Search for dissertations about: "philosophy subjects"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 90 swedish dissertations containing the words philosophy subjects.

2. 1. Empathy and emotions : on the notion of empathy as emotional sharing

   Author : Peter Nilsson; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Philosophy; Filosofi; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen; Practical Philosophy; praktisk filosofi; Theoretical philosophy;

   Abstract : The topic of this study is a notion of empathy that is common in philosophy and in the behavioral sciences. It is here referred to as ‘the notion of empathy as emotional sharing’, and it is characterized in terms of three ideas. READ MORE

4. 2. An Inferentialist Interpretation of Classical Logic

   Author : Tor Sandqvist; Krister Segerberg; Neil Tennant; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Philosophy; Inferentialism; Excluded Middle; Classical logic; Justification of deduction; Filosofi; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen; teoretisk filosofi; Theoretical Philosophy;

   Abstract : The aim of this work is to provide an account of the meanings of the standard logical operators meeting the following requirements:1) It should meet Dummettian standards of intelligibility; specifically, it should do without any notion of recognition-transcendent truth.2) It should validate Classical logic. READ MORE

5. 3. Workplace Ethics : Some practical and foundational problems

   Author : Anders J Persson; Sven Ove Hansson; Matti Häyry; KTH; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Philosophy; Ethics; contract of employment; ethics; ethical criteria; health and safety standards; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen; Philosophy;

   Abstract : The aim of the present thesis is twofold: first, to analyse some practical ethical problems that stem from the workplace and the working environment and to offer guidelines concerning how such problems can be solved; second, to illuminate how the specific nature of work and the working environment is intimately connected to the relation between the employee and the employing entity, as set forth in an employment contract, and how the form and content of such contracts are, among other things, determined by culturally and socially established ideas. The normative question to be addressed is thus: which of these ideas should be maintained? This can be seen as a second-order, or more fundamental, ethical question whose answer depends on determining which normative principles are right. READ MORE

6. 4. Falling Freely : Anselm of Canterbury on the Will

   Author : Tomas Ekenberg; Lilli Alanen; Mikko Yrjönsuuri; Calvin Normore; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Philosophy; Anselm of Canterbury; will; choice; action; free will; determinism; metaphysics; ethics; evil; Filosofi; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen; teoretisk filosofi; Theoretical Philosophy;

   Abstract : This thesis clarifies the concept of will in Anselm of Canterbury in the context of his overall theologico-philosophical project. The will is central to Anselm's understanding of freedom of choice (libertas arbitrii), which he defines as “the power to keep rightness of will”. READ MORE

7. 5. Authority-based argumentative strategies : Three models for their evaluation

   Author : Taeda Jovičić [Tomic]; Krister Segerberg; Frederick Stoutland; Douglas Walton; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Philosophy; argumentative strategies; reasoning and social aspects of argumentative activities; argumentative groups; audience groups; acceptability; effectiveness; challenge; evaluation; authority; dialectic; rhetoric; pragma-dialectics; logic of dialogue; profiles of dialogue; Filosofi; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen; Theoretical Philosophy; Teoretisk filosofi;

   Abstract : This dissertation is on argumentative strategies based on authority. In its first half, three of the most elaborate and influential approaches in argumentation theory, related to the models developed in this work, are analyzed: Douglas Walton's dialectical frame for analysis of arguments from expert opinion; Frans van Eemeren and Peter Houtlosser's pragma-dialectical approach to strategic maneuvering in argumentation; the concept of strategy used in Else Barth and Erik Krabbe's formal dialectics. READ MORE