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The Ethical Egoist Case for Dietary Veganism, Or The Individual Animal and His Will to Live
2017
Master's thesis religion - University of Agder 2017 In this thesis in applied ethics, «The ethical egoist case for dietary veganism, or the individual animal and his will to live», I argue that taking non-human animals into consideration can be argued for from an approach of ethical egoism. I argue that from the standpoint of egoism, in most cases you would be well advised to adopt a vegan diet, that means, practically speaking, a diet rid of animal products. The thesis is divided into four main chapters. The first presents other approaches to animal ethics and the issue of dietary vegetarianism or veganism. I briefly present the standpoints of Peter Singer, Tom Regan and Mark Rowlands. The…
Varme Voksne : Et bidrag til forståelse av fenomenet kjærlighet i konteksten av profesjon
2020
Master's thesis in Religion, philosophy and society (REL500)
Bare et navn? : En studie av sammenhengen mellom navngivning av dyr i dyreparker og moralsk status
2020
Master's thesis in Religion, philosophy and society (REL500)
Det såkalte selvbedraget : En fenomenologisk og analytisk kritikk av forestillingen om å bli bedratt av seg selv
2019
Masteroppgave religion REL500 - Universitetet i Agder 2019 Understanding self-deception, the way this term is still applied, has prompted both philosophers, psychologists and others in finding solutions to the dilemma by suggesting theories as to the construction of and motivation behind the phenomenon. Some of these theories compromise the core issue - that p and ~p cannot be true at the same time. Other theories work around the dilemma by offering rather dubious assumptions like boundaries between parts of the mind.My suggestion is a rather clear-cut definition by which self-deception is congruent with Moor's paradox. The self-deception then disappears because the contradiction is cast as…
The general will. What is Rousseau’s “the general will”? A hermeneutical inquiry of the metaphysics, moral psychology, and political philosophy of th…
2021
Master´s thesis in Religion, Philosophy and Society A central notion to Rousseau’s The Social Contract is “the general will”. This thesis is a hermeneutical inquiry into that notion. The thesis first sets the hermeneutical horizons of quasi-realismas the metaphysical framework and non-cognitivism as a motivation theory. The inquiry then begins by Rousseau’s thought experiment on the state of nature, starting with metaphysics, which is “the coming into being” of the general will. Then it transitions into moral psychology in the horizon of non-cognitivism. This is a transition from the philosophy of principles toempirical philosophy. Finally, the findings are critiqued, defended, and applied …
Naturalisme og Evolusjon –En epistemologisk utfordring. En undersøkelse av Alvin Plantingas evolusjonsargument mot naturalismen
2021
Master´s thesis in Religion, Philosophy and Society
A decidable multi-modal logic of context
1997
We give a logic for formulas Á¡± Ã, with the informal reading ”à is true in the context described by Á”. These are interpreted as binary modalities, by quantification over an enumerable set of unary modalities c¡± Ã, meaning ”à is true in context c”. The logic allows arbitrary nesting of contexts. A corresponding axiomatic presentation is given, and proven to be decidable, sound, and complete. Previously, quantificational logic of context restricted the nesting of contexts, and was only known to be decidable in very special cases.
An Arctic Archive for the Anthropocene
2019
Author's accepted manuscript (postprint). Available from 25/10/2020.
Sivil ulydighet i økokrisens tid
2022
Extinction Rebellions bruk av sivil ulydighet som protestform mot det de oppfatter som en rovdrift på jordsystemet er omstridt. I denne artikkelen fremsettes det jeg kaller et økoargument for sivil ulydighet og hevder at slik protest er akseptabelt som en moralsk, demokratisk og transnasjonal håndtering av natur- og klimakrisen. Jeg kritiserer her John Rawls’ rettferdighetsargument og Jürgen Habermas’ demokratiargument for sivil ulydighet fordi de representerer en antroposentrisme som forsterker denne krisen snarere enn å bidra til å løse den. Som et alternativ, bygger økoargumentet på et økosentrisk natursyn og en økologisk demokratimodell.
Ecological Sensibility: Recovering Axel Honneth’s Philosophy of Nature in the Age of Climate Crisis
2020
What is “critical” about critical theory? I claim that, to be “critical enough”, critical theory’s future depends on being able to handle today’s planetary climate crisis, which presupposes a philo...