Search for dissertations about: "Philosophical foundations"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 swedish dissertations containing the words Philosophical foundations.

2. 1. Foundations for knowing God : Bernard Lonergan's foundations for knowledge of God and the challenge from antifoundationalism

   Author : Ulf Jonsson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; B Lonergan; knowledge of God; foundationalism; antifoundationalism; cognitional theory; epistemic justification; transcendental method; basic beliefs; religious experience; Aquinas; Aristotle; H Putnam; R Rorty; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Philosophy of Religion; religionsfilosofi;

   Abstract : This study deals with the theory of knowledge of God elaborated by the Canadian theologian and philosopher Bernard Lonergan (1904-1984). Lonergan's theory of knowledge of God, or his "philosophy of God", has already been the subject-matter of a number of doctoral dissertations. READ MORE

4. 2. Perceptual Dynamics. Theoretical Foundations and Philosophical Implications of Gestalt Psychology

   Author : Fredrik Sundqvist; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

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5. 3. The Psychology of Worldviews : Toward a Non-Reductive Science of Personality

   Author : Artur Nilsson; Institutionen för psykologi; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Worldview; personality; philosophy of life; weltanshauung; life view; ideology; existentialism; non-reductive; humanism; normativism; polarity theory; political psychology; philosophy of science; philosophy of psychology; philosophical orientation; basic assumptions; presuppositions; core assumptions; personal constructs; theoretical psychology; integrative framework; personalism;

   Abstract : Persons are not just mechanical systems of instinctual animalistic proclivities, but also language-producing, existentially aware creatures, whose experiences and actions are drenched in subjective meaning. To understand a human being as a person is to understand him or her as a rational system that wants, fears, hopes, believes, and in other ways imbues the world with meaning, rather than just a mechanical system that is subject to the same chains of cause and effect as other animals. READ MORE

6. 4. Reference and Computation in Intuitionistic Type Theory

   Author : Johan G Granström; Erik Palmgren; Per Martin-Löf; Peter Dybjer; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : mathematical logic; intuitionism; type theory; foundations of mathematics;

   Abstract : Three topics, namely, computer science, philosophical logic, and mathematics, meet in intuitionistic type theory, which thus simultaneously is a programming language, a philosophy of language, and a foundation of mathematics. The present thesis compares, relates, and equates two concepts, one from philosophical logic and one from computer science, viz. READ MORE

7. 5. Interrogative Belief Revision

   Author : Sebastian Enqvist; Teoretisk filosofi; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; belief revision; questions; modal logic; research agenda;

   Abstract : This thesis deals with the theory of interrogative belief revision, a recent development in the subfield of philosophical logic known as belief revision theory. While classical belief revision theory deals with the dynamics of an agent’s beliefs, interrogative belief revision aims to describe the dynamics of the agent’s questions about the world, or research agenda, as well. READ MORE