Sökning: "naturalistic epistemology"
Hittade 4 avhandlingar innehållade orden naturalistic epistemology.
1. Cognitive epistemology : Knowledge as a natural phenomenon
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the question ‘What is knowledge?’ In intuition-based epistemology the question is often considered to concern how ‘knowledge’ is used linguistically or conceptually rather than what knowledge is. In addition, since intuitions are used as evidence despite empirical experiments indicating that people’s intuitions vary a great deal and that little conclusive systematicity can be found, it is argued that approaches with such a focus cannot provide a solid foundation to answer the initial question. LÄS MER
2. Groundless knowledge : a Humean solution to the problem of skepticism
Sammanfattning : The aim of the present study is to develop a solution to the problem of skepticism about the external world ("skepticism", for short), inspired primarily by Hume's "skeptical solution" to the problem of skepticism about induction, but also by epistemological externalism and Wittgenstein's discussion of skeptical doubts in On Certainty. The author accepts certain elements in P. LÄS MER
3. Om kyrklundheten : Värde, kunskap och skrivande i Willy Kyrklunds Om godheten
Sammanfattning : The quest for certainty is a constant theme in the works of Swedish-Finnish author Willy Kyrklund. This quest is communicated both explicitly in essayistic prose articles and implicitly as a theme in his works of fiction. LÄS MER
4. Project Evaluation in Development Cooperation : A Meta-Evaluative Case Study in Tanzania
Sammanfattning : The research reported here is a meta-evaluative case study of project evaluation in the context of Official Development Cooperation (ODC) in the education sector in Tanzania, where the particular focus is on capturing the relative values attached to evaluation by various stakeholder groups.Perspectives from the constructivist paradigm are adopted, implying relativist ontology, subjectivist epistemology, and naturalistic interpretive methodology. LÄS MER