Browsing Filosofi by Title
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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, 2020)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2024)
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(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 ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)Emmanuel Levinas is commonly treated as a first and foremost ethical thinker. In this essay I want to offer an alternative reading of Levinas’ first main work, Totality and Infinity, by shifting the attention from the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)The primary aim of this essay is to present and defend "virtualism" – essentially, the claim that the brain is a virtual reality engine, meaning that the world of experience is, literally, a virtual reality somehow ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)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 ...
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(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 ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2005)En kritisk lesning av Kripkes skeptiske argument i Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language, med et sideblikk på Stanley Cavell.
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)Stoikerne mente at kosmos er en levende gud. To deler av dette synet er kosmisk holisme og kosmopsykisme: Stoikerne trodde at kosmos er mer grunnleggende enn delene sine (kosmisk holisme), og at det har egne mentale ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2012)The expert (technē) analogy often plays an essential role in the arguments of Xenophon, Plato and Aristotle, and this type of argument can be traced back to Socrates. Yet there has been remarkably little work done on the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2005)Wittgenstein is famous for having argued against the possibility of so called ’private languages’. In this essay I discuss in what way Wittgenstein would say that language is something ‘public’. i.e. the opposite of private; ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)Det er undersøkt om en mulig tolkning av Aristoteles’ etikk kan gi en utdypning av Kants moralfilosofi. To problemstillinger er analysert. Den ene gjelder hvordan det er meningsfullt å tolke Aristoteles’ begrep den dydige ...