Browsing Filosofi by Title
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2007)The point of departure of this thesis is based on the Ganges water disputes between India and Bangladesh. The water conflict emerged when India, through the Farakka dam, started unilaterally to divert a large amount of the ...
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(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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(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 ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)In his influential piece, Freedom and Resentment, P.F. Strawson suggested a new approach to the old debate between freedom and determinism. He proposed understanding agential responsibility by analyzing psychological and ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)Can care-ethics provide an argument for the moral responsibility of economic agents? In mainstream economic theory it is standardly assumed that economic agents are largely rational, self-interested and driven by the pursuit ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)Climate change and environmental damage are some of the biggest challenges we face today. Since the 1960s, the default system of natural resource governance has been permanent sovereignty, which means that states can do ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)Denne oppgåva drøftar om det er moralsk legitimt for eit offer å ikkje tilgje. I boka Jenseits von Schuld und Sühne skildrar Jean Amèry sine eigne erfaringar som Holocaustoverlevande og vidare korleis han nekta å tilgje ...
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(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 ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)Oppgaven diskuterer kroppens moralske status i forhold til Kant, MacIntyre og Care Ethics. Utdrag fra innledningen: Arguments concerning organ donors and other so called ‘bio-ethical’ questions have been numerous both in ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)Varsling defineres som når en arbeidstaker sier ifra til en person eller instans som kan gjøre noe med et kritikkverdig forhold på arbeidsplassen, og danner utgangspunkt for begrepet om moralsk praksis. I Whistleblowers ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)Målet med denne oppgaven er å se om Rortys anti-essensialisme kan ses som en utvikling av den hermeneutiske tradisjonen i filosofien. De to første delene diskuterer Rortys problematisering av essensialisme i den teoretiske ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)Mulige verdener som verktøy i filosofiske teorikonstruksjoner har på ny fått vind i seilene. I denne sammenheng undersøker jeg en av de mest kontroversielle forslagene til en slik metafysisk teorikonstruksjon - modalrealisme. ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)Martin Heidegger er en av de mest innflytelsesrike og kontroversielle filosofer i det 20. århundre, og han er blitt beskrevet som alt fra ”avskyelig nazist” til ”vismann” og ”hyrde” – en som tar vare på det som er verdt å ...
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(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 ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)The objective of this investigation is to focus on the morality of the modern self and how the quality (significant form) of this morality is conditioned by and reflects its socio-historical and socio-cultural frames, and ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)