Ansvarsområder
- Religion, livssyn og etikk i barnehagelærerutdanningen (SRLE)
- Religion, livssyn og etikk i emnet pedagogikk og elevkunnskap (PEL) i grunnskolelærerutdanningen
Kompetanse
- Profesjonsetikk
- Religionsvitenskap
- Religionsfilosofi
- Kognitive og evolusjonære perspektiver på religion
CV
https://www.linkedin.com/in/halvor-kvandal-35380183/
Publikasjoner
Bøker
Kvandal, H. 2022. God Naturalized. Epistemological Reflections on Theistic Belief in Light of the New Science of Religion. Springer Nature.
Artikler
Kvandal, H. 2023. “Why the debunking threat won’t go away”. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11153-023-09882-1.
Kvandal, H. 2020. “The God-Faculty Dilemma: Challenges for Reformed Epistemology in the light of Cognitive Science”. International Journal for Philosophy and Theology 81 (4):404-422
Kvandal, Halvor. 2020. “Religionskritikkens idéhistorie: Fra autoritetskritikk til sannhetskritikk.” Fri Tanke (1): 58-64.
Kvandal, Halvor. 2019. “Det er konflikt mellom vitenskap og religion, men hvor alvorlig er den?” https://forskersonen.no/filosofi-kronikk-meninger/det-er-konflikt-mellom-religion-og- vitenskap-men-hvor-alvorlig-er-den/1579800.
Kvandal, Halvor. 2010. “Individet og det radikalt annet hos Emmanuel Levinas og Søren Kierkegaard.” Filosofisk Supplement 3: 24-31.
Bokanmeldelser
Kvandal, Halvor. 2021. Book review of Jones, James, 2016. Can Science Explain Religion? The Cognitive Science Debate. Oxford University Press. Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion.
Kvandal, Halvor. 2020. Book review of De Smedt, Johan, and Helen De Cruz. 2019. The Challenge of Evolution to Religion. Cambridge University Press. ESSSAT NEWS AND REVIEWS 3: 27-29.
Kvandal, Halvor. 2016. Book review of Advances in Religion, Cognitive Science, and Experimental Philosophy, edited by Helen De Cruz and Ryan Nichols. Bloomsbury. In Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion 4:2, 215-219.
Konferansepresentasjoner og annen formidling
Aug 2023. “Green Apocalypse: A cognitive perspective on “end of the world narratives" in climate movements. Annual Meeting of the Nordic Network for the Cognitive Science of Religion, Helsinki, Finland.
Feb 19. 2021. “Science and Religion as Epistemic Activities: Conflict or Harmony?”. Moderator. Panelsamtale med A. C. Grayling, Katarina Pajchel, og Varadaraja V. Raman. The International Student Festival in Trondheim. (ISFIT). Norway.
Jan 2021. “Big Gods and the danger of religious tribalism”. The Science Forum, NTNU, Norway.
June 2018. “The God-faculty dilemma”. “Is Religion Natural?”. Konferanse ved University of Antwerp, Belgia.
Jan 2018 . “How is the Cognitive Science of Religion Relevant to the Epistemology of Religion?” The Science Forum, NTNU.
Nov 2017. “Theriomorphic Gods and Anthropomorphic Animals in Jewish and Christian Literature”. Conference-presentation. With Prof. Gabriel Levy, Dr. Ismael Apud, and Prof. Istvan Czachesz. American Academy of Religion, Boston, USA.
Aug 2017. “Naturalist Epistemology applied to Religion: An Illustration”. Konferansepresentasjon og poster, Conference for the International Association for the Psychology of Religion (IAPR), Hamar.