Sökning: "alternative facts"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 28 avhandlingar innehållade orden alternative facts.

  1. 1. Politics and Truth : Heidegger, Arendt and the Modern Political Lie

    Författare :Anna-Karin Selberg; Sven-Olov Wallenstein; Cecilia Sjöholm; Peg Birmingham; Södertörns högskola; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Post-truth; alternative facts; modern political lie; totalitarianism; Heidegger; Arendt; truth; politics; image-making; myth; art; facts; Kritisk kulturteori; Critical and Cultural Theory;

    Sammanfattning : In 2016, the Oxford Dictionary named “post-truth” the word of the year. In the ongoing debate about post-truth it is generally assumed that facts and truth have ceased to be relevant to politics. LÄS MER

  3. 2. On control of cascaded H-bridge converters for STATCOM applications

    Författare :Ehsan Behrouzian; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; cascaded H-bridge converters; FACTS.; Modular Multilevel Converters MMC ; STATCOM;

    Sammanfattning : Cascaded H-bridge (CHB) converters are today considered the industrial standard for STATCOM applications, mainly due to their small footprint, high achievable voltage levels, modularity and reduced losses. However, there are still areas of research that need to be investigated in order to improve the performance and the operational range of this converter topology for grid-applications. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Ny väg till nya vägar och järnvägar : Finanseringspragmatism och planeringsrationalism vid beslut om infrastrukturinvesteringar

    Författare :John Hultén; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; pragmatism; rationalism; railway investments; road investments; transport infrastructure; co-financing; alternative financing; investment planning; planning; Decision-making process;

    Sammanfattning : Investment planning is a decision-making process with specific characteristics. It is often seen as a rational quest for solutions that are in the public interest, and the dominant discourse tends to be technical and economic. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Guiding Concepts : Essays on Normative Concepts, Knowledge, and Deliberation

    Författare :Olle Risberg; Erik Carlson; Andrew Reisner; Wlodek Rabinowicz; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; action-guidance; adherence; all things considered ought; alternative normative concepts; conceptual engineering; debunking; deliberation; disagreement; epistemic pluralism; epistemology; ethics; external world skepticism; idealization; metaethics; meta-skepticism; moral skepticism; normativity; ought; reasons; response-dependence; uncertainty; Filosofi; Philosophy;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis addresses a range of questions about normativity, broadly understood. Recurring themes include (i) the idea of normative ‘action-guidance’, and the connection between normativity and motivational states, (ii) the possibility of normative knowledge and its role in deliberation, and (iii) the question of whether (and if so, how) normative concepts can themselves be evaluated. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Properties and evaluation of volatility models

    Författare :Hans Malmsten; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : The general theme of this thesis is theoretical properties and evaluation of volatility models. The thesis consists of four papers. In the first chapter the moment structure of the EGARCH model is derived. The second chapter contains new results on the A-PARCH model. LÄS MER