Browsing Institutt for filosofi og religionsvitenskap by Title
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«Natur» er også et ord: Om å ta natur på alvor i feministisk teori
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)I og med den «materielle vendingen» har feminismens tradisjonelt skeptiske holdning til naturbegrepet blitt erstattet av en naturnysgjerrighet og -entusiasme. Naturen skal ikke lenger forstås som kulturens passive, enhetlige ... -
Navigating ethics in a pandemic—Contempt for the weak versus love of neighbor in a Swedish lens
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The article draws on the author's observations and reflections about Sweden's pandemic management from February 2020 to June 2021. It does not simply interpret the lessons one can learn from the Swedish biopolitical ... -
New Age and Norwegian Conspirituality
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No cosmopolitan morality without state sovereignty
(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 ... -
(Non-)conceptual representation of meaning in utterance comprehension
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Cognitivist, as well as many perceptualist, views of utterance comprehension agree that understanding an utterance involves knowing, believing, perceiving, or, anyhow, mentally representing the utterance to mean such-and-such. ... -
Non-reductive naturalism and the vocabulary of agency
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)Carl Sachs has recently provided a helpful discussion of Richard Rorty’s thinking concerning the question of naturalism, distinguishing between two positions he terms ‘non-reductive physicalism’ and ‘pragmatic naturalism’ ... -
Non-supernaturalism: Linguistic Convention, Metaphysical Claim, or Empirical Matter of Fact?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This paper examines our pre-theoretic conception of non-supernaturalism; the thesis that all that exists is natural. It is argued that we intuitively take this thesis to be a substantive, non-dogmatic, empirically justified, ... -
Norms of Testimony in Broad Interdisciplinarity: The Case of Quantum Mechanics in Critical Theory
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)While much interdisciplinarity brings together proximate fields, broad interdisciplinarity sees integration between disciplines that are perceived to be non-neighboring. This paper argues that the heterogeneity among ... -
Norwegian salmon farming and the chase for social legitimacy
(Chapter, 2016)Norway is a world-leading producer of farmed Atlantic salmon, but despite economic success the industry is controversial, and public opinion and local communities are increasingly sceptical or even hostile. The industry ... -
Næss og moderne argumentasjonsteori
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Old problems for neo-positivist naturalized metaphysics
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)In her paper “Neo-positivist metaphysics” (Philosophical Studies, 160(1), 53–78, 2012), Alyssa Ney promises a naturalized metaphysics that is acceptable even by positivists’ – and specifically Carnap’s – standards. This ... -
”Om å gjenvinne stemmen – Merleau-Ponty. Psykoanalysen og kroppens fenomenologi“
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Denne artikkelen forsøker å vise hvordan Merleau-Pontys analyser av kropp og persepsjon kan gjøres fruktbare for aktuelle begrepsutviklinger innen psykoanalytisk og klinisk diskurs. Merleau-Pontys tilnærming og kritikk ... -
Om dyrs moralske status : hvordan tenke på våre forpliktelser overfor dyr
(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 ... -
Om forholdet mellom tekst og meningsdannelse
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Om personlig ansvar som prioriteringskriterium i helsevesenet
(Bachelor thesis, 2023)I denne oppgaven tematiseres personlig ansvar som prioriteringskriterium i helsevesenet. Først presenteres og diskuteres argumenter for hvorfor personlig ansvarliggjøring kan være appellerende, deretter argumenter mot ... -
Omsorg og velferdsteknologi. Om hvordan vi kan leve gode liv med teknologi
(Master thesis, 2020)Abstract A central question in the ethics of technology, is how we can live good lives with all the technology that in different ways condition our lives. This has become an important question, because to live good lives ... -
On Deriving Essentialism from the Theory of Reference
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-08)Causal theories of reference for natural kind terms are widely agreed to play a central role in arguments for the claim that theoretical identity statements such as “Water is H2O” are necessary, if true. However, there is ... -
On envatment, experience and epistemology
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)This paper is about the relationship between anti-sceptical arguments that reflect on the (alleged) possibility that we might be a brain in a vat, and different conceptions of perceptual experience. I argue that while the ... -
On Free Will and Moral Responsibility, A Defense of Hard Incompatibilism
(Master thesis, 2024)Skeptiske syn på fri vilje er stort sett ansett som uattraktive og de færreste filosofer holder det skeptiske synet at vi ikke har fri vilje. I denne oppgaven vil jeg forsvarer hard inkompatibilisme som et syn på fri vilje. ... -
Ought the level of sedation to be reduced during deep palliative sedation? A clinical and ethical analysis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Background Deep palliative sedation (DPS) is applied as a response to refractory suffering at the end of life when symptoms cannot be relieved in an awake state. DPS entails a dilemma of whether to provide uninterrupted ...