Search for dissertations about: "philosophical analysis"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 96 swedish dissertations containing the words philosophical analysis.

  1. 21. The Psychology of Worldviews : Toward a Non-Reductive Science of Personality

    Author : Artur Nilsson; Institutionen för psykologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Worldview; personality; philosophy of life; weltanshauung; life view; ideology; existentialism; non-reductive; humanism; normativism; polarity theory; political psychology; philosophy of science; philosophy of psychology; philosophical orientation; basic assumptions; presuppositions; core assumptions; personal constructs; theoretical psychology; integrative framework; personalism;

    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

  2. 22. Is time money? Philosophical perspectives on the monetary valuation of travel time

    Author : Maria Nordström; Karin Edvardsson Björnberg; Erik Angner; KTH; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; value of travel time; value of time; travel time; mobil- ity; urban transportation; Filosofi; Philosophy;

    Abstract : This licentiate thesis consists of an introduction (‘kappa’) and three papers discussing various aspects of time as a commodity and the practice of valuing travel time.The first paper is an analysis of the properties of time as an economic resource taking into account literature on behavior with regard to time. READ MORE

  3. 23. Politics and Truth : Heidegger, Arendt and the Modern Political Lie

    Author : Anna-Karin Selberg; Sven-Olov Wallenstein; Cecilia Sjöholm; Peg Birmingham; Södertörns högskola; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Post-truth; alternative facts; modern political lie; totalitarianism; Heidegger; Arendt; truth; politics; image-making; myth; art; facts; Kritisk kulturteori; Critical and Cultural Theory;

    Abstract : In 2016, the Oxford Dictionary named “post-truth” the word of the year. In the ongoing debate about post-truth it is generally assumed that facts and truth have ceased to be relevant to politics. READ MORE

  4. 24. Presence through actions : theories, concepts, and implementations

    Author : Muhammad Sikandar Lal Khan; Shafiq ur Réhman; Haibo Li; Jiebo Luo; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Presence; Immersion; Computer mediated communication; Strong concept; Phenomenology; Philosophy; Biologically inspired system; Neck robot; Head pose estimation; Embodied interaction; Virtual reality headset; Social presence; Spatial presence; Face reconstruction retrieval; Telepresence system; Quality of interaction; Embodied telepresence system; Mona-Lisa gaze effect; eye-contact; design; design; Computer Science; datalogi; Computer Systems; datorteknik; datoriserad bildanalys; Computerized Image Analysis;

    Abstract : During face-to-face meetings, humans use multimodal information, including verbal information, visual information, body language, facial expressions, and other non-verbal gestures. In contrast, during computer-mediated-communication (CMC), humans rely either on mono-modal information such as text-only, voice-only, or video-only or on bi-modal information by using audiovisual modalities such as video teleconferencing. READ MORE

  5. 25. Interaction as existential practice : An explorative study of Mark C. Taylor’s philosophical project and its potential consequences for Human-Computer Interaction

    Author : Henrik Åhman; Ann Lantz; Anders Hedman; Jeffrey Bardzell; KTH; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Human-Computer Interaction; Materiality; The self; Interaction; HCI theory; Mark C. Taylor; Poststructuralism; Postmodernism; Philosophy; Complexity theory; Existential practices; Friedrich Nietzsche; Människa-Datorinteraktion; Materialitet; Självet; Interaktion; MDI teori; Mark C. Taylor; Poststrukturalism; Postmodernism; Filosofi; Komplexitetsteori; Existentiella praktiker; Friedrich Nietzsche; Människa-datorinteraktion; Human-computer Interaction;

    Abstract : This thesis discusses the potential consequences of applying the philosophy of Mark C. Taylor to the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).The first part of the thesis comprises a study focusing on two discursive trends in contemporary HCI, materiality and the self, and how these discourses describe interaction. READ MORE