Essays about: "indeterminacy"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 14 essays containing the word indeterminacy.

1. 6. Problems for Michael Gill’s semantic pluralism : The ostensibility of certain moral agreements and disagreements

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Filosofiska institutionen

   Author : Simon Engström; [2020]
   Keywords : Semantic pluralism; meta-ethics; metaethics; semantics; cognitivism; non-cognitivism; Michael Gill; Walter Sinnott-Armstrong; moral disagreement; ostensibility; Semantisk pluralism; meta-etik; metaetik; semantik; kognitivism; icke-kognitivism; Michael Gill; Walter Sinnott-Armstrong; moralisk oenighet; skenbarhet;

   Abstract : This paper concerns the semantic branch of meta-ethics, and examines a version of so called semantic pluralism advocated by Michael Gill. Briefly put, Gill suggests that ordinary people’s usage of moral terms is rather messy in the sense that the meaning of moral terms can vary not only between different people, but also for one and the same person in different contexts. READ MORE

3. 7. Otro Mundo es Posible - Transcultural Tongues and Times of Change

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Clara Nepper Winther; [2018]
   Keywords : Emancipatory social change; time horizons; social movements; indigenous resistances; concrete utopias; system critique; participatory ethnography; neocolonialism; ontology of the possible; indeterminacy; Marichuy; CNI; CIG; EZLN; Zapatismo; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : In an era of economic globalization shaped by hegemonic capitalism, resistance movements introduce different alternatives for a life beyond capitalism. The powerful and dominant system logic criticizes such movements for being utopian dreamers with no pragmatic sense of plausible social change. READ MORE

4. 8. Justice and Politics – The ICC’s territorial jurisdiction over occupied Palestinian territory

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

   Author : Jack Parsland; [2016]
   Keywords : International Law; Folkrätt; Criminal Law; Straffrätt; ICC; Jurisdiction; Israel; Palestine; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : The subject of this thesis concerns the ICC’s jurisdiction over the occupied Palestinian territories, a question actualised in recent years due to the Palestinian ICC membership. The thesis is mainly conducted through a traditional legal dogmatic method, the exception being the historical background. READ MORE

5. 9. Rights, Politics and Refugees : The Critical Legal Studies critique of rights and the Swedish shift in asylum and refugee policy of 2015 and 2016

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Etik

   Author : Hannes Svedberg; [2016]
   Keywords : critical legal studies; international law; human rights; Duncan Kennedy; Martti Koskenniemi; refugees; asylum; jurisprudence.;

   Abstract : This thesis engages and scrutinizes critiques of rights developed in Critical Legal Studies scholarship and critical international law theory, specifically as formulated in the works of prominent and influential legal theorists Duncan Kennedy and Martti Koskenniemi, and draws on them to grapple with the changes that Swedish refugee and asylum policy went through during the fall/winter of 2015 and 2016. During this period, a series of drastic and far-reaching restrictions were enacted. READ MORE

6. 10. Experienced Intensity throughCharacter Description in Stephen King’s Cell

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur

   Author : Niclas Green; [2015]
   Keywords : narratology; apocalypse; zombies; horror; intensity; reader response theory; character descriptions; psychological reader response; subjective reader response;

   Abstract : This essay investigates experienced intensity through character description and development in Stephen King’s Cell. The thesis of the essay is that a deliberately produced narrative indeterminacy, used mainly on the level of character descriptions, is what produces intensity by holding the readers of Cell in suspense, i.e. READ MORE