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Spring 2010
This thesis deals with Martin Heidegger’s critique of the Cartesian problem of scepticism in Being and Time. In addition to the critique itself, Heidegger’s position with regards to the sense and task of phenomenological research, as well as fundamental ontology, is discussed as a necessary...
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High School Physics Students’, High School Physics Teachers’, and University Physics Professors’ Conceptions about What it Means to Understand Physics: A Phenomenographic Study
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There is limited literature about what it means to understand physics. Previous research has focused on university physics students’ understanding of physics concepts, but no research to date has examined variations across populations of what it means to understand physics. This study begins to...
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Spring 1970
In this thesis, I shall attempt the following: a) to present some of the epistemological and ontological views that were held by the British Empiricists, b) to present some of the most important and influentical arguements that Lenin levied against Berkeley's 'idealism', c) to show that Lenin's...
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Fall 2015
The concept of Semantic Web, introduced by Berners-Lee in 2001, emphasizes importance of expressing semantics of data stored on the web. The introduced data format called Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a meaningful way of expressing and exploring data relations. It provides basics for...
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Fall 2015
Ontology, literally, is the study of being (from the Greek, 'to on', which derives from the verb, 'einai', 'to be'). Meta-ontology is the discipline concerned with examining the subject-matter and method of ontology. This thesis focuses specifically on the meta-ontological question of what the...
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Fall 2014
This thesis explores the potential for interpreting the work of Martin Heidegger as a resource for social and critical philosophy. I begin by intervening in the debate between Axel Honneth and Raymond Geuss on the usefulness of Heidegger in the recent re-activation of the problem of...
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Spring 2016
The web is a constantly growing repository of information. Enormous amount of available information on the web creates a demand for automatic ways of processing and analyzing data. One of the most common activities performed by these processes is comparison of data – it is done to find something...
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Fall 2024
Grief is an affective state that is currently abjected within Canada and other countries such as the United States. By looking at the historical changes occurring from the eighteenth century through today, it becomes apparent how concrete mourning practices have changed significantly in relation...