Search for dissertations about: "Humanities and religion - History and philosophy subjects"

Found 5 swedish dissertations containing the words Humanities and religion - History and philosophy subjects.

2. 1. Empathy and emotions : on the notion of empathy as emotional sharing

   Author : Peter Nilsson; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Philosophy; Filosofi; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen; Practical Philosophy; praktisk filosofi; Theoretical philosophy;

   Abstract : The topic of this study is a notion of empathy that is common in philosophy and in the behavioral sciences. It is here referred to as ‘the notion of empathy as emotional sharing’, and it is characterized in terms of three ideas. READ MORE

4. 2. Konsten att uppfinna hjulet två gånger : om uppfinnandets teknik och estetik

   Author : Karin Havemose; Bo Göranzon; Lena Fritzén; KTH; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Invention; innovation; reflective practice; analogical thinking; dialogue; tacit knowledge; epistemology; History of technology; Teknikhistoria; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen; Industrial engineering and economy;

   Abstract : “There is no need to reinvent the wheel” – a cliché, often told when you want to come up with something new that in someway can be connected to something that already exist. This study shows the opposite – that inventions emanate from what is given. READ MORE

5. 3. Philosophical and empirical investigations in nanoethics

   Author : Marion Godman; Sven Ove Hansson; David Koepsell; KTH; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History and philosophy subjects; Historisk-filosofiska ämnen;

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6. 4. Mobile Performances : A Philosophical Account of Linguistic Undecidability as Possibility and Problem in the Theology of Religion

   Author : Patrik Fridlund; Tros- och livsåskådningsvetenskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; O?Leary; Netland; Knitter; Derrida; Theology of religion; Religious diversity; Philosophy of language; Linguistic Mobility Stability; Evaluation of religions; Interreligious relations; Ric?ur; Religious Studies and Theology; Religion och teologi;

   Abstract : How to judge religions other than one's own when the means are lacking due to linguistic mobility? In the present thesis this question is mainly analysed in a Christian setting through a reading of the theologians Paul Knitter and Harold Netland. It is, however, claimed that the same question could be asked in other religious settings, also with regard to one's own tradition, and could be treated as a general question?how to judge, evaluate, and criticise religion if the means to do that are lacking? The thesis starts by maintaining that the question of linguistic mobility/stability is an issue in theology. READ MORE

7. 5. Two Quests for Unity : John Dewey, R. G. Collingwood, and the Persistence of Idealism

   Author : Bruno Hamnell; Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoria; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; John Dewey; R. G. Collingwood; Idealism; Pragmatism; Liberalism; Unity; Experience; Practical Knowledge; Intellectual History; History of Philosophy; Anglo-America;

   Abstract : After having dominated philosophical thought in Britain and the United States during the end of the nineteenth century, idealism was in steady decline by the outbreak of World War I. Its ideas and ideals seemed unsuited to face the transition from Victorianism to modernism and the rapid social changes of the post-war era. READ MORE