Sökning: "open question argument"

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1. 1. Moral Reality. A Defence of Moral Realism

   Författare :Caj Strandberg; Praktisk filosofi; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; epistemology; ideology; Praktisk filosofi; ideologi; kunskapsteori; metafysik; estetik; Morallära; Systematic philosophy; Moral science; Gilbert Harman.; Simon Blackburn; Michael Smith; J. L. Mackie; G. E. Moore; David Brink; Nicholas Sturgeon; moral explanation; argument from queerness; metaphysics; supervenience; fetishist argument; externalism; internalism; moral motivation; moral properties; open question argument; moral reason; moral disagreement; naturalism; reductionism; error-theory; Cornell realism; moral realism; non-cognitivism; meta-ethics; ethics; aesthetics;

   Sammanfattning : The main aim of this thesis is to defend moral realism. In chapter 1, I argue that moral realism is best understood as the view that (1) moral sentences have truth-value (cognitivism), (2) there are moral properties that make some moral sentences true (success-theory), and (3) moral properties are not reducible to non-moral properties (non-reductionism). LÄS MER

3. 2. Thick Concepts in Practice : Normative Aspects of Risk and Safety

   Författare :Niklas Möller; Sven Ove Hansson; Tim Lewens; KTH; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; thick concepts; non-naturalism; open question argument; risk analysis; safety; epistemic uncertainty; values in risk assessment; safety engineering; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen;

   Sammanfattning : The thesis aims at analyzing the concepts of risk and safety as well as the class of concepts to which they belong, thick concepts, focusing in particular on the normative aspects involved. Essay I analyzes thick concepts, i.e. concepts such as cruelty and kindness that seem to combine descriptive and evaluative features. LÄS MER

4. 3. Motivation pour apprendre une langue étrangère – une question de visualisation? : Les effets de trois activités en cours de français sur la motivation d’élèves suédois

   Författare :Céline Rocher Hahlin; Franska; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; French; Motivation; Dörnyei; Ideal Language Self; Ideal L3 Self; Intended effort; language acquisition; L3; language learning; foreign language; classroom activities;

   Sammanfattning : Despite the vast research on motivation and foreign language acquisition during the last decades, little is known about the motivational effects of concrete pedagogical activities in the classroom. The work of, among others, Z. Dörnyei shows that imagined reality can have positive effects on language learning outcomes. LÄS MER

5. 4. Limits to EU Powers : a case study on individual criminal sanctions for the enforcement of EU law

   Författare :Jacob Öberg; EU-rätt; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; EU-law; eu-rätt;

   Sammanfattning : The question posed by this thesis is how limits can be constructed to the exercise of EU powers. While there are limits to the exercise of EU competences in the Treaties and in the Court of Justice’s jurisprudence, it is argued that those limits suffer from conceptual and practical problems. LÄS MER

7. 5. Quest for quantum signatures in Axion Dark Matter and Gravity

   Författare :Vasileios Fragkos; Igor Pikovski; Ingemar Bengtsson; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :Axion Dark Matter; Gravity; Quantum mechanics; Theoretical Physics; teoretisk fysik;

   Sammanfattning : This licentiate thesis in theoretical physics focuses on the existence of quantum features in physical systems such as axion dark matter and gravity. Our focus is mostly on effects which appear at low energies, a regime in which our models can be confronted with current experiments or within the foreseeable future. LÄS MER