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    • LGBT Rights and Refugees: A case for prioritizing LGBT status in refugee admissions 

      Vitikainen, Annamari (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-03-29)
      This article discusses the case of refugees who are LGBT, and the possible grounds for using LGBT status as a basis for prioritizing LGBT persons in refugee admissions. I argue that those states most willing and able to protect LGBT persons against a variety of (also) non-asylum-grounding injustices have strong moral reasons to admit and prioritize refugees with LGBT status over non-LGBT refugees ...
    • LGBTIQ+ prioritization in refugee admissions – The case of Norway 

      Vitikainen, Annamari (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-06-30)
      This article discusses some of the normative bases for the recent (2020) Norwegian policy prioritizing LGBTIQ+ refugees in refugee admissions. It argues that, when properly interpreted, this policy is compatible with the UNHCR vulnerability selection criteria but is not independently supported by it. Combined with some of the broader moral principles guiding refugee admissions – including both ...
    • LGBTQ+ 

      Vitikainen, Annamari Eliisa (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 ...
    • Liberalism and the right to strike 

      Tanyi, Attila; McLeod, Stephen K (Chronicle; Kronikk, 2022-05-12)
      Although trade union membership in the UK went into serious decline in the decades following the Conservative election victory of 1979, recent years have seen an increase. Strikes nowadays are typically lesser in scale and duration than the big strikes of the twentieth century. The law on ballot thresholds under the Trade Union Act 2016 represents a formidable obstacle. Nevertheless, strikes remain ...
    • Linguistic Conventionalism and the Truth-Contrast Thesis 

      Nyseth, Fredrik (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-05-19)
      According to linguistic conventionalism, necessities are to be explained in terms of the conventionally adopted rules that govern the use of linguistic expressions. A number of influential arguments against this view concerns the ‘Truth-Contrast Thesis’. This is the claim that necessary truths are fundamentally different from contingent ones since they are not made true by ‘the (worldly) facts’. ...
    • Mangfoldets enhet : en refleksjon over det udifferensierte som de værende tings bindeledd. 

      Paulsen, Geir Arne (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2008-05-14)
      Har du noen gang opplevd å tenke på noen, og like etterpå tilfeldigvis møtt den samme personen? Eller har du midt i en samtale oppdaget at den du snakker med står og forteller deg akkurat det du selv tenkte på for et øyeblikk siden, uten at du fortalte det på forhånd? Man kan undres over hvordan slike hendelser henger sammen. Ofte oppleves disse hendelsene som påfallende og uforklarlige, til ...
    • Mellom aktivitet og passivitet: Maurice Merleau-Ponty og kjærlighet som institusjon 

      Rathe, Kaja Jenssen (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-09-12)
      I denne artikkelen går jeg gjennom noen sentrale aspekter av Maurice Merleau-Pontys analyse av kjærlighet både fra Phénomenologie de la perception fra 1945 og forelesningsrekken L’institution, la passivité fra 1954–1955. Jeg retter søkelyset spesielt på den senere analysen og viser hvordan Merleau-Ponty her, med analysen av kjærlighet som institusjon, tar avstand både fra tanken om kjærlighet som ...
    • Mennesket og naturen : veien tilbake til meningen 

      Bergli, Kjærsti Løkholm (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2009-05-29)
      Målet med denne oppgaven er å undersøke hva forholdet mellom mennesket og naturen er. Først og fremst i et eksistensielt perspektiv. Jeg tar utgangspunkt i Tromsøværingen og filosofen Peter Wessel Zapffe og utfordrer hans konklusjoner med støtte av den franske filosofen Michel Serres. Zapffe ønsker å finne svar på hva det vil si å være menneske. Mennesket er overutrustet i forhold til livet. ...
    • Mennyire lehet nehéz? A túlzott követelések ellenvetésének újszerű megközelítései 

      Tanyi, Attila (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2012)
    • Metaforer og modeller som kreativitet 

      Hansen, Per-Bjørn (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2007-11-15)
      Hvordan oppstår originale ideer - uten paradoksale eller mystiske forutsetninger? Er det mulig å forklare kreativitet uten ontologiske "støtteanordninger"? Jeg forsøker i denne oppgaven å forklare kreativitet i lys av metaforisk interaksjon; som "original bruk av gamle(kjente)ideer". Et illustrativt eksempel: Hvordan kan originale matretter oppstå? De fleste av oss tenker ikke videre over dette. ...
    • Moderate inclusivism and the conversational translation proviso: Revising Habermas's ethics of citizenship 

      Jakobsen, Jonas (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Habermas’ ‘ethics of citizenship’ raises a number of relevant concerns about the dangers of a secularistic exclusion of religious contributions to public deliberation, on the one hand, and the dangers of religious conflict and sectarianism in politics, on the other. Agreeing largely with these concerns, the paper identities four problems with Habermas’ approach, and attempts to overcome them: (a) ...
    • Moral Demands and Ethical Theory: The Case of Consequentialism 

      Tanyi, Attila (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2015-10-22)
      Morality is demanding; this is a platitude. It is thus no surprise when we find that moral theories too, when we look into what they require, turn out to be demanding. However, there is at least one moral theory – consequentialism – that is said to be beset by this demandingness problem. This calls for an explanation: Why only consequentialism? This then leads to related questions: What is the ...
    • Morality and Prudence: A Case for Substantial Overlap and Limited Conflict 

      Fremstedal, Roe (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-06-07)
      <i>INTRODUCTION</i>: It is virtually impossible to say anything substantial about how morality and prudence relate to one another unless we make assumptions about their content. In what follows, I will make use of a minimal definition, according to which prudence concerns the rational pursuit of personal interest and happiness. In this connection, I use happiness as an evaluative term, as something ...
    • Naturopplevelsen og kreativitetens pusterom: Vår altfor-menneskelige dialog med verden 

      Sørmo, Eirik Stenseth (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2021-06-02)
      Med utgangspunkt i personlige erfaringer og empiriske undersøkelser, tar jeg i denne oppgaven fatt på å gi et filosofisk svar på hvorfor naturopplevelsen ser ut til å stimulere til kreativitet. Jeg bruker spesifikke momenter fra Graham Harmans objektorienterte ontologi til å argumentere for at artefakter døyver opplevelser av verden som annen og fremmed fra vår egen 'livsverden', og dermed bidrar ...
    • Nietzsche and Spinoza: From Ontology to Ethics 

      Jacobsen, Kim André (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-11-25)
      What do two of the most widely recognized modern philosophers, Friedrich Nietzsche and Benedictus de Spinoza, have in common? One would believe that they were quite different, as Nietzsche famously wrote “God is dead”, while Spinoza claimed that God is everything. There are actually several similarities in the philosophies of the two thinkers. Nietzsche claims that Spinoza shared his own ...
    • Nietzsche's Ethics of Power and the Ideas of Right, Justice, and Dignity 

      Himmelmann, Beatrix (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      In this article, I first show in which ways Nietzsche’s doctrine of the will to power informs his understanding of practical ideas, such as right, justice, and dignity. Subsequently, I challenge his view by contrasting it with approaches that emphasize the significance of thinking beyond power relations. Particularly, I draw on arguments brought forward by three major figures of the philosophical ...
    • Nietzsches Anthropologie des produktiven Antagonismus 

      Himmelmann, Beatrix (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-04-27)
      <i>Introduction</i>: Dass der Mensch in sich selbst und im Verhältnis zu den Anderen ein Zusammenhang gegensätzlicher Kräfte ist, kann als ein zentraler Gedanke Nietzsches gelten. Das Element des Gegensätzlichen kommt im Titel meiner Ausführungen unter dem Stichwort ‚Antagonismus‘ zum Ausdruck. Nietzsche benutzt diesen Begriff in interessanter und einschlägiger Weise, wie wir sehen werden. Geläufig ...
    • No Need to Get Emotional? Emotions and Heuristics 

      Szigeti, Andras (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      Many believe that values are crucially dependent on emotions. This paper focuses on epistemic aspects of the putative link between emotions and value by asking two related questions. First, how exactly are emotions supposed to latch onto or track values? And second, how well suited are emotions to detecting or learning about values? To answer the first question, the paper develops the heuristics-model ...
    • Nød, plikt og barmhjertighet - En kritisk analyse av Peter Singers etikk 

      Anfinsen, Roar (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2014)
    • On Being Good Gay: 'Covering' and the social structure of being LGBT+ 

      Vitikainen, Annamari (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-01-03)
      This essay discusses Cyril Ghosh’s analysis of the notion of ‘gay covering’ as an act of downplaying one’s gayness in the face of public expectations, and its countermove of ‘reversing cover’. I acknowledge, along with Ghosh, that both the demands to ‘cover’ and ‘reverse cover’ are problematic from the perspective of LGBT+ authenticity. I aim to show, however, that such acts of covering, and reversing ...