Search for dissertations about: "naturalistic epistemology"

Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the words naturalistic epistemology.

  2. 1. Cognitive epistemology : Knowledge as a natural phenomenon

    Author : Andreas Stephens; Teoretisk filosofi; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; knowledge; cognitive epistemology; naturalistic epistemology; cognitive psychology; evolutionary systems theory;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the question ‘What is knowledge?’ In intuition-based epistemology the question is often considered to concern how ‘knowledge’ is used linguistically or conceptually rather than what knowledge is. In addition, since intuitions are used as evidence despite empirical experiments indicating that people’s intuitions vary a great deal and that little conclusive systematicity can be found, it is argued that approaches with such a focus cannot provide a solid foundation to answer the initial question. READ MORE

  4. 2. Groundless knowledge : a Humean solution to the problem of skepticism

    Author : Henrik Bohlin; Alastari Hannay; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; skepticism; Hume; Wittgenstein; externalism; Strawson; naturalistic epistemology; Theoretical philosophy; Teoretisk filosofi; Theoretical Philosophy; teoretisk filosofi; Philosophy subjects;

    Abstract : The aim of the present study is to develop a solution to the problem of skepticism about the external world ("skepticism", for short), inspired primarily by Hume's "skeptical solution" to the problem of skepticism about induction, but also by epistemological externalism and Wittgenstein's discussion of skeptical doubts in On Certainty. The author accepts certain elements in P. READ MORE

  5. 3. Project Evaluation in Development Cooperation : A Meta-Evaluative Case Study in Tanzania

    Author : Mikiko Cars; Jan-Ingvar Löfstedt; Roy Carr-Hill; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; meta-evaluation; social programme evaluation theories and methodology; international development cooperation; development evaluation; community based approach; actor oriented approach; participatory monitoring and evaluation; responsive-constructivist evaluation; Tanzania; International education; Internationell pedagogik;

    Abstract : The research reported here is a meta-evaluative case study of project evaluation in the context of Official Development Cooperation (ODC) in the education sector in Tanzania, where the particular focus is on capturing the relative values attached to evaluation by various stakeholder groups.Perspectives from the constructivist paradigm are adopted, implying relativist ontology, subjectivist epistemology, and naturalistic interpretive methodology. READ MORE