Search for dissertations about: "Philosophy of special sciences"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 19 swedish dissertations containing the words Philosophy of special sciences.

  2. 1. On Non-Prioritized Multiple Belief Revision

    Author : Li Zhang; Sven Ove Hansson; John Cantwell; Tor Sandqvist; André Fuhrmann; KTH; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Non-prioritized multiple revision; Making up one s mind; Choice revision; Descriptor revision; AGM; Believability relation; Multiple believability relation; Belief base; Partial expansion; Multiple contraction; Filosofi; Philosophy; Mathematics; Matematik; Computer Science; Datalogi;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates a sort of non-prioritized multiple revision, the operation of making up one's mind, and its generalization, the operation of choice revision. Making up one's mind about a sentence is a belief change that takes the agent to a belief state in which either the sentence or its negation is believed. READ MORE

  4. 2. Technological knowledge and technology education

    Author : Per Norström; Sven Ove Hansson; Per Sandin; Peter Kroes; KTH; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; philosophy of technology; epistemology of technology; technology education; technological knowledge; rule of thumb; explanation; Filosofi; Philosophy;

    Abstract : Technological knowledge is of many different kinds, from experience-based know-how in the crafts to science-based knowledge in modern engineering. It is inherently oriented towards being useful in technological activities, such as manufacturing and engineering design. READ MORE

  5. 3. Power and Social Ontology

    Author : Åsa Burman; Praktisk filosofi; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Filosofi; Philosophy; John Searle; Social structures; Institutional facts; Moral facts; Opaque kinds of social facts; Social power; Philosophy of special sciences; Collective intentionality; Särskilda vetenskapers filosofi;

    Abstract : This work presents an account of social power based on recent advances in social ontology. It is argued that a conceptual analysis of social power can be informed by developments in social ontology, but also that this field can be enriched, and in fact requires, an analysis of this central social concept. READ MORE

  6. 4. Objective Chance : A Study in the Lewisian Tradition

    Author : George Masterton; Lars-Göran Johansson; Ulf Danielsson; Carl Hoefer; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Theoretical philosophy; Teoretisk filosofi; Theoretical Philosophy; Teoretisk filosofi;

    Abstract : This dissertation explores the notion of objective chance as reasonable degree of belief given what might loosely be called our ultimate evidence. The goal is to develop a notion of objective chance that is broadly Humean: where chance ascriptions are construed as projected, De Dicto, physical modalities. READ MORE

  7. 5. Understanding what it means to be a Montessori teacher: Teachers' reflections on their lives and work

    Author : Birgitte Malm; Utbildningsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; teacher research; occupational life histories; life history research; Montessori; Special didactics; Specialdidaktik; Montessori teacher;

    Abstract : The overall aim of this study has been to come to a better understanding of what it means to be a Montessori teacher, by getting a group of Montessori teachers to reflect on their lives and work. Data exploration has comprised journals, interviews, written reflections and collaborative contextual analysis. READ MORE