Search for dissertations about: "practical arguments"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 49 swedish dissertations containing the words practical arguments.
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1. Practical Perspective Compatibilism
Abstract : In this dissertation, I argue for what I call “practical perspective compatibilism”. According to this thesis, an agent with practical freedom is sufficiently free to be a moral agent and morally responsible for his or her actions.The concept of practical freedom is originally found in the writings of Kant. READ MORE
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2. Teachers' Relational Practices and Professionality
Abstract : This dissertation attempts to deepen our understanding of teachers’ work and professionality, which involves not only their reasoning about what to teach and how to teach it, but also of what it is that makes education possible. This is accomplished by exploring a highly influential, if underestimated and under-researched, dimension of teacher practice and professionality: the relational dimension, involving the establishment and maintenance of educational relationships with and among students. READ MORE
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3. Workplace Ethics : Some practical and foundational problems
Abstract : The aim of the present thesis is twofold: first, to analyse some practical ethical problems that stem from the workplace and the working environment and to offer guidelines concerning how such problems can be solved; second, to illuminate how the specific nature of work and the working environment is intimately connected to the relation between the employee and the employing entity, as set forth in an employment contract, and how the form and content of such contracts are, among other things, determined by culturally and socially established ideas. The normative question to be addressed is thus: which of these ideas should be maintained? This can be seen as a second-order, or more fundamental, ethical question whose answer depends on determining which normative principles are right. READ MORE
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4. Understanding, Implementing, and Supporting Security Assurance Cases in Safety-Critical Domains
Abstract : The increasing demand for connectivity in safety-critical domains has made security assurance a crucial consideration. In safety-critical industry, software, and connectivity have become integral to meeting market expectations. READ MORE
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5. Practical Unification for Dependent Type Checking
Abstract : When using popular dependently-typed languages such as Agda, Idris or Coq to write a proof or a program, some function arguments can be omitted, both to decrease code size and to improve readability. Type checking such a program involves inferring a combination of these implicit arguments that makes the program type-correct. READ MORE
