Search for dissertations about: "epistemic logic"

Showing result 11 - 14 of 14 swedish dissertations containing the words epistemic logic.

2. 11. Analyticity, Necessity and Belief : Aspects of two-dimensional semantics

   Author : Eric Johannesson; Peter Pagin; Dag Westerståhl; Graeme Forbes; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; two-dimensional semantics; quantified modal logic; propositional attitudes; belief ascriptions; Kripke; descriptivism; necessity; apriority; analyticity; Theoretical Philosophy; teoretisk filosofi;

   Abstract : A glass couldn't contain water unless it contained H2O-molecules. Likewise, a man couldn't be a bachelor unless he was unmarried. Now, the latter is what we would call a conceptual or analytical truth. It's also what we would call a priori. READ MORE

4. 12. Interoperability Infrastructure and Incremental learning for unreliable heterogeneous communicating Systems

   Author : Abdul Haseeb; Mihhail Matskin; Jüri Vain; KTH; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Interoperability; Incremental learning; Unreliable heterogeneous communicating Systems; Robotics; Computer science; Datavetenskap;

   Abstract : In a broader sense the main research objective of this thesis (and ongoing research work) is distributed knowledge management for mobile dynamic systems. But the primary focus and presented work focuses on communication/interoperability of heterogeneous entities in an infrastructure less paradigm, a distributed resource manipulation infrastructure and distributed learning in the absence of global knowledge. READ MORE

5. 13. An Autocracy of Empathy : Human-Animal Relations and the Emotional Architecture of Speciesism

   Author : Kurtis Boyer; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; human-animal relations; empathy; political agency; political theory;

   Abstract : With a commitment to a relational ontology, scholars from within the feminist care tradition of animal ethics have been able to theorize how our moral significance - as well as our moral obligations to others - arise from the metaphysical and empathetic 'entanglements. Independent of species, gender and the like, we exist as embodied beings. READ MORE

6. 14. Of Ethics and Multilingualism in Internationalising Academia : Ethical Events in Swedish University Life

   Author : Luke Holmes; Caroline Kerfoot; Linus Salö; Anthony Liddicoat; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ethics; multilingualism; ethical event; responsibility; hospitality; Levinas; higher education; internationalisation; linguistic anthropology; linguistic ethnography; language policy and planning; language ideology; tvåspråkighet; Bilingualism;

   Abstract : This thesis engages ethnographically with actors whose practices constitute contemporary Swedish universities and who pose and respond to everyday questions of ethics and multilingualism. In contradistinction to the discursively monolingual horizon of contemporary academia, the thesis thinks questions of language differently, contributing to the growing body of knowledge on socially and linguistically diverse practice in internationalising university life. READ MORE