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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Naturens moralske status - en undersøkelse av Holmes Rolstons bidrag til miljøetikk Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
How do objects persist? What does it mean to persist? We do perhaps all have an intuitive understanding of what it means for an object to persist. An answer like “an object that persists exists both in the past and the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
What is an emotion? How should we understand the relationship between sensations, feelings, emotions, and other cognitive and conceptual capacities? What role do socially conditioned habits play in the constitution of ...
Freedom in Dark Times: A Conceptual and Comparable Analysis of Arendtian and Beauvoirian Freedoms Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
Hidden with Sufficient Reason: A Cumulative Case against J. L. Schellenberg s Hiddenness of God Argument Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
J. L. Schellenberg argues in the book Divine Hiddenness and Human Reason that the apparent hiddenness of God is—in itself—an atheistic argument. His argument takes as the starting premise: If a perfectly loving God exists, ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
Kant s views on revolution are well known among Kant scholars and even among philosophers generally. What is less known are the arguments that he presents to defend his views. In light of the controversy that the prohibition ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
The following Master's thesis is an analysis of the terms used in both the ethical guidelines and values espoused by companies, weighed up against classical philosophical texts and normative ethical theories, as well as ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
Moral error theory, the view that moral discourse is factually defective, is an influential view in contemporary metaethics. Although it has long been recognized that the arguments for this view might generalize and apply ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
At vi mennesker har følelser er hevet over en hver tvil, men hvilken rolle spiller de for vår etiske utvikling? Tradisjonelt kan vi si at følelser har blitt uglesett som kilde til kunnskap og som fundament for etikken. I ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
This thesis deals with the paradox of forgiveness. The presumed outcome of the paradox is that forgiveness is impossible. To determine whether the outcome of the paradox is correct I start by giving an overview of the ...
Internalistic Meaning Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
The aim of this thesis is to defend global consequentialism from its main objection, specifically the objection that it allows evaluative conflict. Global consequentialism differs from traditional forms of consequentialism ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Diagnosen platonisme: En kritisk studie av matematisk platonisme i lys av aristoteliske essenser of husserliansk fenomenologi: To sentrale spørsmål innen matematikkens filosofi omhandler matematiske objekters eksistens og ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
Self-consciousness is often defined as the ability to think of oneself as oneself, an ability that is considered to require demanding conceptual and linguistic abilities. Concept-possession is surely needed for mastery of ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Denne oppgaven handler om hvorfor noe er, overhodet. I oppgavens to innledende kapitler danner jeg et filosofihistorisk bakteppe for spørsmålet. I kapittel 1. skiller jeg mellom to spørsmål om hvorfor noe er, overhodet: ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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 ...
Groundwork for a Theory of Seeing-in: and the Dilemmas of Twofoldness Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
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 ...
Den Anarkistiske Eksistenshypotese Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)
(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 ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2019)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Det kategoriske imperativ som metode – og anvendelsen på en kunstig generell intelligens Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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 ...
Natural Law as the Standard of Justice in Aristotle Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
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 ...
Heidegger and Technology: Through Gestell to Gelassenheit Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Stand by Me: In Defence of Third-Party Blame Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
In this thesis I attempt to connect Bernard Williams view of internal reasons together with P.F. Strawsons views on moral responsibility. I start by presenting Strawson and Williams respective views on the subjects. I then ...
Life in Nature. A.N. Whitehead's Philosophy of Organism Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
The Imitation Approach – Trans-Inclusive Gender Kinds and Classification Practices Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
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 ...
“Knowledge as Recollection in Plato’s Meno” Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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 ...
Glemsel, makt og frihet: En introduksjon til informasjonsdominans Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
Logos, Silence, and Love Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
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. ...
Understanding and meaning An essay on conceptual engineering Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
God's Property. An essay on Spiritual Slavery. Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
Apophatic Theology: The Interplay of Apophatic and Kataphatic Theology in the Mystical Theology of Dionysius the Areopagite Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
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 ...
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
What conception of freedom is expressed in the thought of Epictetus? In this essay, I argue that there are two different ways in which the will can be said to be free for Epictetus. The first is that the will is free by ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
In this thesis I engage with the philosophical and theoretical assumptions of mainstream economic thinking, and how these related to the concept of ecosystem services (ES). I argue that dominant economic methods of valuation ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
In this thesis, I theorise novelly about the essence of political liberty. And the novelty lies, somewhat paradoxically, in the theorisation’s ancient orientation: I attempt to arrive at a eudaimonist concept of liberty ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
There are reasons to believe that the correct principle governing which composite objects there are is the Unrestricted Fusion principle of classical mereology: for any satisfied condition there is an object composed of ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
There is hardly anyone, who knows anything about Plato and his philosophy, who would claim that Plato did not think that geometry is beautiful. Therefore, I focus primarily on two questions. The first question is why Plato ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
In this master's thesis, I develop an approach to relative fundamentality in terms of essence and real definition. In order to resist a skepticist stance with respect to these metaphysical notions, I develop two ideas ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(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 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
Virkelighetens mønstre: En skisse av Sinnet og Væren Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
«Bebreidelse» er et viktig begrep som har fått mye oppmerksomhet i akademisk filosofi de siste årene. Fokuset for diskusjonen har vært bebreidelse av andre, altså situasjoner der man bebreider en annen enn seg selv. Tilfeller ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
This thesis deals with the implementation challenge of conceptual engineering. Particularly, for social kind concepts that are socially and politically significant. The goal is that of showing that the standard implementation ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Many of us go to the Internet to gather information relevant to our questions. Yet, much of the information on the Internet is irrelevant for answering them. How, then, can the Internet be a source of relevant information? ...
Revisiting the Worldview Argument: Understanding the Relationship Between Metaphysics and Ethics in Environmental Philosophy Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
An influential idea in environmental ethics has been the claim that today’s environmental crises are rooted in a mechanistic, scientific worldview which entails dualism, anthropocentrism, and instrumentalism. It is therefore ...
Understanding others: feminist pragmatist reflections on Dewey, aesthetic experience and aesthetic injustice Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
In this thesis I try to answer the question: Is choosing one theory above another because it is more beautiful an action that can be held as being scientifically important and/or legitimate? I do this by splitting this ...
Should we be narrative? Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2024)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Necessary Identity -- A Logical and Philosophical Investigation Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
A derivation of the necessity of identity that dates back to Ruth Barcan challenges the once consensus view that identical object(s) are contingently identical. This dissertation argues against the once consensus view and ...
(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 ...
Plato and Aristotle on the Possibility of Akrasia Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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 ...
Making Excellent Humans Begrenset tilgang
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2020)
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, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)
The problem addressed in this thesis is the vulnerability that unrestricted freedom of speech can cause for liberal democracies. While some have focused on the international aspect of the problem, where authoritarian regimes ...