Institutt for filosofi og førstesemesterstudier : Recent submissions
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Stability and trust in federations with ethnic territories and a secession clause - Challenges and opportunities for Ethiopia
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-05-24)<p>How might Ethiopia maintain its federal structure and its territory? ‘Constitutional contestation’ in Ethiopia is fuelled by two factors: regions and political parties follow ethnic line; and the Ethiopian Constitution has a secession clause. <p>A central challenge is to secure sufficient political trust. The public must be assured that authorities and individuals across regional borders generally ... -
Improving Arguments for Local Carbon Rights: The Case of Forest-Based Sequestration
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-11-20)Land-based climate mitigation schemes such as REDD+ imply the creation of ‘rights to carbon’ for actions that enhance carbon sinks. In many cases, the legal and normative foundations of such rights are unclear. This article focuses on special rights on the basis of improvement. Considering improvement in relation to carbon sinks requires asking what it means to ‘improve’ an environmental resource. ... -
"Rigorismus der Wahrheit" und mythische Signifikanz. Hans Blumenberg über Hannah Arendts "Eichmann in Jerusalem"
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-12-16)Hans Blumenberg bringt in einem von ihm selbst nicht veröffentlichten Essay Hannah Arendts Buch über „Eichmann in Jerusalem“ in einen unerwarteten und aufschlussreichen Zusammenhang mit Freuds später Schrift „Der Mann Moses und die monotheistische Religion“. Beide Denker, argumentiert Blumenberg, vertreten einen problematischen „Rigorismus“ der Wahrheit. Doch im Gegensatz zu Arendt, so mutmaßt ... -
Settler Colonialism, Decolonization, and Climate Change
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-03-08)The article proposes that climate change makes enduring colonial injustices and structures visible. It focuses on the imposition and dominance of colonial concepts of land and self-determination on Indigenous peoples in settler states. It argues that if the dominance of these colonial frameworks remains unaddressed, the progressing climate change will worsen other colonial injustices, too. ... -
Sofie Charlotte av Preussen og kvinners handlingsrom i filosofien
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-12-16)Hvilket handlingsrom har kvinner hatt i filosofien? I artikkelen benytter jeg Sofie Charlotte av Preussen som eksempel for å drøfte dette spørsmålet. Kvinner har tradisjonelt ikke hatt samme forutsetninger som menn til å skrive filosofi og publisere verk. Likevel har flere av dem spilt viktige roller som samtalepartnere og korrespondenter for kanoniserte mannlige filosofer, roller de i heller liten ... -
Forord / Vorwort En arktisk oppdagelsesreise / Eine arktische Entdeckungsreise
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The State's Duty to Foster Voter Competence
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-09-26)In this paper we discuss an often-neglected topic in the literature on the ethics of voting. Our aim is to provide an account of what states are obligated to do, so that voters may fulfil their role as public decision-makers in an epistemically competent manner. We argue that the state ought to provide voters with what we call a substantive opportunity for competence. This entails that the state ... -
Mellom aktivitet og passivitet: Maurice Merleau-Ponty og kjærlighet som institusjon
(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 ... -
Envy, self-esteem, and distributive justice
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-09-21)Most agree that envy, or at least the malicious kind(s), should not have any role in the moral justification of distributive arrangements. This paper defends a contrary position. It argues that at the very least John Rawls, Axel Honneth and others that care about the social bases of self-esteem have good reasons to care about the levels of envy that different distributive principles reliably ... -
Refugee-based Reasons in Refugee Resettlement – The Case of LGBTIQ+
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-06-28)This paper discusses a recent turn in the ethics of refugee resettlement which involves taking the interests of refugees themselves into account in the distribution of refugees among potential refugee receiving countries. It argues that there is an important category of interest that does not align with the two commonly held views on what is owed to refugees: ‘safety’ or ‘conditions of a good life’. ... -
Er kjærlighet en forutsetning for rettferdighet?
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-09-12)Martha Nussbaum mener at forsvarere av samtidige liberale rettferdighetsteorier ikke har tatt innover seg det hun kaller anstendige samfunns moralpsykologi. Alle samfunn trenger emosjonell støtte, dette gjelder også liberale rettferdige samfunn. Liberale og rettferdige institusjoner som ivaretar menneskets verdighet, frihet, toleranse og respekt forutsetter at borgerne føler kjærlighet til disse ... -
How to Gauge Moral Intuitions? Prospects for a New Methodology
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2014)Examining folk intuitions about philosophical questions lies at the core of experimental philosophy. This requires both a good account of what intuitions are and methods allowing to assess them. In the paper we propose to combine philosophical and psychological conceptualisations of intuitions by focusing on three of their features: immediacy, lack of inferential relations, and stability. Once this ... -
Moral Demands and Ethical Theory: The Case of Consequentialism
(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 ... -
Secession and political capacity
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-11-30)We argue that plebiscitary theories of secession have more permissive implications than has thus far been recognized, by proponents and critics alike. The plebiscitary theory aims to devise a principle for the moral right to secede. This principle implies, we claim, that the view under many circumstances is unable to distinguish between secession of collectives and individuals. Thus, not only large ... -
Filosofihistorisk Likestilling
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2022-09-19)Alle som har beskjeftiget seg med det lange 1800-tallets filosofi- og kulturhistorie, vet at dette århundret mer enn noe annet domineres av tyskspråklig litteratur. Det er unektelig Schwung over navn som Kant, Fichte, Schlegel-brødrene, Schelling, Goethe, Schiller, Herder, Schleiermacher, Hegel, Marx, Engels, Schopenhauer, Dilthey, Nietzsche, Rilke og Freud. Normalt blir disse mannlige tenkerne, i ... -
Naturopplevelsen og kreativitetens pusterom: Vår altfor-menneskelige dialog med verden
(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 ... -
Anne Conway og revitaliseringen av naturen: Conways miljøetikk som et alternativ til Aristoteles og Spinoza
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-06-29)I den økofeministiske klassikeren The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution (1980) fremhever Carolyn Merchant måten Anne Conway (1631–1679) kritiserer det dominerende mekanistiske natursynet ved å hevde at alt i naturen er fylt med liv. For i Conways verk Principles of the most Ancient and Modern Philosophy (1690) finner vi et natursyn hvor «den anorganiske naturen», slik ... -
Hvorfor undervise kanoniserte mannlige filosofers kjønnsperspektiver? Om universalitet og kjønnsnøytralitet i Aristoteles’, Kants og Mills etiske teorier
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-05-30)I artikkelen diskuterer jeg hvorfor vi bør undervise kanoniserte mannlige filosofers kjønnsperspektiver til examen philosophicum. Dette er ofte et neglisjert tema i lærebøker i filosofiens historie. Etter mitt syn finnes det i det minste tre grunner for inkludering av kjønnsperspektivene: For det første, har de kanoniserte mannlige filosofenes syn hatt avgjørende innflytelse på hvordan vi har ... -
Kant und das Glück
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2022-06-06)Wird gefragt, was für die Gestaltung des menschlichen Lebens wesentlich ist, so kommt dem Glück und dem Streben nach Glück in der Einschätzung Kants nicht der höchste Wert zu. Anders als es ein bis heute wirkmächtiges Vorurteil nahelegt, unterschätzt Kant aber auf der anderen Seite das Streben des Menschen nach Glück keineswegs. Eine Auseinandersetzung mit Kants Begriff des Glücks kann sich ... -
Entrapment
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023)The word ‘entrapment’ has three common usages in legal discourse. First, it is used in connection with acts of entrapment: it applies, at least, to a class of acts in which a party, whom we call the ‘agent’, intentionally brings it about that another party, whom we call the ‘target’, performs a distinct act that is of a criminal type. Secondly, it is used to refer to a method of proactive law ...