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In Search of a Unified Theory of Persistence and Coincidence Restricted Access
Dale, Ingebrigt Magne (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Groundwork for a Theory of Seeing-in: and the Dilemmas of Twofoldness Restricted Access
Pilskog, Sigbjørn Andre Ulstein (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Faith, reason and the human mind – love triangle or ménage à trois? 
Seljom, Kim Dennis Sire (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 ...
Natural Law as the Standard of Justice in Aristotle Restricted Access
Evenstad, Øyvind Johannes Vardenær (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 ...
Should We Accept the Word of Others on Instinct or Reason? Or Both? New Directions in the Epistemology of Testimony: Suggesting Contextualist Hybridism 
Hirstad, Marius Andre Stigsson (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
“Knowledge as Recollection in Plato’s Meno” Restricted Access
Perikleous, Styliani (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 ...
Age, Agency and Accountability: Child Soldiers and International Criminal Justice Restricted Access
Pecl, Chiara (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Glemsel, makt og frihet: En introduksjon til informasjonsdominans Restricted Access
Barbogen, Hallvard Østtveit (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Technology and Administration 
Karahoda, Leonard (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 ...
Foundations of logic: A modelling approach 
Lauvsland, Julie (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
The Human Right to Freedom of Expression in the age of social media 
Povel, Aimée Marije Rosa (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 ...
Thought Experiments Without Intuition 
Firing, Tina (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
A commitment to taking a look at facts in practical endeavors Restricted Access
Hish, Robert Michael Brian (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Moral Responsibility A Constructivist Account 
Crebay, Maria Luz (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Contextualism, Probability and Salience - A Review of Different Forms of Epistemic Contextualism as a Response to Philosophical Skepticism 
Lie, Sander Wilhelm Gjedrem (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. ...
Phantasia into motion: about the imaginative in reasoning, through Aristotle Restricted Access
Longo, Nicola Giuseppe (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 ...
Hermeneutical Injustice and Narrative Strategies for Meaning-making 
Trapp, Griffin M (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Breaking Down Borders: Migration as a Fundamental Human Right 
Ho, Leslie Law (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 ...
The Vices of Economic Efficiency: Acquisitiveness, Greed and Self-Indulgence. Assessing Mainstream Economic Theory in the Light of Aristotelian Virtue Ethics. 
Baldari, Giorgio Norlemann (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 ...
Multicentrism: A Defence With Amendments to Anthony Weston's Axiological Matrix 
Bragstad, Adrian (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 ...
A Study of Hermeneutics in the Approach to Indian Philosophy in the West 
Mæland, Karin Elisabeth (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 ...
On Virtue and Skill 
Hertzberg, Sverre Granmo (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 ...
An Evolutionary Vindication of Morality 
Iversen, Reber Roald (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. 
Terrab, Younes (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 ...
What is Rational Action? - An Argument for a Particular Version of The Humean View 
Berntsen-Øybø, Bendik (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Radical Reasons - On Contingency in Metaethical Constructivism Restricted Access
Fjeld, Maren Kildahl (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 ...
Meaning at the margin: hermeneutical injustice and conceptual engineering 
Natvig, Miriam Strøm (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. ...
An animal’s right to live a ‘life worth living’, not the right to be left alive 
Skidmore-Hornby, Joshua William (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
End of Analysis, Beginning of Explanation: Making the Case for Alethic Primitivism 
Miyata-Sturm, Mariona Eiren (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 ...
The Wickedness of Non-Identity in Reproductive Ethics: Understanding the wickedness of the non-identity problem from a current disagreement in bioethics 
Ovesen, Sigurd Holmvik (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 ...
Commodification can introduce wrongs – Rejecting universal commodification as presented by Markets Without Limits and the gift-commodity principle. 
Bull-Hansen, Brage Vilhelm (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 ...
Adskilt fra verden fant mennesket seg selv - eller hva er nominalisme? 
Hugo, Tollef Graff (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. ...
Domination or Reconciliation? An Ethical Assessment of Ecological Restoration 
Colman-Denstad, Erica (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 ...
Freedom From Hate – Free Speech as Positive Liberty 
Skar, Ola (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 ...
Is it worse to be dead than to be alive? A defence of Epicurus against his critics. 
Hol, Bjørn Ottar (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
Levende livet ut: Simone de Beauvoir om et autentisk liv i alderdommen. 
Faugli, Emil (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. ...
What Can We Know About Consciousness in Animals? A Critical Analysis of Claims by Joseph LeDoux 
Andenæs, Hilde (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 ...
Lidelsen vi ikke ser - hvordan vi kategoriserer dyrs lidelse for å skjule den for oss selv Restricted Access
Haugen, Norun Pernell (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Gödel's Realism: How Intuition of Concepts Leads to Mathematical Knowledge 
Pedersen, Inger Bakken (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Reality, Contingency, Objects, and Agency: A Zizekian Reading of the Speculative Turn 
Mlonyeni, Philip Maxwell Thingbø (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
The Role of Abstraction and Encounter in Environmental Philosophy Restricted Access
Westby, Sebastian (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Om språkutvikling og filosofi hos Sally Haslanger og Richard Rorty 
Opheim, Simon Veastad (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
I denne oppgaven diskuterer jeg forslagene til begrepsforandring som vi finner hos de to amerikanske filosofene Sally Haslanger og Richard Rorty. Haslanger argumenterer for at begrepene «kvinne» og «mann» bør defineres som ...
Knowledge of the Soul in Plato's Phaedrus 
Williams, Joshua (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
In this thesis I explore and compare the two treatments of soul in Plato's Phaedrus, and argue that the treatment of soul in the first portion of the dialogue is informative when we come to the discussion about rhetoric.
Simulating the Substance View: A Lightweight Case for Human Moral Equality 
Ellingsen, Sivert Emil Thomas Øveraas (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Fragmentation at the Foundation 
Solberg, Hans Robin (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
The standard axiomatization of set theory known as ZFC provides maybe the most widely accepted foundation for mathematics. But there are natural mathematical statements, such as Cantor's continuum hypothesis (CH), that can ...
Leibniz's Ontological Arguments: How Existence Prevails over Non-Existence in Leibniz’s Metaphysics 
Grøgaard, Åsne Dorthea (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 ...
Our Epistemic Access to Intrinsic Properties 
Varma, Mohit (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
The Spaces of Human and Animal Perception 
Dramer, Dag August Schmedling (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 ...
Reasons and Blame: On the conflict between reasons internalism and blameworthiness 
Clover, Louise Margaret (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 ...
Den Anarkistiske Eksistenshypotese Restricted Access
Fossheim, Jostein Alfred (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Karl Marx om det fremmedgjorte arbeidet 
Ormberg, Ellen Johansen (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 ...
Technology and Virtue Theory 
Mikkelsen, Ken Rune (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 ...
What we can Demand of Each Other: An Investigation into the Relationship between Questions of the Good Life, Questions of Morality and Concept of Maxims in the Communication Based Ethics of Jürgen Habermas and Seyla Benhabib 
Kvamme, Joachim Åsen (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Can human rights have merit in Foucault's disciplinary society? 
Solheim, Alexandra (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
Betraktninger omkring Hegel, Habermas og diskursteori 
Grønset, Thomas Leming (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 ...
The Ethnocentrism Problem in Feminism 
Davanger, Oda Karoline Storbråten (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 ...
ARISTOTELES DE ANIMA 3.5 Striden om nous poietikos Restricted Access
Hansen, Rodi Bråthen (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Narrative Identity in Kierkegaard: An analysis of Anthony Rudd's narrative theory of selfhood in Søren Kierkegaard's Either/Or and The Sickness unto Death 
Bjartveit, Mattias Da Silva (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Response-Dependence: On the Idea of Fittingness 
Helseth, Mathias (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Naturens moralske status - en undersøkelse av Holmes Rolstons bidrag til miljøetikk Restricted Access
Lundh, Lisa-Sophie (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Writing the Unreadable - The Ontology of Bodies in Jean-Luc Nancy's Corpus 
Larssen, Niklas Johan Bystrøm (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Undergraver evolusjonen moralsk realisme? 
Vara, Tor Mikkel (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 ...
Freedom in Dark Times: A Conceptual and Comparable Analysis of Arendtian and Beauvoirian Freedoms Restricted Access
Mæland, Eivor Elisabeth Daae (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
What makes us who we are: On the relationship between human existence and technics, thinking and technology, and the philosopher and the technician 
Nielsen, Mats Andreas (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Phenomenology and Intentionality: On the Direction of Explanation in Conscious Visual States 
Kippersund, Max Johannes (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 ...
The Art of Noise 
Stuen, Eivind August Westad (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 ...
Improving Scientific Language: A General Look at Conceptual Debates in Science 
Time, Jan-Tore (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
The aim of this thesis is to give general answers to two questions: What is a good scientific concept? What is the nature of conceptual debates in science? In order to answer these questions, I will look at historical ...
Causality and Non-Locality in Quantum Mechanics: An argument for retrocausation 
Mjelva, Jørn Kløvfjell (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 ...
How Can We Distinguish Perception from Cognition? The Perceptual Adaptation Hypothesis 
Sydhagen, Petter Bogen (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. ...
Picturing the World from Within: Wittgenstein's Tractatus and the Limits of Sense 
Sætre, Martin Gullvåg (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 ...
Moral motivation from fetishism? - A metaethical discussion of Michael Smith's fetishist argument 
Bjornes, Ingrid Rebekka (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 ...
“Well, that depends on what you mean by ‘φ’” 
Fuglestvedt, Ludvig Fæhn (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Cognitivism, Expressivism and Hybrid Expressivism. How to Solve The Moral Problem 
Bøhn, Marcus Johansen Bang (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
The Concept of Free Nature in Murray Bookchin’s Philosophy of Social Ecology 
Eiglad, Eirik (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Denne oppgaven utforsker Murray Bookchins sosialøkologiske filosofi og fokuserer spesielt på begrepet “fri natur.” Bookchin (1921-2006) var en sentral foregangsfigur i den internasjonale økologibevegelsen: svært tidlig ...
In Aristotelis physicorum tertii libri motum tractantem partem commentaria anglica Restricted Access
Gjövikli, Lars (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
What love is (as understood by Frankfurt) 
Myhre, Maria Elisa Naime Giovanardi (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Abstract What distinguishes persons from other agents is their capacity to form a volition which means that they have a volitional essence. The Real Self view Frankfurt holds on autonomy has coming as its cornerstone. ...
Den beste av alle mulige verdener som Gud kunne skape? En historisk drøfting av metafysikken og det ondes problem hos Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. 
Eidsaa, Rune (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Sammendrag Finnes det noen grunn til at verden er akkurat slik den er? Hvorfor er vi her? Finnes det en Gud som har skapt verden? Og hvorfor har akkurat denne verden blitt skapt fremfor en annen? Oppgaven vil konsentrere ...
From Humanity to Posthumanity: Moral Questions Concerning Radical Enhancement 
Falao, Eirik (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
This thesis explores Nicholas Agar’s criticism of radical enhancement in his book Humanity’s End. He claims that enhancing the human body in a way that goes beyond the limitations of human biology, will turn us into something ...
Selecting immigrants: discrimination and the right to exclude Restricted Access
Sandven, Hallvard Hodne (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Mechanisms and Explanation: On the Origins of the New Mechanistic Philosohy 
Aaby, Bendik Hellem (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Følelsenes rolle for etisk utvikling En refleksjon fra et feministisk perspektiv 
Svenbalrud, Bente Holm (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
At vi mennesker har følelser er hevet over en hver tvil, men hvilken rolle spiller de for vår etiske utvikling? Tradisjonelt kan vi si at følelser har blitt uglesett som kilde til kunnskap og som fundament for etikken. I ...
Persistence: a matter of identity? 
Selseth, Solveig Nygaard (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 ...
Interventionism, Realism and Invariance - The kind of metaphysics that matter 
Diakite, Mori (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Diagnosen platonisme 
Korsnes, Carl-Fredrick (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Diagnosen platonisme: En kritisk studie av matematisk platonisme i lys av aristoteliske essenser of husserliansk fenomenologi: To sentrale spørsmål innen matematikkens filosofi omhandler matematiske objekters eksistens og ...
Doing the Best We Can't: Evaluative Conflict and the 'Ought' Implies 'Can' Principle 
Gitlesen, Daniel Parmeggiani (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
The aim of this thesis is to defend global consequentialism from its main objection, specifically the objection that it allows evaluative conflict. Global consequentialism differs from traditional forms of consequentialism ...
The Paradox of Forgiveness 
Seim, Maria (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 ...
Internalistic Meaning Restricted Access
Grønneng, Ole Kristian (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Moral Permissibility of Active Euthanasia 
Johnson, Reid Rucker (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 ...
The Morality of Indigenous Land Claims: An investigation of the moral justification of indigenous peoples’ claims to specific land and resources 
Eidsvåg, Inga Oskal (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 ...
Emerging self-consciousness - Nonconceptual Content and Immunity 
Flemsæter, Jan Øyvind (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Self-consciousness is often defined as the ability to think of oneself as oneself, an ability that is considered to require demanding conceptual and linguistic abilities. Concept-possession is surely needed for mastery of ...
Signal to noise 
Raa, Kjartan Vedå (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 ...
Axel Honneth om etikk og samfunnskritikk - hvordan kan Honneth sin teori om anerkjennelse bidra til moralens vilkår i dagen individualistiske samfunn? 
Myklebust, Anne Kristin Hinderaker (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
I denne oppgaven diskuterer jeg relevansen av Axel Honneth sin teori om anerkjennelse og hans samfunnskritikk for dagens samfunn. Vårt vestlige demokratiske samfunn har utviklet seg til å bli individualistisk og ...
Livsverda - frå subjektivt medvit til kommunikativ handling: Ei drøfting av stillinga til livsverdsomgrepet i samfunnsvitskapen 
Støren, Harald Henrik (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Samandrag av masteroppgåva i filosofi Oppgåva drøftar omgrepet «livsverd» slik det fyrst vart lansert av den tyske filosofen og matematikaren Edmund Husserl, framfor alt i verket «Krisa i dei européiske vitskapane og den ...
Moral Relativism and the Problem of Immersion 
Strøm, Øyvind Sætre (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
The purpose of this thesis is to have a closer look at moral relativism, and the problem of immersion. Most people will accept that the truth of judgements are relative to certain standards, a moral framework. Most people ...
The Case for Moral Objectivism: A Moorean Odyssey through Metaethics 
Miyata, Ainar Petersen (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
One of the central questions in metaethics is whether morality is a fundamentally subjective or fundamentally objective domain. Are we, when we are discussing moral claims or making moral judgments, engaging in an activity ...
Reaching out to the Global Poor. A Critical Assessment of the Theories by Rawls, Singer and Pogge 
Stachurska-Kounta, Marta Magdalena (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 ...
«The Trolley Problem» : Peter Singer, intuisjoner og konsekvenser Restricted Access
Stenberg, Dagfinn (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 ...
Den undertrykte moralske aktør. En undersøkelse av den feministiske etikkens diskursive rom Restricted Access
Johansen, Tiril Mår (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Naessian deep ecology, political action and the climate crisis 
Tiili, Kristin (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Moral Realism, Evolutionary Debunking and Normative Qualia 
Ravneberg, Martin Thømt (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
This thesis has two parts, a critical and a constructive part. The first part raises a set of challenges to moral realism. The second part provides a response to these challenges. The first part begins by raising the ...
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