Sökning: "Kritisk realism"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 26 avhandlingar innehållade orden Kritisk realism.
1. Från ”tyst vår” till ”hållbar utveckling” : En kritisk diskursanalys av miljöfrågans utveckling 1962–1987
Sammanfattning : This dissertation studies the development of the environmental issue from a discursive perspective. Through an analysis of views on nature and the environment in several NGOs and main political organs, the dissertation tries to explain how a certain view became hegemonic. LÄS MER
2. Electronic Healthcare Ontologies : Philosophy, the real world and IT structures
Sammanfattning : The thesis investigates how the notion of ‘ontology’ has been used in the field of medical informatics and knowledge representation. Partly to investigate what an ‘ontology’ can be said to represent and what requirements we can have on a good ‘ontology’. LÄS MER
3. Deliberating value : On the theory and practice of valuation of nature from neoclassical to ecological economics
Sammanfattning : This thesis is about whether it is a good idea to place monetary value on nature, to remedy the fact that we treat it as having no particular value to us humans, although it clearly has. The thesis is based on five research papers that can be said to position themselves on opposite sides in the debate on monetisation of nature. LÄS MER
4. Migrationspolitiska dilemman : Om idealism och realism i liberal politisk teori
Sammanfattning : The refugee crisis of 2015 forced Sweden and its citizens to face a politically and morally difficult question. What obligations do we have toward people seeking refuge? In the public debate it is easy to discern two camps expressing opposing and deeply held moral beliefs. LÄS MER
5. Om det som är - ontologins metodologiska relevans inom positivism, relativism och kritisk realism : Concerning Being. Ontology and its methodological relevance within Positivism, Relativism and Critical Realism
Sammanfattning : The main puq)ose of this thesis is to argue for the methodolo~.,'ical rclevance of a critical realist, stratified ontology for the process of scientific knowledge production. The case of anorexia nervosa is ch osen to illustrate thc argumcnt. LÄS MER