• A Methodological Framework for Developing More Just Footprints: The Contribution of Footprints to Environmental Policies and Justice 

      Oliveira, Rita Vasconcellos (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      The rapid growth of human population and associated industrialisation creates strains on resources and climate. One way to understand the impact of human activity is to quantify the total environmental pressures by measuring ...
    • Acceptable attitudes and the limits of tolerance: Understanding public attitudes to conscientious objection in healthcare 

      Haaland Barlaup, Astrid; Landsverk, Åse Marie; Myskja, Bjørn Kåre; Supphellen, Magne; Magelssen, Morten (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Background The public’s attitudes to conscientious objection (CO) are likely to influence political decisions about CO and trust towards healthcare systems and providers. Few studies examine the public’s attitudes in an ...
    • Accurate Knowledge: Implications of ‘Lived Islamic Theology’ for the Academic Study of Islamic Disciplines 

      Mårtensson, Ulrika; Eriksen, Eli-Anne Vongraven (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      This article discusses the relationship between, on the one hand, the academic study of Islamic disciplines within university faculties of humanities and theology, including religious studies, and, on the other, ‘lived ...
    • Against Arguments From Diagnostic Reasoning 

      Toorman, Jeske (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Recent work in cognitive psychology and experimental semantics indicates that people do not categorize natural kinds solely by virtue of their purported scientific essence. Two attempts have been made to explain away the ...
    • 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 ...
    • Anti-representasjonalisme og realisme 

      Knowles, Jonathan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Artikkelen er en kritisk diskusjon av Hubert Dreyfus og Charles Taylors bok Retrieving Realism fra 2015. Artikkelens sentrale anliggende er hvordan vi best skal forstå ideen om «anti-representasjonalistisk» filosofi, og ...
    • Anti-Representationalism, Naturalism, and Placement Metaphysics 

      Knowles, Jonathan Lewis (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      A perennial issue in contemporary philosophy is the question of how, in Wilfrid Sellars’ terms, categories of the ‘manifest image’ relate to those of the ‘scientific image’. A widespread kind of naturalism assumes that the ...
    • Antikapitalismens ømme punkt? 

      Wyller, Truls Egil (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2005)
      Tredje venstre. For en radikal individualisme av Magnus Marsdal og Bendik Wold er blitt behørig omtalt i pressen, og forfatterne har forsvart sine synspunkter i en rekke debattinnlegg. Anmeldere har karakterisert utgivelsen ...
    • An apology for conflicts between metaphysics and science in naturalized metaphysics 

      Jaksland, Rasmus (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      According to naturalized metaphysics, metaphysics should be informed by our current best science and not rely on a priori reasoning. Consequently, naturalized metaphysics tends to dismiss metaphysicians’ attempts to quarrel ...
    • Appreciation through use: How industrial technology articulates an ecology of values around Norwegian seaweed 

      Efstathiou, Sophia; Myskja, Bjørn Kåre (Journal article, 2018)
      This paper offers a moral history of the industrialisation of seaweed harvesting in Norway. Industrialisation is often seen as degrading natural resources. Ironically, we argue, it is precisely the scale and scope of ...
    • Are Natural Kind Terms Ambiguous? 

      Haukioja, Jussi Tapio; Toorman, Jeske; Baggio, Giosuè; Jylkka, Jussi (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Recent experimental studies have claimed to find evidence for the view that natural kind terms such as “water” are ambiguous: that they have two extensions, one determined by superficial properties, the other by underlying ...
    • Arguments from Need in Natural Resource Debates 

      Stabell, Espen Dyrnes (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      With regard to any natural resource, we can ask whether we should obtain (more of) it. We may further hold that the answer to this question depends, at least in part, on whether there is a need in our society for the ...
    • Art and linguistic bodies: a transformative view 

      Finke, Ståle Rainer Strøm; Netland, Thomas; Solli, Mattias (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      This article takes its point of departure from the second (embodied) linguistic turn represented by the enactivist notion of humans as linguistic bodies, using resources from Hans Georg Gadamer in order to propose a view ...
    • Attitudes towards assisted dying are influenced by question wording and order: a survey experiment 

      Magelssen, Morten; Supphellen, Magne; Nortvedt, Per; Materstvedt, Lars Johan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Background: Surveys on attitudes towards assisted dying play an important role in informing public debate, policy and legislation. Unfortunately, surveys are often designed with insufficient attention to framing effects; ...
    • «Å bli til i det å bli sett». Om sammenvevingen av det etiske og det estetiske i Trondheims minnepark for 22. juli-ofrene 

      Solli, Mattias (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Artikkelen er en fenomenologisk og hermeneutisk betraktning av Trondheims minnepark for 22. juli-ofrene. Bakgrunnen ligger i et etisk moment av hermeneutisk selvkritikk, som utspilte seg i storsamfunnets reaksjoner på ...
    • Back to the Future: The potential of Intergenerational Justice for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals 

      Oliveira, Rita Vasconcellos (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      The establishment of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) bolstered momentum to achieve a sustainable future. Undeniably, the welfare of future generations is a fundamental value of sustainable development since the ...
    • Barad, Bohr, and quantum mechanics 

      Jaksland, Rasmus; Faye, Jan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The last decade has seen an increasing number of references to quantum mechanics in the humanities and social sciences. This development has in particular been driven by Karen Barad’s agential realism: a theoretical framework ...
    • Beyond the West: Towards a New Comparativism in the Study of Esotericism 

      Asprem, Egil (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      This article has two main objectives: 1) to account for the relation between definitions, boundaries and comparison in the study of “esotericism” in a systematic manner; 2) to argue for an expansion of comparative research ...
    • Bærekraft, etikk og profitt – Statens pensjonsfond utland i møte med den globale økologiske krisen 

      Nilsen, Heidi Rapp; Carson, Siri Granum (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Mens klimaendringene eskalerer, blir bærekraft en stadig viktigere faktor i den brede finansielle forvaltningen til Statens pensjonsfond utland (SPU). Samtidig er anvendelsen av de etiske retningslinjene mindre synlige enn ...
    • Can Fictional Superhuman Agents have Mental States? 

      Levy, Gabriel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      According to Deborah Tollefsen, from the analytic perspective called “interpretivism”, there is a reasonable way in which groups can be said to have mental states. She bases her argument on the every-day use of language, ...