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Browsing AUB Students' Theses, Dissertations, and Projects by Author "Department of Philosophy,"

Browsing AUB Students' Theses, Dissertations, and Projects by Author "Department of Philosophy,"

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  • From normative commitment to existential commitment : Heidegger and Brandom - 
    Al Bizri, Rana Mohamad Ali, (2016)
    This work aims to answer the question of whether an existential datum such as the confrontation with ‘nothingness’ poses a challenge to conceptual rationality understood in Brandom’s terms or whether the difference between ...
  • On critique : experience between Kant and Benjamin - 
    Hayek, Mark Abboud, (2017)
    The introduction of a concept of experience has thus far, since Immanuel Kant’s “What is Enlightenment?” essay, been inextricable from a notion of a systematic framework. Or, in other words, the introduction of a concept ...
  • Reconciliation or revolution? : Brandom, Hegel, and Marx - 
    Raya, Iyad Youssef, (2017)
    This work primarily challenges Robert Brandom’s reading of Marx as a local genealogist. This task is done through an examination of Brandom’s reading of Hegel in which Brandom classifies the tools available to the modern ...
  • Seeking hermeneutical justice in social values - 
    Chehayeb, Fidaa Fouad, (2016)
    After feminist scientists and philosophers of science heralded the death of value-free science as a received notion, numerous normative models were developed in order to regulate the influence social values can have on ...
  • The shift in human evolution : Bergson on technology, language and space - 
    Ohannessian, Choghag Gasla Krikor, (2015)
    Bergson’s work is generally oriented towards time, intuition and metaphysics. But, to elaborate on these topics, Bergson cannot avoid clarifying the concepts of space, intelligence and technology as the more familiar topics ...
  • The truth about metaphors - 
    Sabra, Zainab Ali, (2017)
    My interest in this thesis is to draw a connection between the use of metaphors and the definition of truth. I want to show how two conceptions of truth had an impact on the usage of metaphors in philosophical and islamic ...
  • Wider reflective equilibrium - 
    Youness, Mahmoud Riad, (2016)
    The debate over moral intuitions has a distinguished pedigree. We are far, however, from 19th and early 20th century intuitionism(s) whereby a presumed intuitive faculty is said to have direct access to moral truth. What ...

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