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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Many of us go to the Internet to gather information relevant to our questions. Yet, much of the information on the Internet is irrelevant for answering them. How, then, can the Internet be a source of relevant information? ...
Understanding others: feminist pragmatist reflections on Dewey, aesthetic experience and aesthetic injustice Restricted Access
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(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 ...
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)
Rethinking Conceptual Autonomy Restricted Access
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Trans* philosophy, given its recent emergence, is in the process of establishing itself within the discipline. This thesis argues that trans* philosophy is an illuminatory project that confers intelligibility onto trans* ...
(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 ...
Failure beyond intent Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(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, 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, 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, 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 ...
Det kategoriske imperativ som metode – og anvendelsen på en kunstig generell intelligens Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Climate change and environmental damage are some of the biggest challenges we face today. Since the 1960s, the default system of natural resource governance has been permanent sovereignty, which means that states can do ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
In this thesis, I theorise novelly about the essence of political liberty. And the novelty lies, somewhat paradoxically, in the theorisation’s ancient orientation: I attempt to arrive at a eudaimonist concept of liberty ...
(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, 2022)
What conception of freedom is expressed in the thought of Epictetus? In this essay, I argue that there are two different ways in which the will can be said to be free for Epictetus. The first is that the will is free by ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
In this thesis I engage with the philosophical and theoretical assumptions of mainstream economic thinking, and how these related to the concept of ecosystem services (ES). I argue that dominant economic methods of valuation ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Virkelighetens mønstre: En skisse av Sinnet og Væren Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
There is hardly anyone, who knows anything about Plato and his philosophy, who would claim that Plato did not think that geometry is beautiful. Therefore, I focus primarily on two questions. The first question is why Plato ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
In this master's thesis, I develop an approach to relative fundamentality in terms of essence and real definition. In order to resist a skepticist stance with respect to these metaphysical notions, I develop two ideas ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
«Bebreidelse» er et viktig begrep som har fått mye oppmerksomhet i akademisk filosofi de siste årene. Fokuset for diskusjonen har vært bebreidelse av andre, altså situasjoner der man bebreider en annen enn seg selv. Tilfeller ...
Making Excellent Humans Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
(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, 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 ...
Stand by Me: In Defence of Third-Party Blame Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Life in Nature. A.N. Whitehead's Philosophy of Organism Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
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 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 ...
Heidegger and Technology: Through Gestell to Gelassenheit Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Logos, Silence, and Love Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
(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, 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 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. ...
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 ...
Understanding and meaning An essay on conceptual engineering Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
God's Property. An essay on Spiritual Slavery. Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
I løpet av de siste førti årene har menneskeskapte miljøødeleggelser som artstap og klimaendringer eskalert til uante dimensjoner. Omfanget av miljøproblemene øker, til tross for at vi besitter nødvendig kunnskap om ...
(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 ...
Technology and Administration Restricted Access
(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 ...
In Search of a Unified Theory of Persistence and Coincidence Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(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, 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, ...
Natural Law as the Standard of Justice in Aristotle Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Aristotle is sometimes described as the father of natural law, but how well does this description hold up to scrutiny? In this thesis, I attempt to offer a historically accurate (and philosophically viable) reconstruction ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
This paper is about religious faith, and how philosophy should approach the topic. As a starting point, I will assume that religious faith is a good thing, and that philosophy can help enlighten how religious faith ought ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Groundwork for a Theory of Seeing-in: and the Dilemmas of Twofoldness Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
A commitment to taking a look at facts in practical endeavors Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Glemsel, makt og frihet: En introduksjon til informasjonsdominans 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)
“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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Humanity’s insufficient attempts at reducing carbon emissions to prevent runaway climate change have inspired some to propose that we “engineer” the climate-system; large-scale technological interventions, with the aim to ...
Plato and Aristotle on the Possibility of Akrasia Restricted Access
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
(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 ...
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 ...
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)
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, 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)
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 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)
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, 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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
(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, 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)
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 ...
The Role of Abstraction and Encounter in Environmental Philosophy Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
This thesis examines two claims about consciousness in animals by the neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux: 1. Science cannot tell us anything about consciousness in animals, and 2. Animal behavior can be explained in terms of ...