Search for dissertations about: "epistemology"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 129 swedish dissertations containing the word epistemology.
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1. The Epistemology of Rhetoric : Plato, Doxa and Post-Truth
Abstract : This thesis aims to develop an epistemology of rhetoric in light of the apparent contemporary post-truth condition of society. Epistemology is hereby understood as concerned with principles for knowledge production within the academic discipline of rhetoric, as well as with an understanding of knowledge production in the public realm. READ MORE
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2. Coherence : Studies in epistemology and belief revision
Abstract : This thesis consists of seven papers and a comprehensive summary. The subject matter is so-calledcoherence theories of justification, according to which epistemic justification, and ultimately knowledge,is essentially a matter of relations between beliefs, of how well they hang together. READ MORE
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3. Deciphering the Meaning of Revealed Law : The Sur´shian Paradigm in Shi’i Epistemology
Abstract : This study analyses the major intellectual positions in the philosophical debate on Islamic law that is occuring in contemporary Iran. As the characteristic features of traditional epistemic considerations have a direct bearing on the modern development of Islamic legal thought, the contemporary positions are initially set against the established normative repertory of Islamic tradition. READ MORE
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4. From Conceivability to Possibility : An Essay in Modal Epistemology
Abstract : This study deals with the thesis that conceivability implies possibility. Confronted with alleged counterexamples to this thesis, some philosophers have turned to what may be called “idealized” or “more demanding” notions of conceivability. READ MORE
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5. Modal Empiricism Made Difficult: An Essay in the Meta-Epistemology of Modality
Abstract : Philosophers have always taken an interest not only in what is actually the case, but in what is necessarily the case and what could possibly be the case. These are questions of modality. Epistemologists of modality enquire into how we can know what is necessary and what is possible. This dissertation concerns the meta-epistemology of modality. READ MORE