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  1. 6. Animal Farm, Truth and The Power of Language : Teaching Literature, Logic and Epistemology Together

    Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Författare :Anton Olsson; [2022]
    Nyckelord :philosophy; EFL; upper secondary school; logical reasoning; critical thinking; George Orwell; Animal Farm; testimonial knowledge; objective and historical truth; fallacies; epistemology; literary themes; the power of language;

    Sammanfattning : Language can create realities, and the totalitarian pigs in George Orwell’s Animal Farm tend to use language in order to control the oppressed animals’ minds and world view. Orwell’s dystopian fable Animal Farm repeatedly deals with manipulative language, and so an analysis of the animal characters’ language may help upper secondary students to understand themes such as the power of language and truth. LÄS MER

  3. 7. Lucas and Penrose vs. Computationalism: A Refutation of the Gödel-arguments

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Teoretisk filosofi

    Författare :Leonard Nygren Löhndorf; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Computationalism; Mechanism; Kurt Gödel; logic; incompleteness; metamathematics; Philosophy and Religion;

    Sammanfattning : John Lucas and Roger Penrose attempted to refute Computationalism, the theory that the human mind is a computational system. They did so by utilizing meta-mathematical proofs by Kurt Gödel. LÄS MER

  4. 8. Is Externalism Compatible with the KK-thesis?

    Magister-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Teoretisk filosofi

    Författare :Balder Ask Zaar; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Self-intimating knowledge; Cartesian Non-Cartesian knowledge; Externalism s compatibility with the KK-thesis; Williamson s anti-luminosity arguments; The nature of human knowledge.; Philosophy and Religion;

    Sammanfattning : In this paper I discuss the compatibility of externalism about epistemic justification with the well-known KK-thesis in epistemic logic. A weaker form of the KK-thesis (if one knows, one is also in a position to know that one knows) is first defended against Williamson's anti-luminosity arguments. LÄS MER

  5. 9. Consumer responsibilization in sustainable fashion communications on Instagram : A multimodal discourse analysis

    Master-uppsats, Högskolan i Borås/Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi

    Författare :Vera Sofie Thallinger; Lusanda Ntintili; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Instagram; Social Media; Multimodal Discourse; Consumer Responsibilization; Sustainable Fashion; Cultural Marketing;

    Sammanfattning : Background, Problem Statement and Gap - Political agendas informed by the negative impacts of increasing consumption (including fashion consumption) have allocated major parts of the responsibility to contribute to sustainable development to individual consumers. These agendas subsequently highlighted the need to provide more information, including through media and social media, about the negative impacts of fashion consumption - and consumption at large - to the consumer. LÄS MER

  7. 10. Reimagining Play Reconstructing Education : Exploring discourse in The LEGO Group as Media Producer: A qualitative discourse analysis, examining constructions of children, LEGO self-representation and ideology, and 21st Century education.

    Magister-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Författare :Caroline Pearsall; Radmila Canic; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Education - Competent Child - Commodified Child - Learning through Play - 21st Century - Technology - Brick Ideology - The LEGO Group - Iconic Brand;

    Sammanfattning : This paper analyzes how the Lego Group discourse portrays children, education, play, themselves and attempts to reveal corresponding ideologies surrounding the brick. The LEGO Group claim equality, honesty and transparency in their communications, and within their business ecosystem, at their core are their traditional family values, creating an intriguing and multi-layered discourse. LÄS MER