Search for dissertations about: "What is epistemology"

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2. 1. Cognitive epistemology : Knowledge as a natural phenomenon

   Author : Andreas Stephens; Teoretisk filosofi; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; knowledge; cognitive epistemology; naturalistic epistemology; cognitive psychology; evolutionary systems theory;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates the question ‘What is knowledge?’ In intuition-based epistemology the question is often considered to concern how ‘knowledge’ is used linguistically or conceptually rather than what knowledge is. In addition, since intuitions are used as evidence despite empirical experiments indicating that people’s intuitions vary a great deal and that little conclusive systematicity can be found, it is argued that approaches with such a focus cannot provide a solid foundation to answer the initial question. READ MORE

4. 2. Deciphering the Meaning of Revealed Law : The Sur´shian Paradigm in Shi’i Epistemology

   Author : Ashk Dahlén; Yann Richard; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Languages and linguistics; Islam; Shi’i; Iran; sharīʿat; fiqh; uṣūl al-fiqh; ikhtilāf; qabḍwa basṭ; Surūsh; Jawādī-Āmulī; Mujtahid-Shabistarī; Rūmī; epistemology; hermeneutics; history of philosophy and science; postmodernism; modernity; mysticism; relativism; interpretation; Språkvetenskap; Languages and linguistics; Språkvetenskap; Iranska språk; Iranian Languages;

   Abstract : This study analyses the major intellectual positions in the philosophical debate on Islamic law that is occuring in contemporary Iran. As the characteristic features of traditional epistemic considerations have a direct bearing on the modern development of Islamic legal thought, the contemporary positions are initially set against the established normative repertory of Islamic tradition. READ MORE

5. 3. 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. 4. History education as content, methods or orientation? : a study of curriculum prescriptions, teacher-made tasks and student strategies

   Author : David Rosenlund; Malmö högskola; []
   Keywords : Historical thinking; Contextualization; Assessment; Temporal orientation; Epistemology;

   Abstract : Historical content, historical methods and historical orientation are three aspects that may be included in history education. This study first examines the emphases which are included in formal curricula texts and then those which are included in teacher-made tasks. READ MORE

7. 5. Modal Empiricism Made Difficult: An Essay in the Meta-Epistemology of Modality

   Author : Ylwa Wirling; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; epistemology of modality; modal epistemology; integration challenge; non-uniformism; modal empiricism; metaphysics of modality; epistemic value;

   Abstract : Philosophers have always taken an interest not only in what is actually the case, but in what is necessarily the case and what could possibly be the case. These are questions of modality. Epistemologists of modality enquire into how we can know what is necessary and what is possible. This dissertation concerns the meta-epistemology of modality. READ MORE