Philosophy and History of Ideas

Ethics and theories of normativity are other important areas of research, partly within CSMN, but above all through The Ethics Programme – an interdisciplinary and cross-faculty programme administered from the Department. Ethics from an historical point of view is the topic of The Oslo Happiness Project, which is conducted in cooperation between scholars of Greek and Philosophy.

Research projects in Philosophy

• Addiction, Choice & Responsible Agency (CSMN)
• A Pragmatist Concept of Consummatory Experience
• Genetic Causation and Genetic Information in a Systems Biology Framework
• Metonymy in Context and Communication
• Moral Dispositionalism
• Philosophical Foundations for Systems Biology
• Political Ethics and Responsibility
• Responding to Global Poverty (CSMN)
• Responding to Local Poverty (CSMN)
• Revision of Conceptions of Moral Responsibility and free action
• The Metaphysics of Reductions and Causal Explanations in Biological Sciences
• The Oslo Happiness Project
• The Place of Psychological Facts in Moral Theory
• The Third Place
• Who owns it?

Research projects in History of Ideas

• Baptism in Augustine
• Children in Antiquity and early Middle Ages
• Collingwood's Theory
• Materialism in the French Enlightenment
• Pre-modern Aesthetic Theory
• Spiritualism and neo-religiosity in Norwegian 20th century culture
• The conflict between cultural radicalism and conservatism in 20th century Norway
  The Development of the Faustian Theme in 16th Century Literature
• The Infancy Gospel of Thomas