Sökning: "arguing"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 196 avhandlingar innehållade ordet arguing.
1. Arguing for Relevance : Global and local knolwdge claims in management consulting
Sammanfattning : Management consulting services are often viewed as local in the sense that they are based on knowledge of local conditions, are adapted to those conditions, and build on client interaction. Despite this view, globally active consulting firms continue to increase in number and relative size in national markets. LÄS MER
2. State Learning and Role Playing : International environmental cooperation in the Arctic Council
Sammanfattning : This study investigates state interaction as a social learning process, where the ultimate aim is to enhance an understanding on how states learn of environmental norms. An entry into the domain on such learning processes is offered through a Constructivist approach and more specifically through the employment of a role theoretical perspective; a role here is signified as a state's repertory of behavior and its social position within a group. LÄS MER
3. Knowledge, Value and Personal experience : Upper secondary students' resources of supporting reasons when arguing socioscientific issues
Sammanfattning : This thesis focuses on upper secondary students’ use of resources in their supporting reasons when arguing socioscientific issues (SSIs). The skills of argumentation have been emphasized in science education during the past decades and SSIs are proven a good context for learners to enhance skills of argumentation and achieve the goal of scientific literacy. LÄS MER
4. Responsibility and Ambivalence
Sammanfattning : I use the concept of ambivalence—the state of being faced with a choice that cannot be resolved without sacrificing something of value—to approach five contemporary debates in the philosophy of moral responsibility: (1) psychopathy, (2) free will, (3) the emotion of guilt, (4) regret and indirect moral luck, and (5) moral demandingness. Rather than arguing for one theory or another, acknowledging ambivalence paves the way for resolving these debates by reconciling the opposing sides. LÄS MER
5. Relativ betydelse : Individualitet och totalitet i arkeologisk kulturteori : [individuality and totality in archaeological cultural theory]
Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with the epistemological aspects of cultural theory in archaeology. It is argued that the discourse of modem archaeology was formed during the first decades of the 19th century. This discourse has shaped a picture of man which was first questioned by postprocessual archaeologists. LÄS MER
