Sökning: "Positivism"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 23 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Positivism.

  1. 1. 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

    Författare :Daniel Seldén; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; ontology; methodology; critical realism; positivism; relativism; anorexia nervosa; sociology; multifactorial explanation; biopsychosocial;

    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

  3. 2. La Poétique de Houellebecq : réalisme, satire, mythe

    Författare :Jacob Carlson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Michel Houellebecq; poetics; metaphysics; Arthur Schopenhauer; Auguste Comte; positivism; Jean Cohen; aesthetic categories; lyricism; literary genre; Erich Auerbach; literary realism; Mikhail Bakhtin; satire; Menippean satire; cynicism; Novalis; Michael Riffaterre; motif of light vs; darkness; motif of the sun; myth; literary myth; myth of androgyny; symbol; romanticism;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis sets out to explore French writer Michel Houellebecq’s poetics of the novel. It is advanced in the introduction that Houellebecq’s work could be read against the novelist’s 1997 suggestion that “if somebody today was able to craft a mode of expression that was at once honest and positive, they would change the world”. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Vid vetandets gräns : om skiljelinjen mellan naturvetenskap och metafysik i svensk kulturdebatt 1870-1920

    Författare :Kjell Jonsson; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Limits of Science; Science and Belief; Scientific World View; Positivism; Materialism; Idealism; Metaphysics; 19th-20th Century Sweden; History of Science; History of Ideas;

    Sammanfattning : The object of this dissertation is to describe the opinions about the limits of natural science in their social and cultural context There exist two antagonistic positions to this matter restrictionism and expansionism. Restrictionism assumes that the natural sciences have no influence on metaphysics. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Facts in the Law : A Legal Positivistic Conception of the Law/Fact Distinction

    Författare :Ellika Sevelin; Juridiska institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; allmän rättslära; rättspositivism; Jurisprudence; Questions of Fact; Questions of Law; Legal Positivism; Law and Philosophy;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis concerns the law/fact distinction in law. The interest it takes in the distinction is not practical, but conceptual. LÄS MER

  7. 5. A Call for Scientific Purity : Axel Hägerström's Critique of Legal Science

    Författare :Max Lyles; Claes Peterson; Marie Sandström; Heikki Pihlajamäki; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Legal history; Axel Hägerström 1868-1939 ; Uppsala School; Scandinavian Legal Realism; philosophy; anti-metaphysics; anti-subjectivism; legal philosophy; legal science; legal positivism; legal realism; Begriffsjurisprudenz; natural law; Sweden; Legal history; Rättshistoria; Historia; History;

    Sammanfattning : The subject matter of this study forms an analysis of Axel Hägerström’s (1868-1939) theories of law and legal science - ideas that were formative both for the Uppsala School and Scandinavian Legal Realism. By means of a close analysis of Hägerström’s epistemology and ontology, the general principles of his theory of science have been outlined, especially the marked stance of anti-metaphysics (anti-subjectivism), the logical notion of reality, and the application of conceptual analyses. LÄS MER