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Thomas Dahl is a professor of organization and management at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He originally earned a master’s degree in engineering science but later went on to study philosophy and history. He holds a PhD in science studies from Roskilde University in Denmark, where he investigated the environmental movement’s attitudes toward and use of scientific knowledge. This work was inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche’s ideas on what science can—and cannot—say about something. Since completing his doctorate, Dahl has worked extensively on how knowledge is constructed and used, particularly in public sectors such as healthcare and education. He is concerned with how different types of knowledge shape the way we think about humans and nature, and how the nonhuman is understood and treated.
Dahl is particularly inspired by contemporary French philosophy, including both post-structuralist thought and actor-network theory, and has undertaken several research stays in France. Like Nietzsche, Dahl is also interested in physiology, neurobiology, and the affective: How are we touched—both physically and mentally—by the world we create?
RCC Project: Nietzsche’s Places – To Love the Earth
Selected Publications:
- “Organizational Learning the Nordic Way: Learning Through Participation.” The Learning Organization: An International Journal 29, no. 3 (2022): 229–42. https://doi.org/10.1108/TLO-05-2021-0065.
- “The Epistemology of Campus Design: Rhizomatic and Parasitic or Isolated Fabrics?” Nordic Journal of Architectural Research, no. 2 (2020): 13–36.
- “The Poiesis and Mimesis of Learning.” In Performative Approaches in Arts Education: Artful Teaching, Learning and Research, edited by Anna-Lena Østern and Kristian Nødtvedt Knudsen. Routledge, 2019.
- “Prepared to Teach for Sustainable Development? Student Teachers’ Beliefs in Their Ability to Teach for Sustainable Development.” Sustainability 11, no. 7 (2019). https://doi.org/10.3390/su11071993.
- Medisinens sjel: Historiske konstruksjoner av mennesket [The Soul of Medicine: Historical Constructions of the Human Being]. Universitetsforlaget, 2009.
- “Ordering Nature: Environmentalism as a Cultural Phenomenon.” PhD diss., Roskilde Universitetscenter, 1994.