Search for dissertations about: "teoretisk filosofi"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 83 swedish dissertations containing the words teoretisk filosofi.

2. 21. On Causal Attribution

   Author : B. Ingemar B. Lindahl; Dugald Murdoch; Ingmar Pörn; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; causation; cause-condition distinction; causal selection; differentiating factor; inus condition; explanation; covering-law model; Mill’s methods; objectivity; pragmatics; responsibility; abnormalism; history; science; Theoretical philosophy; Teoretisk filosofi; Theoretical Philosophy; teoretisk filosofi;

   Abstract : This dissertation treats of the problem of attributing the occurrence of an individual event or state to a single cause — a problem commonly understood either as a question of distinguishing the cause from the mere conditions or as a matter of singling out, from several causes, one cause, as the cause. The main purpose of the study is to clarify some basic concepts, and some criteria of ascertainment of the cause, that may be discerned in the literature on causal attribution. READ MORE

4. 22. Coherence : Studies in epistemology and belief revision

   Author : Erik J. Olsson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Philosophy; coherence; justification; belief revision; epistemology; AGM; Bonjour; Lehrer; Filosofi; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen; teoretisk filosofi; Theoretical Philosophy;

   Abstract : This thesis consists of seven papers and a comprehensive summary. The subject matter is so-calledcoherence theories of justification, according to which epistemic justification, and ultimately knowledge,is essentially a matter of relations between beliefs, of how well they hang together. READ MORE

5. 23. Avoiding the subject : A critical inquiry into contemporary theories of subjectivity

   Author : Sharon P. Rider; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Philosophy; subject; subjectivity; objectivity; certainty; doubt; phenomenology; poststructuralism; deconstruction; neopragmatism; gender; Filosofi; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen; Theoretical Philosophy; Teoretisk filosofi;

   Abstract : This dissertation explores certain recurrent problems in modern theories about the nature of thesubject. Taking examples from phenomenology, poststructuralism, neopragmatism and feminism, itargues that philosophical theorizing about subjectivity often assumes that the transition from thedescription of the models of meaning with which they work, to the description of the everyday practices of which they are models, can be achieved within the model. READ MORE

6. 24. Enigmatic origins : tracing the theme of historicity through Heidegger's works

   Author : Hans Ruin; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Heidegger; historicity; phenomenology; hermeneutics; temporality; Augenblick; truth; Ereignis; Theoretical philosophy; Teoretisk filosofi; Theoretical Philosophy; teoretisk filosofi;

   Abstract : The preoccupation with the "historicity" of thought and existence is central to thehermeneutic-phenomenological branch of modern philosophy. Its foremostrepresentative is Martin Heidegger, who in his main work Sein und Zeit (1927)developed a theory of historicity, according to which human beings not only exist inhistory, but are themselves historical. READ MORE

7. 25. 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