Browsing Filosofi by Title
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)Fokuset i denne tese er rettet på minimal semantikk og distinksjonen mellom semantikk og pragmatikk. Nærmest alle teorier lar innhold av pragmatisk karakter spille inn på hvordan semantisk mening er determinert. Min antagelse ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)In this thesis I attempt to connect Bernard Williams view of internal reasons together with P.F. Strawsons views on moral responsibility. I start by presenting Strawson and Williams respective views on the subjects. I then ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)Moral judgments have two characteristic features. On the one hand they aim at objectivity. We normally think there are correct answers to be found on moral matters, and we think that is possible for our moral judgments to ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)This thesis deals with the topic of contingency in metaethical constructivism. Metaethical constructivism claims that our reasons are necessarily connected to the particular values of agents. Holding such an attitude-dependent ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)The problem of extreme poverty is a demanding challenge in our globalized world. Although Rawls recognizes that well-ordered peoples have a duty to assist burdened societies, the ultimate concern of his theory is justice ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)This thesis is concerned with the meta-ethical debate between reasons internalism and externalism, and more specifically with an apparent conflict between reasons internalism and the practice of moral blame. Broadly ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)By what kind of mechanisms do we perceive the physical world beyond ourselves? What is the relation between perceptual processes and natural evolution? What is the nature of a perceptual state? In this thesis I discuss ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)This thesis is a study of Jan Patočka’s ontology of movement. It argues that Patočka’s ontology forms the basis for his critique of modernity and modern technology. Chapter one presents Patočka’s understanding of the body. ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)When a speaker communicates with someone, she wants to convey some kind of content to the hearer. For the communicational act to be successful, the hearer will have to grasp this content. Human communication seems, in this ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)Med ”Representing – the Lamp or the Mirror? An Assessment of the Representational Dimension of Linguistic Practice", et essay om lingvistisk meningsteori, ønsket jeg å vise at nypragmatismen innehar ressurser til å sette ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)This thesis deals with the implementation challenge of conceptual engineering. Particularly, for social kind concepts that are socially and politically significant. The goal is that of showing that the standard implementation ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)This thesis develops a method for Metasystemic Conceptual Engineering based on a revision of the concept of conceptual autonomy. The emphasis in conceptual engineering has typically been on a) individual concepts or words ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)Oppgaven tar for seg Platons avvisning av retorikken i dialogen Gorgias. Dette gjøres på bakgrunn av at ”retorikk har vært et skjellsord i 2500 år, men et fag like lenge.” Det er i Gorgias at retorikkens status som fag ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)Rettigheter og deres moralske betydning og begrunnelse. Indeks: Første del; en vurdering av rettighetsbegrepet, hvorfor individuelle rettigheter bør være absolutte og en vurdering av hvorfor rettigheter er fordelaktige ...
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Revisiting the Worldview Argument: Understanding the Relationship Between Metaphysics and Ethics in Environmental PhilosophyRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)An influential idea in environmental ethics has been the claim that today’s environmental crises are rooted in a mechanistic, scientific worldview which entails dualism, anthropocentrism, and instrumentalism. It is therefore ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)In his essay “The Revolution that didn’t happen” Steven Weinberg argues that Kuhn’s scheme cannot properly describe modern developments in physics and that there has not been a scientific revolution in this field in the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)