Browsing Filosofi by Title
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)The expert (technē) analogy often plays an essential role in the arguments of Xenophon, Plato and Aristotle, and this type of argument can be traced back to Socrates. Yet there has been remarkably little work done on the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)Wittgenstein is famous for having argued against the possibility of so called ’private languages’. In this essay I discuss in what way Wittgenstein would say that language is something ‘public’. i.e. the opposite of private; ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)Det er undersøkt om en mulig tolkning av Aristoteles’ etikk kan gi en utdypning av Kants moralfilosofi. To problemstillinger er analysert. Den ene gjelder hvordan det er meningsfullt å tolke Aristoteles’ begrep den dydige ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)This thesis stems from the observation that there exists a problem of recognizing Indian thought as philosophy, and, by extension, including it in the field of academic philosophy in the West. The question I examine is ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)Oppgaven drøfter teorier om subjektivitet i lys av distinksjonen mellom indre og ytre. Distinksjonen går ut på hvorvidt man forstår subjektivitet som noe tilknyttet selvet, sjelen eller en annen form for ‘innvendighet’, ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)Oppgaven tar utgangspunkt i en kronikk, skrevet av to psykiatere, hvor det argumenteres mot en eklektisk psykiatri. Forfatterne hevder at nevrobiologi bør danne basis for alle psykiatriske teorier , samtidig som de ønsker ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)Sammendrag Oppgavens temaer er et bidrag til økt refleksjon om problemstillinger knyttet til terapeutiske samtaler ved hjelp av noen begreper fra Habermas`og Bourdieu`s sosialfilosofiske og sosiologiske teorier. ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)In this thesis I discuss the concept of substance in Kant. The guiding question of the thesis is: How are we to interpret the claim that substance is to be encountered in the objects of perception? I frame the discussion ...
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A Tale of Two Hinges: Propositional and Doxastic Hinge Commitments in Duncan Pritchard’s Non-Belief Hinge EpistemologyRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)Ontology attempts to answer the question What is there? Trying to pursue this question, contemporary analytic philosophers argue over whether there are tables over and above parti-cles arranged tablewise, whether ordinary ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)This thesis deals with the political nature of modern technology. Technology, as a mode of social rationality, defines not only the premises of social organization, but also the opportunities of the individual within ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)This paper explores the intersection of Aristotelian Virtue Theory with modern smart-technology. The exemplar of modern technology is the smartphone. It is the most interesting piece of technology of our era. Portable and ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)Denne oppgaven drøfter Kants deduksjon av begrepet om indre formålsmessighet. Begrepet er ment å legitimere at vi trenger en variant av teleologiske forklaringer på dyr. Jeg hevder at begrepet gir Kant et begrunnelsesproblem. ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)Oppgaven er en undersøkelse av Kierkegaards begreper om enkeltmennesket, eksistens og det subjektive i lys av hans kritikk av filosofisk idealisme. Hovedvekten er på begrepene slik de fremkommer i Philosophiske Smuler og ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)Although philosophers have remained occupied by philosophical problems, these problems have resisted solution to the extent that it becomes difficult to see exactly what constitutes progress in philosophy. While proving ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2006)This thesis addresses the issue of terrorism from a philosophical point of view. I focus on two questions: How should terrorism be defined? - and can it ever be morally justified? Following Grotius’ methodology on war, I ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)In this paper, I aim to find out how noise music (Noise) can be art, and how it relates to other music, i.e. whether it is in fact music, or another form of aural art. I explore the possible solution provided by the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)You do not often hear “sentimentalism” listed among the ethical theories, but you might still want to know what this project of the Scottish enlightenment was trying to achieve. This essay is a partial defense of the claim ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)Utilitaristen Peter Singer argumenterer i artikkelen «Ethics and intuitions» imot å basere moralske bedømmelser på de moralske intuisjonene vi har arvet fra våre forfedre når disse kommer i konflikt med rasjonelle ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)In this thesis I try to answer the question: Is choosing one theory above another because it is more beautiful an action that can be held as being scientifically important and/or legitimate? I do this by splitting this ...