Search for dissertations about: "testimony"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 30 swedish dissertations containing the word testimony.
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1. Childrens testimony
University dissertation from Stockholm : Karolinska Institutet, Department of Public Health SciencesAbstract : Background: Most cases of child sexual use are identified through statements made by children and in many cases such statements constitute the only evidence available that abuse occurred. Despite its importance the use of children's testimonies is however complicated by the fact that a substantial proportion of victims delay disclosure of abuse or even deny such experiences when asked for them directly. READ MORE
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2. Beyond the Witness : Holocaust Representations and the Testimony of Images
University dissertation from Stockholm : Art and Theory PublishingAbstract : In a time when the very last Holocaust witnesses will soon be gone, a possible route for commemoration is to ask what testimony images can give. This book seeks to answer the question of how images can bear witness by examining them as multifaceted entities produced, reproduced, and resituated in conflicting political and historical situations. READ MORE
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3. Group membership and eyewitness testimony
University dissertation from Stockholm : Stockholm UniversityAbstract : The present thesis includes four empirical studies that explore whether eyewitness accounts of a violent crime may be affected by factors related to the group membership of witness, perpetrator, and victim.Study 1 investigates how an immigrant and a Swedish perpetrator of a simulated, violent robbery are evaluated and remembered by immigrant and Swedish witnesses. READ MORE
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4. Revelation as Divine Testimony : A Philosophical-Theological Inquiry
University dissertation from Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch UniversityAbstract : The dissertation examines, on the basis of insights from contemporary analytic philosophy of testimony, the intellectual viability of the traditional Christian conception of revelation as divine testimony. This conception entails that God reveals by speaking, and that people can acquire knowledge of God and divine things by believing what God says. READ MORE
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5. Internalism and the Nature of Justification
University dissertation from Stockholm : Department of Philosophy, Stockholm UniversityAbstract : There are many important dimensions of epistemic evaluation, one of which is justification. We don’t just evaluate beliefs for truth, reliability, accuracy, and knowledge, but also for justification. However, in the epistemological literature, there is much disagreement about the nature of justification and how it should be understood. READ MORE
