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1. The Critical God : Revisiting Reinhold Niebuhr's existential turn in the realist tradition
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2. Electronic Healthcare Ontologies : Philosophy, the real world and IT structures
Abstract : The thesis investigates how the notion of ‘ontology’ has been used in the field of medical informatics and knowledge representation. Partly to investigate what an ‘ontology’ can be said to represent and what requirements we can have on a good ‘ontology’. READ MORE
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3. The Collective Archives of Mind : An Exploration of Reasons from Metaethics to Social Ontology
Abstract : This monograph discusses the question of what it is to be a reason – mainly in practical ethics – and proposes an original contribution to metaethics.It critically examines theories of metaethical realism, constructivism and error theory and identifies several misunderstandings or unclarities in contemporary debates. READ MORE
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4. Deliberating value : On the theory and practice of valuation of nature from neoclassical to ecological economics
Abstract : This thesis is about whether it is a good idea to place monetary value on nature, to remedy the fact that we treat it as having no particular value to us humans, although it clearly has. The thesis is based on five research papers that can be said to position themselves on opposite sides in the debate on monetisation of nature. READ MORE
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5. On the Ontology of Love, Sexuality and Power : Towards a Feminist-Realist Depth Approach
Abstract : The thesis offers a theoretical account of how and why, in contemporary western societies characterized by formal-legal equality and women’s relative economic independence, women continue to be subordinated to men through sexuality and love. By means of an innovative application of Roy Bhaskar’s critical realism, dialectical critical realism and philosophy of metaReality, it investigates and elaborates Anna G. READ MORE