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Migration and discrimination: exploring the pathways of a more integrated research agenda
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-09-01)This special issue consists of four articles, contributed by David Owen; Désirée Lim, Sahar Akhtar and (as co-authors) Mollie Gerver, Miranda Simon, Patrick Lown and Dominik Duell. These contributions address issues related to migration policies with the aim of bringing normative theories of migration and discrimination into dialogue. These theories describe the various types of discrimination ... -
Annotated Bibliography Postcolonial/Decolonial Texts 1952-2020
(Research report; Forskningsrapport, 2024)The creation of this systematic bibliography of postcolonial and decolonial texts was supported generously by the department for gender equality and diversity (Likestillings- og mangfoldsutvalget) at UiT The Arctic University of Norway in 2020. The overarching project aimed at analyzing power relations in the classroom of a university in Sápmi. The bibliography provides a rough chronological overview ... -
Kant on Peace and Conflict
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2024)On the one hand, Immanuel Kant is famous for his idea of “perpetual peace”; on the other hand, he argues that human beings need antagonism and conflict in order to develop and flourish. By emphasising both the requirement of peace and the productivity of conflict, Kant pays tribute to the inherent ambivalence of human nature that his well-known phrase of man’s “unsociable sociability” (ungesellige ... -
Den moderne teknikkens legitimitet
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-05-31)Hva er den moderne teknikkens status? Beriker den våre liv eller frarøver den vår tilværelse mening? Med utgangspunkt i konfliktlinjen mellom den klassiske teknikkfilosofien og den empiriske vendingen forsvarer herværende oppgave en forståelse av den moderne teknikken som bejaer den moderne teknikken som meningsskapende. Jeg søker å ivareta den klassiske teknikkfilosofiens enhetlige og historiske ... -
Filosofi for Fiskere; Kunnskap om mikroaggresjoner som en av løsningene på fiskerinæringas manglende kjønnsbalanse.
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-05-31)Kan en av løsningene på fiskerinæringens kvinnemangel være bevisstgjøring og kompetanseheving rundt begreper som mikroaggresjon og mikroulikhet? Denne oppgaven vil utforske hvordan kunnskap om teoretiske ideer kan hjelpe fiskere av begge kjønn å gjenkjenne uheldige vaner og hvordan de kan endres. Siden disse fenomenene også er knyttet til institusjoners strukturelle nivå vil oppgaven også diskutere ... -
The Agent-Based Model of Pluralistic Ignorance. Sincerity, Conformity and Truth.
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-05-15)This thesis investigates the phenomenon of pluralistic ignorance, clears up some conceptual confusion regarding its definition, and explores ethical problems connected to it. A primary contribution lies in the development of an agent-based computer simulation of pluralistic ignorance. Observations of this simulation lead to tentative recommendations about how to deal with pluralistic ignorance in ... -
Anti-immigrant backlash: the Democratic Dilemma for immigration policy
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-03-01)Anti-immigrant backlash has emerged in recent years as a considerable threat to democracy. In many countries illiberal and anti-democratic political forces driven in part by anti-immigrant sentiment have damaged or threaten to damage the proper functioning of democratic institutions. Should policymakers try to avert this threat by implementing more restrictive immigration policy? If they do ... -
Consequentialism and Its Demands: The Role of Institutions
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-04-17)Consequentialism is often criticized as being overly demanding, and this overdemandingness is seen as sufficient to reject it as a moral theory. This paper takes the plausibility and coherence of this objection—the Demandingness Objection—as a given. Our question, therefore, is how to respond to the Objection. We put forward a response relying on the framework of institutional consequentialism we ... -
Should We Increase Young People’s Voting Power?
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-03-28)This paper argues that democratic collectives have reason to increase the voting power of their younger members. It first presents an intuitive case for weighted voting in general, before drawing support from a prominent principle of democratic inclusion – the all affected principle. On a plausible understanding of that principle, a decision may affect people to varying degrees, and this ... -
Substituted Decision-making
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023)A core principle of medical ethics states that patients should be allowed to determine whether they wish to accept or refuse treatment, if they possess the relevant decision making capacity at the time treatment decisions need to be made. In cases where patients lack capacity to make decisions regarding their own treatment, substitute decision makers must make such decisions for them. This chapter ... -
Kann und soll der Wille zur Macht überwunden werden? Ein Versuch des späten Nietzsche
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-11-01)Das Prinzip des Willens zur Macht spielt von Beginn an, das heißt spätestens seit dem kurzen Stück über Homer’s Wettkampf, bis in Nietzsches letzte philosophische Texte hinein eine hervorgehobene Rolle. Doch es fällt auf, dass Nietzsche am Ende neben und gegenläufig zu diesem Prinzip ein Verständnis und eine Haltung dem Leben gegenüber zu konturieren sucht, die über den Willen zur Macht hinausweisen. ... -
Deontologischer Objektivismus? Ein Kommentar zu "Sinn im Leben"
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-12-01)Im Folgenden möchte ich die Hauptthese des Buches, „dass das sinnvolle Leben am intuitiv plausibelsten durch eine Theorie beschrieben werden kann, die sich als ‚deontologischer Objektivismus‘ bezeichnen lässt“ (P 1-2), kritisch beleuchten. Vor allem drei Fragen sollen meine Diskussion leiten: Was genau beinhaltet der von Markus Rüther vorgeschlagene „deontologische Objektivismus“? Kann er überzeugen? ... -
Ageing in Place and Autonomy: Is the ‘Age-Friendly’ City Initiative Too Elderly-Friendly?
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023-05)This chapter discusses the ‘age-friendly cities’ initiative aimed at enhancing people’s opportunity to age in place. It presents an autonomy-based defence of the idea and examines the moral claim that the elderly can make in support of their ability to age in place. The chapter emphasizes, among other considerations, that ageing in place can have cognitive benefits through the routines and habits ... -
Who Needs to Tell the Truth? - Epistemic Injustice and Truth and Reconciliation Commissions for Minorities in Non-Transitional Societies
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-01-08)Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (TRCs) have become a widely used tool to reconcile societies in the aftermath of widespread injustice or social and political conflict in a state. This article focuses on TRCs that take place in non-transitional societies in which the political and social structures, institutions, and power relations have largely remained in place since the time of injustice. ... -
Gender balance
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023-04-12)Gender balance is defined as equal participation of women and men. Aiming for gender balance can be one pathway towards more equal, diverse, and inclusive societies. Gender balance can be achieved both vertically and horizontally within an organisation. Vertical gender balance is defined as an equal proportion of women and men in ranked positions of power. Horizontal gender balance is defined as an ... -
Epistemic injustice
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023-04-12)Epistemic injustice groups together different phenomena that inhibit us from accessing or producing knowledge due to prejudices about certain groups. Epistemic injustice describes situations in which speakers’ knowledge is falsely discredited due to their group membership. It can also describe the lack of concepts for describing experiences, and the connected knowledge, of marginalised groups as ... -
LGBTQ+
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023-04-12)This chapter discusses some of the challenges and potential solutions for better treatment and inclusion of LGBTQ+ persons (lesbian, gay, bi, trans, queer students and staff) in higher education. The chapter provides a theoretical background on the understanding of the LGBTQ+ categories, as well as the ethical questions relating to the treatment of LGBTQ+ persons in contemporary societies. Specific ... -
Policing, Undercover Policing and ‘Dirty Hands’: The Case of State Entrapment
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2024)Under a ‘dirty hands’ model of undercover policing, it inevitably involves situations where whatever the state agent does is morally problematic. Christopher Nathan argues against this model. Nathan’s criticism of the model is predicated on the contention that it entails the view, which he considers objectionable, that morally wrongful acts are central to undercover policing. We address this criticism, ... -
Reassessing the Needs for Carbon Dioxide Removal: Moral Implications of Alternative Climate Target Pathways
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-01-05)Non-technical summary. Scenarios compatible with the Paris agreement’s temperature goal of 1.5 °C involve carbon dioxide removal measures – measures that actively remove CO<sub>2</sub> from the atmosphere – on a massive scale. Such large-scale implementations raise significant ethical problems. Van Vuuren et al. (2018), as well as the current IPCC scenarios, show that reduction in energy and or ... -
A Duty not to Remain Silent: Hypocrisy and the Lack of Standing not to Blame
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-07-20)A notable feature of our practice of blaming is that blamees can dismiss blame for their own blameworthy actions when the blamer is censuring them hypocritically and, as it is often put, lacks standing to blame them as a result. This feature has received a good deal of philosophical attention in recent years. By contrast, no attention has been given the possibility that, likewise, refraining from ...
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