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Supply chain slavery : the case for corporate responsibility beyond direct suppliers
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University., 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Human rights abuse in employment practices is especially widespread in corporate supply chains. These abuses are increasingly recognised as modern slavery, which is defined as “forced labour, debt ... -
Attenuating the problem of moral luck : how moral luck either does not exist or does not create a paradox for our moral systems
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University., 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In the 1970’s Bernard Williams and Thomas Nagel formally introduced the problem of moral luck. Moral luck can be understood as the seeming paradox between the control principle and the moral judgements ... -
The value of being wild : a phenomenological approach to wildlife conservation
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University., 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Given that one-million species are currently threatened with extinction and that humans are undermining the entire natural infrastructure on which our modern world depends (IPBES, 2019), this dissertation ... -
Is life to be taken seriously?
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University., 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this thesis, the question “is life serious?” is posed and answered. To answer this question, a conceptual analysis of the concepts ‘life’ and ‘serious’ is undertaken along with an extrapolation and ... -
Oor die vraag na identiteit in ʼn postapartheidwêreld : ko-skepping as alternatief vir onto-rasselogie
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2018)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: How does one understand who one is in a post-apartheid world? Put differently: what comes after the logic of apartheid? In this article I take up the question by arguing for a notion of identity as action ... -
Stories of us and them : Xenophobia and political narratives
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University., 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation aims to make sense of xenophobia as a specific idea of belonging and exclusion based on the idea of foreignness. I provide a conceptual and normative framework to help us understand ... -
Human embryonic stem cell research in transplantation and regenerative medicine : a principlist assessment
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University., 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Bioethics and scientific literature present transplantation and regenerative medicine as the next frontier for medical practice. The status of global disease burden also indicates that traditional ... -
A utilitarian assessment of the relevance of genetic therapies for HIV-AIDS in Africa, with special reference to the situation in Kenya
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University., 2020-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: As African countries continue to bear the largest global burden of HIV-AIDS, the use of Highly Active Antiviral Treatment (HAART) for suppression of viral multiplication is the best available treatment ... -
They can be choosers : Aid, Levinas and unconditional cash transfers
(Medknow Publications, 2019)In this paper I seek to critically examine UCT’s and CCT’s and consider how a Levinasian ethics might offer normative guidelines to evaluate such aid programmes. Such an analysis will serve to both critique and supplement ... -
Ladyman’s Realism, van Fraassen’s Anti-Realism and Fine’s Middle-Way
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this thesis is to critically analyse and evaluate the current debate between scientific realists and anti-realists. Some thinkers claim that the debate is a stalemate, with both parties appealing ... -
Moral Encounters of the Artificial Kind: Towards a non-anthropocentric account of machine moral agency
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this thesis is to advance a philosophically justifiable account of Artificial Moral Agency (AMA). Concerns about the moral status of Artificial Intelligence (AI) traditionally turn on questions ... -
Toward a naturalistically explicable folk psychology
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates the gap between what our science says and how many theorists and everyday people have characterised how we conceive of mental states. I argue that looking at our folk psychology ... -
Developing an understanding of agricultural sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa through African relational envirnmentalism
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The objection to anthropocentrism as a worldview is not new to environmental ethics. Many philosophers argue that anthropocentrism is the root cause of humanity’s destructive attitude towards the non-human ... -
To serve two masters? A moral analysis of an apparent conflict of interest in the profession of occupational physicians
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Occupational medicine is the branch of the medical profession concerned with the health and safety of people at work. A nation’s labour force is a valuable asset and justifies legislation to preserve its ... -
Speaker's reference, semantic reference and public reference
(Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University, 2018)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Kripke (1977) views Donnellan’s (1966) misdescription cases as cases where semantic reference and speaker’s reference come apart. Such cases, however, are also cases where semantic reference conflicts ... -
'There's no such thing as gay': Black lesbians and nationhood in post-apartheid South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Within post-apartheid South Africa, matters around lesbo-phobic rape, or what is more commonly referred to as corrective rape, have come into sharp focus. Lesbo-phobic rape may be understood as the rape ... -
Vriendskap teenoor vyandskap in taalbeplanning vir die Universiteit Stellenbosch : die bydrae van Leon de Stadler
(University of Stellenbosch, Department of General Linguistics, 2017)No abstract available. -
Dare we rethink informed consent?
(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2017)Current informed consent practices conform to the informed consent paradigm (ICP). Our intention is finally to promote patient autonomy through the provision of information intended to remove the information (i.e. power) ... -
How do healthcare professionals manage ethical challenges regarding information in healthcare professional/patient clinical interactions? a review of concept- or argument-based articles and case analyses
(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2017-12)Background. This study forms part of an ongoing research project that seeks to enhance the information-management skills of health professionals within the clinical context. Objectives. To review case analyses and reviews ... -
Ubuntu ethics and the National Student Financial Aid Scheme
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this thesis, I develop an Ubuntu-inspired critique of the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS). In my analysis, I show that NSFAS has not achieved its goal of ensuring equal access to higher ...
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