Sökning: "apel"

Hittade 3 avhandlingar innehållade ordet apel.

  1. 1. Daggers, knowledge & power

    Författare :Jan Apel; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archaeology; Daggers; flint; technology; social complexity; agency; social structure; transfer of knowledge and know-how; Late Neolithic and Bronze Age societies; Scandinavia; Europe; Arkeologi; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologiämnen; arkeologi; Archaeology;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation investigates how far the organisation of a traditional technology corresponds to the degree of social complexity in a sedentary, agrarian society. An examination of the production of flint daggers during the Late Stone Age and Early Bronze Age of Scandinavia indicates the presence of formal apprenticeship systems based on corporate descent groups. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Rationality in inquiry : on the revisability of cognitive standards

    Författare :Jonas Nilsson; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; rationality; fallibilism; revisability; ultimate justification; relativism; bootstrap rationality; cognitive goals; Laudan; Briskman; Worrall; Hauptli; Apel; Theoretical philosophy; Teoretisk filosofi;

    Sammanfattning : The topic of this study is to what extent standards of rational inquiry can be rationally criticized and revised. It is argued that it is rational to treat all such standards as open to criticism and revision.Arguments to the effect that we are fallible with regard to all standards of rational inquiry are presented. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Naturen, vetenskapen och förnuftet : upplysningens dialektik och det andra moderna

    Författare :Per Nilsson; Gunnar Andersson; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Modernity; enlightenment; postmodernism; instrumental rationality; value rationality; communicative rationality; discourse ethics; truth; fallibilism; claims to Tightness; revisability; von Wright; Adorno; Horkheimer; Marcuse; Apel; Habermas; Popper; Foucault;

    Sammanfattning : The topic of this study is one specific area where the tension between instrumental rationality and value rationality becomes prominent: the question whether we have a rational responsibility for nature or not. Such a responsibility cannot be derived from instrumental reason, but it is argued that it can be derived from discourse ethics and communicative rationality. LÄS MER