Sökning: "epistemic value"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 20 avhandlingar innehållade orden epistemic value.

1. 1. Discursos fronteiri�os de jovens mo�ambicanos : A linguagem, as ideologias e as subjetividades na colonialidade contempor�nea

   Författare :Torun Reite; Laura Álvarez López; Christopher Stroud; Lynn-Mario Menezes de Souza; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; decoloniality; Frantz Fanon; Pierre Bourdieu; sociogenese; intersubjectivity; epistemic reflexivity; contemporary coloniality; nexus concepts; Mozambique; Portuguese; postcolony; symbolic value; habitus; linguistic repertories; forms of capital; knowledge production; Romance Languages; romanska språk;

   Sammanfattning : Why are we talking about coloniality in postcolonial times? And what does language have to do with it? In addressing these two broad questions, this thesis sets out to provide empirically well-grounded reflections focusing: First, on how young Mozambicans’ linguistic repertoires and discursive practices relate to their sense of being in the world. And second, on how their perceptions resonate with recent sociolinguistic debates about the different roles language and ideologies play in constructing and reproducing conditions of contemporary coloniality. LÄS MER

3. 2. Modal Empiricism Made Difficult: An Essay in the Meta-Epistemology of Modality

   Författare :Ylwa Wirling; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; epistemology of modality; modal epistemology; integration challenge; non-uniformism; modal empiricism; metaphysics of modality; epistemic value;

   Sammanfattning : Philosophers have always taken an interest not only in what is actually the case, but in what is necessarily the case and what could possibly be the case. These are questions of modality. Epistemologists of modality enquire into how we can know what is necessary and what is possible. This dissertation concerns the meta-epistemology of modality. LÄS MER

4. 3. Decision Analysis in Fire Safety Engineering - Analysing Investments in Fire Safety

   Författare :Henrik Tehler; Avdelningen för Brandteknik; []
   Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Safety technology; Byggnadsteknik; Building construction; investment appraisal; epistemic uncertainties; fire safety; Decision analysis; risk analysis; Säkerhetsteknik;

   Sammanfattning : The application of decision analytical methods to the evaluation of investments in fire safety was investigated, particularly with the aim of being able to suggest a method for analysing a specific investment in fire safety for a specific factory. Attention was directed above all at the handling of cases of large epistemic uncertainty regarding both probabilities and utilities, Bayesian decision theory serving as a basis for the development of the method. LÄS MER

5. 4. Modality and Subordinators in the Germanic Languages and beyond

   Författare :Jackie Nordström; tolkning i offentlig sektor och översättning danska och isländska Avdelningen för svenska; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Germanic languages; factuality; subordinators; modality; propositional modality; general subordinators; that; if; whether; indicative; subjunctive; epistemic modality; irrealis; realis; Swedish;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis argues that general subordinators, such as the Germanic THAT and IF, denote propositional modality. Propositional modality stands for the “speaker’s attitude to the truth-value or factual status of the proposition” (Palmer 2001:24) and is otherwise expressed by moods such as the indicative-subjunctive and epistemic-evidential modal markers. LÄS MER

7. 5. The Quantification of Society. A Study of a Swedish Research Institute and Survey-Based Social Science

   Författare :Christopher Kullenberg; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; quantification; survey; social sciences; SOM Institute; epistemic practice; center of calculation; Actor-Network theory; welfare state;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis is concerned with the contemporary history of quantitative surveys in Sweden. The core epistemic practice of constructing surveys is examined empirically through a case study of the SOM Institute (Samhälle, Opinion, Medier) at University of Gothenburg. The SOM Institute has performed surveys in Sweden since 1986. LÄS MER