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Profesjonsetiske utfordringer i et helseforetak : en kvalitativ studie av sykepleiere ved to psykiatriske akuttposter i et helseforetak

2013

Avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor Universitetet i Agder, Fakultet for humaniora og pedagogikk “Professional Ethical Challenges within a Health Enterprise” is a qualitative study of 14 nurses and 2 unity heads of two psychiatric emergency posts in a psychiatric health care enterprise. The study explores modern challenges that these nursing personnel meet at work: challenges that require of them an increasing degree of regulation and standardization. The study is defined and limited by two research questions: 1. Which ethical and moral challenges do these nurses experience? 2. Does the implementation of governmental reforms affect the nurses` possibilities for acting as professional n…

En fenomenologisk inngang til profesjonsetikken : Tillit i praksis - forutsetning eller fortjeneste?

2012

Accepted version of an article from the journal: Nordisk sygeplejeforskning Tema for artikkelen er tilliten i pasient-behandler-relasjonen. Det tas utgangspunkt i profesjonsetikk og profesjonsmoral, og hva dette innebærer, før profesjonsmoralen belyses via et grunnleggende fenomen som tillit. Et sentralt spørsmål er om tillit er en grunnleggende forutsetning mellom mennesker som bare «er» der eller om tillit er en fortjeneste som helsearbeideren har gjort seg fortjent til i egenskap av profesjonstilhørighet. Tillit som grunnfenomen hos Løgstrup og noen kritiske røster til Løgstrups syn på tillit diskuteres. Med utgangspunkt i Grimens tenkning diskuteres nærmere relasjonen og den asymmetri s…

The effect of home and host country cultures on marketing managers` individual decision making related to ethical issues in MNCs : Inter- and intra-c…

2012

Doctoral dissertation in Internation Management, University of Agder, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, Kristiansand 2012 The topic of business ethics has always been relevant, but never more so than at the present time of the global economic crisis. Nestlè, Lockheed, Union Carbide, Nike, Enron, Tyco, AIG, BP, Halliburton, Lehman Brothers, Bernard L. Madoff are just a few well-known names of businesses/related individuals that at one time or other openly failed ethically. Such cases have prompted researchers to analyze the causes of unethical behavior to understand what drives individuals in business organizations to act unethically and pursue the goal of discouraging — hopefully ul…

Public deliberation as separate or embedded: deweyan democracy and its relation to political liberalism

2007

This paper explores two different strategies that may be useful to give substance to Deweyan democracy’s claim that in order for democratic associations to develop into communities, citizens need to learn how to conduct inquiry in a social setting. The two strategies reflect a principal division among views of public deliberation. The first strategy, the separation strategy, closely resembles Rawls’ political liberalism by advocating the development of a separate sphere of public deliberation, guided by factual and normative assumptions that we need not accept anywhere outside that sphere. Comprehensive doctrines are to be held outside of public deliberation, a move which makes possible a r…

What's wrong with the adequacy-argument? A pragmatic diagnosis

2011

Published version of an article in the journal: Sophia, 50(1), 11-23. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11841-009-0153-0 When confronted with the question of which philosophical conception of religion to consider most adequate, many philosophers appeal to what I call the adequacy-argument: that we should prefer the one that looks most adequate from the perspective of religious believers. In this paper, I provide a critique of the adequacy-argument based on a pragmatic analysis of adequacy-judgments according to which reflective adequacy-judgments are forward-looking, and hence include considerations of the consequences of adopting different judgments as guides…

Group epistemic value

2021

AbstractSometimes we are interested in how groups are doing epistemically in aggregate. For instance, we may want to know the epistemic impact of a change in school curriculum or the epistemic impact of abolishing peer review in the sciences. Being able to say something about how groups are doing epistemically is especially important if one is interested in pursuing a consequentialist approach to social epistemology of the sort championed by Goldman (Knowledge in a social world. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999). According to this approach we evaluate social practices and institutions from an epistemic perspective based on how well they promote the aggregate level of epistemic value ac…

Mapping and assessing ecosystem services in the EU:Lessons learned from the ESMERALDA approach of integration

2018

The European Union (EU) Horizon 2020 Coordination and Support Action ESMERALDA aimed at developing guidance and a flexible methodology for Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their Services (MAES) to support the EU member states in the implementation of the EU Biodiversity Strategy's Target 2 Action 5. ESMERALDA's key tasks included network creation, stakeholder engagement, enhancing ecosystem services mapping and assessment methods across various spatial scales and value domains, work in case studies and support of EU member states in MAES implementation. Thus ESMERALDA aimed at integrating various project outcomes around four major strands: i) Networking, ii) Policy, iii) Research an…

A value sensitive ABM of the refugee crisis in The Netherlands

2019

We develop an agent based model to characterize the wellbeing of newcomers (i.e. asylum seeking refugees) in the context of asylum logistics using Schwartz’s theory of values. The model produces recommendations for decision-makers with respect to avoiding catastrophic outcomes and maximizing best case outcomes. We conduct analysis to show that while a relatively simple set of conditions is necessary to avoid catastrophic outcomes, these conditions are insufficient to maximize the best case outcomes. Furthermore, the conditions that maximize one best case outcome do so at the expense of another. The result is a platform for decision-makers to understand tradeoffs in policies for government a…

Agent-based modelling of values: the case of value sensitive design for refugee logistics

2020

We have used value sensitive design as a method to develop an agent-based model of values in humanitarian logistics for refugees. Schwartz's theory of universal values is implemented in the model in such a way that agents can make value trade-offs, which are operationalized into a measure of refugee wellbeing and a measure of public opinion about how the refugee logistics is being handled. By trying out different ‘value-scenarios’, stakeholders who are responsible for, or involved in refugee logistics can have insights into the effects of various value choices. The model is visualized and made usable as a platform (interactive website) for decision-makers to understand the trade-offs in pol…

Aunque este obsequio es pequeño ... que el Rey viva, que reyne, triunfe, y venza.

Poema dedicat a Felip V per la ciutat de València amb motiu de la batalla de Villaviciosa Com a tít. el primer i l'últim vers