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Browsing Theses and Dissertations (Philosophy) by Title
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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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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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(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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 1980)In die 20ste eeuse, gemanipuleerde wereld het die mens deur gebruikmaking van die berekende denke alles, selfs God, tot die beplanbare en berekenbare gedegradeer, danksy die hulp van die moederwetenskap, naamlik die ...
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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, 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, 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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