Despite various governmental measures and health campaigns the prevalence of obesity has been rising. Much focus has been on the medical aspects of obesity; however, little attention has been directed to the aspects of ...

Previous research holds that the gendered orgasm gap is not the result of women’s biologically limited abilities, but the culturally dominant discourse on gender and sex prescribing penis-in-vagina sex as “normal” sex. ...

Globalization and economic development have caused a change in the compositions of society. An increasing number of individuals choose to dwell in urban areas in search of work and good facilities. It has loosened the bond ...

Benjamin Franklin once wrote a letter to a friend, Jean Baptiste le Roy, in which he expressed his great faith in the newly established American constitution but added that one could never be sure of its endurance, for ...

In this thesis I revisit the great debate from the 1920’s between American philosophers Walter Lippmann and John Dewey about the future of democracy. The questions at hand: Can Dewey’s pragmatist solutions for democracy ...

Onderzoek naar een democratische manier om een demos te constitueren

This paper discusses whether a universal basic income (UBI) is adequate as a solution to the problems caused by possible mass unemployment following further automation. In their 2013 study, Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael ...

Populism is often regarded detrimental to democracy. But populism also stresses the importance of the rule of the people, which is what democracy in its most basic form is all about. This positive relation between populism ...

This thesis examines the challenge of health care rationing. It discusses multiple sets of ethical frameworks and their suggested strategies to questions of health care rationing. Based on a discussion of utilitarianism ...

Charles Taylor en Michel Foucault over de relatie tussen individuele vrijheid, identiteit en de sociaal culturele context