Publications
Why Be Moral ?, Beatrix Himmelmann & Robert B. Louden (eds.), Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter 2015
What reasons do we have to be moral, and are these reasons more compelling than the reasons we have to pursue non-moral projects? Ever since the Sophists first raised this question, it has been a focal point of debate. Why Be Moral? is a collection of new essays, written by an international team of leading scholars in the field, on this fundamental philosophical problem.
On Meaning in Life, ed. Beatrix Himmelmann, Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter 2013.
Contributors:
Dag T. Andersson, John Cottingham, Hallvard Fossheim, Roe Fremstedal, Beatrix Himmelmann, Christoph Horn, John Kekes, Iddo Landau, Robert B. Louden.

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Førsteamanuensis Heine A. Holmen (forskningsgruppeleder)
Fagfellevurderte artikler
- «Døden og meningen med livet», I: Gripsrud, B.H. og L. Thoresen (red.), Alt som lever, må dø: Døden som tverrfaglig kunnskapsfelt, Scandinavian Academic Press/Spartacus Forlag, ss. 249-81.
- 2017a, “Why Die – A Phillsophical Apology of Death”, International Journal of Theology and Philosophy 79 (1-2), ss. 136-155: doi: 10.1080/21692327.2017.1412834.
- 2017b, «Hvorfor handlingskunnskap ikke er slutningsbasert», Norsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift 52 (4), ss. 161-179: doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-2901-2017-04-04.
- 2017c, «Heller død enn udødelig», Norsk Filosofisk Tidsskrifti 52, ss. 40-55: doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-2901-2017-01-02-06.
- 2016, «Handling og den praktiske kunnskapens metafysikk», Norsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift 50 (1): doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-2901-2016-01-02.
- 2015, “Action and the Problem of Evil”, International Journal of Theology and Philosophy: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/21692327.2015.1123113
- 2014, «Kunnskapens Metafysikk», Norsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift 49, ss. 190-204: https://www.idunn.no/nft/2014/03-04/kunnskapens_metafysikk
Førsteamanuensis Ivar R. Labukt (nestleder)
Fagfellevurderte artikler
- “Is Logic Distinctively Normative?.” I: Erkenntnis 2019, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-019-00142-1)
- “How much better than death is ordinary human survival?” I: Espen Gamlund & Carl Tollef Solberg (red.) Saving Lives from the Harm of Death, Oxford University Press, 2019.
- “The Egoistic Answer.” I: Beatrix Himmelmann & Robert Louden (red.), Why be Moral?, De Gruyter, 2015.
Professor Roe Fremstedal
Monografi
- Kierkegaard and Kant on Radical Evil and the Highest God: Virtue, Happiness, and the Kingdom of God. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2014 (xiii+326 pp.). Hardback: ISBN 9781137440877; Ebook: ISBN 9781137440884
Fagfellevurderte artikler
- “Demonic Despair under the Guise of the Good? Kierkegaard and Anscombe vs. Velleman,” Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, online first, 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2019.1610047
- “Morality and Prudence: A Case for Substantial Overlap and Limited Conflict,” Journal of Value Inquiry, vol. 52, issue 1, 2018, pp. 1-16, DOI: 10.1007/s10790-017-9598-5
- “Arbeidsmarkedet for norske filosofer i dag [The Labour Market for Norwegian Philosophers Currently]”, Norsk filosofisk tidsskrift, vol. 52, issue 1-2, 2017, pp. 15-24, doi:10.18261, ISSN 1504-2901-2017-01-02-03
- “Forholdet mellom moral og lykke [The Relation Between Morality and Happiness – a Systematic Approach],” Norsk filosofisk tidsskrift [Norwegian Journal of Philosophy], vol. 51, issue 3-4, 2016, pp. 129-147, DOI:10.18261, ISSN 1504-2901-2016-03-04-02
- “The Moral Argument for the Existence of God and Immortality: Kierkegaard and Kant,” Journal of Religious Ethics, vol. 41, issue 1, 2013, pp. 50-78, DOI:10.1111/jore.12004, ISSN: 1467-9795
- “The Moral Makeup of the World: Kierkegaard and Kant on the Relation between Virtue and Happiness,” Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook, vol. 2012, pp. 25-47, DOI:kier.2012.25, ISSN 1430-5372
- “Original Sin and Radical Evil: Kierkegaard and Kant,” Kantian Review, vol. 17, issue 2, 2012, pp. 197-225, DOI:10.1017/S1369415412000039, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1369415412000039, ISSN: 1396-4154
- “The Concept of the Highest Good in Kierkegaard and Kant,” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, vol. 69, issue 3, 2011, pp. 155-171, DOI:10.1007/s11153-010-9238-5, http://www.springerlink.com/content/4x363k4l68x6gk17/, ISSN 0020-7047 (article 3 in Ph.D. thesis)
Fagfellevurderte bokkapittel
- “Kierkegaard on Hope as Essential to Selfhood,” forthcoming in Titus Stahl and Claudia Blöser (eds.) The Moral Psychology of Hope: An Introduction, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield 2019 (The Moral Psychology of the Emotions).
- “Rational Hope against Hope? A Pragmatic Approach to Hope and the Ethics of Belief,” in Gerhard Schreiber (ed.) Interesse am Anderen. Interdisziplinäre Beiträge zum Verhältnis von Religion und Rationalität. Für Heiko Schulz zum 60. Geburtstag [Interest in the Other: Interdisciplinary contributions on the Relation Between Religion and Rationality: Festschrift to Heiko Schulz on his 60th Birthday]” Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter 2019 (Theologische Bibliothek Töpelmann, vol. 187), pp. 723-743 (nivå 2), DOI: 10.1515/9783110660036-034
- “Kant and Existentialism: Inescapable Freedom and Self-Deception,” forthcoming in Jon Stewart (ed.) The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Existentialism, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (Palgrave Handbooks in German Idealism)
- “Kierkegaard’s Post-Kantian Approach to Anthropology and Selfhood,” in Patrick Stokes, Eleanor Helms and Adam Buben (eds.) The Kierkegaardian Mind, London: Routledge 2019 (Routledge Philosophical Minds), pp. 319-330, ISBN 1138092711
- “Søren Kierkegaard’s Critique of Eudaimonism and Autonomy,” forthcoming in Douglas Moggach, Nadine Mooren and Michael Quante (eds.) Perfektionismus der Autonomie [The Perfectionism of Autonomy], Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag 2019 (HegelForum, Studien), pp. 291-308, doi:10.30965/9783846762844_014
- “Hidden Inwardness and ‘Subjectivity is Truth’: Kant and Kierkegaard on Moral Psychology and Religious Pragmatism,” in Lee C. Barrett and Peter Sajda (eds.), Kierkegaard in Context: Essays in Honor of Jon Stewart, Macon, GA: Mercer University Press 2019
- “Eiríksson’s Critique of Kierkegaard and Kierkegaard’s (drafted) Response: Religious Faith, Absurdity, and Rationality” in Gerhard Schreiber and Jon Stewart (eds.) Magnús Eiríksson: A Forgotten Contemporary of Kierkegaard. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press 2017 (Danish Golden Age Studies, vol. 10), pp. 145-166, ISBN 978-87-635-4390-3
- “Kierkegaard and Nietzsche: Despair and Nihilism Converge” in Kjartan Koch Mikalsen, Erling Skjei and Audun Øfsti (eds.) Modernity – Unity in Diversity? Essays in Honour of Helge Høibraaten, Oslo: Novus publishers 2016, pp. 455-477, ISBN 978-82-7099-840-1
- “Why Be Moral? A Kierkegaardian Approach” in Beatrix Himmelmann and Robert L. Louden (eds.) Why Be Moral?, Berlin: de Gruyter 2015, pp. 173-197, ISBN 978-3-11-037045-4, 978-3-11-036639-6, 978-3-11-038633-2, 978-3-11-036640-2
- “Kierkegaard’s Views on Normative Ethics, Moral Agency, and Metaethics” in Jon Stewart (ed.) A Companion to Kierkegaard. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell 2015 (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy, vol. 58), pp. 113-125, ISBN 978-1-118-78381-8
- “Kierkegaard’s Use of German Philosophy: Leibniz to Fichte” in Jon Stewart (ed.) A Companion to Kierkegaard. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell 2015 (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy, vol. 58), pp. 36-49, ISBN 978-1-118-78381-8
- (With Timothy P. Jackson) “Salvation/Eternal Happiness” in Steven Emmanuel, William McDonald and Jon Stewart (eds.) Kierkegaard’s Concepts: Salvation to Writing. Farnham: Ashgate (and London: Routledge) 2015 (Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources, vol. 15, Tome VI), pp. 1-8, ISBN 978-1-4724-6179-7
- “Meaning of Life: Peter Wessel Zapffe on the Human Condition” in Beatrix Himmelmann (ed.) On Meaning in Life, Berlin: de Gruyter 2013, pp. 113-128, ISBN 978-3-11-032389-4
Professor Attila Tanyi
Fagfellevurderte artikler
- ‘Self-Respect and the Demands of Equality’, Human Affairs TBA
- ‘Reasons and Beliefs’, with Matteo Morganti, Journal of Philosophical Research, 44: 179-196 2019
- ‘The Concept of Entrapment’, with Daniel Hill and Stephen McLeod, Criminal Law and Philosophy 12 (4): 539-554 2018
- ‘Transoral Laser Surgery for Laryngeral Carcinoma: Has Steiner Achieved a Genuine Paradigm Shift in Oncological Surgery?’, with A. T. Harris et al, Annals Journal & Bulletin Journal (RCS: Royal College of Surgeons), 100 (1): 2-5 2018
- ‘Institutional Consenquentialism and Global Implications’, with Andras Miklos, Journal of Global Ethics, 13(3): 279-297 2017
- ‘Circularity, Naturalism, and Desire-based Reasons’, Res Philosophica, 94(4): 451-470 2017
- ‘Norm-Expressivism and Regress’, South African Journal of Philosophy, 36 (3): 362-376 2017
- ‘Can Reasons Be Propositions? Against Dancy’s Attack on Propositionalism’, with Matteo Morganti, Theoria 83(3): 185-205 2017
- ‘God and Eternal Boredom’, with Vuko Andric. Religious Studies, 53 (1): 51-70 2017
- ‘Multi-dimensional Consequentialism and Degrees of Rightness’, with Vuko Andric, Philosophical Studies 173(3): 311-331 2016
- ‘Multi-dimensional Consequentialism and Risk’, with Vuko Andric. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 19 (1): 49-57 2016
Professor Beatrix Himmelmann
Monografier
- Kants Begriff des Glücks (Kant’s Concept of Happiness). Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 2003, reprint 2011 (= Kantstudien-Ergänzungshefte, vol. 142), 236 pp.
- Nietzsche. Leipzig: Reclam, 2006, reprint 2011, 133 pp.
- Freiheit und Selbstbestimmung. Zu Nietzsches Philosophie der Subjektivität (Freedom and Self-Determination: On Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Subjectivity). Freiburg/München: Alber, 1996, 415 pp.
Redigerte antologier
- Why Be Moral? Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2015 [co-edited with Robert B. Louden], 278 pp.
- On Meaning in Life. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2013, 157 pp.
- Kant und Nietzsche im Widerstreit (Kant and Nietzsche in Conflict). Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 2005, reprint 2012, 403 pp.
- Dialog und Freiheit. Jahrbuch der Internationalen Gesellschaft für Philosophische Praxis (Dialogue and Freedom. Yearbook of the International Society for Philosophical Practice), Vol. 1, Münster/Berlin/Hamburg/London/Wien: LIT, 2005 [co-edited with Thomas Gutknecht and Gerhard Stamer], 130 pp.
- Beratung und Bildung. Jahrbuch der Internationalen Gesellschaft für Philosophische Praxis (Consultancy and Education. Yearbook of the International Society for Philosophical Practice), Vol. 2, Münster/Berlin/Hamburg/London/Wien: LIT, 2006 [co-edited with Thomas Gutknecht and Gerhard Stamer], 216 pp.
- Philosophische Praxis und Psychotherapie. Jahrbuch der Internationalen Gesellschaft für Philosophische Praxis (Philosophical Practice and Psychotherapy. Yearbook of the International Society for Philosophical Practice), Vol. 3, Münster–Berlin–Hamburg–London/Wien: LIT, 2007 [co-edited with Thomas Gutknecht and Thomas Polednitschek], 228 pp.
Fagfellevurderte artikler og bokkapittel
- “Metaphilosophy and Metapolitics in Nietzsche and Heidegger”, in Nietzsche's Metaphilosophy: The Nature, Method, and Aims of Philosophy, ed. Paul S. Loeb and Matthew Meyer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, pp. 207-226.
- „Glück, Wille und Macht bei Kant und Nietzsche“, in Übermensch – Friedrich Nietzsche und die Folgen, ed. by Benjamin Mortzfeld. Basel: Christoph Merian Verlag, 2019, pp. 94-98.
- „Nietzsches Anthropologie des produktiven Antagonismus“, in Internationales Jahrbuch für philosophische Anthropologie 7, 2018, pp. 3-16.
- “On Teleological Judgement: A Debate between Kant and Nietzsche”, in Nietzsche, Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics, ed. by Marco Brusotti and Herman Siemens. London/New York: Bloomsbury, 2017, pp. 167-179.
- “Nietzsche's Ethics of Power and the Ideas of Right, Justice, and Dignity”, in Journal of Nietzsche Studies 48(2), 2017, pp. 171-189.
- «Hvorfor ethvert samfunn trenger filosofi», in Norsk Filosofisk tidsskrift 52 (1-2), 2017, pp. 25-31.
- „Was die Moral fordert und warum sie im Konfliktfall Vorrang hat“, in Vorrang der Moral? Eine metaethische Kontroverse, ed. Martin Hoffmann, Reinold Schmücker, Héctor Wittwer. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann Verlag, 2017, pp. 135-149.
- „Vom Wert des Glücksstrebens im Urteil Kants und Nietzsches“, in Nietzsche und die Lebenskunst. Ein philosophisch-psychologisches Kompendium, ed. Günter Gödde, Nikolaos Loukidelis, Jörg Zirfas. Stuttgart: Verlag J. B. Metzler, 2016, pp. 74-83.
- “Introduction”, in Why Be Moral?, ed. by Beatrix Himmelmann and Robert B. Louden. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2015, pp. 1-10.
- “Why Be Moral? An Argument from the Human Condition in Response to Hobbes and Nietzsche”, in Why Be Moral?, ed. by Beatrix Himmelmann and Robert B. Louden. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2015, pp. 103-122.
- „Immanuel Kant. Ästhetik und Teleologie“, in Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie. Die Philosophie des 18. Jahrhunderts: Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation. Schweiz. Nord- und Osteuropa, ed. Helmut Holzhey and Vilem Mudroch. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2014, pp. 1042-1058.
- „Immanuel Kant. Praktische Philosophie: Moralphilosophie“, in Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie. Die Philosophie des 18. Jahrhunderts: Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation. Schweiz. Nord- und Osteuropa, ed. Helmut Holzhey and Vilem Mudroch. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2014, pp. 1021-1032.
- Immanuel Kant - Werke: Die Metaphysik der Sitten, in Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie. Die Philosophie des 18. Jahrhunderts: Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation. Schweiz. Nord- und Osteuropa, ed. Helmut Holzhey and Vilem Mudroch. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2014, pp. 973-975.
- „Immanuel Kant - Werke: Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten“, in Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie. Die Philosophie des 18. Jahrhunderts: Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation. Schweiz. Nord- und Osteuropa, ed. Helmut Holzhey and Vilem Mudroch. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2014, pp. 957-58.
- „Immanuel Kant - Werke: Kritik der praktischen Vernunft“, in Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie. Die Philosophie des 18. Jahrhunderts: Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation. Schweiz. Nord- und Osteuropa, ed. Helmut Holzhey and Vilem Mudroch. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2014, pp. 960- 962.
- „Immanuel Kant - Werke: Kritik der Urteilskraft“, in Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie. Die Philosophie des 18. Jahrhunderts: Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation. Schweiz. Nord- und Osteuropa, ed. Helmut Holzhey and Vilem Mudroch. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2014, pp. 962-966.
„Nietzsches Philosophie der Macht als Philosophie der Endlichkeit“, in Nietzsches Perspektiven, ed. Steffen Dietzsch and Claudia Terne. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2014, pp. 15-30. - „Vom Umgang mit Widersprüchen – Aufrichtigkeit und ihre Bedeutung für Kants Begriff der Philosophie“, in Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht. Akten des XI. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, ed. Stefano Bacin, Alfredo Ferrarin, Claudio La Rocca, Margit Ruffing. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2013, pp. 575-588.
- “Contingency and the Quest for Meaning”, in On Meaning in Life, ed. Beatrix Himmelmann. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2013, pp. 83-98.
- “Introduction”, in On Meaning in Life, ed. Beatrix Himmelmann. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2013, pp. 1-8.
Førsteamanuensis Mathea S. Sagdahl
Fagfellevurderte artikler
- “Conscription as a Morally Preferable Form of Military Recruitment”, Journal of Military Ethics, 2019.
- “Enkratic Reasoning and Incommensurability of Reasons”, Journal of Value Inquiry, Vol. 50, No. 1: 111-127, 2016.
- “The Argument from Nominal-Notable Comparisons”, The Journal of Ethics, Vol. 18, No. 4: 405-425, 2014.
Post doktor Anna-Karin M. Andersson
Fagfellevurderte artikler
- "Congenitally decorticate children's potential and rights", Journal of Medical Ethics, 2020.
- "Substituted decision making and the dispositional choice account", Journal of Medical Ethics, s. 1-7, 2018.
PhD Fredrik Nilsen
Fagfellevurdert artikkel
- «Kan kvinner handle moralsk? Om kjønnsdimensjonen i Kants etikk.» I: Filosofisk Supplement, 05-2019.
Monografi
- «Fra Prohairesis til Wille og Wilkür. En historisk og kritisk studie av fri vilje hos Aristoteles, Augustin, og Kant.» PhD-avhandling UiT, 2018.
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