Search for dissertations about: "Epistemic stance"

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the words Epistemic stance.

  2. 1. The Social Organization of Institutional Norms : Interactional Management of Knowledge, Entitlement and Stance

    Author : Lina Nyroos; Björn Melander; Erica Sandlund; Camilla Wide; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Institutional interaction; Institutional norms; Conversation Analysis; Seminar; Performance appraisal interview; Stance; Epistemics; Entitlement; Scandinavian Languages; Nordiska språk;

    Abstract : The present thesis explores talk in institutional settings, with a particular focus on how institutionality and institutional norms are constructed and reproduced in interaction. A central aim is to enhance our understanding of how institutional agendas are talked into being. READ MORE

  4. 2. Towards Epistemic and Interpretative Holism : A critique of methodological approaches in research on learning

    Author : Liza Haglund; Niclas Rönnström; Max Scheja; Ninni Wahlström; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; interpretation of learning; Intentional Analysis; conceptual change; epistemic holism; interpretative holism; principle of charity; salient features; pedagogik; Education;

    Abstract : The central concern of this thesis is to discuss interpretations of learning in educational research. A point of departure is taken in core epistemological and ontological assumptions informing three major approaches to learning: behaviourism, cognitive constructivism and socioculturalism. READ MORE

  5. 3. 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

  6. 4. Engaging Advaita : Conceptualising liberating knowledge in the face of Western modernity

    Author : Pawel Odyniec; Ram-Prasad Chakravarthi; Heinz Werner Wessler; Christiane Schaefer; Stephen Phillips; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Indology; modern Indian philosophy; Advaita Vedānta; brahmajñāna; liberating knowledge; Badrīnāth Śukla; Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya; Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan; History of Ideas; Idéhistoria; Indology with Classical Sanscrit;

    Abstract : This dissertation is a study of modern Indian philosophy. It examines three engaging articulations of the Advaitic notion of liberating knowledge or brahmajñāna provided by three prominent Indian philosophers of the twentieth century, namely, Badrīnāth Śukla (1898-1988), Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya (1875-1949), and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888-1975). READ MORE