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(2017-03-24)Master FilosofieBased on the evolutionary account that both the human species and other species are likewise products of the general mechanism of evolution by natural selection, one wonders what distinguishes the human species from others; ... -
(2016-12-20)Master FilosofieEen belangrijk debat voor de middeleeuwse filosofische psychologie gaat over de vraag hoe de ziel en haar vermogens zich tot elkaar verhouden. Tot ver in de 13e eeuw was de Augustijnse traditionele identiteitsopvatting ...
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(2017-07-20)Master FilosofieThis thesis is an evaluation of Herbert Marcuse's intellectual framework from One-Dimensional Man- and in particular the concept of the 'Happy Consciousness' - in the light of 60 year of global developments. By using two ...
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(2017-02-27)Master FilosofieThe prospect of genetic manipulation confronts us with fundamental questions. While many authors confront the ethical side of these questions, there is in a sense a prior ontological question that must be asked, which is ...
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(2021-08-30)Master FilosofieEpicurus’ hedonist moral philosophy has often been criticised as being irreconcilable with essential aspects of social and political life, such as justice and genuine social relationships. Contemporary philosophers have ... -
(2019-07-16)Master FilosofieThe philosophy of technology, according to Yuk Hui, should come to accept the existence of a plurality of technics. Technical activity, he says, is always shaped by cosmology. Hence, cosmologies divergent from the 'Western' ...
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(2017-09-13)Master FilosofieThis thesis investigates whether immortality will negatively affect human nature. The concept of immortality is reinterpreted as life-extension through biological, robotic, and substrate independent enhancements. Human ...
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(2021-06-22)Master FilosofieIn the years 1891-1893, Charles Sanders Peirce published a series of articles in The Monist, known as the Monist series, where he tried to offer an evolutionary metaphysics. Combining logic, thermodynamics, evolutionary ...
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(2020-11-26)Master FilosofieWho we are is largely a matter of luck since we cannot influence our genetic predispositions, who our parents are, and where and with whom we will grow up. These factors, however, do have a tremendous influence on who we ...
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The Genesis of Change: On the Adequacy of the Genocentric Perspective to Describe the Baldwin Effect (2019-08-30)Master FilosofieThe aim of this thesis is to examine the tension between the different roles that the individual plays in the Baldwin Effect – introduced by James Mark Baldwin as ‘organic selection’ – and the Genocentric Perspective – ...
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(2019-06-14)Master FilosofieHannah Arendt refers to ‘common sense’ in many places in her work and attributes it a significant role: it makes us fit into the common world; when lost, society disintegrates as happened under totalitarian regimes at the ...
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(2022-02-12)Master FilosofieDeze scriptie onderzoekt ten eerste hoe de oorspronkelijk satirisch bedoelde uitdrukking 'meritocratie' een positieve lading kreeg en welke rol dit concept en de daaraan verbonden ideologie in de huidige Nederlandse ...
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(2021-07-21)Master FilosofieTwo centuries ago Schopenhauer claimed that through music people were able to escape from what he defined as an evil world, but music is created and performed in a different way today, especially after the Industrial ...
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(2018-08-29)Master FilosofieIn this thesis, I look into the relation between the logical part and the cosmological part of Parmenides' poem. Their relation is problematic because halfway the poem, the Goddess who narrates it declared that the part ...
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(2021-10-29)Master FilosofieDe manier waarop de psychiatrische stoornis gedefinieerd wordt heeft belangrijke gevolgen voor de psychiatrische praktijk en wetenschap. Het definiëren is gecompliceerd vanwege waardengeladenheid van de psychiatrie en ...
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(2021-11-26)Master FilosofieIn this thesis I will examine the relationship between science denialism and (a multi criterial approach to the demarcation of science from) pseudoscience. I will first explain science denialism and its relevant epistemological ...
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(2021-08-31)Master FilosofieIn this thesis I examine how the experience of the sublime, as described by Immanuel Kant, can be explained from an evolutionary perspective. The theory of evolution can seemingly account for the existence of our sense of ...
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(2019-03-05)Master FilosofieThis thesis examines to what extent the thought of the philosophers Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben and Roberto Esposito on biopolitics can be useful for examining the history of healthcare. The main argument is that their ...
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(2021-07-15)Master FilosofieThe thesis wants to argue in favour of a continuist relation between the precritical and critical period of Immanuel Kant’s philosophy. A detailed analysis of the most relevant pre-critical efforts will show that the ...
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(2018-05-16)Master FilosofieIn this thesis I analyse the work of French philosopher Bernard Stiegler (1952) to gain an understanding of the seemingly inherent discontent in human civilization. Stiegler’s main thesis is that, in the Western industrial ...
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