Browsing Theses by Subject "Philosophy"
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Justifying compulsory education for sustainability
(2018)Though many acknowledge the need for climate action, and though many see the opportunities education offers to impact the development of citizens, only few are in favour of compulsory education for sustainability. This ... -
Kant’s Critical Thoughts on Freedom from a Contemporary Perspective: To what extent are these thoughts of practical philosophical significance for us?
(2009)This prizewinning thesis (Award Best Thesis 2008-9, University Utrecht) explores Immanuel Kant's thoughts on 'freedom' in a way that shows a certain bias in a contemporary debate on the issue of freedom and determinism. ... -
Keim
(2019)This text aims to make a contemporary Hegelian analysis of the requirements for an analysis of death. By following Sebastian Rödl’s Categories of the Temporal, I show that thought requires a temporal object. I then try to ... -
Knowing and Doing
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Locked into Agency: Transcendental Arguments and Darwinian Skepticism
(2018)Does our best knowledge of evolutionary theory have implications for moral truth? Moral realists generally argue that the existence of mind-independent moral facts is compatible with the evolutionary data. According to ... -
Make Up Your Mind: Reflection and the Necessity of Agency
(2020)Christine Korsgaard’s recent work focuses mainly on constitutivism about moral normativity and personal identity. In fact, she tries to show that those two things are subject to the same principle, which she identifies as ... -
Metaontology and Inconsistent Concepts
(2018)Recent years has seen a surge of new interest and research into neo-Carnapian and deflationary approaches to ontology; it has become increasingly viable to maintain that ontological debates are merely verbal (Hirsch 2011), ... -
Mysticism, Metaphysics, Truth: Are Mystical Experiences Real?
(2022)Under specific circumstances, or following specific practices, people can have the experience of losing their sense of being a subject opposed to an external world. This work aims at establishing the reality of these ... -
Nonconceptual Content in Perception
(2019)Since the publication of Gareth Evans’s The Varieties of Reference in 1982, in which Evans introduced the distinction between conceptual and nonconceptual content, there has been an ongoing debate in the philosophy of ... -
Nonlinguistic Thought
(2019)Whereas analytic philosophy has a long tradition of pleading that thought without language is impossible, it is more and more common within the cognitive and behavioural sciences to believe that thought is possible without ... -
Not-being's potential: How to determine the indeterminate?
(2018)In continuation of Parmenides’ and Plato’s writings, the emphasis in studies on not-being seems to lie in the relation of not-being to being. This relation in which not-being stands to being is broadly demonstrated in two ... -
Paul Celan, metaphor and reality
(2016)I claim that a phenomenological reading of Celan presents arguments to formulate a theory of truth as correspondence that does not fall into the drawbacks of traditional theories of truth as correspondence. I start my ... -
Possible Ethical and Social Implications of Artificial Uterus for the Right to Abortion. A perspective of Feminist Bioethics.
(2022)The researchers predict that within five years it will be possible to use the artificial uterus and the partial ectogenesis process on human fetuses. In light of this consideration, it is necessary to develop a feminist ... -
Powers, Manifestations, and their Essences
(2015)In this thesis I defend a metaphysics that ascribes fundamental dispositional properties (powers) to objects. The main claim of the thesis is that fundamental powers of fundamental objects are what constitutes causation. ... -
Provability Logic and the Completeness Principle
(2018)We study the provability logic of arithmetical theories that prove their own completeness principle. Using our results, we reprove a theorem obtained by Ardeshir and Mojtahedi in 2014, giving the Sigma1-provability logic ...