Swedish theses in philosophy 2022

About Perceptible Qualities (Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University), investigates Aristotle's views on the ontological status of perceptible qualities and finds that Aristotle assigns a perception-independent existence to these qualities.In Norms and Alternatives: Logical Aspects of Normative Reasoning (Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University), Karl Nygren investigates several new semantic models for deontic logic, with a particular emphasis on models than can elucidate free-choice permissions and obligations.Giacomo Barlucchi has written Computational Content of Fixed Points (licentiate thesis, Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg), in which he studies the computational content of fixed points in two logical systems, one of which is related to intuitionistic mathematics and the other to -calculus.Trond A. Tjstheim's thesis, Contours of Cognition (Department of Philosophy, Lund University), investigates the nature of cognitive processes, emphasizing their roles as means to succeed in accessing food resources and avoiding predation.In Reassessing Realism: On the Ontology of the Unobservable (Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University), Simon Allzn analyzes several aspects of the use of inference to the best explanation to justify scientific realism.The thesis also discusses the justification of inferences supporting the existence of unobservable objects

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