Philosophy: Recent submissions
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The Philosophy of Human Rights: Its Role in Global Justice. What can we learn from a clash between a philosopher and an historian?
Published 2018-01-01What is the role of philosophy in the human rights project?4 And what is the role of human rights in creating a better world? These are the questions at the core of a dispute between the philosopher John Tasioulas and the ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
The Moral Status of Whole Brain Emulations
Published 2017-01-01First lines of the Introduction (as abstract not provided): Artificial Intelligence is going to radically change our world; the only real question is by how much. A number of prominent figures believe that current AI ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Adaptive Preference Formation & Autonomy: Moving towards Respect
Published 2017-01-01First lines of the Introduction (as abstract not provided): This thesis seeks to primarily answer the following question: are adapted preferences autonomous? In pursuing the answer of this question, I am unsurprisingly ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Can we Build a Superintelligence Without Being Superintelligent?
Published 2017-01-01If we create an entity of greater intelligence to us, a superintelligence, it has the possibility to explode in intelligence, creating more and more intelligent entities. If the intelligence explosion argument holds, then ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Retribution and the Evolution of Human Punishment
Published 2017-01-01First lines of the Introduction (as abstract not provided): Social scientists have long considered punishment to be one of the most promising ...Open AccessThesis, Honours