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Hittade 5 avhandlingar som matchar ovanstående sökkriterier.
1. In Virtue Of : Determination, Dependence, and Metaphysically Opaque Grounding
Sammanfattning : This dissertation investigates grounding, the relation of non-causal determination whereby one fact obtains in virtue of some other fact or facts. Although considerations of grounding have been central throughout Western philosophy, the last 15-20 years have seen a renaissance of systematic work on grounding in analytic philosophy. LÄS MER
2. Naturalising Intentionality : Inquiries into Realism & Relativism
Sammanfattning : Cognitive scientists, linguists and philosophers have expressed hope that mental and linguistic content (aboutness) eventually will be explained in broadly natural scientific terms. This dissertation investigates certain problems pertaining to attempts to naturalise mental aboutness and related semantic concepts like reference and truth. LÄS MER
3. Knowledge Compromise(d)? Ways and values of coproduction in academia
Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with the colonisation of the university by market forces. The object of inquiry is coproduction of academic knowledge between academic and non-academic actors in newly established universities and university colleges in Sweden. LÄS MER
4. Non-Gods and Gods: A Cosmontological Treatise
Sammanfattning : Incorporating the conceptual resources of the ontological argument for the existence of God into the underlying rationale of the cosmological ditto, I here present and defend a ‘cosmontological’ synthesis: an a posteriori argument for the existence of an all-perfect GOD: a being who, in virtue of being whatever it is better to be than not to be, is that than which a greater cannot be thought. Central to this synthesis is a very plausible principle called Exclusion: For any class (or property extension) C, if C is non-empty then there is an explanation for the non-emptiness of C if and only if there is at least one non-member of C which causes C to be non-empty. LÄS MER
5. Se människan! : en studie av Luleå stifts möte med den moderna kulturen under 1900-talets första hälft
Sammanfattning : The present study deals with the encounter between the diocese of Luleå and the process of modernising. The main issue is individualism as a part of modern man’s identity. LÄS MER