Sökning: "normative instability"
Hittade 4 avhandlingar innehållade orden normative instability.
1. The Collective Archives of Mind : An Exploration of Reasons from Metaethics to Social Ontology
Sammanfattning : This monograph discusses the question of what it is to be a reason – mainly in practical ethics – and proposes an original contribution to metaethics.It critically examines theories of metaethical realism, constructivism and error theory and identifies several misunderstandings or unclarities in contemporary debates. LÄS MER
2. A normative application of multi-modal systems thinking to a non-viable social system
Sammanfattning : This research evaluates how multi-modal systems thinking, a normative approach to systems science, answers to the theoretical, practical and ethical demands emerging from research in sustainability and to systems scientists concerned with the norms of life and ethics. The thesis starts with a broad survey of sustainability literature and concludes that this multi-modal systems methodology, which has emerged during the last decade, has a significant contribution to make. LÄS MER
3. Das Phantastische als Erzählstrategie in vier zeitgenössischen Romanen
Sammanfattning : The present dissertation investigates the use of the fantastic and its functions in contemporary prose, the initial hypothesis being that the fantastic is not historically exhausted, but continues to be productive. The major part of this study consists of a close reading of four novels printed between 1995 and 2001: Marie Hermanson’s Värddjuret (1995), Majgull Axelsson’s Aprilhäxan (1997), Karen Duve’s Regenroman (1999) and Elfriede Kern’s Schwarze Lämmer (2001). LÄS MER
4. Ankle fractures. Outcome and rehabilitation. A physiotherapeutic perspective
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this work was to evaluate symptoms, subjectively scored function and physical outcome in patients with surgically treated ankle fractures. Another aim was also to evaluate the effects of a standardised but individually suited supervised training program. LÄS MER