Sökning: "analytical philosophy"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 93 avhandlingar innehållade orden analytical philosophy.
1. Better safe than sorry: : Applying philosophical methods to the debate on risk and the precautionary principle
Sammanfattning : The purpose of the present thesis is to apply philosophical methods to the ongoing debate of the precautionary principle, in order to illuminate this debate. The thesis consists of an Introduction and five papers. Paper I con-cerns an objection to the method of conceptual analysis, the Charge from Psychology. LÄS MER
2. Ideology, Rationality, and Revolution : An Essay on the Persistence of Oppression
Sammanfattning : This essay is concerned with two explanations of why oppressive social orders persist. According to the first, the so-called gunman theory of oppression (GT), these social orders persist because the oppressed are afraid being punished if they participated in a revolt. LÄS MER
3. Analyticity, Necessity and Belief : Aspects of two-dimensional semantics
Sammanfattning : A glass couldn't contain water unless it contained H2O-molecules. Likewise, a man couldn't be a bachelor unless he was unmarried. Now, the latter is what we would call a conceptual or analytical truth. It's also what we would call a priori. LÄS MER
4. A Different Kind of Ignorance : Self-Deception as Flight from Self-Knowledge
Sammanfattning : In this dissertation I direct critique at a conception of self-deception prevalent in analytical philosophy, where self-deception is seen as a rational form of irrationality in which the self-deceiver strategically deceives himself on the basis of having judged that this is the best thing to do or, in order to achieve something advantageous. In Chapter One, I criticize the conception of self-deception as analogous to deceiving someone else, the so-called “standard approach to self-deception”. LÄS MER
5. Den potentiella människan : En undersökning av teorier om självförverkligande
Sammanfattning : “What characterizes an acceptable theory of self-realization?” The thrust of the present dissertation is towards seeking an answer to this central problem, which stems from the fundamental human experience that life involves change, and that in a modern society such change is often expected to be towards a realization of potentials and the good life for the individual. The dissertation has a three-fold purpose. LÄS MER