Research suggests that belief in conspiracy theories (CT) stems from basic psychological mechanisms and is linked to other belief systems (e.g., religious beliefs). While previous research has extensively examined individual ...

The need to better balance the promotion of scientific and technological innovation with risk management for consumer protection has inspired several recent reforms attempting to make regulations more flexible and adaptive. ...

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 ...

Denne oppgaven utforsker de sentrale tankene i Carl Schmitt sene verk, The Nomos of the Earth in the International Law of the Jus Publicum Europaeum (1950). Schmitt har blitt drøftet og tatt i bruk av de som, på høyre- ...

Sammendrag Kan en si at hytteutbygging er bærekraftig? Jeg legger da vekt på bokstavene ”ut” i hytteutbygging. Norge har sterk kultur for bruk av hytter, og det har vært en stor økning i antall hytteutbygginger. Vi nærmer ...

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, ...

In this chapter I develop a framework for a comprehensive account of knowledge from the perspective of people engaged in practices in the world. This form of knowledge, with the key notion of knowing one’s ways about, can ...

Sammendrag av avhandlingen: Avhandlingen tematiserer hvordan det dominerende fortellingsparadigmet uttrykkes i både musikk og religion. Hovedeksempelet er hvordan fortellingsparadigmet i indisk religion viser seg i ...