Browsing Filosofi by Title
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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)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)By what kind of mechanisms do we perceive the physical world beyond ourselves? What is the relation between perceptual processes and natural evolution? What is the nature of a perceptual state? In this thesis I discuss ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)When a speaker communicates with someone, she wants to convey some kind of content to the hearer. For the communicational act to be successful, the hearer will have to grasp this content. Human communication seems, in this ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)Med ”Representing – the Lamp or the Mirror? An Assessment of the Representational Dimension of Linguistic Practice", et essay om lingvistisk meningsteori, ønsket jeg å vise at nypragmatismen innehar ressurser til å sette ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)Oppgaven tar for seg Platons avvisning av retorikken i dialogen Gorgias. Dette gjøres på bakgrunn av at ”retorikk har vært et skjellsord i 2500 år, men et fag like lenge.” Det er i Gorgias at retorikkens status som fag ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)In his essay “The Revolution that didn’t happen” Steven Weinberg argues that Kuhn’s scheme cannot properly describe modern developments in physics and that there has not been a scientific revolution in this field in the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)Denne oppgavens hovedanliggende har vært å utforske spørsmålet: Mener Theodor W. Adorno at kunsten kan uttrykke sannheter som har samfunnsmessig og etisk relevans, og i så fall, hvorfor mener han dette er mulig og hvordan ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)I denne oppgaven forsøker jeg å vise hvordan vi kan bruke David Wiggins' redegjørelser for sammenhengen mellom sannhet og moral som et utgangspunkt for å gi en forklaring av hva det etiske saksområdet handler om og hvilke ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)The aim of this master thesis is to make a convincing argument that scientific progress can be spoken of in objective terms. In order to make this argument I will propose a philosophical theory of scientific progress. Two ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)Nature-nurture is unfit to account for the seamless co-determination of behavior by biological evolution and culture. The environment is the shaping causal factor both in evolutionary history of species and populations ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)Sammendrag: The objective of the thesis is to give one account of Dummett’s philosophical approach in the justification for intuitionistic logic. Dummett’s argumentation is worth being considered not merely in its attempt ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)The human capacity for language is beyond doubt a very special ability and this thesis aims at shedding light on this ability by investigating the semantic basis for a theory of interpretation. Such a theory seeks to ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2006)In this paper I will give an overview of what can be deemed Walter Benjamin’s theory of technology. I will put particular emphasis on what Benjamin defined as the “shattering” effect technological progress had on traditional ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)