Sökning: "Theoretical philosophy"

Visar resultat 26 - 30 av 443 avhandlingar innehållade orden Theoretical philosophy.

1. 26. Vetenskapens verklighet : Om motsättningen mellan realism och konstruktivism i vetenskapsfilosofin

   Författare :Eva Boo Höglund; Fredrik Stjernberg; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Theoretical philosophy; constructivism; realism; scientific theory; world; reality; language; Kuhn; Boyd; Teoretisk filosofi; Theoretical philosophy; Teoretisk filosofi; teoretisk filosofi; Theoretical Philosophy;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the conflict between a constructivist and a realist understanding of scientific theories. It focuses on the constructivism formulated by Thomas S. Kuhn and the realism formulated by Richard Boyd, but also relates these conceptions to other forms of constructivism and realism described in the literature. LÄS MER

3. 27. Objective Chance : A Study in the Lewisian Tradition

   Författare :George Masterton; Lars-Göran Johansson; Ulf Danielsson; Carl Hoefer; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Theoretical philosophy; Teoretisk filosofi; Theoretical Philosophy; Teoretisk filosofi;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation explores the notion of objective chance as reasonable degree of belief given what might loosely be called our ultimate evidence. The goal is to develop a notion of objective chance that is broadly Humean: where chance ascriptions are construed as projected, De Dicto, physical modalities. LÄS MER

4. 28. Knowledge Closure and Knowledge Openness : A Study of Epistemic Closure Principles

   Författare :Levi Spectre; Peter Pagin; Åsa Wikforss; Stewart Cohen; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; knowledge; principle of epistemic closure; knowledge openness; evidence; epistemic principles; skepticism; fallibilism; principles of evidence; evidence openness; dogmatism; safety; chance; Bayesianism; Carnap; Cohen; Dretske; Hawthorne; Hempel; Kripke; Nozick; Pagin; Vogel; Williamson; Theoretical philosophy; Teoretisk filosofi; Theoretical Philosophy; teoretisk filosofi;

   Sammanfattning : The principle of epistemic closure is the claim that what is known to follow from knowledge is known to be true. This intuitively plausible idea is endorsed by a vast majority of knowledge theorists. There are significant problems, however, that have to be addressed if epistemic closure – closed knowledge – is endorsed. LÄS MER

5. 29. Extensions in Flux : An Essay on Vagueness and Context Sensitivity

   Författare :Jonas Åkerman; Peter Pagin; Diana Raffman; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; vagueness; context sensitivity; contextualism; weak tolerance; sorites paradox; forced march; equivocation; indexicals; Fara; Raffman; Shapiro; Soames; Theoretical philosophy; Teoretisk filosofi; Theoretical Philosophy; teoretisk filosofi;

   Sammanfattning : The extensions of vague predicates like ‘is bald’, ‘is tall’, and ‘is a heap’ apparently lack sharp boundaries, and this makes such predicates susceptible to soritical reasoning, i.e. reasoning that leads to some version of the notorious sorites paradox. LÄS MER

7. 30. It's All in the Brain : A Theory of the Qualities of Perception

   Författare :Jesper Östman; Pär Sundström; Howard Robinson; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Philosophy of perception; philosophy of consciousness; hallucination; phenomenal qualities; qualia; sense data; physicalism; Russell; disjunctivism; representationalism; brain theory; color; the brain; Theoretical Philosophy; teoretisk filosofi;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation concerns the location and nature of phenomenal qualities. Arguably, these qualities naively seem to belong to perceived external objects. However, we also seem to experience phenomenal qualities in hallucinations, and in hallucinations we do not perceive any external objects. LÄS MER