Sökning: "conceivability"

Hittade 4 avhandlingar innehållade ordet conceivability.

  1. 1. From Conceivability to Possibility : An Essay in Modal Epistemology

    Författare :Anders Berglund; Sten Lindström; Joseph Almog; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Theoretical philosophy; Modal Epistemology; Teoretisk filosofi; Theoretical philosophy; Teoretisk filosofi; Theoretical Philosophy; teoretisk filosofi;

    Sammanfattning : This study deals with the thesis that conceivability implies possibility. Confronted with alleged counterexamples to this thesis, some philosophers have turned to what may be called “idealized” or “more demanding” notions of conceivability. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Kripke on Necessity : A Metaphysical Investigation

    Författare :Kyriakos Theodoridis; Teoretisk filosofi; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ethics; Systematic philosophy; conceivability; mereological identity; ontological character; identity; possible worlds; actuality; properties; ontology; object; contingency; apriori; Metaphysical; epistemic; aesthetics; metaphysics; epistemology; ideology; Systematisk filosofi; etik; estetik; metafysik; kunskapsteori; ideologi; Philosophical logic; Filosofisk logik; logik;

    Sammanfattning : I undertake a metaphysical investigation of Saul Kripke's modern classic, Naming and Necessity (1980). The general problem of my study may be expressed as follows: What is the metaphysical justification of the validity and existence of the pertinent classes of truths, the necessary a posteriori and the contingent a priori, according to the Kripke Paradigm? My approach is meant to disclose the logical and ontological principles underlying Kripke's arguments for the necessary a posteriori and the contingent a priori respectively. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Moral Disagreement and the Significance of Higher-Order Evidence

    Författare :Marco Tiozzo; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Moral Disagreement; Higher-Order Evidence; Moral Skepticism; Peer Disagreement; Faultless Disagreement; Moral Intransigence; Epistemic Rationality;

    Sammanfattning : Recent years have seen an increasing interest in the philosophy of disagreement, especially in epistemology where there is an intense debate over the epistemic significance of disagreement and higher-order evidence more generally. Considerations about disagreement also play an important role in metaethics – most prominently in various arguments that purport to establish moral skepticism. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Minnets fosterland : Tid och teknik hos Atterbom, Geijer och Stagnelius

    Författare :Casper Virkkula; Paula Henrikson; Torsten Pettersson; Peter Henning; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom; Erik Gustaf Geijer; Erik Johan Stagnelius; Bernard Stiegler; Martin Heidegger; technics; technology; time; temporality; memory; cultural memory; myth; mythology; Swedish Romanticism; nationalism; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines the form and role of Romantic memory as it pertains to the concepts of time and technics in the works of the Swedish Romanticist authors Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom (1790–1855), Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783–1847), and Erik Johan Stagnelius (1793–1823). The study examines how these authors use and reshape memories in an abstract sense – memories of historical events, mythological motifs, and metaphysical ideas – through the lens of cultural memory. LÄS MER