given that the current global economic order works to the disadvantage ... -
Counting (on) Being - On Jacob Klein’s Return to Platonic Dialectic
(Chapter, 2021)In this chapter, Kristian Larsen tackles Jacob Klein’s philosophical reinterpretation of Platonic dialectic and his diagnosis of modernity as a second Platonic “cave,” alienating us from ourselves and the world. Larsen ... -
Counting (on) being. On Jacob Klein's return to platonic dialectic.
(Chapter, 2021)In this chapter, Kristian Larsen tackles Jacob Klein’s philosophical reinterpretation of Platonic dialectic and his diagnosis of modernity as a second Platonic “cave,” alienating us from ourselves and the world. Larsen ... -
Covid, Conspiracy Theories, and the Nordic Countries
(Chapter, 2023)Norway, Denmark, and Sweden are often subsumed under the same label as Nordic, high trust, social democratic welfare states. However, their local communities react to local events, and they have their own, local conspiracy ... -
Creativity and Knowledge
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CSR in the Norwegian context
(Chapter, 2021)In this chapter, we sketch the rise of explicit CSR in the Norwegian context by focusing on the extractive industries’ entry into a global market and the resulting legitimacy challenges arising from this transition. Explicit ...