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Comparative effectiveness research: what to do when experts disagree about risks
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-06-19)Background: Ethical issues related to comparative effectiveness research, or research that compares existing standards of care, have recently received considerable attention. In this paper we focus on how Ethics Review ... -
Conceptions of Temporality: Reconsidering Time in an Age of Impending Emergency
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The predominant contemporary concept of time is arguably measurable time, promoted as being in accordance with science. This is commonly understood as the time of physics, as, for instance, E. A. Milne claims in an article ... -
Concepts of Evidence-Based Practice: Analysis of Evidence-Based Practice and Its Debate
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-06-12)Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a model for clinical decision-making, representing an interdisciplinary approach to clinical practice that aims to optimize clinical decision-making by emphasizing the use of evidence from ... -
A conceptualization of the new urban masses in Africa - a critical discussion of the "Lumpenproletariat"
(Master thesis, 2010-05-19)In this paper we will attempt to conceptualize the explosive growth of a "lumpenproletariat" - a slum-dwelling, unproductive workforce in the informal sector - in African cities, in light of democratization. We will explore ... -
Conducting human challenge studies in LMICs: A survey of researchers and ethics committee members in Thailand
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Questions have been raised over the acceptability of conducting human challenge studies in low and middle income countries (LMICs). Most of these concerns are based on theoretical considerations and there exists little ... -
Configurational Causal Modeling and Logic Regression
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Configurational comparative methods (CCMs) and logic regression methods (LRMs) are two families of exploratory methods that employ very different techniques to analyze data generated by causal structures featuring conjunctural ... -
Confused Entailment
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Priest argued in his paper Fusion and Confusion (Priest, 2015a) for a new concept of logical consequence over the relevant logic B, one where premises my be “confused” together. This paper develops Priest’s idea. Whereas ... -
Confusions about ‘Inner’ and ‘Outer’ Voices: Conceptual Problems in the Study of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Both in research on Auditory Verbal Hallucinations (AVHs) and in their clinical assessment, it is common to distinguish between voices that are experienced as ‘inner’ (or ‘internal’, ‘inside the head’, ‘inside the mind’, ... -
Constructing motherhood: Russian women bringing up children in Bergen, Norway
(Master thesis, 2015-06-02)The main objective of this study was to explore how Russian women have constructed motherhood within the Norwegian context. The empirical material came from qualitative, loosely structured interviews with nine middle-class, ... -
Control and Practical Moral Responsibility - A hard incompatibilist solution to the free will problem that doesn`t require a revolution of our reactive attitudes
(Master thesis, 2013-09-03)This thesis is an investigation into the free will debate and the problem of free will. Is free will and moral responsibility possible in a determinate universe? As old as this problem is, philosophers are still grappling ... -
The Cosmopolitan Rights of Foreigners. A Phenomenological Defense of Cosmopolitan Law
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-06-18)This thesis argues that states have cosmopolitan obligations of a moral-legal character. These obligations are articulated as “cosmopolitan law”, which is a Kantian term referring to the morallegal norms that ... -
Crime, Punishment, and Understanding Justice through Injustice
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-08-24)The thesis discusses the justice of state punishment in response to criminal wrongs. The introductory chapter explores the logic of the concept of justice itself, proposing that we understand justice as the function of ... -
Dannelse i kontekst? ELE-tradisjonen i endring
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Den vitenskapelige realisme og anti-realismen: en remis?
(Master thesis, 2017-06-22)Debatten mellom vitenskapelig realisme og anti-realismen har i den siste tiden ikke vist noen tegn til å bevege seg fremover. Hos realistene ser vi at det fremdeles refereres tilbake til Grover Maxwell og Karl Popper når ... -
Desiring the good: motivational development in Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics
(Master thesis, 2011-02-01)According to Aristotle in his Nicomachean Ethics, character-development is closely connected to perception and our emotional pull towards objects of desire. The problem is, though The Ethics is brimming with a variety of ... -
Det ondes problem - Kroppsforming, fascisme, etikk
(Master thesis, 2010-05-19)Oppgaven tar for seg spørsmålet om ondskap ut fra en distinksjon mellom det aktive og det reaktive. Denne distinksjonen antyder at hat og destruktivitet kan forstås som uttrykk for en reaktiv tilstand ved kroppen, produsert ... -
Different algorithms, different models
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This study assesses the extent to which the two main Configurational Comparative Methods (CCMs), i.e. Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Coincidence Analysis (CNA), produce different models. It further explains how ... -
The “Diktat für Schlick”: Authorship Research and Computational Stylometry Revisited
(Chapter, 2022)Both the authorship and the dating of the so-called “Diktat für Schlick” (DFS), once attributed to Ludwig Wittgenstein and assigned by Georg Henrik von Wright to the Wittgenstein Nachlass as item 302, are debated topics ... -
Disagreement about logic
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)What do we disagree about when we disagree about logic? On the face of it, classical and nonclassical logicians disagree about the laws of logic and the nature of logical properties. Yet, sometimes the parties are accused ... -
Discontinuities and singularities, data and phenomena: for Referentialism
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The paper rebuts a currently popular criticism against a certain take on the referential role of discontinuities and singularities in the physics of first-order phase transitions. It also elaborates on a proposal I made ...