Browsing Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT) by Title
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Knowledge and Its Legitimacy, an Exploratory (Meta)Ethical Framework-Based Analysis of Narratives on Coastal Flooding Risks in a Changing Climate
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Knowledge quality assessment (KQA) has been developed in order to analyze the role of knowledge in situations of high stakes and urgency when characterized by deep uncertainty and ignorance. Governing coastal flood risk ... -
Make Way for the Robots! Human‑ and Machine‑Centricity in Constituting a European Public–Private Partnership
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-09-13)This article is an analytic register of recent European efforts in the making of ‘autonomous’ robots to address what is imagined as Europe’s societal challenges. The paper describes how an emerging techno-epistemic network ... -
Making common sense of vaccines: an example of discussing the recombinant attenuated salmonella vaccine with the public
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-07-10)Researchers have iterated that the future of synthetic biology and biotechnology lies in novel consumer applications of crossing biology with engineering. However, if the new biology’s future is to be sustainable, early ... -
Making Sense of Rare Earth Elements. An interdisciplinary approach to mineral resources’ ethics and governance
(Doctoral thesis, 2013-05-24)This interdisciplinary PhD dissertation aims to identify and address the ethical challenges posed by rare earth elements, as a non-renewable, ill-distributed, and valuable resource. The overall theoretical framework in ... -
Mapping ethical and social aspects of cancer biomarkers
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016-12)Cancer biomarkers represent a revolutionary advance toward personalised cancer treatment, promising therapies that are tailored to subgroups of patients sharing similar generic traits. Notwithstanding the optimism driving ... -
Medisinsk revolusjon, kunstig intelligens og milliardindustri Dominerende sosiotekniske forestillinger i medieringen av kreftfeltet
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Begrepet sosiotekniske forestillinger forstås som kollektive visjoner om en samfunnsmessig, vitenskapelig og teknologisk god fremtid. I denne artikkelen bruker vi begrepet for å analysere visjoner innenfor vitenskap og ... -
Models and numbers: Representing the world or imposing order?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)We argue for a foundational epistemic claim and a hypothesis about the production and uses of mathematical epidemiological models, exploring the consequences for our political and socio-economic lives. First, in order to ... -
Multi-scale integrated evaluation of the sustainability of large-scale use of alternative feeds in salmon aquaculture
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The steady increase in production volume of salmon aquaculture has sharpened concerns about its sustainability. In particular the production of salmon feed is a reason for concern given its reliance on scarce natural ... -
‘My new routine’: Assessing the impact of citizen science on climate adaptation in Bangladesh
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Citizen science is put forward as a method for extending science to include communities in learning about, and adapting to, climate variability and change in the places they live. But it is difficult to find evidence of ... -
Narrative review of citizen science in environmental epidemiology: Setting the stage for co-created research projects in environmental epidemiology
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Several citizen science (CS) initiatives have been adopted in environmental science to monitor air and noise pollution, and water quality related to civic concerns. Nevertheless, CS projects in environmental epidemiology ... -
The Nexus Times
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The normativity in psychiatric nosology. An analysis of how the DSM-5’s psychopathology conceptualisation can be integrated
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) uses the conceptualization of psychopathology to make psychiatric diagnoses operational. The use of explicit operational criteria appears to ... -
The notion of ‘responsible development’ in new approaches to governance of nanosciences and nanotechnologies
(Doctoral thesis, 2010-10-08)This PhD dissertation looks at the development of nanosciences and nanotechnologies (nanoST), a field that has gained tremendous political and economic momentum in the first decade of the 21st century. It is also a field ... -
On Cultures and Artscience. Interdisciplinarity and Discourses of “Twos” and “Threes” after Snow’s Two Cultures
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)At least since C.P. Snow’s seminal Rede lecture The Two Cultures, the idea of a significant difference in kind between the natural sciences and the arts and humanities has been prevalent in Western culture. A gap has been ... -
Peirce’s classification of the sciences
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)This article considers Charles Peirce’s classification of the sciences from shortly after the turn of the 20th Century. The classification has two main sources of inspiration: Comte’s science classification and Kant’s ... -
Pollinator conservation requires a stronger and broader application of the precautionary principle
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The accumulating scientific evidence on global insect and pollinator decline is fuelling calls for pollinator conservation policies. A broad range of regulating and incentivising policies is undoubtedly needed to address ... -
Precise Yet Uncertain: Broadening Understandings of Uncertainty and Policy in the BPA Controversy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Bisphenol A (BPA) is one of the most studied and most controversial chemicals used by the food packaging industry, because of its endocrine disruptive properties. Part of the controversy is due to the uncertainty that ... -
Quality Assessment in Co-developing Climate Services in Norway and the Netherlands
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Climate services, and research on climate services, have mutually developed over the past 20 years, with quality assessment a central issue for orienting both practitioners and researchers. However, quality assessment is ... -
Quantitative Storytelling in the Making of a Composite Indicator
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The reasons for and against composite indicators are briefly reviewed, as well as the available theories for their construction. After noting the strong normative dimension of these measures—which ultimately aim to ‘tell ... -
Quantity in Old Norse and modern peninsular North Germanic
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011-02-08)This article discusses the transition from a system with contrastive, segmental quantity in Old Norse into the present day system characterizing most Norwegian and Swedish dialects, where stressed syllables are obligatorily ...