Search for dissertations about: "non-reductive"
Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the word non-reductive.
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1. The Psychology of Worldviews : Toward a Non-Reductive Science of Personality
Abstract : Persons are not just mechanical systems of instinctual animalistic proclivities, but also language-producing, existentially aware creatures, whose experiences and actions are drenched in subjective meaning. To understand a human being as a person is to understand him or her as a rational system that wants, fears, hopes, believes, and in other ways imbues the world with meaning, rather than just a mechanical system that is subject to the same chains of cause and effect as other animals. READ MORE
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2. Aristotle’s Realism About Perceptible Qualities
Abstract : This thesis is about the nature, and more specifically the ontological status of the objects of perception (that is, perceptible qualities) in Aristotle. It defends a realist interpretation. READ MORE
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3. Naturalizing God? : A Critical Evaluation of Religious Naturalism
Abstract : This thesis seeks to critically evaluate religious naturalism as a position in the dialogue between science and religion. I seek to explicate the major topics of debate within religious naturalism (chapter 2), as well as the naturalistic and religious aspects of religious naturalism. READ MORE
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4. Belief & Desire : The Standard Model of Intentional Action — Critique and Defence
Abstract : The scheme of concepts we employ in daily life to explain intentional behaviour form a belief-desire model (BD model), in which motivating states are sorted into two suitably broad categories. The BD model embeds a philosophy of action, i.e. READ MORE