Sökning: "philosophy and empirical investigation"

Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 29 avhandlingar innehållade orden philosophy and empirical investigation.

1. 6. Yellow Stars and Trouser Inspections : Jewish Testimonies from Hungary, 1920–1945

   Författare :Laura Palosuo; Maria Ågren; Lars M. Andersson; Karin Hassan Jansson; Tim Cole; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History; Jewish history; Hungary; survivor testimonies; experiences; Holocaust; discrimination; antisemitism; anti-Jewish legislation; persecution; genocide; interwar period; Second World War; gender; age; social class; geographical location; intersectionality; oral history; Historia; History; Historia; Historia; History;

   Sammanfattning : This study analyzes narratives of individual Jewish experiences of discrimination and genocidal violence in Hungary during the period of 1920–1945. The aim is to increase our knowledge and understanding of the events through an investigation of survivor testimonies concerning anti-Jewish laws and the Holocaust. LÄS MER

3. 7. Sammanhangets mening : En empirisk studie av livsåskådningar i föreställningar om genteknik och i berättelser om barnlöshet, assisterad befruktning och adoption

   Författare :Katarina Westerlund; Carl Reinhold Bråkenhielm; Susanne Lundin; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Faiths and ideologies; view of life; life-philosophy; world-view; context; meaning in life; genetics; gene technology; childlessness; in-vitro-fertilisation; adoption; Tros- och livsåskådningsvetenskap; Faith and reason; Tros- och livsåskådningsvetenskap; tros- och livsåskådningsvetenskap; Studies In Faiths and Ideologies;

   Sammanfattning : This present thesis explores the meaning of contexts for views of life. The first aim of the investigation is to describe the existential meaningful content of views of life in perceptions of gene technology and in narratives about childlessness, assisted conception and adoption, as they are articulated in two separate sets of interviews. LÄS MER

4. 8. Muntlighet och minne : Sagatraditionen, kulturhistorien och det kulturella minnets blinda fläck

   Författare :Frederik Wallenstein; Peter Jackson Rova; Birgitta Svensson; Stephen Mitchell; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Cultural memory; collective memory; Assmann; cultural forgetting; continuity; discontinuity; culture; tradition; memory; collective relevance; oral prose; oral tradition; Icelandic sagas; soul conceptions; Old Norse religion; draugar; History of Religion; religionshistoria;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation focuses on two distinct areas of study that do not have a predetermined or necessary connection to each other. The first area concerns issues of more immediate relevance to the cultural history of the Icelandic sagas, whereas the second area concerns issues of more general relevance to cultural memory research (Cultural Memory Studies, Kulturelles Gedächtnis) and what the author perceives as a deficiency or “blind spot” in this theory. LÄS MER

5. 9. Ethics at work : Two essays on the firm's moral responsibilities towards its employees

   Författare :Dan Munter; Sven Ove Hansson; Lars Lindblom; Gert Helgesson; KTH; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ethics; employees; consent; moral responsiblitiy; codes of ethics; philosophy;

   Sammanfattning : Essay I analyses a sample of corporate codes in the Swedish banking sector. The purpose is to investigate the codes’ ethical status. LÄS MER

7. 10. Fysikens filosofi : Diskussioner om Einstein, relativitetsteorin och kvantfysiken i Sverige 1910-1970

   Författare :Thord Silverbark; Sven Widmalm; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History of Ideas; idéhistoria;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation focuses on the reception of the Theory of Relativity and the Quantum Mechanics outside the field of physics, especially in the philosophical community. In the Swedish context, the study shows how the ideas and discussions about these theories belonged to different types of discourses, some existing long before the arrival of modern physics, some shortlived, and some surviving the earliest reception. LÄS MER