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Theses and Dissertations (Philosophy): Recent submissions
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The moral implications of Odera Oruka’s ‘human minimum’ for Africa’s fight against extreme poverty (University of Pretoria, 2023)In this dissertation, I consider a hitherto underexplored concept of ‘human minimum’ as proposed by H. Odera Oruka to obligate responsibility as an approach to tackling extreme poverty in Africa and beyond. I aim to ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-05)This thesis analyses the conceptual architecture in Michel Foucault’s work on Productive Power. I identify five mobile terms in Foucault’s work, which move between different power-knowledge configurations. The chosen mobile ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)I claim that the revisions John Rawls made to his theory of justice—as seen in his political conception of justice as fairness in the revised edition of Political Liberalism and Justice as Fairness: A Restatement—result ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-03-30)Interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI) has never been greater – while we’re at a likely tipping point in the adoption of AI into mainstream industry, we’re still grappling with effective ways to manage the ethical ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Transhumanism is the view that human evolution should be actively enhanced by the human race through science and technology. Bio-technological enhancements are interventions designed to transform individual human capabilities ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)Based primarily on Aristotle’s testimony of the existence of ‘unwritten doctrines’ of Plato, alongside Plato’s comments on the issue in the Seventh Epistle and the critique of writing in the Phaedrus, the question of Plato’s ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)The period of 1990 - 1999 saw a major turn in the fortune of the African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa. While the seeds for the ANC’s political ascent to the seat of government were sown during the 1980s, it was ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)While so much has been said about the moral justification of the death penalty in Western literature, the African perspectives in that regard are still emerging. As a practical endeavor, the death penalty is necessarily ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)Mind uploading is a fascinating possibility that asks us to imagine a person being instantiated in a substrate other than their biological body, such as a person continuing in a robot/computer. The current thesis takes a ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)This study explores the implication of complexity theory on our understanding of knowledge before proposing a cognitive shift, to move from a rule-directed business ethics to a more responsive and relational approach to ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)Discussion surrounding the development of artificial intelligence (AI), and its moral and social impacts, is one of the most important conversations of our time. Research within the ethics of AI is vital in ensuring that ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020-08)As increasingly intelligent and autonomous robots continue to proliferate into every area of modern life, there is no doubt that society has to think deeply about the potential impact, whether negative or positive, that ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)I argue in this thesis that Aristotle’s hylomorphic metaphysics, supported by his theory of causality and his theory of the soul (De Anima), holds the key to solving the problem of mental causation in contemporary philosophy ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020-01)Alternating-Time Temporal Logic (ATL), introduced by Alur, Henzinger and Kupferman, is a logic involving coalitions of agents performing actions which cause a state change in a turn-based time system. There have been ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)In this thesis I offer a novel alternative response to Frank Jackson’s (1982, 1986) knowledge argument in support of non-reductive physicalism (NRP). The knowledge argument is framed as an attack on reductive physicalism ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)A consideration of homophobia could encompass both an investigation into the individual psychology and group factors which play a role in the constitution of homophobia. Yet the link between individual-psychological ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019-10)This dissertation focuses on the ethics of artificial intelligence, specifically in relation to Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems. I investigate which moral system of reasoning will be best suited to govern the conduct of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)This disquisition is an inter-disciplinary investigation into some dominant hegemonic narratives of black people in 20th-21st century South Africa as they are found in public discourses. I contend that there exist hegemonic ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)This dissertation demonstrates that philosophical analysis has real-world applications. Although written in the field of political epistemology, the dissertation engages with knowledge representation and reasoning (KRR) ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)No abstract
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