Sökning: "non-naturalism"

Hittade 4 avhandlingar innehållade ordet non-naturalism.

  1. 1. Thick Concepts in Practice : Normative Aspects of Risk and Safety

    Författare :Niklas Möller; Sven Ove Hansson; Tim Lewens; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; thick concepts; non-naturalism; open question argument; risk analysis; safety; epistemic uncertainty; values in risk assessment; safety engineering; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen;

    Sammanfattning : The thesis aims at analyzing the concepts of risk and safety as well as the class of concepts to which they belong, thick concepts, focusing in particular on the normative aspects involved. Essay I analyzes thick concepts, i.e. concepts such as cruelty and kindness that seem to combine descriptive and evaluative features. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Debunking Debunked? : Challenges, Prospects, and the Threat of Self-Defeat

    Författare :Conrad Bakka; Jonas Olson; Eriksson Björn; Folke Tersman; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; evolutionary debunking arguments; genealogical debunking; reliability challenge; third-factor explanation; non-naturalism; explanationism; sensitivity; safety; conditional debunking arguments; metanormative; metaepistemology; Philosophy; filosofi;

    Sammanfattning : Metaethical debunking arguments often conclude that no moral belief is epistemically justified. Early versions of such arguments largely relied on metaphors and analogies and left the epistemology of debunking underspecified. Debunkers have since come to take on substantial and broad-ranging epistemological commitments. LÄS MER

  4. 3. The Queerness of Objective Values : An Essay on Mackiean Metaethics and the Arguments from Queerness

    Författare :Victor Moberger; Jens Johansson; Erik Carlson; Russ Shafer-Landau; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; J. L. Mackie; argument from queerness; objective values; moral realism; claim to objectivity; argument from relativity; non-naturalism; supervenience; normative explanation; authoritative prescriptivity; objectivity; categoricity; minimal realism; ardent realism; Filosofi; Philosophy;

    Sammanfattning : This book investigates the argument from queerness against moral realism, famously put forward by J. L. Mackie in Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong (1977). The book can be divided into two parts. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Två drömspel : från Strindbergs modernism till Potters television

    Författare :Staffan Ericson; Johan Fornäs; Helge Rønning; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; modernism; mass culture; art; popular culture; media; television; cultural fields; cultural studies; Frankfurt school; dreamplay; allegory; naturalism; August Strindberg; Walter Benjamin; Raymond Williams; Dennis Potter; Pierre Bourdieu; Media and communication studies; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis studies the relations between modernism, mass culture and visual media. Using the dramatic form of the ”dream play” as focal point, it compares the drama of August Strindberg with the television series of Dennis Potter, and the theories of Walter Benjamin with those of Raymond Williams. LÄS MER