Browsing Filosoofia osakonna magistritööd – Master's theses by Issue Date
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Religious reasons as a basis for political justification?
(Tartu Ülikool, 2010) -
Imestuse küsimus Edmund Husserli fenomenoloogias
(Tartu Ülikool, 2013) -
Martha Nussbaumi eetiline kosmopolitism - naiivne illusioon või kaasaegne ideaal?
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Differance’i avanemisest teises Jacques Derrida filosoofia
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Susan Wolf on moral perfection and the good life: a critical analysis
(Tartu Ülikool, 2014)In a nutshell, the general problem of my thesis is concerned with the role of morality in life. If we agree with Wolf about principle-based moral theories leading us to the ideals that are not our ideals, then can moral ... -
Testing intuitions about reference: what conclusions should be drawn from the experimental data?
(Tartu Ülikool, 2014)In this thesis I am going to argue against the interpretation that experimental philosophers offered as an account of their empirical findings concerning philosophical intuitions about reference. Their empirical findings ... -
Teaduse kvaliteedi hindamine: filosoofiline vaatenurk
(Tartu Ülikool, 2015)Minu magistritöö eesmärk on välja selgitada, kas ja milles teadlaste ja rahastajate vaated teaduse kvaliteedile kattuvad ning kui ei kattu, siis kas see võiks olla probleem. Ja kui vaated kvaliteedile kattuvad, milles siis ... -
Can contempt serve as a morally appropriate form of self-defense against the damage wrought by superbia? A critical analysis of Macalester Bell's account of contempt
(Tartu Ülikool, 2015)This thesis is focused on whether contempt could serve as a morally appropriate form of self-defense against superbia. My analysis is largely built on and developed in critical dialogue with a thesis put forward by Macalester ... -
Richard Rorty ja Hans-Georg Gadamer: järjepidevus või katkestus?
(Tartu Ülikool, 2015)Käesolev magistritöö käsitleb kahe filosoofi, Richard Rorty ja Hans-Georg Gadameri vahekorda. Täpsemalt öeldes uuritakse, kuidas on Rorty tõlgendanud Gadameri hermeneutilist filosoofiat ning inkorporeerinud selle enese ... -
Ontology Identification Problem In Computational Agents
(Tartu Ülikool, 2016)The Ontology Identification Problem is the problem of connecting different ontologies to the system’s goals in such a way that a change in the system’s ontology does not result in a change in its goal’s effect. My thesis ... -
Erapooletu vaatleja empaatia keskne roll moraalis
(Tartu Ülikool, 2016)Käesolevas magistritöös on vaatluse all empaatia roll moraalis – moraalse hinnangu andmise, moraalse motivatsiooni ja moraalse arengu juures. Eesmärgiks on uurida, kas leidub mõnda tüüpi empaatiat, mis on oluline moraalse ... -
Moral and Legal Status of Animals: Why Animals Should Have Legal Rights
(Tartu Ülikool, 2016)In the presented thesis I defend the claim that all sentient animals should have legal rights. The arguments I offer in support of this claim are based on the moral and legal status of animals. I try to show that all ... -
Cognitive Penetrability of Perception in Predictive Brains
(Tartu Ülikool, 2016)The debate over whether perception is cognitively penetrable, in order to remain philosophically interesting and relevant, should be unpacked in terms of discerning whether propositional states can directly modulate the ... -
The Problem of Dirty Hands in Transitional Justice
(Tartu Ülikool, 2016)This thesis explores the connection between the problem of dirty hands in political philosophy and transitional justice in political science. Respectively, it is divided into two parts. In the first part the problem of ... -
From Defining Empathy to Mapping Empathy
(Tartu Ülikool, 2016)Empathy has gained a lot of attention over the last decades in philosophical, psychological, neuroscientific, and medical research and this interest is constantly growing. However, the research is overshadowed by a long ... -
Psychologism and neopsychologism in philosophy of logic
(Tartu Ülikool, 2016)Thesis focuses on psychologism – a philosophical theory according to which the ontological and epistemological foundations of logic and mathematics are our mental states. Neopsychologism is a new set of psychologistic ideas ... -
Sexual Deception and Sexual Consent: A Reply to Tom Dougherty
(Tartu Ülikool, 2016)Motivated by a commitment to protect sexual autonomy, Tom Dougherty (2013) has argued that deceiving someone into sex is seriously morally wrong whenever the deception concerns a deal breaker of the victim, i.e. a feature ... -
The non-identity problem: accounting for future people and animals
(Tartu Ülikool, 2016)In this thesis I have argued for adopting the de dicto meaning of future individuals in non-identity cases. Although many philosophers adopt de re meaning in the non-identity cases, there is no de re reading available ... -
In Defence of Logical Omniscience
(Tartu Ülikool, 2016)The most controversial consequence of Robert Stalnaker’s (1984) theory of propositional attitudes is that subjects of propositional attitudes are logically omniscient. What makes this consequence problematic is that it ... -
Teadmine, moraal ja religioon Michel de Montaigne'i essees "Apoloogia Raimond Sebond'ile"
(Tartu Ülikool, 2016)Magistritöö „Teadmine, moraal ja religioon Michel de Montaigne’i essees „Apoloogia Raimond Sebond’ile ““ on filosoofia ajaloo alane 1 ja selle eesmärk on avada Michel de Montaigne’i mõtlemist selle mitmekesisuses ja ...
