Search for dissertations about: "higher order beliefs"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 25 swedish dissertations containing the words higher order beliefs.

2. 1. Computational problem solving in university physics education : Students’ beliefs, knowledge, and motivation

   Author : Madelen Bodin; Mikael Winberg; Diane Grayson; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; physics education; computational physics; simulation; beliefs; motivation; mental models; network analysis; didactics of physics; fysikdidaktik;

   Abstract : Solving physics problem in university physics education with a computational approach requires knowledge and skills in several domains, for example, physics, mathematics, programming, and modelling. These competences are in turn related to students' beliefs about these domains as well as about learning, and their motivation to learn. READ MORE

4. 2. Moral Disagreement and the Significance of Higher-Order Evidence

   Author : Marco Tiozzo; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Moral Disagreement; Higher-Order Evidence; Moral Skepticism; Peer Disagreement; Faultless Disagreement; Moral Intransigence; Epistemic Rationality;

   Abstract : Recent years have seen an increasing interest in the philosophy of disagreement, especially in epistemology where there is an intense debate over the epistemic significance of disagreement and higher-order evidence more generally. Considerations about disagreement also play an important role in metaethics – most prominently in various arguments that purport to establish moral skepticism. READ MORE

5. 3. Margins of Prevention : - On Older Adolescents' Positive and Negative Beliefs about Illicit Drug Use

   Author : Patrik Karlsson; Anders Bergmark; Edle Ravndal; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Illicit drugs; adolescents; prevention; margins for change; beliefs; perceptions; expectancies; positive; negative; risk; pleasure; Sweden; Social work; Socialt arbete;

   Abstract : This study explores older adolescents’ positive and negative beliefs about illicit drug use from a preventive perspective. By positive beliefs is meant positive expectancies and benefit perceptions. By negative beliefs is meant negative expectancies and risk perceptions. READ MORE

6. 4. Introspecting representations

   Author : Susanna Radovic; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; displaced perception; first person authority; higher order perception; higher order thought; introspection; phenomenal character; phenomenal externalism; representational content; qualia;

   Abstract : The subject matter of this thesis is the question of whether a plausible and informative account of introspection can be advanced given that mental states are representations of external affairs. The first part of the thesis presents a general overview of theories of introspection by describing how philosophers have accounted for, in turn; the object of introspection, the epistemic status of introspective beliefs, and the introspective process as such. READ MORE

7. 5. Coherence and Reliability: Studies in Bayesian Epistemology

   Author : Stefan Schubert; Teoretisk filosofi; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; coherence; Bayesian epistemology; reliability; higher order beliefs; reliability-conduciveness; truth-conduciveness; formal coherence theory; witness scenarios;

   Abstract : In this thesis the connection between coherence and reliability is investigated. The question may be phrased as follows: does the fact that a set of testimonies is coherent imply that the witnesses who have reported these testimonies are reliable? The same question may also be expressed in terms of beliefs: does the fact that a set of beliefs is coherent imply that the beliefs were reliably produced? Traditionally, coherence theorists have thought that coherence is connected to truth, but in this dissertation the thesis is that it is rather connected to reliability. READ MORE