Browsing Filosofi by Title
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)This paper is a sketch of a reading of Wittgenstein s Philosophical Investigations as a search for the essence of human language. Chapter 1 explores what seems like a positive and what looks like a negative conclusion in ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)Hvordan lar filosofiens moralteorier seg påvirke av empirisk basert kunnskap om hvem vi er? Denne oppgaven undersøker én type moralsk naturalisme, nemlig naturalisme som kompatibilisme. Dette innebærer å konstruere teorier ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)Synopsis I begin by considering the problem of priority between ought and the other normative forces, as these are distinguished by John Broome. Ought is the strongest normative force but what kind of priority can it have ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)Panpsychism is the view that mentality, in some sense of the word, is a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of reality. Physicalism, the predominant view held by philosophers today, asserts that everything is physical; in ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)Do perceptual constancies and phenomenal consciousness help provide an account of how subjects perceive things in the world? In particular, how can they help make sense of the idea that perceptual content is given in the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)Denne oppgaven tar for seg persepsjon og berettigelse. Hvordan kan sanseinntrykk sies å berettige oppfatninger, og er dette avhengig av hvordan man forstår perseptuelle tilstanders innhold? Oppgavens ambisjon er å nærme ...
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Persons as Indeterminate Objects - Answering the Whys of Fission and Sorites CasesRestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)The main question discussed in contemporary debates about personal identity is what to do with indeterminate cases – cases that is, where it appears indeterminate whether some person A at time t1 is identical to a person ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)In this thesis I look at Chalmers (1995) Hard Problem of philosophy, and discuss some possible solutions to it. In order to come up with an answer to the Hard Problem it is necessary to explain the relationship between ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)In this thesis I have two aims. Firstly, I will attempt to interpret Heidegger’s method in Sein und Zeit as a form of praxis. Secondly, I will try to show that philosophical knowledge for Heidegger is the same as the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)Philosophy is most accurately understood as inquiry into the general features of the world and human experience within it. Human beings are dependent upon and inextricably connected to their environment. In their struggle ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)The so-called Exclusion argument (Kim 2000; Papineau 2004) about mental causation applies one premise that is typically accepted without much discussion: the thesis of causal completeness of the physical domain (CCP). In ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)Plato and Aristotle justified their political theories by defining justice as to allocate to each his or hers own in accordance with that person s nature. It is just, then, Plato argues, to set a person who is by nature ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)This text explores the views presented by Christine Korsgaard in her book 'The Sources of Normativity' from various angles. Her main argument is inspired by Kant and tries to establish the ‘rational necessity’ that at an ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)My thesis, as the title refers, is about practical reasons and rationality. The purpose of this thesis is not to formulate any final theory on what practical reasons are or what it means to be rational, but rather to present ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)Oversatt fra engelsk: Det ortodokse synet på sanseerfaring i dagens filosofi er at erfaringstilstander har representasjonelt innhold. Mens det er overraskende vanskelig å finne eksplisitte argumenter for dette synet, er ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2006)Hovedregelen for alle stater bør være å unngå bruk av væpnet makt og vold når konflikter skal løses. Men det finnes legitime unntak til denne regelen. FN-paktens artikkel 51 slår fast at alle nasjoner har lov til å forsvare ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)Williamson’s cognitive turn In Knowledge and Its Limits, as well as in a number of papers, Timothy Williamson develops a new, ‘knowledge first’ approach to epistemology and philosophy, where the notion of knowledge plays ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)Moral judgments have two characteristic features. On the one hand they aim at objectivity. We normally think there are correct answers to be found on moral matters, and we think that is possible for our moral judgments to ...
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(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 ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)