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Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 15 avhandlingar innehållade orden problem of other minds.
11. Self-Knowledge/Self-Regulation/Self-Control: A Ubiquitous Computing Perspective
Sammanfattning : This thesis is about self-knowledge, self-regulation and self-control. All three of these terms are easily understandable, and apply to situations in our daily lives (like misjudging one’s own competence at retiling the bathroom floor, or feeling the anxiety and thrill of doing unsupervised work, or guiltily hitting the snooze-button for the fifth time, and missing half a day of school). LÄS MER
12. Interpretive Skepticism : Stanley Cavell, New Criticism, and Literary Interpretation
Sammanfattning : This dissertation explores and analyzes interpretive skepticism in literary theory. It argues that traditional interpretive theories and debates often harbor unacknowledged forms of skeptical thinking and arguments. As these forms of skepticism are seldom recognized as skepticism, the problem tends to remain hidden and unresolved. LÄS MER
13. Making music together : An interactionist perspective on small-group performance in jazz
Sammanfattning : This dissertation investigates and discusses music-making among players in contemporary small-group contexts in the world of jazz performance. It focuses on how jazz performers symbolically create meanings in their consciousnesses sociomusically and sociovisuaily in face-to-face playing situations which continuously flow into one another. LÄS MER
14. Modeling prediction and pattern recognition in the early visual and olfactory systems
Sammanfattning : Our senses are our mind's window to the outside world and determine how we perceive our environment.Sensory systems are complex multi-level systems that have to solve a multitude of tasks that allow us to understand our surroundings. LÄS MER
15. Imagining a Place in Nature: Using Evolution to Explain the Early Evolutionary Imagination in Literature
Sammanfattning : After Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, Victorian literature overflowed with images of man’s new place in nature. Those images can be explained by modern research that builds on Darwin’s theory: the evolutionary social sciences and evolutionary literary theory. LÄS MER