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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
It has been claimed that quantum mechanics is a non-local theory, i.e., that the predictions of quantum mechanics are at odds with a conception of the world where all the interactions are mediated by local mechanisms. The ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Is it possible to provide an argument that justifies indigenous claims to specific land and resources? Should indigenous peoples be compensated for the historic injustice they have suffered or should there be moral statutes ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Michael Smith argues that “a change in moral motivation follows reliably in a change in moral judgements, at least in the good and strong-willed person” (1994:71). He illustrates this change with two people engaged in an ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
This thesis has three aims. First: making a general case for why and how we ought to limit the reliance on intuitions in ethical theory. Second: addressing this general question through the lens of the more specific debate ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
How can we determine which aspects of a given experience are represented perceptually, as opposed to cognitively? I explore perceptual adaptation as an empirically based method for distinguishing perception from cognition. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
The objective of this dissertation is to examine the moral arguments commonly presented in the current debate on active and passive euthanasia in the United States. I claim the belief that there is a moral permissibility ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Denne oppgaven drøfter evolusjonære undergravende argumenter (EUA). Dette er argumenter som hevder at moralsk realisme undergraves av den kunnskapen vi har om evolusjonen. Tilhengerne av evolusjonære undergravende argumenter ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Naturens moralske status - en undersøkelse av Holmes Rolstons bidrag til miljøetikk Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
What is an emotion? How should we understand the relationship between sensations, feelings, emotions, and other cognitive and conceptual capacities? What role do socially conditioned habits play in the constitution of ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
Freedom in Dark Times: A Conceptual and Comparable Analysis of Arendtian and Beauvoirian Freedoms Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
It is commonly accepted that some things, such as sex, organs, secrets, and votes may be given away, used or owned, but not bought and sold. I refer to markets such as these as 'contested markets'. The commodification ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Denne oppgaven handler om hvorfor noe er, overhodet. I oppgavens to innledende kapitler danner jeg et filosofihistorisk bakteppe for spørsmålet. I kapittel 1. skiller jeg mellom to spørsmål om hvorfor noe er, overhodet: ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
I det følgende intenderer jeg å vise hvordan Hegels kritikk av det moralske standpunktet kan betraktes som en fruktbar innfallsvinkel for å påpeke de teoretiske tilkortkommenheter som gjennomsyrer den deontologiske ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Abstract This thesis is a discussion of the nature of perception with the debate between Hubert Dreyfus and John McDowell as a springboard into an investigation of the perceptual similarities, and differences, between human ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
This thesis deals with, defends, and amends the axiological position called Multicentrism as presented by philosopher Anthony Weston. The question is whether axiological Multicentrism ought to be preferred over other ...
Den Anarkistiske Eksistenshypotese Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Did God Cause the Universe to Begin to Exist? An Extensive Refutation of William Lane Craig's Case for The Kalam Cosmological Argument. Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
William Lane Craig takes a good argument to be a valid argument whose premises are more plausible than their negations. Craig claims that there are several valid arguments for God's existence that meet this criterion, and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Denne oppgaven tar for seg Karl Marx og det fremmedgjorte arbeidet, der arbeideren blir fremmedgjort som et resultat av samfunnets strukturer. Marx tar fremmedgjøringsbegrepet og videreutvikler det fra den hegelianske ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
This thesis is about the role of love in Hegel’s philosophy, and how it fits into his system along other concepts, such as intersubjectivity and reason. The thesis discusses two conceptualizations of love. The first is one ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
According to Miranda Fricker, hermeneutical injustices are instances of conceptual absences where these absences create a significant difficulty for a knower in making herself intelligible either to herself or to another. ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
I Mind and World foretar John McDowell en undersøkelse vedrørende mulighetsbetingelsene for intensjonalitet: hva må være tilfellet ved sinn/verden-relasjonen dersom tankene våre skal kunne være om den verden vi tar inn via ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2007)
The “Exclusion Argument” of J. Kim and others motivates mind-body reductionism by arguing that antireductionism leads to epiphenomenalism about the mental, which conflicts with standard causal views of actions. <br><br>
Some ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
Abstrakt
Mennesket er bestemt av det indre selvet som er en syntese av tid og evighet. Ved det timelige
har mennesket en konkret tilknytning til til sin egen gitte historiske identitet. Ved det evige i selvet bedømmer ...
Å Anvende Kunnskap : En Filosofisk Kommentar til Kunnskapsbasert Praksis Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)
Denne oppgaven er ment som en filosofisk kommentar til Kunnskapsbasert praksis (KBP) eller Evidence-based Medicine (EBM). Med utgangspunkt i (EBM) vil jeg se nærmere på hva både forskningsbasert - og forklarende kunnskap ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
This thesis is a study of Leibniz’s ontological arguments for the existence of God and a discussion of their bearing on his metaphysics. I argue that the Leibnizian metaphysical system is fundamentally inclined towards ...
(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2007)
Jeg tar i denne oppgaven utgangspunkt i det jeg oppfatter som essensen i Michael Hardt og Antonio Negri sin posisjon i verkene Empire og Multitude, nemlig at det i det globaliserte kapitalistiske verdensmarkedet finnes ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)
The theme of this here essay is the notion of ‘cause’ as it is expressed by the fragments on the Presocratic philosopher Anaximander of Miletus (ca. 610 – ca. 546).
I wish to argue that the idea of natural events implicitly ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
Samandrag
I denne oppgåva diskuterer eg utslag av moderne fridomsforståingar, negative utslag som innanfor ein sosialfilosofisk teoritradisjon er rekna som sosiale lidingar. Eg diskuterer den sosialfilosofiske verksemda å ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
Aristoteles proklamerer to typer liv som begge vender mot en evighet, og derfor begge sikrer et evig liv. Det ene er det biologiske og fysiske livet i naturen som går ut på at alt levende strever for å opprettholde ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
(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 ...
Radical Reasons - On Contingency in Metaethical Constructivism Restricted Access
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Den foreliggende studien har til hensikt å fremvise og sannsynliggjøre nominalismens omfattende utbredelse i den moderne, vestlige kultur, hvilket ifølge forfatteren er å anse som avgjørende for samtidens selvforståelse. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
This paper seeks to account for the wickedness of the non-identity problem – or lack thereof. Within the field of bioethics, the non-identity problem is particularly relevant due to progress within assisted reproductive ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
According to alethic primitivism, the concept of truth cannot be explicated by other concepts that are more fundamental. Alethic primitivism consists of a set of positive and negative claims. The positive claims are that ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
This thesis theoretically assesses ecological restoration from the point of view of environmental ethics. I explore how ecological restoration might affect the perspectives and assumptions we have about nature that allow ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
I am concerned with the ethnocentrism problem in feminism, what it is and what philosophy might to do help solve it. I rely mostly on the works of bell hooks and Uma Narayan to argue that the question of ethnocentrism is ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Oppgaven utforsker hva et meningsfullt liv i alderdommen er, sett fra Simone de Beauvoirs eksistensfilosofiske etikk. Problemet er hvorvidt Beauvoirs etikk egentlig egner seg som meningsleverandør for det aldrende mennesket. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
There is a category of speech, call it hate speech, which dehumanizes. In virtue of dehumanizing it undermines its victims’ ability to speak. Traditional, liberal theories of free speech based on a negative conception of ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
This thesis examines the question of migration as a fundamental human right. To determine the normative force of human rights, I begin by distinguishing several accounts of human rights. I identify a conception of human ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Philosophical skepticism seems often to undermine our knowledge to the point where we know next to nothing. Epistemic contextualism is a theory designed to let knowledge ascriptions ("S knows p") be true without paradox. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
I argue that the typical description and thus also the evaluation of the human activities of acquiring and exchanging product and services, found in mainstream economic textbooks, is inadequate from the perspective of ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
What does it mean to be a good person? According to virtue ethics, being a good person is to possess the moral character traits we call virtues, such as justice, honesty and generosity. These character traits are often ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Et sentralt problem i bevissthetsfilosofi er David Chalmers “hard problem”; hvorfor og hvordan vi har en indre subjektiv opplevelse. Dette problemet drives av det som fremstår som et fundamentalt skille mellom det materielle ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
The problem addressed in this thesis is the vulnerability that unrestricted freedom of speech can cause for liberal democracies. While some have focused on the international aspect of the problem, where authoritarian regimes ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
In this thesis I consider how agent causation can be reconciled with a broadly physicalistic framework. I suggest that agent causation is a fusion emergent causal power. The theory of fusion emergence due to Humphreys, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Naturen er truet både som fysisk størrelse og idé. Det som fremstod som noe uforanderlig, en kilde til forutsigbarhet i en ofte uoversiktlig verden, destrueres i en alarmerende hurtighet og i et nærmest uoverskuelig omfang. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
A commitment to taking a look at facts in practical endeavors Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Should we rethink the Human Right to Freedom of Expression [HRFE] in the age of social media? In this thesis I have reevaluated the philosophical foundation of the HRFE in how it is applicable to Facebook. I argue that the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Glemsel, makt og frihet: En introduksjon til informasjonsdominans Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
“Knowledge as Recollection in Plato’s Meno” Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
This dissertation investigates Plato’s epistemology in the Meno. In this dialogue, Plato presents, among others, Meno’s paradox, the theory of recollection, and his statement that knowledge is true belief with an explanatory ...
Stand by Me: In Defence of Third-Party Blame Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
In this thesis I explore a famous encounter between Jacques Derrida and Hans-Georg Gadamer. The point is not, however, to offer a balanced comparison of deconstruction and hermeneutics. Rather, I want to show how the very ...
Life in Nature. A.N. Whitehead's Philosophy of Organism Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Apophatic Theology: The Interplay of Apophatic and Kataphatic Theology in the Mystical Theology of Dionysius the Areopagite Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
The interest in Dionysius the Areopagite works is because of the enormous influence on the medieval West’s mystical tradition. According to Dionysius, we address God by using the names He has revealed, and for us to ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
I den moderne vestlige kulturen føler stadig flere på økosorg – sorgen over tapet av den ikke-menneskelige naturen. I dette masterprosjektet skal jeg undersøke nærmere hva fenomenet økosorg er. Jeg skal pakke ut innholdet ...
(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 ...
The Imitation Approach – Trans-Inclusive Gender Kinds and Classification Practices Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
In recent work, Robin Dembroff proposes that those who wish to improve operational gender kinds by making them trans-inclusive should look to trans-inclusive spaces and communities to imitate social practices. Imitating ...
(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. ...
Logos, Silence, and Love Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Heidegger and Technology: Through Gestell to Gelassenheit Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Oppgaven handler om konseptet sanselighet, og er et bidrag til studiet av estetikk. Etymologisk betyr estetikk studie av kunnskap som kommer av sansene, men i nyere tid har betydningen av sanselighet blitt utfordret i ...
(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 ...
God's Property. An essay on Spiritual Slavery. Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Understanding and meaning An essay on conceptual engineering Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
This essay concerns the epistemology of beliefs formed on the basis of the output of AI systems. To do this, I follow the definition given by the European council’s High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Should we be narrative? Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2024)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Revisiting the Worldview Argument: Understanding the Relationship Between Metaphysics and Ethics in Environmental Philosophy Restricted 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 ...
Understanding others: feminist pragmatist reflections on Dewey, aesthetic experience and aesthetic injustice Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Necessary Identity -- A Logical and Philosophical Investigation Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
A derivation of the necessity of identity that dates back to Ruth Barcan challenges the once consensus view that identical object(s) are contingently identical. This dissertation argues against the once consensus view and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Samandrag I denne oppgåva set eg lys på eit tema om korleis ein bør gå fram for å undersøke spørsmål knytt til eit godt liv. Formålet mitt kan difor sjåast som eit grunnriss for å seie noko om kva som bør være på plass før ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
I denne oppgaven diskuterer jeg muligheten for en filosofi i dans gjennom det begrepslige rammeverket til Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Som en kroppslig erfaring undersøker jeg hvordan det å være tilskuer til dans dypest sett kan ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
In the following essay I assess three naturalistic readings of Nietzsche and offer an interpretation of Nietzsche’s naturalism. I argue that the three naturalistic readings confront some interpretive and philosophical ...
Are we better selfless Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(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 ...