Sökning: "alternative normative concepts"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 avhandlingar innehållade orden alternative normative concepts.

  1. 1. Guiding Concepts : Essays on Normative Concepts, Knowledge, and Deliberation

    Författare :Olle Risberg; Erik Carlson; Andrew Reisner; Wlodek Rabinowicz; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; 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

  3. 2. Demanding Values : Participation, empowerment, and NGOs in Bangladesh

    Författare :Malin Arvidson; Sociologi; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sociology; organisational control; altruism; staff motivation; organisational values; Bangladesh; NGOs; participation; empowerment; Sociologi;

    Sammanfattning : The concepts participation and empowerment are frequently used in development projects in the third world. The meaning given to the concepts today signal a normative orientation, marking an alternative, people-centred approach to development. When used in development projects, the concepts demand detailed descriptions. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Förkroppsligad fiktion och fiktionaliserade kroppar : Levande rollspel i Östersjöregionen

    Författare :Erika Lundell; Beatriz Lindqvist; Bo Nilsson; Södertörns högskola; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; queer phenomenology; live action role-playing; larp; games; roleplay; ludology; materialization; embodiment; the body; gender; heterosexual matrix; participatory culture; performance; Historical Studies; Historiska studier; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies; Ethnology; etnologi;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation concerns live action role-playing (larp). Larp may be described as improvised theater without an audience, as participants simultaneously embody both audience and actor in their constant interaction with one another.  Hence, larp can be seen as a participatory culture. LÄS MER

  5. 4. På spaning efter den goda staden : om konstruktioner av ideal och problem i svensk stadsbyggnadsdiskussion

    Författare :Moa Tunström; Ann-Cathrine Åquist; Antje Lann Hornscheidt; Irene Molina; Örebro universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Boverket; city; discourse; diversity; Stadsmiljörådet; Sweden; urban development; urban ideals; urbanism; Plan; planning; Human geography; Kulturgeografi; Social and Economic Geography; Kulturgeografi;

    Sammanfattning : In this dissertation constructions of contemporary urban ideals are in focus, starting from the understanding that they are constructed in relation to both an idea of an urban renaissance and one ofa dissolving, or sprawling, city. The aim of the dissertation is to investigate and analyse how the city and the urban are discursively constructed in contemporary Swedish urban planning discussion. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Konsten att uppfinna hjulet två gånger : om uppfinnandets teknik och estetik

    Författare :Karin Havemose; Bo Göranzon; Lena Fritzén; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANIORA; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANITIES; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Invention; innovation; reflective practice; analogical thinking; dialogue; tacit knowledge; epistemology; History of technology; Teknikhistoria; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen; Industrial engineering and economy; Industriell teknik och ekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : “There is no need to reinvent the wheel” – a cliché, often told when you want to come up with something new that in someway can be connected to something that already exist. This study shows the opposite – that inventions emanate from what is given. LÄS MER