Sökning: "reductionism"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 16 avhandlingar innehållade ordet reductionism.

  1. 1. Moral Reality. A Defence of Moral Realism

    Författare :Caj Strandberg; Praktisk filosofi; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; epistemology; ideology; Praktisk filosofi; ideologi; kunskapsteori; metafysik; estetik; Morallära; Systematic philosophy; Moral science; Gilbert Harman.; Simon Blackburn; Michael Smith; J. L. Mackie; G. E. Moore; David Brink; Nicholas Sturgeon; moral explanation; argument from queerness; metaphysics; supervenience; fetishist argument; externalism; internalism; moral motivation; moral properties; open question argument; moral reason; moral disagreement; naturalism; reductionism; error-theory; Cornell realism; moral realism; non-cognitivism; meta-ethics; ethics; aesthetics;

    Sammanfattning : The main aim of this thesis is to defend moral realism. In chapter 1, I argue that moral realism is best understood as the view that (1) moral sentences have truth-value (cognitivism), (2) there are moral properties that make some moral sentences true (success-theory), and (3) moral properties are not reducible to non-moral properties (non-reductionism). LÄS MER

  3. 2. Negotiating healthy eating : Lay, stakeholder and government constructions of official dietary guidance in Sweden

    Författare :Karolin Bergman; Paulina Nowicka; Elin Lövestam; Signild Vallgårda; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; dietary guidance; official dietary guidelines; healthy eating discourse; holistic dietary advice; reductionism; Kostvetenskap; Food; Nutrition and Dietetics;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis approaches dietary guidance as socio-culturally produced and comprised in a specific historical context. The work is premised on the position that ideas and understandings of healthy eating are discursively constructed, and that we form our understandings of the world, ourselves and others through discourse. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Aristotle’s Realism About Perceptible Qualities

    Författare :Ekrem Çetinkaya; Pauliina Remes; Henrik Lagerlund; Katerina Ierodiakonou; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Aristotle; perceptible qualities; realism; reductionism; perception-independence; causal efficacy; Filosofi; Philosophy; Philosophy; with specialization in history of philosophy; Filosofi med filosofihistorisk inriktning;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is about the nature, and more specifically the ontological status of the objects of perception (that is, perceptible qualities) in Aristotle. It defends a realist interpretation. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Ett mönster i livets väv : Tro och religion i ljuset av Wittgensteins filosofi : [faith and religion in the light of the philosophy of Wittgenstein]

    Författare :Stefan Eriksson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; nature of religion; reductionism; primitive reactions; Wittgenstein; D.Z. Phillips; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religionsfilosofi; Philosophy of Religion;

    Sammanfattning : This study evaluates Wittgenstein's impact on the philosophy of religion. The aim of the study is to clarify what it means to say that the method suggested by Wittgenstein in his seminal work Philosophical Investigations makes possible a study of religion which is not reductionistic, but rather is adequate concerning religious phenomena. LÄS MER

  7. 5. SACRED or NEURAL? : Neuroscientific Explanations of Religious Experience: A Philosophical Evaluation

    Författare :Anne L. C. Runehov; Mikael Stenmark; J. Wentzel van Huyssteen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Philosophy of religion; Neuroscience; Neurotheology; Persinger; d Aquili; Newberg; neuroimaging technology; epilepsy; meditation; explanatory models; reductionism; religious experience; science and theology; Religionsfilosofi; Philosophy of religion; Religionsfilosofi; Philosophy of Religion; religionsfilosofi;

    Sammanfattning : Neuroscientists place different explanations at our disposal of what religious experiences are. Some neuroscientists explain religious experiences in terms of consequences of a damaged, malfunctioning or mentally deranged brain. Others explain them in terms of existential crises. LÄS MER