Search for dissertations about: "problem of other minds"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 swedish dissertations containing the words problem of other minds.

2. 1. Seeing Nature as Creation : How Anti-Cartesian Philosophy of Mind and Perception Reshapes Natural Theology

   Author : Mats Wahlberg; Arne Rasmusson; John Haldane; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : natural theology; knowledge of God; philosophy of mind; perception; John McDowell; epistemological disjunctivism; problem of other minds; expression; postliberal theology; postsecular theology; Philosophy of Religion; religionsfilosofi;

   Abstract : This dissertation constructively explores the implications for natural theology of (especially) John McDowell’s anti-Cartesian philosophy of mind and perception. Traditionally, an important element within natural theology is the idea that nature testifies to its creator, thereby making knowledge of a creator available to humans. READ MORE

4. 2. Dialectics of Negotiagency : Micro Mechanisms in Children’s Negotiation in Play Activity

   Author : Mimmi Waermö; Inger Eriksson; Ylva Ståhle; Viveca Lindberg; Bert van Oers; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; activity theory; agency; breaktime; children; collectividual; cultural historical activity theory; demands; development; double stimulation; enculturation; motives; negotiagency; negotiation; play; transformation; Didactics; didaktik;

   Abstract : This study is about the children in a fourth and fifth grade Swedish primary school class and their play during breaktimes. The study takes the theoretical point of departure in seeing children’s breaktime play as a cultural historical activity. READ MORE

5. 3. MECHATRONIC METAPHORS : An embodied realist framework of complexity and expertise in mechatronic project work

   Author : Elias Flening; Martin Grimheden; Anna Jerbrant; David Bradley; KTH; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Machine Design; Maskinkonstruktion;

   Abstract : Utvecklingsprojekt inom mekatronik innehåller höga nivåer av komplexitet och kräver expertis i samma utsträckning för att hantera denna. I och med globalt minskande produktivitetsvinster från ingenjörsarbete samt ”outtrassliga” (wicked) problem i utvecklingen av mekatroniska system – med sedan länge rapporterade utmaningar så som brist på gemensam systemförståelse, avsaknad av gemensamt språk för koncept, och disparata mentala modeller – så blir det kritiskt att förstå de faktiskt gällande uppfattningar av komplexitet och kompetens inom utvecklingsprojekt. READ MORE

6. 4. Intentionality and Intersubjectivity

   Author : Jan Almäng; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; analogical theories; body schema; embodiment; intentionality; intersubjectivity; other minds; simulation theory; theory theory; Dretske; Fodor; Gibson; Husserl; Meltzoff; Merleau-Ponty; Nichols; Stich; Strawson.;

   Abstract : This is a dissertation about the problem of other minds. Its point of departure is the modern philosophical and cognitive-scientific discussion of our attribution of mental states to others, in particular as it is conceived of within the so-called theory theory. READ MORE

7. 5. Human Norms for Robotic Minds

   Author : Stevan Tomic; Alessandro Saffiotti; Federico Pecora; Antonio Lieto; Örebro universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES;

   Abstract : Interactions within human societies are usually regulated by social norms. When humans fail to cope with norms, their behavior may be perceived as antisocial, amusing, provocative, dumb, or even uncanny, depending on the intention ascribed to the actor by the observer. READ MORE