Essays about: "sceptics"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 essays containing the word sceptics.

  1. 1. Perceptions of eco-labelling among the Swedish food sector : a Q-study to identify challenges and incentives among food processors, retailers, and label organisations

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

    Author : Lina Larsson; [2021]
    Keywords : Eco-label; sustainable consumption; green purchase intention; informed purchase decision; ecosystem services; Q-methodology;

    Abstract : Eco-labelling is a promising approach to promote sustainable consumption. Despite a growing concern for the environmental consequences of food production, the use of eco-labels has remained low. READ MORE

  3. 2. What the Sceptics Believed : On the notion of belief in Sextus Empiricus’ Pyrrhoniai hypotyposeis

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för teoretisk filosofi

    Author : Vincent Flink Amble-Naess; [2021]
    Keywords : Sextus Empiricus; sceptics; epistemology; ancient philosophy; history of philosophy;

    Abstract : In this thesis I try to answer the question of what attitude the ancient sceptics had towards the notion of belief. I concern myself exclusively with Pyrrhonic scepticism, as it was described by Sextus Empiricus in his book Pyrrhoniai hypotyposeis. READ MORE

  4. 3. Climate action or climate scepticism? : A study on how Scandinavian populist radical right parties approaches the climate issue in their manifestos

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)

    Author : Joanna Toll; [2020]
    Keywords : Radical right-wing populism; Populist radical right parties; Scandinavia; Sweden Democrats; Danish People’s Party; Progress Party; climate measure; climate sceptics; climate scepticism;

    Abstract : This thesis examines and explains how the three Scandinavian populist radical right parties, the Sweden Democrats, the Danish People’s Party and the Progress Party approaches the climate issue in their latest manifesto, and how it has changed over a period of ten years. By means of a content analysis and categorisations of climate scepticism, climate omission and climate measures, this thesis finds explicit evidence of climate scepticism in the Progress Party whereas there is no such evidence for the Sweden Democrats and the Danish People’s Party completely omits the issue. READ MORE

  5. 4. Treacherous Words : How Climate Change Conspiracy Sceptics use Conceptual Metaphors to Extinguish our Future

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

    Author : Ida-Maria Chvostek; [2019]
    Keywords : United States of America; conservative think tanks; critical metaphor analysis; IPCC; framing;

    Abstract : This study examined the metaphors used in contemporary American conservative discourse between October 2018 and March 2019, focusing on material published by conservative think tanks (CTTs) and tweets made by Republican senators in relation to climate change. For the CTTs, a domain-specific corpus (36,388 words) was compiled and a smaller corpus (3967 words) was assembled based on 135 tweets. READ MORE

  6. 5. Nasty Peers and Smart Sceptics: The cognitive effects of low-quality discussions in comments sections on social media

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för marknadsföring och strategi

    Author : Olivia Backsell; Ellen Wallin; [2018]
    Keywords : social media; comments section; low-quality online discussions; priming; cognitive ability;

    Abstract : In the social media world of fake news, filter bubbles, and online bullying, people have a hard time navigating through, and keeping an objective distance to, what is right and wrong. So far, only a few researchers have examined the effects of social media on users' thinking, showing that people adapt to antisocial behaviour or poor writing in comments sections. READ MORE