Search for dissertations about: "Theoretical philosophy"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 273 swedish dissertations containing the words Theoretical philosophy.

2. 16. Towards a Phenomenology of Repression - a Husserlian Reply to the Freudian Challenge

   Author : Nicholas Smith; Hans Ruin; Natalie Depraz; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Husserl; Freud; genetic phenomenology; psychoanalysis; the unconscious; repression; the living present; reduction; intentionality; constitution; Nachträglichkeit; association; intentionality of drives; Theoretical philosophy; Teoretisk filosofi; Theoretical Philosophy; teoretisk filosofi;

   Abstract : This is the first book-length philosophical study of Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology and Freud’s theory of the unconscious. The book investigates the possibility for Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology to clarify Freud’s concept of the unconscious with a focus on the theory of repression as its centre. READ MORE

4. 17. The Signified World : The Problem of Occasionality in Husserl's Phenomenology of Meaning

   Author : Karl Weigelt; Staffan Carlshamre; Steven Crowell; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Husserl; phenomenology; meaning; objectivity; ideality; intentionality; indexicality; situation-dependence; facticity; reference; content; subjectivity; internalism; constitution; individuation; horizon; world; noema; species; Theoretical philosophy; Teoretisk filosofi; Theoretical Philosophy; teoretisk filosofi;

   Abstract : This study offers the first comprehensive account of the problem of situation-dependence and facticity in Husserl's phenomenology of meaning. On the basis of a reconsideration of the central ideas of Husserl's phenomenological approach to meaning and intentionality, it presents a reconstruction and assessment of Husserl's revised conception of empirical meaning. READ MORE

5. 18. From Conceivability to Possibility : An Essay in Modal Epistemology

   Author : Anders Berglund; Sten Lindström; Joseph Almog; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Theoretical philosophy; Modal Epistemology; Teoretisk filosofi; Theoretical philosophy; Teoretisk filosofi; Theoretical Philosophy; teoretisk filosofi;

   Abstract : This study deals with the thesis that conceivability implies possibility. Confronted with alleged counterexamples to this thesis, some philosophers have turned to what may be called “idealized” or “more demanding” notions of conceivability. READ MORE

6. 19. The Hospitality of Presence : Problems of Otherness in Husserl´s Phenomenology

   Author : Daniel Birnbaum; Gail Soffer; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Theoretical philosophy; Teoretisk filosofi; Theoretical Philosophy; teoretisk filosofi;

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7. 20. On Causal Attribution

   Author : B. Ingemar B. Lindahl; Dugald Murdoch; Ingmar Pörn; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; causation; cause-condition distinction; causal selection; differentiating factor; inus condition; explanation; covering-law model; Mill’s methods; objectivity; pragmatics; responsibility; abnormalism; history; science; Theoretical philosophy; Teoretisk filosofi; Theoretical Philosophy; teoretisk filosofi;

   Abstract : This dissertation treats of the problem of attributing the occurrence of an individual event or state to a single cause — a problem commonly understood either as a question of distinguishing the cause from the mere conditions or as a matter of singling out, from several causes, one cause, as the cause. The main purpose of the study is to clarify some basic concepts, and some criteria of ascertainment of the cause, that may be discerned in the literature on causal attribution. READ MORE