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9Når er det verst å miste sitt liv? Relevansen av filosofiske grunnlagsteorier for helseprioriteringerNorsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift 49 (3-4): 205-215. 2014.
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25Mandatory childhood vaccination: Should Norway follow?Etikk I Praksis - Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics 1 7-27. 2020._Systematic public vaccination constitutes a tremendous health success, perhaps the greatest achievement of biomedicine so far. There is, however, room for improvement. Each year, 1.5 million deaths could be avoided with enhanced immunisation coverage. In recent years, many countries have introduced mandatory childhood vaccination programmes in an attempt to avoid deaths. In Norway, however, the vaccination programme has remained voluntary. Our childhood immunisation programme covers protection …Read more
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696Abort og fosterreduksjon: En etisk sammenligningEtikk I Praksis - Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics 1 89-111. 2019.In recent years, multifetal pregnancy reduction (MFPR) has increasingly been the subject of debate in Norway, and the intensity reached a tentative maximum when Legislation Department delivered the interpretative statement § 2 - Interpretation of the Abortion Act in 2016 in response to the Ministry of Health (2014) requesting the Legislation Department to consider whether the Law on abortion allows for MFPR of healthy fetuses in multiple pregnancies. The Legislation Department concluded that cur…Read more
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20Abortion and multifetal pregnancy reduction: An ethical comparisonEtikk I Praksis - Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics 1 51-73. 2021.In recent years, multifetal pregnancy reduction has increasingly been a subject of debate in Norway. The intensity of this debate reached a tentative maximum when the Legislation Department delivered their interpretative statement, Section 2 - Interpretation of the Abortion Act, in 2016 in response to a request from the Ministry of Health that the Legislation Department consider whether the Abortion Act allows for MFPR of healthy fetuses in multiple pregnancies. The Legislation Department conclu…Read more
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17Premature Death as a Normative ConceptHealth Care Analysis 32 (2): 88-105. 2024.The practical goal of preventing premature death seems uncontroversial. But the term ‘premature death’ is vague with several, sometimes conflicting definitions. This ambiguity results in several conceptions with which not all will agree. Moreover, the normative rationale behind the goal of preventing premature deaths is masked by the operational definition of existing measures. In this article, we argue that ‘premature death’ should be recognized as a normative concept. We propose that normative…Read more
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Ch. 7. Forgiveness without blameIn Christel Fricke (ed.), The Ethics of Forgiveness: A Collection of Essays, Routledge. 2011.
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Age, death and the allocation of life-saving resourcesIn Espen Gamlund & Carl Tollef Solberg (eds.), Saving People from the Harm of Death, Oxford University Press. 2019.
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6Kan Spinozas etikk forstås som interpersonlig og holistisk?Agora Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon 21 (2-3): 149-174. 2003.
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5Spinoza og konfliktløsning. Et frigjøringsperspektivNorsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift 40 (1): 38-56. 2005.
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186Saving People from the Harm of Death (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2019.Death is something we mourn or fear as the worst thing that could happen―whether the deaths of close ones, the deaths of strangers in reported accidents or tragedies, or our own. And yet, being dead is something that no one can experience and live to describe. This simple truth raises a host of difficult philosophical questions about the negativity surrounding our sense of death, and how and for whom exactly it is harmful. The question of whether death is bad has occupied philosophers for centur…Read more
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16Family EthicsEtikk I Praksis - Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics 1 (1): 1-4. 2017.For this special issue of the Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics, we have selected four papers that address, directly or indirectly, some key issues in family ethics.
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18Hva legitimerer filosofi I Norge?Norsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift 52 (1-2): 6-14. 2017.It is a useful exercise to reflect, sometimes, on the way philosophy is carried out, and on how we think philosophy should be carried out in the future. We need to accept that academia is undergoing some important changes, which means that academic philosophy is also changing. The aim of this article is to discuss what gives philosophy its legitimacy in Norway. I will argue that the justification for having philosophy in Norway, in one way or the other, must be that it has societal value. In thi…Read more
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43Hva er galt med dypøkologien? Noen kommentarer til Arne Næs' Økosofi TNorsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift 47 (4): 229-242. 2012.What is the best way to approach our environmental problems? Or what kind of environmental ethics or philosophy is best suited to address and possibly solve some of the most serious environmental problems of our time? These questions have been discussed several times over the last decades and various alternative answers have been proposed for how to deal with contemporary environmental problems. One influential approach in the early 1970s was deep ecology, launched by Arne Naess in his article «…Read more
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109The Duty to Forgive Repentant WrongdoersInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 18 (5): 651-671. 2010.The purpose of this paper is to consider the question of whether we have a duty to forgive those who repent and apologize for the wrong they have done. I shall argue that we have a pro tanto duty to forgive repentant wrongdoers, and I shall propose and consider the norm of forgiveness. This norm states that if a wrongdoer repents and apologizes to a victim, then the victim has a duty to forgive the wrongdoer, other things being equal. That someone has a pro tanto duty to forgive a repentant wron…Read more
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37Introduction to 'Confronting Environmental Values'Ethics, Policy and Environment 14 (3). 2011.Ethics, Policy & Environment, Volume 14, Issue 3, Page 307-312, October 2011
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51What is so important about completing lives? A critique of the modified youngest first principle of scarce resource allocationTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 37 (2): 113-128. 2016.Ruth Tallman has recently offered a defense of the modified youngest first principle of scarce resource allocation [1]. According to Tallman, this principle calls for prioritizing adolescents and young adults between 15–40 years of age. In this article, I argue that Tallman’s defense of the modified youngest first principle is vulnerable to important objections, and that it is thus unsuitable as a basis for allocating resources. Moreover, Tallman makes claims about the badness of death for indiv…Read more
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48Reconsidering Approaches to Moral StatusEthics, Policy and Environment 14 (3). 2011.Ethics, Policy & Environment, Volume 14, Issue 3, Page 361-375, October 2011
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89Living Under the Guidance of Reason: Arne Naess's Interpretation of SpinozaInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 54 (1): 2-17. 2011.There is no doubt that Spinoza values what he calls living under the guidance of reason, and that he somehow equates such a life with happiness. What is less clear is exactly how he conceives of such a life, and thus how he conceives of human happiness. According to Arne Naess's interpretation of Spinoza, the virtuous and free person will prefer the life of action, and happiness is best realised through living an active life “in the world”. Other scholars, however, have interpreted Spinoza as su…Read more
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