Search for dissertations about: "Higher-Order Evidence"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 29 swedish dissertations containing the words Higher-Order Evidence.

2. 1. Moral Disagreement and the Significance of Higher-Order Evidence

   Author : Marco Tiozzo; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Moral Disagreement; Higher-Order Evidence; Moral Skepticism; Peer Disagreement; Faultless Disagreement; Moral Intransigence; Epistemic Rationality;

   Abstract : Recent years have seen an increasing interest in the philosophy of disagreement, especially in epistemology where there is an intense debate over the epistemic significance of disagreement and higher-order evidence more generally. Considerations about disagreement also play an important role in metaethics – most prominently in various arguments that purport to establish moral skepticism. READ MORE

4. 2. Chemistry: content, context and choices : towards students' higher order problem solving in upper secondary school

   Author : Karolina Broman; Eva Silfver; Dan Johnels; Judith Bennett; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; chemistry education; upper secondary students; meaningful learning; higher order thinking; problem solving; context-based learning; interest; educational choice; identity; kemididaktik; didactics of chemistry;

   Abstract : Chemistry is often claimed to be difficult, irrelevant, and uninteresting to school students. Even students who enjoy doing science often have problems seeing themselves as being scientists. This thesis explores and challenges the negative perception of chemistry by investigating upper secondary students’ views on the subject. READ MORE

5. 3. Dynamics of higher order chromatin structures

   Author : Xingqi Chen; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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   Abstract : During the last few decades, the intensive focus on microscopy observations and genome sequencing analyses has proved that the genomic DNA is packaged in the non-random manner in the nucleus of interphase cells. Accumulated evidence have thus documented that the chromatin organization in 3D plays key roles in central biological processes, such as transcription, replication and DNA repair. READ MORE

6. 4. Empirical data in the philosophy of mind: free will, higher-order thought, and misrepresentation

   Author : Asger Kirkeby-Hinrup; CogComlabbet; []
   Keywords : Consciousness; higher-order thought; misrepresentation; Free Will; change blindness; Charles Bonnet Syndrome; Choice Blindness; Wholeheartedness; Introspection;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates two areas of the philosophy of mind where empirical data play a role in philosophical argument. The first area, investigated in three papers, is the higher-order thought theory of consciousness, and specifically the possibility of higher-order thoughts misrepresenting what state an individual is actually in. READ MORE

7. 5. Development and training of higher order cognitive functions and their interrelations

   Author : Sissela Bergman Nutley; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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   Abstract : Inhibitory functions (IFs) and working memory (WM) are essential for higher order cognitive functions such as non-verbal reasoning (NVR). WM is the ability to temporarily store and process information. IFs involve resisting automatic, inappropriate responses and limiting the interference of information held in WM. READ MORE