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6. The code of Concord : Emerson's search for universal laws
Sammanfattning : The purpose of this work is to detect a pattern: the concordance of Ethics and Aesthetics, Poetics and Politics in the most influential American thinker of the nineteenth century. It is an attempt to trace a basic concept of the Emersonian transcendentalist doctrine, its development, its philosophical meaning and practical implications. LÄS MER
7. Max Weber och idealtypernas nödvändighet
Sammanfattning : This thesis has two aims: first, to investigate Max Weber’s account of “objective validity” in the cultural sciences; second, to elaborate a more concrete version of this position using Ludwig Wittgenstein’s later remarks on language.Chapter 1 introduces Weber’s idea of objective validity and proposes that in order to understand Weber’s idea of ideal types, we need to re-evaluate Weber’s understanding of the term Bedeutung in “The ‘Objectivity’ of knowledge in Social Science and Social Policy”. LÄS MER
8. Reconnecting with nature through concepts : On the construction of values in the ecosystem services paradigm
Sammanfattning : The alarming rates of extinction and degrading ecosystems call for new means of understanding and accounting for how people depend on nature. Ecosystem services (ES) is a contested but widely applied concept aiming to connect ecosystem functions to human wellbeing and to assess and account for how nature matters in decision-making. LÄS MER
9. Formation of scientific problems : towards a critical theory of scientific belief
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10. Praktiserad Reflexivitet: en vetenskapsteoretisk studie av forskningspolitisk forskning och vetenskapssociologi : Reflexivity in Practice: A Study of Science Policy Research and Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with the notion of reflexivity in the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge (SSK). Since the 1970s the SSK has developed theoretical and empirical tools to study scientific knowledge purely as a natural phenomenon. LÄS MER