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Existential roots of anxiety in the political
(Tartu Ülikool, 2023-01)The thesis focuses on the existential perspective of anxiety suggested by Søren Kierkegaard and Martin Heidegger and its creative potentiality that allows access to the self and the ontological structure of existence. ... -
Värvitaju Maurice Merleau-Ponty kunstifilosoofias Paul Cézanne`i maalikunsti valguses
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)Käesoleva bakalaureusetöö peamiseks eesmärgiks on näidata, kuidas Merleau-Ponty ja prantsuse maalikunstniku Cézanne`i maailmanägemised tuumküsimustes ühtivad. Soovivad nad ju mõlemad näidata, et Eluilmal on talle omane ... -
Law statements and generic generalizations
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)Many philosophers and scientists believe that the statements of laws of nature can be given a unified analysis. Law statements are thought to be true lawlike generalizations, where to be a lawlike generalization is to be ... -
On how God became pocket-sized: digital machination's challenge to active nihilism
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)This thesis examines how digital technology has created an individualized environment of understanding which threatens genuine value creation in an individual and collective. Whereas television, through machination of ... -
A taxonomy of testimonial smothering
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)Kristie Dotson formulates testimonial smothering as a form of testimonial oppression where a speaker truncates or removes the content of her testimony leaving the testimony empty from any content for which the hearers ... -
Against the guise of the good
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)The Guise of the Good thesis explains the nature of intentional action as aimed at accomplishing something that appears good to the agent. According to the Guise of the Good theorist, without the belief that doing such and ... -
Why there is no free will and why compatibilism and its notion of free will is wrong
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)As we have learned in the state-of-the-art section about determinism (section 2.1) which basically says that if everything has a cause than our mental events should also have a prior cause, which means that we are not in ... -
Kas tehisintellekti teadvus on võimalik?
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)Kiire tehnika on tekitanud üha rohkem küsimusi ja arvamusi sellest, milliseks võivad tulevikutehnoloogiad kujuneda ning kuidas need inimkonda mõjutavad. Nõrgast tehisintellektist on saanud igapäevane abikäsi, selle suure ... -
Haridusfilosoofia paradigmad põhikooli sotsiaalainete õppekava näitel
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)Käesoleva bakalaureusetöö eesmärgiks oli tutvustada, mis on haridusfilosoofilised paradigmad ning kuidas on need seotud sotsiaalainete õppekavaga. Kuna haridus on igal inimesel olulisel kohal – inimene veedab siiski koolis ... -
Hans-Georg Gadamer ja kantiaanlikud kunstikäsitlused
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)Gadameri filosoofia peamiseks taotluseks on näidata, et kunstis leidub teatud sorti tõde, mis võimaldab avardada meie maailma- ja enesemõistmist ning suudab inimest muuta. Moodsa loodusteaduse arenedes ja Kanti filosoofia ... -
Suveräänsuse mõistele värske lähenemise loomine Foucault' ja Arendti teooriate valguses
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)Antud töö eesmärgiks oli välja töötada alternatiivne lähenemine suveräänsuse mõistest rääkimisele. Selleülesande täitmiseks valisin Michel Foucault’ja Hannah Arendtiteooriad võimust ja autoriteedist. Kumbki ... -
Beyond religious pluralism and exclusivism
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022-02)In this thesis I have argued how we can go beyond religious pluralism and exclusivism to tackle the existing issues in the society. To uncover the veil, I have begun by describing what is religion and various religious ... -
Artificial intelligence and agency
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)When it comes to thinking about artificial intelligence (AI), the possibility of its disobedience is usually considered as a threat to the human race. But here, I elaborate on a counterintuitive and optimistic approach ... -
Dostojevski ja Nietzsche - sarnasus kahe autori nihilismiteooriate vahel teoste "Kurjad vaimud" ja "Võimu tahe" näitel
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)Käesoleva bakalaureusetöö töö eesmärk oli pakkuda omapoolset tõlgendust, milline on seos Fjodor Dostojevski ja Friedrich Nietzsche nihilismi vahel - millisel määral on Nietzsche nihilismi teooria taga Dostojevski teostest ... -
On final value and states of affairs
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)Are finally valuable states of affairs intrinsically good (good in themselves) or extrinsically good (good for us)? G.E. Moore argues that finally valuable states of affairs are intrinsically good. I do not believe that ... -
Theory-indexed moral contextualism
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)Metaethical theories that are trying to account for moral disagreement face important challenges. On the one hand, if the semantic treatment of moral terms assigns a meaning too specifically related to a contextual parameter ... -
In defense of beliefs as stably high credences: how stability theory of belief avoids the problem of conviction based on purely statistical evidence
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)In the thesis, I defended STB from Staffel’s criticism where she argues that STB provides neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition on rational belief. The reason for this is that STB is argued to allow for a belief ... -
The unknown present
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)The Growing Block theory (GBT), which is a theory that posits a past and a present but no future, faces a problem about the knowledge of the present time. If the past is just as real as the present, we face the possibility ... -
Denial of the immaterial substance in early 18th century post-Lockean thought: the cases of Dr. Coward and Mr. Collins
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)In this thesis I aim to investigate what kinds of arguments were available in the first decades of 18th century Britain when following the footsteps of Overton, Milton, Hobbes, and Locke in doubting or denying the commonly ... -
Mystical experiences and mental disorders: what psychedelic research on depression and anxiety can tell us about the nature of mental illness
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)This paper examines the implications of the recent research on psychedelic substances and their effects on mental health. Specifically, the paper analyzes the findings concerning the correlation between a particular state ...
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