Browsing Institutt for filosofi og religionsvitenskap by Title
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Wahrnehmung, Substanz und Kausalität bei Kant
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2001)‚Erfahrung ist eine verstandene Wahrnehmung‘ Die hier vorgeschlagene Kant-Interpretation stellt eine nicht-repräsentationalistische Version seiner Theorie der raumzeitlichen Erkenntnis dar. So befindet sie sich nicht ... -
Ways we are connected to the world: Craft and/or science?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Craft research is becoming an established, but sometimes also controversial, part of the international academic community. Consequently, it is a science in the socially accepted sense. However, as the experience from Sweden ... -
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 ... -
We're not in it for the money - lay people's moral intuitions on commercial use of 'their' biobank
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)Great hope has been placed on biobank research as a strategy to improve diagnostics, therapeutics and prevention. It seems to be a common opinion that these goals cannot be reached without the participation of commercial ... -
A welcome intervention, but stops just where things will get interesting
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What Bohr wanted Carnap to learn from quantum mechanics
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Niels Bohr's interpretation of quantum mechanics is often cast as positivist and sometimes explicitly claimed to be influenced by logical positivists due to some similarities in their thinking. While it is certainly the ... -
What Peter didn't know. Reflections on spatial size
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)The person of the initial thought experiment knows all non-indexical physical facts about things of the external world but not their real size. This highlights a tension between two rather uncontroversial views about spatial ... -
What Self in Self-Organisation? Engaging Varela’s Epistemology for the Co-Embodied Self
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)bodily and joint co-embodied processes so that the self is already and constitutively social. I focus on an early article by Francisco Varela, “Not one, not two”, to argue that his non- dualistic epistemology entails a ... -
What We Owe Unwelcome Residents: The obligations of liberal democracies towards irregular immigrants
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When is a Techno-Fix Legitimate? The Case of Viticultural Climate Resilience
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Climate change is an existential risk reinforced by ordinary actions in affluent societies—often silently present in comfortable and enjoyable habits. This silence is sometimes broken, presenting itself as a nagging reminder ... -
When is normative recruitment legitimate?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2008)Rosamond Rhodes and John Harris have both recently argued that we all have a general moral duty to participate in medical research. However, neither Rhodes’ nor Harris’ arguments in support of this obligation stand up to ... -
Why are Actions but not Emotions Done Intentionally, if both are Reason-Responsive Embodied Processes?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Emotions, like actions, this paper argues, are typically embodied processes that are responsive to reasons, where these reasons connect closely with the agent’s desires, intentions, or projects. If so, why are emotions, ... -
"Why be moral?": Debatten mellom Charles Taylor og Jürgen Habermas
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Why environmental philosophers should be buck-passers about value
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Why green growth cannot solve the climate crisis
(Master thesis, 2015)Beslutningstakerne i Norge og resten av verden har forsøkt å løse klimakrisen ved å redusere klimagassutslippene i mer enn 25 år. Likevel, til tross for den langvarige innsatsen har de ikke klart å snu utviklingen: ... -
Why is integration so difficult? Shifting roles of ethics and three idioms for thinking about science, technology and society
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Contemporary science and technology research are now expected to become more responsible through collaboration with social scientists and scholars from the humanities. This paper suggests a frame explaining why such current ... -
Why, and how, is India protecting the caste system at the national and international arena?
(Master thesis, 2015)Caste is a hierarchical system, distinguishing people’s status by determining one’s purity and pollution. Indian structure of society has been formed by a Hindu conviction through generations, institutionalised through ... -
With-In: Towards an Aesth/Ethics of Prepositions
(Chapter, 2018)What does art do to me as the space and spirit where I am? Inspired by Marcuse, art for me appears as a place of a manifested utopia where the future and past encounter each other, a place that transfigures the space where ... -
A Yak, Na rak and Potalaka: Folios of the So-Called "Gyalpo Kachem" in US Museum Collections
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)