Based 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; ...

This 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 ...

There is currently a great variety of sexual practices and a diversity of attitudes towards sexual morality in society. The issue of human sexuality, with special reference to homosexuality, remain unresolved and controversial ...

In this thesis I describe how the Kurdish autonomous region in Syria, which is based on the ideology of democratic confederalism, functions in practise. Democratic confederalism has the potential to create a free, democratic ...

There are a problematic set of beliefs for the Extended Mind Hypothesis which operate on non-referring content. Mental states operating on ostensive informational sources are intuitively more available for extended mind ...

In mijn scriptie ga ik in op de twee contemporaine constructivistische ethische theorieën. Ik begin met het uiteenzetten van het procedureel realisme, welke de kantiaans constructivistische theorie van Christine Korsgaard ...

Dabiq is a magazine published by the Islamic State. It provides its readers with a window into the ideology of the organisation. Since the magazine is of a propagandist nature, I have used the concept of utopianism to ...

Natural theology is a prominent aspect of Britain’s science history. The standard historical narrative tells us that, at the turn of the 17th century, the Newtonians Richard Bentley and Samuel Clarke reintroduced the ...

In recent years, several legal theorists (Dan-Cohen 2002; Greenberg 2011; Hunt 2016; Marmor 2008, 2011a, 2011b, 2014) have claimed that legislators frequently engage in so-called double talk when enacting law. Double talk ...

Het nihilisme is een probleem dat diep ingrijpt in de Europese cultuur van vandaag. De scriptie onderzoekt hoe de Duitse filosoof Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) dit probleem tegemoet treedt in zijn boek Die fröhliche ...