Sökning: "moral rationality"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 23 avhandlingar innehållade orden moral rationality.
1. Rationality in inquiry : on the revisability of cognitive standards
Sammanfattning : The topic of this study is to what extent standards of rational inquiry can be rationally criticized and revised. It is argued that it is rational to treat all such standards as open to criticism and revision.Arguments to the effect that we are fallible with regard to all standards of rational inquiry are presented. LÄS MER
2. Moral Disagreement and the Significance of Higher-Order Evidence
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
3. Rationality and Cultural Understanding
Sammanfattning : In this dissertation I criticize a common conception of rationality prevalent in analytic philosophy. Rationality is here often seen as a purely cognitive, inner phenomenon which is static and universal, detached from any moral or cultural aspects of human life. LÄS MER
4. När vetenskapen tystnar : Ett socialpsykologiskt studium av massmedias behandling av morden i Falun, Bjuv och på Stureplan
Sammanfattning : This dissertation is a social psychological study of the influence of science on everyday thinking. The specific focus is the way in which mass media, as an intermediate arena of knowledge in society, accepts or rejects scientific concepts and findings. LÄS MER
5. Teknik och politiskt handlande : Rationalitet och kritik i den samällsorienterande undervisningen
Sammanfattning : This thesis is a content analysis of discursive meanings of technology in the Swedish comprehensive school, with a specific focus on social science. The primary aim is to analyse moral and political aspects of the relation between individual and technology in interpretations of the content of teaching. LÄS MER