Search for dissertations about: "dialectic"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 29 swedish dissertations containing the word dialectic.
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1. Authority-based argumentative strategies : Three models for their evaluation
Abstract : This dissertation is on argumentative strategies based on authority. In its first half, three of the most elaborate and influential approaches in argumentation theory, related to the models developed in this work, are analyzed: Douglas Walton's dialectical frame for analysis of arguments from expert opinion; Frans van Eemeren and Peter Houtlosser's pragma-dialectical approach to strategic maneuvering in argumentation; the concept of strategy used in Else Barth and Erik Krabbe's formal dialectics. READ MORE
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2. A Multiform Desire : A Study of Appetite in Plato’s Timaeus, Republic and Phaedrus
Abstract : This dissertation is a study of appetite in Plato’s Timaeus, Republic and Phaedrus. In recent research is it often suggested that Plato considers appetite (i) to pertain to the essential needs of the body, (ii) to relate to a distinct set of objects, e.g. food or drink, and (iii) to cause behaviour aiming at sensory pleasure. READ MORE
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3. Exploring Tensions between Appropriability and Openness to Collaboration in Innovation
Abstract : Researchers, policy makers and practitioners alike have in recent years acknowledged a growing tendency towards opening up the innovation process by combining internal organizational assets with external actors’ resources. However, opening up the innovation process usually also entails revealing ideas, which may result in misappropriation. READ MORE
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4. A production of diversity : appearances, ideas, interests, actions, contradictions and praxis
Abstract : A history of two management concepts, valuing diversity and managing diversity, has its cultural and historic origins in the U.S., or, more exactly, in the management/organizational literature produced in the U.S. READ MORE
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5. More than flowers! : On the transformative practice of commoning urban gardens
Abstract : Urban gardening is a burgeoning practice that increasingly takes place in urban centres of the world. In this thesis, I define urban gardens as socially mediated yet materially rooted phenomenon through which social and material relations are elaborated in common through time and space. READ MORE