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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...