Search for dissertations about: "Anti-realism"

Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the word Anti-realism.

2. 1. Hilary Putnam on Meaning and Necessity

   Author : Anders Öberg; Sören Stenlund; Sharon Rider; Pierre Wagner; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; philosophy of language; philosophy of science; philosophy of mathematics; Hilary Putnam; W.V. Quine; Rudolf Carnap; realism; anti-realism; Theoretical Philosophy; Teoretisk filosofi;

   Abstract : In this dissertation on Hilary Putnam's philosophy, I investigate his development regarding meaning and necessity, in particular mathematical necessity. Putnam has been a leading American philosopher since the end of the 1950s, becoming famous in the 1960s within the school of analytic philosophy, associated in particular with the philosophy of science and the philosophy of language. READ MORE

4. 2. Naturalising Intentionality : Inquiries into Realism & Relativism

   Author : Alexander Almér; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Anti-realism; context; faultless disareement; inner perception; intentionality; internal realism; knowledge by acquaintance; metaphysical realism; naturalism; pragmatic-semantic distinction; relativism;

   Abstract : Cognitive scientists, linguists and philosophers have expressed hope that mental and linguistic content (aboutness) eventually will be explained in broadly natural scientific terms. This dissertation investigates certain problems pertaining to attempts to naturalise mental aboutness and related semantic concepts like reference and truth. READ MORE

5. 3. Phenomenology and the making of the world

   Author : Dag Hedin; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; experience; lived experience; phenomenon; phenomenology; consciousness; intentionality; intersubjectivity; world; ego; being; self-understanding; existence; life-world; view of life; dialogue; epoche; empathy; Dasein; hermeneutics; realism; anti-realism; E. Husserl; M. Heidegger; G. van der Leeuw; W. Dilthey; R. Rorty; H. Putnam; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Philosophy of Religion; religionsfilosofi;

   Abstract : trictions provided by language and knowledge. It is also shown how this creates difficulties as to the claim within religion to express what is beyond the known and not directlyavailable by means of ordinary language. The author focuses on ideas within the phenomenology of religion of how to cope withthis tension. READ MORE