Essays about: "Dispositional Terms"

Found 3 essays containing the words Dispositional Terms.

  1. 1. Shozo Ohmori’s 'Fancy' : A Third Mode of Awareness

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Filosofiska institutionen

    Author : Robin Lagelius; [2019]
    Keywords : Awareness; Fancy; Perception; Conception; Perceptual Conception; Three-Dimensional; Three-Dimensional Objects; Three-Dimensional Space; Three-Dimensionality; Monism of Emergence; Shozo Ohmori; Shōzō Ōmori; Japanese Philosophy; Asian Philosophy; David Hume; Contrary-to-Fact Conditional Cases; Dispositional Terms; Other Minds; Historical Horizon; Atomic Conception of Time; Against Atomic Conception of Time; Awareness Natalis; Awareness Pluralis; Awareness in Motion; Awareness Compromised; Epistemological Concerns; Japansk filosofi; asiatisk filosofi;

    Abstract : This thesis is an investigation into the phenomenon which Shozo Ohmori (1921-1997) considered “a peculiar manner of awareness”, and to which he attributed the term ‘fancy’. The objective is to achieve an approximate understanding of Ohmori’s theory of ‘fancy’, as it relates to awareness of entities in three-dimensional space, and the extensions mentioned in his only publication in English: “Beyond Hume’s Fancy” (1974). READ MORE

  3. 2. Adult Education of Internally Displaced Persons in Medellin, Colombia: Factors Affecting Access and Participation

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för beteendevetenskap och lärande

    Author : Shaun John Cooper; [2018]
    Keywords : IDP; Adult Education; Colombia;

    Abstract : This study aims to identify barriers to access and participation of adult internally displaced persons (IDPs) within the metropolitan area of Medellin, Colombia, as perceived by a sample of advisors, administrators and educators working with this population. Displacement often presents substantial barriers to education and IDPs fulfilling their human rights. READ MORE

  4. 3. The absolutist criteria of Roderick Firth's ideal observer theory

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier

    Author : Mikael Barclay; [2016]
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    Abstract : Meta-ethical theories take a number of different ontological, epistemic and semantic positions. In 1952 Roderick Firth published the article “Ethical absolutism and the ideal observer”, in which he defends and shares his own version of a theory on the meaning of ethical expressions, referred to as the ideal observer theory (IOT). READ MORE