Sökning: "putnam"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 13 avhandlingar innehållade ordet putnam.

1. 1. Attempts to Bridge the Gaps : Opportunities and Challenges in the Communicative Constitution of Organizations

   Författare :Therese Hedman Monstad; Mats Edenius; Amelie Hössjer; Josef Pallas; Peder Hård af Segerstad; Linda L. Putnam; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Organizational Communication; Communicative Constitution of Organizations CCO ; Empowerment Process; Coorientation; Ventriloqual Approach; Tension-Centered Approach; Tensions; Communication-Power Relationships; Participation; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Media and Communication Studies;

   Sammanfattning : Globalization and technological advancements continue to challenge contemporary organizations’ aims to balance stability and change. As a response to this challenge, organizations often turn to empowerment and participatory processes. Current research emphasizes the need for enhanced communication in these processes. LÄS MER

3. 2. Hilary Putnam on Meaning and Necessity

   Författare :Anders Öberg; Sören Stenlund; Sharon Rider; Pierre Wagner; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; philosophy of language; philosophy of science; philosophy of mathematics; Hilary Putnam; W.V. Quine; Rudolf Carnap; realism; anti-realism; Theoretical Philosophy; Teoretisk filosofi;

   Sammanfattning : In this dissertation on Hilary Putnam's philosophy, I investigate his development regarding meaning and necessity, in particular mathematical necessity. Putnam has been a leading American philosopher since the end of the 1950s, becoming famous in the 1960s within the school of analytic philosophy, associated in particular with the philosophy of science and the philosophy of language. LÄS MER

4. 3. Att fånga det flyktiga : Om existentiell mening och objektivitet

   Författare :Lena Edlund; Eberhard Herrmann; Carl-Henric Grenholm; Tage Kurtén; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :Philosophy of religion; existential meaning; inside-perspective; enclosure; transcendence; identity; the Other; body-subject; the Time that remains; objectivity; objectivity process; open textured concept; truth; ficciones; language; Caputo; Davidson; Derrida; Heidegger; Herrmann; Lynch; Putnam; Searle; Wyschogrod; Religionsfilosofi; Philosophy of Religion; religionsfilosofi;

   Sammanfattning : This work attempts an answer to two questions. Firstly, is it possible to experience meaning when everything is transient? And secondly, in what way is objectivity possible when it comes to such phenomena as existential meaning? The questions originate from our insideperspective, and it is from what we have experienced ourselves that we try to make intelligible existential meaning. LÄS MER

5. 4. Gud för oss : Om den non-metafysiska realismen och dess konsekvenser för religionsfilosofins uppgift och natur

   Författare :Karin Johannesson; Catharina Stenqvist; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; metaphysical realism; alethic realism; internal realism; anti-realism; nonmetaphysical realism; God; existential questions; philosophy of religion; W. V. Quine; H. Putnam; W. P. Alston; M. Dummett; D. Davidson; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi;

   Sammanfattning : The question this study seeks to answer is whether a rejection of metaphysical realism implies that it is impossible for us to make statements about an independent reality that we share with one another, statements that may be evidence-transcendent truths. Some of the problems that are discussed in the philosophy of religion presuppose metaphysical realism. LÄS MER

7. 5. Gud och vardagsspråket : En religionsfilosofisk förutsättningsanalys

   Författare :Linda Fromm Wikström; Eberhard Herrmann; Karin Johannesson; Olof Franck; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Truth; reality; language; everyday language; conceptual scheme; metaphysical realism; anti-realism; metaphysical anti-realism; non-realism; God; presuppositions; transcendental argument; philosophy of religion; Donald Davidson; Michael P. Lynch; Eberhard Herrmann; Hilary Putnam; Alessandra Tanesini; Karin Johannesson; Erica Appelros.; Philosophy of religion; Religionsfilosofi; Philosophy of Religion; Religionsfilosofi;

   Sammanfattning : The main purpose of this dissertation is to answer the question of how one can understand the fact that we mean very different things when we say that God exists and when we say that chairs, mountains and trees exist, and that it is still a matter of existence. On the one hand it seems that we talk about the same thing when we say that something exists, irrespective of what it is, on the other hand it seems to be a question of very different things depending on what it is we are talking about as existing. LÄS MER