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Browsing Theses (Philosophy) by Submit Date
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(2008-04-10)In this thesis, I submit an empirical method for assessing the interests of non-human animals. This method involves attributing interests to animals on the basis of the choices they make between competing commodities/environments ...
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(2008-04-10)The purpose of this work is to show the importance of ethical consistency and its application in the decision-making process when allocating health care resources with respect to the Canada Health Act. Based on the ...
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(2008-04-10)In the years since the truth wars of Bertrand Russell and William James the realism/antirealism debate has taken on at least two main forms. There is a debate between those that claim that truth transcends knowledge and ...
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(2008-09-22)This thesis questions whether it is possible to locate a boundary between gift and bribe that can survive comparison across cultures and history. This question is addressed in a multidisciplinary way, engaging the literature ...
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(2009-08-31)Sceptics about deliberative democracy point out that some issues involve material that is inaccessible to the untrained public, while other issues highlight fundamental value differences that cannot be resolved by public ...
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(2010-01-25)This thesis will critically examine some of the central issues that revolve around the understanding and defense of negative liberty that Isaiah Berlin presented in his famous lecture Two Concepts of Liberty. By taking ...
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(2010-02-04)In 1934, Oxford philosopher Michael Beresford Foster (1903-1959) published an article in Mind, the prestigious British journal of philosophy. The article argued for a positive relationship between Christian theology and ...
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(2010-02-19)This thesis investigates the work Michel Foucault produced in the late years of his life. During these years. Foucault gave many lectures on Ethics that were recently published into works. The thesis argues in favor of the ...
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(2010-02-26)In Habermas's latest work, The Future of Human Nature. he points out that with our newfound ability to intervene in the physical substratum of an as yet to be realized subjectivity we have unveiled the well-entrenched ...
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(2010-03-03)Data mining and other information technologies cause ethical concerns when they are used to categorize and discriminate. Even though there is an intuitive connection between privacy and personal information, it is hard to ...
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(2010-03-18)There exists a staggeringly large set of metaphysical problems associated with the identity of particular things. These problems range from difficulties with deciding what ought to be included in the static identity of a ...
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(2010-03-26)One issue that has been generating considerable debate within the philosophy of religion is whether or not certain religious experiences could provide at least some evidence towards justifying beliefs in the existence of ...
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(2010-04-01)There is an important debate in the philosophy of mind about whether we think in natural language or a non-conscious innate mental language called mentalese. The latter view relegates natural language to a role as just a ...
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(2010-04-12)The debate between scientific realism and constructive empiricism is often cast in terms of a debate over what it is "rational" to accept about successful scientific theories. I cast this debate differently: I place these ...
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(2010-04-12)My primary focus is in articulating a theory of knowledge that can support a robust, justice-driven conception of democracy and deliberation. I argue that it is not possible to achieve this task without conceiving knowledge ...
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(2010-06-14)In the Blue Book, Wittgenstein explicitly opposes his own method of philosophical investigation to that of Socrates, who will not accept a list of examples even as a preliminary answer to his 'what-is-x' question. Relying ...
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