Search for dissertations about: "ignorance"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 40 swedish dissertations containing the word ignorance.
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1. Overcoming Cultural Ignorance : Institutional Knowledge Development in the Internationalizing Firm
Abstract : This thesis studies how experiences influence the development of institutional knowledge within business relationships. It contributes to international business research by clarifying how experience develops the institutional knowledge of firms and what outcome such knowledge development has on firms’ internationalizations. READ MORE
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2. Strategic ignorance and social Institutions
Abstract : This doctoral thesis in Economics consists of three self-contained chapters in strategic behavior and social institutions.Do People Avoid Morally Relevant Information? Evidence from the Refugee Crisis examines whether people avoid information in an attempt to reduce the moral pressure to engage in prosocial behavior. READ MORE
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3. Legal Questions and Scientific Answers : Ontological Differences and Epistemic Gaps in the Assessment of Causal Relations
Abstract : A large number of legal rules create an obligation to prevent, repair or otherwise mitigate damage to human health or the environment. Many of these rules require that a legally relevant causal relation between human behaviour and the damage at issue is established, and in the establishment of causal relations of this kind scientific information is often pressed into service. READ MORE
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4. A Different Kind of Ignorance : Self-Deception as Flight from Self-Knowledge
Abstract : In this dissertation I direct critique at a conception of self-deception prevalent in analytical philosophy, where self-deception is seen as a rational form of irrationality in which the self-deceiver strategically deceives himself on the basis of having judged that this is the best thing to do or, in order to achieve something advantageous. In Chapter One, I criticize the conception of self-deception as analogous to deceiving someone else, the so-called “standard approach to self-deception”. READ MORE
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5. Norms and Alternatives : Logical Aspects of Normative Reasoning
Abstract : In this thesis, I develop and investigate various novel semantic frameworks for deontic logic. Deontic logic concerns the logical aspects of normative reasoning. In particular, it concerns reasoning about what is required, allowed and forbidden. I focus on two main issues: free-choice reasoning and the role of norms in deontic logic. READ MORE
