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Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 236 avhandlingar innehållade orden philosophy of language.

1. 21. Enigmatic origins : tracing the theme of historicity through Heidegger's works

   Författare :Hans Ruin; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Heidegger; historicity; phenomenology; hermeneutics; temporality; Augenblick; truth; Ereignis; Theoretical philosophy; Teoretisk filosofi; Theoretical Philosophy; teoretisk filosofi;

   Sammanfattning : The preoccupation with the "historicity" of thought and existence is central to thehermeneutic-phenomenological branch of modern philosophy. Its foremostrepresentative is Martin Heidegger, who in his main work Sein und Zeit (1927)developed a theory of historicity, according to which human beings not only exist inhistory, but are themselves historical. LÄS MER

3. 22. Language and Vision. Using visual information in real-world language situations

   Författare :Richard Andersson; Kognitionsvetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; language; commmunication; visual context; visual world; pragmatics; ecological validity;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation is about the role of visual context information in communication. All accounts of language processing and communication agree that visual context is beneficial for understanding. LÄS MER

4. 23. The Logical Structure of the Moral Concepts : An Essay in Propositional Deontic Logic

   Författare :Karl Pettersson; Erik Carlson; Kent Hurtig; Sven Ove Hansson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; deontic logic; standard deontic logic SDL ; deontic paradoxes; non-Kripkean modal logic; moral dilemmas; supererogation; Hector-Neri Castañeda; practitions; dyadic deontic logic; Practical philosophy; Praktisk filosofi; Praktisk filosofi; Practical Philosophy;

   Sammanfattning : In this thesis, the main focus is on deontic logic as a tool for formal representation of moral reasoning in natural language. The simple standard system of deontic logic (SDL), i.e. LÄS MER

5. 24. Non-linear belief revision : Foundations and applications : by John Cantwell

   Författare :John Cantwell; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Philosophy; Belief revision; iterated belief revision; non-linear belief revision; epistemic entrenchment; plausibility relations; possibility relations; preferential relations; sources of information; contradictory information; non-prioritised belief revision; AGM; Filosofi; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen; teoretisk filosofi; Theoretical Philosophy;

   Sammanfattning : Three structures for belief revision: plausability relations on states, relations of epistemic entrenchment on propositions and systems of spheres (hypertheories), are generalised to the non-linear (non-connected) case. The further generalisation to the case of sets of such structures is also investigated. LÄS MER

7. 25. Mind in Action : Action Representation and the Perception of Biological Motion

   Författare :Paul Hemeren; Högskolan i Skövde; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; action; perception; concept; Cognition; categorization; embodiment; prototype; biological motion; semantics; language; configural processing; basic level; graded structure; typicality; Civics; Samhällsvetenskap; Humanities and Social sciences; Humaniora-samhällsvetenskap; perception; action; concept; Cognition; categorization; embodiment; prototype; biological motion; semantics; language; configural processing; basic level; graded structure; typicality;

   Sammanfattning : The ability to understand and communicate about the actions of others is a fundamental aspect of our daily activity. How can we talk about what others are doing? What qualities do different actions have such that they cause us to see them as being different or similar? What is the connection between what we see and the development of concepts and words or expressions for the things that we see? To what extent can two different people see and talk about the same things? Is there a common basis for our perception, and is there then a common basis for the concepts we form and the way in which the concepts become lexicalized in language? The broad purpose of this thesis is to relate aspects of perception, categorization and language to action recognition and conceptualization. LÄS MER