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Theses and Dissertations (Philosophy): Recent submissions
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(University of Pretoria, 2019-05)In this work I make sense of complacency through an action theoretical perspective based on the action theories of Paul Ricoeur and Anthony Giddens. Even though complacency is a prevalent phenomenon, there is hardly any ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2024-02-15)This interdisciplinary study enriches academic discourse by merging corporate governance and AI ethics insights, offering a comprehensive perspective on the ethical issues surrounding AI development, deployment, and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2024-04)One of the criticisms raised against using technologies powered with artificial intelligence (AI) is that some of their uses would undermine human dignity. This argument is prevalent in healthcare and military robotics, ...
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Martin Heidegger’s conception of being-in-the-world : a philosophical critique of gaming and being (University of Pretoria, 2024-03)Martin Heidegger's philosophy provides insight into how technological advancements impact human experiences and existence by highlighting the relationship between humans and their surroundings. He posits that technology ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-09-01)This dissertation investigates the intricate relationship between the philosophy of mathematics and mathematics education, particularly within the South African context. The comprehensive exploration comprises five chapters, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-09-27)Food is not just a source of sustenance; it holds immense social and political value. However, like any valuable resource, there is a risk of its exploitation, leading to harm inflicted upon those who once held food in ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-10-23)Blackwomxn exist in an unbearable social condition. They are more vulnerable to sexual and physical violence, femicide and child marriages. In many nations, they are not equal under the law evinced by differential property ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-08-30)The key question in this philosophical research is, “What does Ubuntu entail for the way an African state such as South Africa as well as other major institutions, media houses, banks, etc., should respond to foreigners ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-11-03)The food discourse is shaped by cultural norms and standards that dictate what foods are deemed valuable and acceptable. However, these standards are predominantly rooted in Eurocentric food culture making it the standard ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-08)In this study, I begin to articulate an ecosophy from Africa south of the Sahara by using culturally embedded epistemic resources. An ecosophy is a personal code of ethics or set of norms informed by an eco-philosophy or, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-08-28)This thesis investigates how coloniality of youth, especially in contemporary Africa, implicates and is implicated by the slavery-migration nexus. While coloniality of youth is used to analyze a form of Euro-North American ...
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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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