Sökning: "reductionism"

Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 16 avhandlingar innehållade ordet reductionism.

  1. 6. Causal after all : a model of mental causation for dualists

    Författare :Bram Vaassen; Pär Sundström; Torfinn Thomesen Huvenes; Gunnar Björnsson; David Papineau; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Mental Causation; Dualism; Non-Reductionism; Causal Exclusion; Causation; Interventionism; Negative Causation; Omissions; Neo-Russellianism; Causation and Physics;

    Sammanfattning : In this dissertation, I develop and defend a model of causation that allows for dualist mental causation in worlds where the physical domain is physically complete.In Part I, I present the dualist ontology that will be assumed throughout the thesis and identify two challenges for models of mental causation within such an ontology: the exclusion worry and the common cause worry. LÄS MER

  3. 7. Mortal Beings : On the Metaphysics and Value of Death

    Författare :Jens Johansson; Folke Tersman; Nils Holtug; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; animalism; death; deprivation approach; Epicureanism; personal identity; special concern; symmetry argument; Practical philosophy; Praktisk filosofi;

    Sammanfattning : This book is a contribution to the debate of the metaphysics and value of death.The metaphysical problems of death are closely connected with the debate of personal identity. In Chapter Two, I defend the view that human persons are human organisms. LÄS MER

  4. 8. Modrande och praxis: en feministfilosofisk undersökning : Mothering and praxis : a feminist philosopphical investigation

    Författare :Ulla M Holm; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Mothering; Ethics; Social pratice ; Praxis; Care; Habitus; Ruddick; Aristotle;

    Sammanfattning : This feminist-philosophical treatise on mothering is concerned with what mothers typically do in nursing children and caring for them. It inquires into the norms they follow and the values and virtues they embrace, not merely in this society but in all societies in which children are cared for. LÄS MER

  5. 9. Planning, Projects, Practice : A Human Geography of the Stockholm Local Investment Programme in Hammarby Sjöstad

    Författare :Jonas R Bylund; Elisabeth Lilja; Bo Lenntorp; Stefan Anderberg; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Stockholm; LIP; Hammarby Sjöstad; Sustainability; Innovation; Planning; Policy; Translation; Actor-Network Theory; Laboratory; Project; Urban Specialists; Human geography; Kulturgeografi;

    Sammanfattning : Programmes and policies to support ecological sustainable development and the practice of implementation is a question of innovation rather than known and taken for granted procedure. This thesis argues a priori models concerning stability in the social sciences, and human geography especially, are less able to help us understand this practice and planning in such unstable situations. LÄS MER

  7. 10. Normativa aspekter av individers begreppsbildning : Hur gymnasieelever och studenter skapar och förhåller sig till idéer om genus och nation

    Författare :Jonas von Reybekiel Trostek; Max Scheja; Ulla Riis; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Warm conceptual change; normativity; contextualization; intentional analysis; gender; nation; upper secondary school students; university students; pedagogik med inriktning mot utbildningsvetenskap; Educational Science;

    Sammanfattning : The cognitive models that research on conceptual change has generated have been the subject of criticism, suggesting that these reflect an unrealistic view of learning as an overly “cold” and isolated process. Accordingly, representatives of this criticism suggest that research on conceptual change should investigate to what extent the cold cognition relates to “warm” affective constructs. LÄS MER