Sökning: "Richard Rorty"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 uppsatser innehållade orden Richard Rorty.

  1. 1. Achievements of the Rational : A comparative argumentation analysis of witch hunts and conspiracy theories

    Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Emil Björk; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Rationality; Debate; Vocabulary; Human achievement; Normative development; QAnon; Witch hunts;

    Sammanfattning : According to philosopher Richard Rorty, rational debate and reasoning has limited impact on normative development of society. This seems to be at odds with modern design of democratic institutions, which are built to facilitate rational debate. Through a comparative study of two cases, the present paper examines Rorty’s theory. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Between given and created value : Finding new grounds for justifying human rights

    Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Författare :Rita Rubnell Spolander; [2019]
    Nyckelord :value; metaphysics; philosophy of language; philosophical anthropology; conceptual schemes; primitive reactions; agency; värde; metafysik; språkfilosofi; filosofisk antropologi; primitiva reaktioner; agens;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis aims at formulating a human rights justification based on the assumption that disbelief in human rights is found in communicative grounds, rather than some sort of unreasonable evil. I first identify what I believe to be a flaw in the communicative strength of existing human rights justifications in explaining why rights should be. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Historia och det förflutnas spegel : Pragmatiska perspektiv på det senaste halvseklets historieteoretiska debatt

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

    Författare :Bruno Hamnell; [2015]
    Nyckelord :theory of history; historical debate; Richard Rorty; meta-epistemology; pragmatism; historiography; historieteori; Scandia; Historisk tidskrift; Richard Rorty; pragmatism; meta-epistemologi; historiografi;

    Sammanfattning : This master thesis studies debates on historical theory in Sweden ́s two main historical journals, Historisk tidskrift and Scandia, during the last fifty years. The study investigates discussions of epistemological questions, the purposes of historical writing, and the influence of postmodernism. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Putnam's Moral Realism

    Kandidat-uppsats, Institutionen för kommunikation och information

    Författare :Björn Persson; [2013]
    Nyckelord :Moral realism; moral epistemology; relativism; idealized rational acceptability; ideal terminus; fact-value distinction; Hilary Putnam; Richard Rorty;

    Sammanfattning : Moral realism is the view that there are such things as moral facts. Moral realists have attempted to combat the skeptical problem of relativism, which is that the truth of an ethical value judgment is often, or always, subjective, that is, relative to the parties it involves. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Normalvetenskapen och dess förutsättningar : Två grader av relativism? - En jämförelse av Thomas Kuhns och Richard Rortys kunskapsteori.

    Kandidat-uppsats, Institutionen för kultur och lärande

    Författare :Nils Etzler; [2012]
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    Sammanfattning : All since Thomas Kuhn’s strongly influential The Structure of Scientific Revolutions the Philosophy of Science and –even more so –the Social Sciences have contained a greater amount of theories that could be described as more or less relativistic, meaning that the standards of justification or truth thereafter more often were said to be relative to language, culture, or biological makeup. One of the more elaborate ways of developing Thomas Kuhn’s theories in a more relativistic direction ismade by the philosopher Richard Rorty. LÄS MER