Essays about: "experimental philosophy"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 15 essays containing the words experimental philosophy.

  1. 11. Higg Index Learning Board Game

    University essay from Högskolan i Borås/Institutionen Textilhögskolan

    Author : AMILIA TÅNGNE; IRINA DOBROSMYSLOVA; [2013]
    Keywords : Sustainability; Fashion supply chain; Higg Index; Learning; Board game;

    Abstract : The background of this project is the need of a better understanding of what sustainable development is and what tools can be used in the fashion supply chain to decrease its ecological footprint. For that purpose the researchers have endeavored to create a new learning board game for fashion industry students that could teach them the basic principles of sustainability and Higg Index. READ MORE

  3. 12. Flute Lines: Experiencing Reconstructions Concerning Music

    University essay from Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper, KV

    Author : Frances Gill; [2012]
    Keywords : Experimental archaeology; music archaeology; flute; reconstruction; experience; senses; tacit knowledge; lines; re-enactment; time travel; praxis.;

    Abstract : This study elevates the importance of experience, the senses and tacit knowledge in relation to archaeology with a focus on music. With this I take up a thread drawing on theoretical aspects of Polanyi’s ‘Tacit Dimension’ and ‘Ingold’s Lines’. READ MORE

  4. 13. Testing the Explanation Hypothesis using Experimental Methods

    University essay from Institutionen för datavetenskap

    Author : Erik Johansson; [2010]
    Keywords : Moral Psychology; Experimental Philosophy;

    Abstract : The Explanation Hypothesis is a psychological hypothesis about how people attribute moral responsibility. The hypothesis makes general claims about everyday thinking of moral responsibility and is also said to have important consequences for related philosophical issues. READ MORE

  5. 14. The Magic Moral Survey: Choice blindness in the moral domain

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Kognitionsvetenskap

    Author : Thomas Strandberg; [2009]
    Keywords : Change Blindness; Choice Blindness; Consciousness; Confabulation; Decision Making; Experimental Psychology; Introspection; Magic; Moral; X-Phi.; Philosophy and Religion;

    Abstract : It has been argued that the choice blindness effect is only present in quick and intuitive tasks such as preference decisions for faces or shapes, and not when it comes to more important and deliberative decisions involving issues like moral, political or religious beliefs. To answers this criticism, using a method inspired by close up magic, we investigated whether participants would notice changes made to previously evaluated moral dilemmas, and also if these manipulations would in any way affect the participants' explanations of their previous evaluations. READ MORE

  6. 15. Narrating a New World : How Microscopic Experience was Communicated through the Words and Images of Robert Hooke’s Micrographia

    University essay from Institutionen för idé- och lärdomshistoria

    Author : Jacob Orrje; [2008]
    Keywords : Micrographia; Robert Hooke 1635-1703 ; experimental experience; communicating science; English restoration; scientific text;

    Abstract : This essay revolves around Micrographia written by the English 17th century experimental philosopher Robert Hooke and the way it mediated microscopic experience. The focus of this study is on one hand the strategies Hooke used to communicate experience and on the other the responses by some of Hooke’s contemporary readers. READ MORE