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In Search of a Unified Theory of Persistence and Coincidence Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Groundwork for a Theory of Seeing-in: and the Dilemmas of Twofoldness Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(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
(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)
“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)
Glemsel, makt og frihet: En introduksjon til informasjonsdominans Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(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 ...
(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)
A commitment to taking a look at facts in practical endeavors Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(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)
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)
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)
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 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 ...
(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)
(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, 2019)
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)
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)
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, 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 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)
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, 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
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
The Role of Abstraction and Encounter in Environmental Philosophy Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
(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 ...
(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.
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
(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 ...
(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 / Masteroppgave, 2018)
(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, 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
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
(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, 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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
(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)
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
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Naturens moralske status - en undersøkelse av Holmes Rolstons bidrag til miljøetikk Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(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
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(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 ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(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, 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, 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)
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, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
(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
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
(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. ...
(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 ...
(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
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
(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 ...
(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, 2016)
(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 ...
(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 ...
(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
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
(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, 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, 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 ...
(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, 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 ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(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
(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
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
(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 ...