Search for dissertations about: "metaphysical"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 26 swedish dissertations containing the word metaphysical.

2. 1. In Virtue Of : Determination, Dependence, and Metaphysically Opaque Grounding

   Author : Henrik Rydéhn; Matti Eklund; Sten Lindström; Dan López de Sa; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; grounding; metaphysical grounding; dependence; ontological dependence; determination; explanation; metaphysical explanation; essence; modality; fundamentality; metaphysical laws; reduction; supervenience; metaphysical structure; Theoretical Philosophy; Teoretisk filosofi;

   Abstract : This dissertation investigates grounding, the relation of non-causal determination whereby one fact obtains in virtue of some other fact or facts. Although considerations of grounding have been central throughout Western philosophy, the last 15-20 years have seen a renaissance of systematic work on grounding in analytic philosophy. READ MORE

4. 2. Kripke on Necessity : A Metaphysical Investigation

   Author : Kyriakos Theodoridis; Teoretisk filosofi; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ethics; Systematic philosophy; conceivability; mereological identity; ontological character; identity; possible worlds; actuality; properties; ontology; object; contingency; apriori; Metaphysical; epistemic; aesthetics; metaphysics; epistemology; ideology; Systematisk filosofi; etik; estetik; metafysik; kunskapsteori; ideologi; Philosophical logic; Filosofisk logik; logik;

   Abstract : I undertake a metaphysical investigation of Saul Kripke's modern classic, Naming and Necessity (1980). The general problem of my study may be expressed as follows: What is the metaphysical justification of the validity and existence of the pertinent classes of truths, the necessary a posteriori and the contingent a priori, according to the Kripke Paradigm? My approach is meant to disclose the logical and ontological principles underlying Kripke's arguments for the necessary a posteriori and the contingent a priori respectively. READ MORE

5. 3. Naturalising Intentionality : Inquiries into Realism & Relativism

   Author : Alexander Almér; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Anti-realism; context; faultless disareement; inner perception; intentionality; internal realism; knowledge by acquaintance; metaphysical realism; naturalism; pragmatic-semantic distinction; relativism;

   Abstract : Cognitive scientists, linguists and philosophers have expressed hope that mental and linguistic content (aboutness) eventually will be explained in broadly natural scientific terms. This dissertation investigates certain problems pertaining to attempts to naturalise mental aboutness and related semantic concepts like reference and truth. READ MORE

6. 4. Death and the Self : A Metaphysical Investigation of the Rationality of Afterlife Beliefs in the Contemporary Intellectual Climate

   Author : Johan Eddebo; Mikael Stenmark; Karin Johanneson; Charles Taliaferro; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; death; subjectivity; selfhood; afterlife; irreducibility; critique of naturalism; immaterialist ontologies; dualism; idealism; philosophy of religion; quantum theory; interpretations of quantum mechanics; modernity; Philosophy of Religion; Religionsfilosofi;

   Abstract : This dissertation's purpose is to test the hypothesis that beliefs in the possibility of post-mortem survival can be rationally held within the context of the contemporary scientific and philosophical environment. In terms of criteria of rationality, a basic evidentialism is assumed, such that propositions which are sufficiently supported by the available evidence can be rationally held. READ MORE

7. 5. Panentheism, Panpsychism and Neuroscience : In Search of an Alternative Metaphysical Framework in Relation to Neuroscience, Consciousness, Free Will, and Theistic Beliefs

   Author : Oliver Li; Mikael Stenmark; Karin Johannesson; Aku Visala; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; physicalism; dualism; neuroscience; consciousness; free will; process philosophy; panpsychism; panexperientialism; panentheism; emergence theory; science and religion; theism; Philosophy of Religion; Religionsfilosofi;

   Abstract : This thesis philosophically examines, critically discusses, and proposes how a plausible philosophical framework of consciousness and free will should be formulated. This framework takes into account contemporary scientific research on human consciousness and free will and its possible challenges; also it is examined how this framework should be related to theistic beliefs – especially those connected to human and divine consciousness and free will. READ MORE