Browsing Filosofi by Title
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)Panpsychism is the view that mentality, in some sense of the word, is a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of reality. Physicalism, the predominant view held by philosophers today, asserts that everything is physical; in ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)This thesis deals with the paradox of forgiveness. The presumed outcome of the paradox is that forgiveness is impossible. To determine whether the outcome of the paradox is correct I start by giving an overview of the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)There are reasons to believe that the correct principle governing which composite objects there are is the Unrestricted Fusion principle of classical mereology: for any satisfied condition there is an object composed of ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)Do perceptual constancies and phenomenal consciousness help provide an account of how subjects perceive things in the world? In particular, how can they help make sense of the idea that perceptual content is given in the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)Denne oppgaven tar for seg persepsjon og berettigelse. Hvordan kan sanseinntrykk sies å berettige oppfatninger, og er dette avhengig av hvordan man forstår perseptuelle tilstanders innhold? Oppgavens ambisjon er å nærme ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)How do objects persist? What does it mean to persist? We do perhaps all have an intuitive understanding of what it means for an object to persist. An answer like “an object that persists exists both in the past and the ...
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Persons as Indeterminate Objects - Answering the Whys of Fission and Sorites CasesRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)The main question discussed in contemporary debates about personal identity is what to do with indeterminate cases – cases that is, where it appears indeterminate whether some person A at time t1 is identical to a person ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)What is imagination? Philosophy usually presents it as something foolish and childish. Actually, in Aristotle, we discover the opposite: imagination is cognitively needed by the mind: to deliberate, to act, to reason, to ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)In this thesis I look at Chalmers (1995) Hard Problem of philosophy, and discuss some possible solutions to it. In order to come up with an answer to the Hard Problem it is necessary to explain the relationship between ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)Perhaps the two most important research topics in philosophy of mind today are phenomenal consciousness and intentionality, the central question being how to account for these phenomena in a physical world. Closely connected ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)In this thesis I have two aims. Firstly, I will attempt to interpret Heidegger’s method in Sein und Zeit as a form of praxis. Secondly, I will try to show that philosophical knowledge for Heidegger is the same as the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)Philosophy is most accurately understood as inquiry into the general features of the world and human experience within it. Human beings are dependent upon and inextricably connected to their environment. In their struggle ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)This paper explores a theory-based physicalism conditional on string theoretical frameworks in modern physics, with an aim to provide a novel response to Frank Jackson´s Knowledge Argument against physicalism. This presents ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)The so-called Exclusion argument (Kim 2000; Papineau 2004) about mental causation applies one premise that is typically accepted without much discussion: the thesis of causal completeness of the physical domain (CCP). In ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)This thesis explores central themes in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, and engages with exegetical discussions of Wittgenstein’s early philosophy. Metaphysical, therapeutic, and elucidatory interpretations ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)The thesis aims to investigate Plato’s views on the possibility of akrasia in the Protagoras & Meno and the Republic, examine the consistency and conflicts between Plato’s views, and inspect the relationship between ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)Plato and Aristotle justified their political theories by defining justice as to allocate to each his or hers own in accordance with that person s nature. It is just, then, Plato argues, to set a person who is by nature ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)This text explores the views presented by Christine Korsgaard in her book 'The Sources of Normativity' from various angles. Her main argument is inspired by Kant and tries to establish the ‘rational necessity’ that at an ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)My thesis, as the title refers, is about practical reasons and rationality. The purpose of this thesis is not to formulate any final theory on what practical reasons are or what it means to be rational, but rather to present ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)This thesis has two main goals. First, it aims to interpret (part of) the philosophy of Kūkai—the founder of Shingon Buddhism in Japan—in terms familiar to the analytic philosopher (something that is unavailable in ...