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The Demographic Objection and the Limits of Competence
(2024-02-23)Epistocrats argue that political power should be distributed according to competence. Under universal suffrage the electorate at any given election will be comprised of both competent and incompetent voters due to varying ... -
A new take on Plato’s Parmenides from the past: Translation of Porphyry’s Commentary on Plato’s Parmenides
(2024-01-24)In this paper, I am translating and commenting Porphyry’s commentary on one of the most difficult philosophical texts, namely, Plato’s Parmenides. I do not dare to even think of giving an answer to all the inquiries that ... -
THE BEST GOVERNMENT BASED ON CICERO’S DE RE PUBLICA AND DE LEGIBUS
(2023-10-16)In Cicero’s De re publica and De legibus, Cicero established that nature would determine an ideal state but given human nature, this ideal cannot be achieved. I will discuss what kind of political organization Cicero ... -
SENSORY ECOLOGY: Hearing viriditas in the writings of Hildegard of Bingen
(2023-10-13)Human intrusion into the environment have resulted in heightened levels of anthropogenic noise, which studies have shown, have lasting effects on plant diversity. Embodied hearing experiences that are presented by historical ... -
ECOLOGICAL THEOLOGY: The sense of hearing in the writings of Hildegard of Bingen
(2023-10-13)There is an ecological crisis swiftly approaching and manifesting within us, and in a time when the narratives we live by have become untenable, it asserts a specific role for scholars and scientists: to reassess and ... -
Rekonstruktion av stavningsvarianter i SAOB med normaliseringsregler från nusvenska till nysvenska
(2023-09-22)Svenska Akademins ordbok skall bli färdigställd under 2023. En återstående del är att återskapa äldre ord. Här härleder jag normaliseringsregler för att rekonstruera ortografiska varianter av ord som förekommit från ... -
Echo Chambers and Collective Epistemic Vice
(2023-09-06)Echo chambers are a recently popularised subject for discussion in terms of their presenting or not presenting an epistemic problem. One common assumption about echo chambers is that they are bad for the overall epistemic ... -
TACOFREDAG OCH JESUS – KAN MAN SKÄMTA OM ALLT? En studie om kommunikation och humor med utgångspunkt i Svenska kyrkans Twitterkonto.
(2023-08-29)Communication is key to interactions between people, in person as well as online. Humor used well can contribute to this. This case study examines how the Swedish church uses humor to communicate on Twitter and how ... -
Standard Arabic and Scottish Gaelic: Shared typological features
(2023-08-16)Although Celtic languages and Semitic languages belong to separate language families, they share numerous typological similarities that are common to Semitic languages but not shared by Standard Indo-European languages. ... -
"Det svenska var alltid det enkla" - Idén om det enkla i Ellen Key och Carl Larssons hemestetik
(2023-08-10)Med denna uppsats ämnar jag undersöka idén om enkelhet vid förra sekelskiftet och vilken roll den intar i relation till denna nya hemestetik i Sverige enligt dess främsta företrädare, Ellen Key och Carl Larsson. Syftet ... -
KAUSALITET I UTBILDNINGSVETENSKAP
(2023-07-07)Syfte: Uppsatsens övergripande syfte är att bidra till en ökad vetenskapsteoretisk förståelse av kausalitetsbegreppet inom utbildningsvetenskap i en svensk kontext, och hur den kunskapen kan tillämpas i undervisningspraktiken. ... -
THE CHOSEN CREATURES: HOW ANIMAL JUXTAPOSITIONS IN ANTISEMITIC PROPAGANDA CONTRIBUTED TO INSTITUTIONALIZED OTHERNESS
(2023-07-06)This paper discusses how anthropomorphic animals have been used in depicting Jews in antisemitic art and propaganda imagery since the late High Middle Ages until the first half of the 20th century. It sheds light on why ... -
Type Theories of Natural Numbers: A Study of Conservative Extension
(2023-06-30)We present some possible definitions for what it means for a type theory to be a conservative extension over another type theory. We do so by giving two type theories of natural numbers: T T (N) and T T (N, ×). T T (N) is ... -
Quantitative Probabilistic Fixed Point Logic and the Problem of Satisfiability
(2023-06-26)The analysis of time-dependent systems in a probabilistic setting has greatly benefited from the application of temporal logic. This thesis focuses on a specific probabilistic modal fixed point logic setup, which offers a ... -
Hydra Games for Cut Elimination and Ordinal Analysis of IPL2
(2023-06-22)Intuitionistic propositional logic with 2nd order propositional quantifiers (IPL2) was introduced by Gabbay in 1974. Since then, a substantial body of work has been written about its semantics. However, there has not been ... -
Deflationism in Logic, Formal Theories of Truth and Philosophy
(2023-06-20)The concept of truth has been studied and used along the areas of philosophy, logic, and mathematics. Although is the same word (“truth”) it has been used in very different ways in each area. Logicians have studied truth ... -
The Argument from Experience for a Dynamic View of Time: A Defence
(2023-06-20)Perhaps the most significant argument in favor of the reality of time's passage is the argument from experience. More or less, this argument says that our experience of the passage of time gives us good reason for considering ... -
IŻ SWÓJ JĘZYK MAJĄ! An exploration of the computational methods for identifying language variation in Polish
(2023-06-19)Computational approaches to language variation continue to contribute in a relevant way to various fields, including Natural Language Processing (NLP) and linguistics. Being able to accommodate variation within natural ... -
WHO’S AFRAID OF COMPLEXITY? An Exploration of the Influence of Native Language Complexity on L2 Complexity
(2023-06-19)The matter of linguistic complexity has been widely scrutinised in the last few decades, within theoretical linguistics, as well as in second language acquisition studies. A concept introduced in the last half of the previous ...