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Marius Timmann Mjaaland is a Norwegian philosopher. He is known for his work on environmental philosophy, ethics, phenomenology, philosophy of religion, and systematic theology. He is professor at the University of Oslo. [1]

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Academic career

Mjaaland grew up in Oslo, Norway and studied philosophy, religious studies, and theology in University of Oslo, University of Göttingen, and University of Copenhagen. He received an MA in philosophy in 1999 and a PhD from the University of Oslo in 2005 for a dissertation on the philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard and Jacques Derrida. [2] Since then, he has been a visiting scholar at University of Chicago, Heidelberg University, University of Tübingen, University of Rostock, and University of Oxford. Mjaaland was Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellow at the University of Hamburg 2012–13. [3] Since 2014, he has been professor at the Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo; since 2018 as chair for Philosophy of Religion.

In 2006, Mjaaland was elected president of The European Society for Philosophy of Religion (2006–08). A founding member of the Nordic Society for Philosophy of Religion (NSPR) he has been the society's president since 2006. [4] He is also president of the Norwegian Søren Kierkegaard Society since 2005 and gives lectures at conferences and universities worldwide. [5] He is director of the research project Ecodisturb (2020-) at the University of Oslo, doing research on interdisciplinary ecology in the Anthropocene. [6] [7]

Within Ethics, he has done research on organ donation and the life sciences. His article Does Controlled Donation after Circulatory Death Violate the Dead Donor Rule] (w. E.J. Busch) was selected target article in American Journal of Bioethics (Feb 2023) and raised international debate. [8] [9]

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References

  1. "Marius Mjaaland". University of Oslo.
  2. "Disputerer om Derrida". Forskning.no (in Norwegian).
  3. "Prof. Dr. Marius T. Mjaaland". Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung.
  4. "Nordic Society for Philosophy of Religion". University of Oslo.
  5. "The Hidden God". University of Cambridge.
  6. "ECODISTURB". University of Oslo.
  7. "Gode begreper er som fluepapir, hevder Adorno. Antropocen er et slikt begrep". Morgenbladet (in Norwegian).
  8. "Does Controlled Donation after Circulatory Death violate the Dead Donor Rule?". Taylor & Francis.
  9. "What is Death and why do we insist on the Dead Donor Rule?". Taylor & Francis.
  10. Svenungsson, Jayne (2010). "Recension av Marius Timmann Mjaaland, Autopsia: Self, Death, and God after Kierkegaard and Derrida, Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008". Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift. 86 (3): 140–141. ISSN   0039-6761.
  11. Walter, Gregory (2017). "The Hidden God: Luther, Philosophy, and Political Theology by Marius Timmann Mjaaland". Lutheran Quarterly. 31 (4): 445–446. doi:10.1353/lut.2017.0082. ISSN   2470-5616.
  12. Mattes, Mark (2021). "The Reformation of Philosophy ed. by Marius Timmann Mjaaland". Lutheran Quarterly. 35 (3): 362–364. doi:10.1353/lut.2021.0066. ISSN   2470-5616.