Sökning: "skepticism"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 34 avhandlingar innehållade ordet skepticism.

  1. 1. Interpretive Skepticism : Stanley Cavell, New Criticism, and Literary Interpretation

    Författare :Ingeborg Löfgren; Torsten Pettersson; Patrik Mehrens; Niklas Forsberg; Toril Moi; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; interpretive skepticism; aesthetic skepticism; poetic skepticism; literary interpretation; interpretive theory; skepticism; Stanley Cavell; New Criticism; Cleanth Brooks; Monroe C. Beardsley; fraudulence; modernism; escape to theory; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    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

  3. 2. Groundless knowledge : a Humean solution to the problem of skepticism

    Författare :Henrik Bohlin; Alastari Hannay; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; skepticism; Hume; Wittgenstein; externalism; Strawson; naturalistic epistemology; Theoretical philosophy; Teoretisk filosofi; Theoretical Philosophy; teoretisk filosofi; Philosophy subjects;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of the present study is to develop a solution to the problem of skepticism about the external world ("skepticism", for short), inspired primarily by Hume's "skeptical solution" to the problem of skepticism about induction, but also by epistemological externalism and Wittgenstein's discussion of skeptical doubts in On Certainty. The author accepts certain elements in P. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Guiding Concepts : Essays on Normative Concepts, Knowledge, and Deliberation

    Författare :Olle Risberg; Erik Carlson; Andrew Reisner; Wlodek Rabinowicz; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; action-guidance; adherence; all things considered ought; alternative normative concepts; conceptual engineering; debunking; deliberation; disagreement; epistemic pluralism; epistemology; ethics; external world skepticism; idealization; metaethics; meta-skepticism; moral skepticism; normativity; ought; reasons; response-dependence; uncertainty; Filosofi; Philosophy;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis addresses a range of questions about normativity, broadly understood. Recurring themes include (i) the idea of normative ‘action-guidance’, and the connection between normativity and motivational states, (ii) the possibility of normative knowledge and its role in deliberation, and (iii) the question of whether (and if so, how) normative concepts can themselves be evaluated. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Att beskriva rätten : En kommentar till försök att ge en generell beskrivning av rätten

    Författare :Reidar Andreasson; Aleksander Peczenik; Henrik Zahle; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Jurisprudence; Allmän rättslära; allmän rättslära; epistemologi; postmodernism; pragmatism; relativism; rättsfilosofi; skepticism; Jurisprudence; Allmän rättslära;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis suggests that it is reasonable to ask why we should try to give a general description of law. It attempts to turn our attention away from general descriptions of the law, to the approach that has made us present and use such descriptions. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Känslans röst : Det melodramatiska i Selma Lagerlöfs romankonst

    Författare :Maria Karlsson; Anders Öhman; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Literature; Selma Lagerlöf; melodrama; gender; feminism; fin-de-siècle; axpressionism; skepticism; drama; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

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