Sökning: "ontological realism"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 avhandlingar innehållade orden ontological realism.
1. Objects and objectivity : Alternatives to mathematical realism
Sammanfattning : This dissertation is centered around a set of apparently conflicting intuitions that we may have about mathematics. On the one hand, we are inclined to believe that the theorems of mathematics are true. LÄS MER
2. Aristotle’s Realism About Perceptible Qualities
Sammanfattning : This thesis is about the nature, and more specifically the ontological status of the objects of perception (that is, perceptible qualities) in Aristotle. It defends a realist interpretation. LÄS MER
3. Explorations in Behavioral Economics: Realism, Ontology and Experiments
Sammanfattning : This thesis explores Behavioral Economics in terms of realism, ontology and experiments. In the introductory chapter descriptions of "Behavioral Economics", "realism" and "ontology" are offered. LÄS MER
4. The Collective Archives of Mind : An Exploration of Reasons from Metaethics to Social Ontology
Sammanfattning : This monograph discusses the question of what it is to be a reason – mainly in practical ethics – and proposes an original contribution to metaethics.It critically examines theories of metaethical realism, constructivism and error theory and identifies several misunderstandings or unclarities in contemporary debates. LÄS MER
5. Possibility-Space and Its Imaginative Variations in Alice Munro's Short Stories
Sammanfattning : With its perennial interest in the seemingly ordinary lives of small-town people, Alice Munro’s fiction displays a deceptively simple surface reality that on closer scrutiny reveals intricate levels of unexpected complexity about the fundamentals of human experience: love, choice, mortality, faith and the force of language. This study takes as its main purpose the exploration of Munro’s stories in terms of the intricacy of emotions in the face of commonplace events of life and their emerging possibilities. LÄS MER