Sökning: "metaphysics"

Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 73 avhandlingar innehållade ordet metaphysics.

  1. 6. Vid vetandets gräns : om skiljelinjen mellan naturvetenskap och metafysik i svensk kulturdebatt 1870-1920

    Författare :Kjell Jonsson; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Limits of Science; Science and Belief; Scientific World View; Positivism; Materialism; Idealism; Metaphysics; 19th-20th Century Sweden; History of Science; History of Ideas;

    Sammanfattning : The object of this dissertation is to describe the opinions about the limits of natural science in their social and cultural context There exist two antagonistic positions to this matter restrictionism and expansionism. Restrictionism assumes that the natural sciences have no influence on metaphysics. LÄS MER

  3. 7. Falling Freely : Anselm of Canterbury on the Will

    Författare :Tomas Ekenberg; Lilli Alanen; Mikko Yrjönsuuri; Calvin Normore; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Philosophy; Anselm of Canterbury; will; choice; action; free will; determinism; metaphysics; ethics; evil; Filosofi; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen; teoretisk filosofi; Theoretical Philosophy;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis clarifies the concept of will in Anselm of Canterbury in the context of his overall theologico-philosophical project. The will is central to Anselm's understanding of freedom of choice (libertas arbitrii), which he defines as “the power to keep rightness of will”. LÄS MER

  4. 8. Studies in knowledge representation : modeling change - the frame problem : pictures and words

    Författare :Lars-Erik Janlert; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; analogical; artificial intelligence; digital; exemplification; frame problem; Goodman; knowledge representation; metaphysics; model; pictorial representation; symbol theory;

    Sammanfattning : In two studies, the author attempts to develop a general symbol theoretical approach to knowledge representation.The first study, Modeling change -the frame problem, critically examines the - so far unsuccessful - attempts to solve the notorious frame problem. LÄS MER

  5. 9. La Poétique de Houellebecq : réalisme, satire, mythe

    Författare :Jacob Carlson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Michel Houellebecq; poetics; metaphysics; Arthur Schopenhauer; Auguste Comte; positivism; Jean Cohen; aesthetic categories; lyricism; literary genre; Erich Auerbach; literary realism; Mikhail Bakhtin; satire; Menippean satire; cynicism; Novalis; Michael Riffaterre; motif of light vs; darkness; motif of the sun; myth; literary myth; myth of androgyny; symbol; romanticism;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis sets out to explore French writer Michel Houellebecq’s poetics of the novel. It is advanced in the introduction that Houellebecq’s work could be read against the novelist’s 1997 suggestion that “if somebody today was able to craft a mode of expression that was at once honest and positive, they would change the world”. LÄS MER

  7. 10. Meditationes philosophicas de monadologia Leibnitio-Wolfiana, cum consensu amplissimi Senatus Philosophici in Regia Academia Upsaliensi, præside ... Erico Alstrin ... pro solitis in philosophia honoribus placido bonorum examini in audit. Gustav. majori ad d. 22. [28] Aprilis anni MDCCXXXI ... submittit Ericus Hultgren, Smolandus

    Författare :Eric Alstrin; Eric Hultgren; Eric Alstrin; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Metaphysics; Metaphysics; Metafysik;

    Sammanfattning : .... LÄS MER