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    • Education in the 21st Century: Human Rights and Individual Actions 

      Lee, Sharon Elizabeth (University of Waterloo, 2008-01-09)
      This dissertation has three goals. The first goal is to outline how twentieth century advocates qualify education as a human right. The second goal is to offer an integrative account which argues that, to defend a right ...
    • The Emergence of a New Human Superorganism After Organ Transplantation 

      Prasad, G V Ramesh (University of Waterloo, 2017-08-30)
      The biological human being is an emergent human superorganism consisting of the human organism physiologically integrated with other organisms. The persistence of a superorganism in space and time requires communication ...
    • The Emergence of Life(?) 

      Munroe, Zachary (University of Waterloo, 2009-10-02)
      While emergentism is a frequently debated and contentious topic in some areas of philosophy, it is not discussed as often in the sciences. Where it does appear in scientific literature, it is usually a weak formulation ...
    • Ending the Stigma: How a Causal Deterministic View of Free Will Can Inform Both Healthy and Pathological Cognitive Function and Increase Compassion 

      Balaita, Cristina (University of Waterloo, 2014-06-24)
      Depression is the leading cause of disability around the world, and in Canada, 8% of adults will experience depression in their lifetimes. Nearly half of those with depression will not seek treatment, one of the major ...
    • The Episodic Nature of "Blessedness" in Spinoza's Ethics 

      Griem, Dennis (University of Waterloo, 2008-09-26)
      The final chapter of Spinoza’s Ethics has elicited numerous interpretations, and in this work, I discuss Jonathan Bennett’s and Harry Wolfson’s. Bennett claims that the doctrine of blessedness is unintelligible, while ...
    • Ethical Leadership for Machiavellians in Business 

      Lam, Vanessa (University of Waterloo, 2016-10-13)
      Despite some progress in instilling ethics into business practice, businesses continue to make decisions that result in incredible harms to people and the environment around the world. Academics, the public, and the media ...
    • Ethical Pluralism and Informed Consent in Canadian Health Care: Exploring Accommodations and Limitations 

      Hershey, Samantha (University of Waterloo, 2017-09-26)
      Vibrant and evolving diversity has become an integral part of Canadian identity. Communities are experiencing an enrichment of new ideas, and unique opportunities to learn about those with whom we share the world. At the ...
    • The Ethics of Deception in Caregiving: A Patient-Centered Approach 

      Abdool, Rosalind (University of Waterloo, 2015-08-24)
      Deception is a central issue in bioethics. This emerges most clearly when considering ways of assisting individuals who are incapable of making their own decisions. Deception can be defined as purposefully misleading another ...
    • The Ethics of Nuclear Waste in Canada: Risks, Harms and Unfairness. 

      Wilding, Ethan (University of Waterloo, 2010-04-30)
      The Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) --- the crown corporation responsible for the long-term storage of nuclear fuel waste in Canada --- seeks to bury our nuclear fuel waste deep in the Canadian Shield, with ...
    • Evaluation and Value Management in Science 

      Silk, Matthew (University of Waterloo, 2018-12-17)
      The nature of values has been an ongoing topic of discussion in philosophy, particularly in ethics. However, as the issue of how values should play a role in science has become more prominent, the discussion has not always ...
    • Everything Is Going to Be Okay, Right? Kindness, Compassion, and the Moral Permissibility of Self-Deception 

      Heffernan, Christine (University of Waterloo, 2012-09-28)
      Most people seem to have the intuition that self-deception is always and obviously wrong. In this thesis, I make the case that under certain circumstances, self-deception can actually do a great deal of good and ought to ...
    • The Evolution of Reason 

      Abdallah, Sajad (University of Waterloo, 2017-01-17)
      Aristotle’s metaphysics bridges the gap between mind and nature explaining how their relationship constitutes development in life. Charles Sanders Peirce’s objective idealism similarly aims to investigate how the principles ...
    • An Examination of the Moral Authority of Use of Advance Directives with the Alzheimer's Dementia Population 

      Sokolowski, Marcia (University of Waterloo, 2010-01-22)
      Advance directives in Canada are instructions made by capable adults that pertain to future healthcare treatment choices at a time of incapacity. My experience as an ethicist working in an Ontario long-term care facility ...
    • Existence Assumptions and Logical Principles: Choice Operators in Intuitionistic Logic 

      Mulvihill, Corey Edward (University of Waterloo, 2015-09-02)
      Hilbert’s choice operators τ and ε, when added to intuitionistic logic, strengthen it. In the presence of certain extensionality axioms they produce classical logic, while in the presence of weaker decidability conditions ...
    • Explaining the Mind: The Embodied Cognition Challenge 

      Zhitnik, Anatoly (University of Waterloo, 2008-05-15)
      This thesis looks at a relatively new line of research in Cognitive Science – embodied cognition. Its relation to the computational-representational paradigm, primarily symbolicism, is extensively discussed. It is argued ...
    • Exploring the Justifications for Human Rights 

      Christelis, Angela (University of Waterloo, 2005)
      In this paper the concept of a ?human right? is analysed and clarified. Some justifications for human rights ? such as natural rights theory, contractarianism, utilitarianism and rights as vital interests ? are explored ...
    • Fairness through Legal Literacy: A Case for Active Involvement 

      Zanouzani Azad, Leila (University of Waterloo, 2012-05-04)
      This thesis started with one question: “how could we make the legal system more fair for more people?” One possible answer is given to that question in the four chapters that follow: we can achieve a more fair and efficient ...
    • Ficino's Efforts to Reunite Philosophy and Religion 

      Chapman, Dorothy Lynn (University of Waterloo, 2011-09-12)
      Marsilio Ficino (1433 to 1499) was the first Renaissance philosopher to have access to the full Platonic corpus. He desired to use these ancient writings, plus faith, scripture, and reason to reunite religion and philosophy ...
    • Foundations of Deduction's Pedigree: A Non-Inferential Account 

      Seitz, Jeremy (University of Waterloo, 2010-01-05)
      In this thesis I discuss the problems associated with the epistemological task of arriving at basic logical knowledge. This is knowledge that the primitive rules of inference we use in deductive reasoning are correct. ...
    • Fractional-Reserve Banking and the Double-Title to Property Problem 

      Allison, Andrew (University of Waterloo, 2020-09-11)
      This thesis discusses the legitimacy of fractional-reserve banking under the title-transfer theory of contract. Fractional-reserve banking is the practice of banks lending out some of the money that is deposited with them. ...

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