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Browsing Philosophy by Type "Dissertation"
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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, 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, 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, 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, 1976)The two questions : "What is the point of life?" and "What is the point of art?" are complex. There is some confusion about what is meant by the first question and what sort of answer or answers we can reasonably expect. ...
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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, 2011-05-07)This study explores the problem of how we perceive built space and relate to its abstract representations. In 1897, Poincaré presented the problem of space for the 20th century in his essay ‘The Relativity of Space’, in ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)Hierdie verhandeling stel ondersoek in na die opkoms en invloed van logosentrisme in die filosofie. Logosentrisme beskou die medium van skrif, die vorm waarin die meeste filosofie sedert Plato gegiet is, as ʼn volwaardige ...
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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, 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, 2014)In this dissertation I will consider the extent to which our ethical actions are determined by evolution, as well as the consequences of a view that holds that ethical behaviour arose from evolutionary processes. I will ...
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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, 2015)The study presents a thesis on the constitutive role of technics in the formation of social bonds between human beings, with special consideration given to the question of friendship. The concept of technics is analysed ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2001)Please read the abstract in the section 08summary, of this document
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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, 2000)In 1844, when Kierkegaard published his work, The Concept of Anxiety, under the pseudonym of Vigilius Haufuiensis, it constituted no mean feat for a variety of reasons. Firstly, and perhaps most obviously, was the content ...
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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, 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, 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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