Blar i Institutt for filosofi og religionsvitenskap på utgivelsesdato

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    • An international consensus definition of the wish to hasten death and its related factors 

      Materstvedt, Lars Johan; Balaguer, Albert; Porta-Sales, Josep; Villavicencio-Chávez, Christian; Monforte-Royo, Cristina; Bellido-Pérez, Mercedes; Trelis, Jordi; Alonso-Babarro, Alberto; Altisent, Rogelio; Aradilla-Herrero, Amor; Tomás-Sábado, Joaquín; Breitbart, William; Centeno, Carlos; Cuervo, Miguel Angel; Deliens, Luc; Frerich, Gerrit; Voltz, Raymond; Gastmans, Chris; Lichtenfeld, Stephanie; Maier, Markus A; Limonero, Joaquín T; Nabal, María; Rodin, Gary; Rosenfeld, Barry; Schroepfer, Tracy (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Background The desire for hastened death or wish to hasten death (WTHD) that is experienced by some patients with advanced illness is a complex phenomenon for which no widely accepted definition exists. This lack of a ...

    • Understanding the autonomy of autonomous technology 

      Akø, Kjetil Holtmon (Master thesis, 2016)
      Nylig har autonom teknologi fått medieoppslag og det er visse bekymringer knyttet til denne teknologien. Denne oppgaven søker å svare på spørsmålet om hvordan man skal forstå autonomien til autonome teknologier. For å svare ...

    • Conceptual and terminological confusion around personalised medicine: a coping strategy 

      De Grandis, Giovanni; Halgunset, Vidar (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 ...

    • Ethical implications of a co-benefits rationale within climate change mitigation strategy 

      Oliveira, Rita Vasconcellos; Thorseth, May Britt (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Climate change mitigation effort is being translated into several actions and discourses that make collateral benefits and their rationale increasingly relevant for sustainability, in such a way that they are now a constant ...

    • Eksistensiell lidelse - En filosofisk tilnærming til et medikalisert fenomen 

      Jordet, Fredrik Høie (Master thesis, 2016)
      “Existential suffering” is a widely used concept within palliative care, however this far no precise definition has been forthcoming in the literature. The goal of this thesis is both to explore the rather confusing realm ...

    • Global expressivism and the flight from metaphysics 

      Knowles, Jonathan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      In recent work Huw Price has defended what he calls a global expressivist approach to understanding language (and/or thought) and its relation to the physical world. Global expressivism rejects a representationalist picture ...

    • Næss og moderne argumentasjonsteori 

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

    • Esotericism and the Scholastic Imagination: The Origins of Esoteric Practice in Christian Kataphatic Spirituality 

      Asprem, Egil (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)
      Scholars agree that the imagination is central to esoteric practice. While the esoteric visimaginativa is usually attributed to the influx of Neoplatonism in the Italian Renaissance, this article argues that ...

    • Towards an Embodied Hermeneutics: Gadamer, Merleau-Ponty, and Nondirective Meditation 

      Solli, Mattias (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2017:39, Doctoral thesis, 2017)
      Summary of the thesis What does it imply to know oneself? The project discusses this classical philosophical question in light of philosophical hermeneutics ((Hans-Georg Gadamer), phenomenology (Maurice Merleau-Ponty), ...

    • Developments in Religion and Ecology 

      Bergmann, Sigurd (Chapter, 2017)
      Given the still very open context of studies in religion and the environment this chapter focuses on selected novel developments. Religion is understood as offering substantial cultural skills, and besides its meaning ...

    • RLE-fagets identitetsskapende potensial 

      Nestby, Dag Hallvard Haavelmoen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      I denne artikkelen ønsker jeg å gi et bidrag til den pågående debatten om hvorvidt undervisningen i RLE-faget bør stimulere elevenes eksistensielle modning og identitetsutvikling eller om undervisningen heller bør ha en ...

    • Islamofobi og konspirasjonsteori - En diskursanalyse av document.no 

      Solheim, Royer (Master thesis, 2017)
      This thesis is a qualitative study based on Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of a Norwegian islamophobic website, document.no. The focus of the study is on the use of conspiracy theory in islamophobic rhetorics, with the ...

    • Pharmacogenomic Inequalities: Strategies for Justice in Biomedical Research and Healthcare 

      De Grandis, Giovanni (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      The paper discusses the possibility that the benefits of pharmacogenomics will not be distributed equally and will create orphan populations. I argue that since these inequalities are not substantially different from those ...

    • No cosmopolitan morality without state sovereignty 

      Mikalsen, Kjartan Koch (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      This article takes issue with the common view that cosmopolitan normative commitments are incompatible with recognition of state sovereignty as a basic principle of international law. Against influential cosmopolitans, who ...

    • Soldiers and 'respect' in Complex Conflicts: an Afghan case 

      Vikan, Cornelia (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      This paper discusses the meaning of ‘respect’ in complex conflicts and aims to be a contribution to thinking about ethics in war along with the Just War tradition. The point of departure is the increased focus on soldiers ...

    • Profesjon og vitskap: Ein samanliknande studie av tankemønster i nyare grunnleggande litteratur for grunnskulelærar- og sjukepleiarutdanninga 

      Æsøy, Knut Ove (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2017:16, Doctoral thesis, 2017)
      Samandrag av doktoravhandlinga Kva for tenking er det som gjer at lang erfaring ikkje lenger synest å gje like stor autoritet i yrkessamanheng som tidlegare? Kvifor må allmennlæraren kjempe for sin realkompetanse? Er ...

    • Teknomoralsk endring : Huntingtons sykdom, nye gentester, og endringer i debatten om retten til ikke å vite 

      Holand, Rolf-Rikard Bjørkvoll (Master thesis, 2017)
      Moral intuitions, judgments, and justifications may change over time. This thesis discuss the relation between moral change and technological change in a particular case. I present the bioethical debate on the right not ...

    • Hva slags filosofi trenger samfunnet? 

      Wyller, Truls Egil (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Every human being may be said to be a philosopher, endowed with the capacity to reflect on her own life as part of some general worldview or even 'ontology'. With that said, it is not obvious what kind of philosophical ...

    • Om dyrs moralske status : hvordan tenke på våre forpliktelser overfor dyr 

      Wathne, Henrik (Master thesis, 2017)
      The question of the moral status of animals is a central problem in animal ethics. A range of questions arises when discussing the moral status of animals. How should we understand the concept of moral status? What kind ...

    • The Objectivity of Rationality: Three Essays on Reason and Rationality 

      Dahlback, Morten Langfeldt (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2017:17, Doctoral thesis, 2017)
      Summary of the thesis What does it take to be rational? In the three articles collected in my dissertation, I explore a range of problems in our theoretical conception of rationality. It is common to distinguish ...