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1. 1. Visitor orientation in context

   Författare :Anders Hedman; KTH; []
   Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES;

   Sammanfattning : Building on a detailed philosophical basis, this thesisoffers visitor orientation as an alternative perspective onhuman-computer interaction with a focus on visitors and places.In our modern world we see that computers are no longerexclusively used as tools, but they also allow for theexperience of being visitors in a large variety of places. LÄS MER

3. 2. Philosophical Modernization. Studies in Nordic History of Philosophy 1860-1910

   Författare :Carl-Göran Heidegren; Sociologi; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; history of ideas; modern breakthrough; philosophical modernization; Nordic university philosophy; ideas and institutionalization; differentiation; comparative research; controversy studies; Filosofins historia; idéhistoria; History of philosophy;

   Sammanfattning : The dissertation comprises of five studies in the history of philosophy with primarily a sociological and history of ideas orientation. All the studies fall within the same timeframe, 1860-1910. Furthermore, they all focus on philosophy in the Nordic countries, and university philosophy in particular. LÄS MER

4. 3. The Psychology of Worldviews : Toward a Non-Reductive Science of Personality

   Författare :Artur Nilsson; Institutionen för psykologi; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Worldview; personality; philosophy of life; weltanshauung; life view; ideology; existentialism; non-reductive; humanism; normativism; polarity theory; political psychology; philosophy of science; philosophy of psychology; philosophical orientation; basic assumptions; presuppositions; core assumptions; personal constructs; theoretical psychology; integrative framework; personalism;

   Sammanfattning : Persons are not just mechanical systems of instinctual animalistic proclivities, but also language-producing, existentially aware creatures, whose experiences and actions are drenched in subjective meaning. To understand a human being as a person is to understand him or her as a rational system that wants, fears, hopes, believes, and in other ways imbues the world with meaning, rather than just a mechanical system that is subject to the same chains of cause and effect as other animals. LÄS MER

5. 4. Designing for Adaptable Learning

   Författare :Amir Haj-Bolouri; Lars Svensson; Thomas Winman; Per Flensburg; Högskolan Väst; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Design; action design research; design science research; information systems; integration work; civic orientation; work-integrated learning; e-learning; adaptable learning; Work Integrated Learning; Arbetsintegrerat lärande; Informatik; Informatics;

   Sammanfattning : The research in this thesis emphasizes the endeavor of designing for adaptable learning. Designing for adaptable learning is understood as an overall response to designing for integration work. Designing for integration work is thus classified as a special case of designing for adaptable learning. LÄS MER

7. 5. Kripke on Necessity : A Metaphysical Investigation

   Författare :Kyriakos Theodoridis; Teoretisk filosofi; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ethics; Systematic philosophy; conceivability; mereological identity; ontological character; identity; possible worlds; actuality; properties; ontology; object; contingency; apriori; Metaphysical; epistemic; aesthetics; metaphysics; epistemology; ideology; Systematisk filosofi; etik; estetik; metafysik; kunskapsteori; ideologi; Philosophical logic; Filosofisk logik; logik;

   Sammanfattning : I undertake a metaphysical investigation of Saul Kripke's modern classic, Naming and Necessity (1980). The general problem of my study may be expressed as follows: What is the metaphysical justification of the validity and existence of the pertinent classes of truths, the necessary a posteriori and the contingent a priori, according to the Kripke Paradigm? My approach is meant to disclose the logical and ontological principles underlying Kripke's arguments for the necessary a posteriori and the contingent a priori respectively. LÄS MER