Essays about: "thought-experiment"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 essays containing the word thought-experiment.
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1. Genius loci : ett verktyg för att bevara platsens identitet
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : Ur ett socialt hållbarhetsperspektiv är platsidentitet viktigt eftersom människor generellt sett inte trivs på generiska platser. I uppsatsen analyserades därför två platser i Uppsala med Genius loci som verktyg för att förstå platsernas identiteter och hur dessa kan bevaras. READ MORE
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2. Gender and Sexuality on Gethen : A Contemporary Analysis of Ursula K le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness
University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)Abstract : Ursula K Le Guin wrote The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) because she wanted to explore the limitations of gender and sexuality in a way that reflected the ongoing epistemic changes in her society. She created the Gethenians, an ambisexual, androgynous species that live most of their life without an assigned sex, making their entire society lack the concept of gender. READ MORE
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3. Individualism and Co-Operation in Thought: Co-Cognitivism as a Defence of Anti-Individualism
University essay from Lunds universitet/Teoretisk filosofiAbstract : Social anti-individualists suggest that the social environment enters into the individuation of psychological contents. This is defended by the now-famous arthritis thought experiment. Nevertheless, counterarguments have been proposed that aim to undermine the thought experiment. READ MORE
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4. Artificially Intelligent Black Boxes in Emergency Medicine : An Ethical Analysis
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för psykologiAbstract : Det blir allt vanligare att föreslå att icke-transparant artificiell intelligens, s.k. black boxes, används inom akutmedicinen. I denna uppsats används etisk analys för att härleda sju riktlinjer för utveckling och användning av black boxes i akutmedicin. READ MORE
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5. The Secret Ingredients to Moral Philosophy: Blood, Sweat, and Tears : On bad enough worst-case scenarios in experimental approximations of John Rawls' Original Position
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : This paper approximates the study of a natural experiment to John Rawls’ thought experiment ‘the original position’ (OP). It argues that laboratory experiments have been unsuccessful in making legitimate approximations of the OP because of their inability to present convincing worst-case scenarios. READ MORE
