Kandidatuppsatser /Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori
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Pluralism and Disagreement Can moral motivation pluralism survive meta-ethical disagreement?
(2024-10-21)Meta-ethical pluralism is a recent set of theories claiming that multiple of the currently relevant meta-ethical theories can be correct at the same time. I will focus on a pluralist analysis of moral motivation that ... -
SPRÅKATTITYDERS PÅVERKAN PÅ SKÅNSKAN SOM IDENTITETSMARKÖR
(2024-06-25)Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka korrelationen mellan nivå av dialektalt uttal och dialekten som identitetsmarkör, korrelationen mellan nivå av dialektalt uttal och negativa språkattityder, samt till vilken nivå negativa ... -
What’s the Point of State-of-Nature Models?
(2024-03-20)Practical explanations are tools which aim to clarify the evolution and function of our conceptual practices. There is current discussion about how we ought to construct and interpret practical explanations, and more ... -
The Demographic Objection and the Limits of Competence
(2024-02-23)Epistocrats argue that political power should be distributed according to competence. Under universal suffrage the electorate at any given election will be comprised of both competent and incompetent voters due to varying ... -
"Det svenska var alltid det enkla" - Idén om det enkla i Ellen Key och Carl Larssons hemestetik
(2023-08-10)Med denna uppsats ämnar jag undersöka idén om enkelhet vid förra sekelskiftet och vilken roll den intar i relation till denna nya hemestetik i Sverige enligt dess främsta företrädare, Ellen Key och Carl Larsson. Syftet ... -
THE CHOSEN CREATURES: HOW ANIMAL JUXTAPOSITIONS IN ANTISEMITIC PROPAGANDA CONTRIBUTED TO INSTITUTIONALIZED OTHERNESS
(2023-07-06)This paper discusses how anthropomorphic animals have been used in depicting Jews in antisemitic art and propaganda imagery since the late High Middle Ages until the first half of the 20th century. It sheds light on why ... -
On Predicating Is it done non-committally?
(2023-01-24)Two proponents of the Act-Based view on propositions, Hanks and Soames, have taken two different stances on how we should view predication. Soames views it as a non-committal act and Hanks views it as a committal act. Hanks ... -
Neo-Aristotelian naturalism in light of the modal explanatory account
(2023-01-20)Neo-Aristotelian naturalism is a metaethical theory that takes moral virtue to be a form of natural goodness in human beings, comparable to deep roots in oaks. The theory evaluates a particular species' goods and defects ... -
Moraliska intuitioner och normativa teorier: Kan konsekventialismen få stöd av vetenskapen?
(2023-01-20)Peter Singer och Joshua Greene använder neurovetenskap och evolutionspsykologi för att ar- gumentera för att moraliska intuitioner generellt är otillförlitliga vilket innebär att vi inte bör basera moraliska omdömen på ... -
Models, Keys, and Cryptanalysis: Evaluating historical statistical language models in cryptanalysis of homophonic substitution ciphers
(2023-01-19)This thesis presents an empirical study connected to historical cryptography and especially within the framework of the research project DECRYPT. One of the research questions in the DECRYPT project relates to the use of ... -
The Emperor's Free Will
(2022-08-25)Free will has commonly been used in the philosophical community to justify and ground the concept of moral responsibility. I will attempt to argue that this connection is unjustified. I begin in section 2 by establishing ... -
Sense and Sensitivity: Exploring how Neural Machine Translation Systems Handle Slurs
(2022-08-12)The rise of streaming platforms such as Netflix and HBO has brought a surge in audiovisual content to be translated. While the translation industry at large have adopted machine translation (MT) as a tool to meet the ... -
Forced to Sell or Forced to Give: Assessing whether autonomy-based arguments justify prohibiting paid living organ donation while permitting unpaid living organ donation
(2022-06-23)In the debate on the permissibility of a regulated market in human organs it is usually assumed that autonomy-based arguments that prohibit such a market solely affect the act of selling an organ, while the act of giving ... -
Intellectual Humility: What Does It Mean to Be Intellectually Humble?
(2022-06-22)This paper is an attempt to answer the question: What is intellectual humility? My main focus will be on two different contemporary accounts of intellectual humility – Whitcomb et al.’s Limitations-Owning Account and ... -
Språkattityder kring benämningar på sexuella läggningar: en enkätstudie
(2022-03-11)Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka attityder till ord som betecknar sexuell läggning och hur dessa attityder är kopplade till egen identitet och hur användaren av uttrycken identifieras. Jag vill med hjälp av ... -
On the possibility of property composition: A metaphysical investigation of submergent properties in top-down and bottom-up approaches to quantum mechanics
(2022-01-25)In Schaffer’s Monism: priority of the whole (2010) an argument from quantum entanglement in favour of priority monism is put forward. The argument is based on quantum entanglement being a case of emergence and can loosely ... -
Phasal Polarity in Swahili
(2021-09-01)This scope of this essay is to investigate and systematically describe a set of linguistic items in Swahili expressing Phasal Polarity (PhP), i.e. the notions of ‘NOT YET’, ‘ALREADY, ‘STILL’, and ‘NO LONGER’. An extensive ... -
Förnuft & känsla - Strategier för att bemöta och förebygga post-sanning i skolan
(2021-04-21)Dagens samhälle präglas av post-sanning och att sanningspåståenden i allt högre grad underbyggs av känslor istället för fakta. Syftet med detta arbete var att undersöka kopplingen mellan post-sanningssamhället och kritiskt ... -
Coherence & Isolation
(2021-02-12)Coherence theories of justification seem to be plagued by a problem of isolation, which says that mere internal coherence within a belief system leaves the system more or less disconnected from reality. Prima facie a system ...
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