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Browsing Theses and Dissertations (Philosophy) by Title
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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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(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, 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, 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, 2009-06-02)The ancient Chinese I Ching, the Book of Changes, and the philosophy of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) both assert that the universe exists in a state of change. The I Ching, originally a book of ...
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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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