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Theses and Dissertations (Philosophy): Recent submissions
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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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The limitations and possibilities of Rawls’ prioritised relation between ‘the right’ and ‘the good’ (University of Pretoria, 2018)This dissertation offers a critical discussion of the prioritisation of ‘the right’ in John Rawls’s theory of justice. Rawls’s theory of justice – ‘justice as fairness’ – is arguably one of the best illustrations of the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 1952)Geen abstrak
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)No abstract
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)In the Constitutional Court case of Mazibuko and Others v The City of Johannesburg and Others CCT 39/09 [2009], a case dealing with the question of access to water, the presiding judge, Kate O'Regan CJ, makes the following ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)The focus of this research is to explore and propose philosophical ideas for a just resolution to the Zimbabwean land redistribution debacle. The work will evaluate land redistribution and expropriations in terms of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)What is the meaning of life? This philosophical question is as old as human existence itself, and has received especial attention in the secular Western world since the 19th century and Friedrich Nietzsche's polemical ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)This thesis argues that the notion of African identity, in its essentialist and anti-essentialist conceptions, does not have the conceptual and theoretical purchase to imagine socio-political and cultural spaces of agency ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)The early work of Bhaskar is critically evaluated as a possible philosophy of science for psychology. His Critical Realism reacts against both positivism in natural science and hermeneutics in psychosocial science. On the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)This dissertation aims to revitalise and revalue a currently disregarded conceptual field of tolerance, and explores the prospect of it - and its respective practice (toleration) - satisfying Nietzsche"s criteria of ...
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