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111	Modern tragedy in the absence of God : an analysis of Unamuno and Buero Vallejo Heil, Katrina Marie, 1976- 16 August 2011 (has links) Not available / text Tragedy Hope in literature Faith in literature Belief and doubt in literature Aristotle--Criticism and interpretation
112	Semantic belief change Meyer, Thomas Andreas 03 1900 (has links) The ability to change one's beliefs in a rational manner is one of many facets of the abilities of an intelligent agent. Central to any investigation of belief change is the notion of an epistemic state. This dissertation is mainly concerned with three issues involving epistemic states: 1. How should an epistemic state be represented? 2. How does an agent use an epistemic state to perform belief change? 3. How does an agent arrive at a particular epistemic state? With regard to the first question, note that there are many different methods for constructing belief change operations. We argue that semantic constructions involving ordered pairs, each consisting of a set of beliefs and an ordering on the set of "possible worlds" (or equivalently, on the set of basic independent bits of information) are, in an important sense, more fundamental. Our answer to the second question provides indirect support for the use of semantic structures. We show how well-known belief change operations and related structures can be modelled semantically. Furthermore, we introduce new forms of belief change related operations and structures which are all defined, and motivated, in terms of such semantic representational formalisms. These include a framework for unifying belief revision and nonmonotonic reasoning, new versions of entrenchment orderings on beliefs, novel approaches to withdrawal operations, and an expanded view of iterated belief change. The third question is. one which has not received much attention in the belief change literature. We propose to extract extra-logical information from the formal representation of an agent's set of beliefs, which can then be used in the construction of epistemic state. his proposal is just a first approximation, although it seems to have the potential for developing into a full-fledged theory. / Computing / D.Phil.(Computer Science) Belief change Theory change Theory revision Belief revision Epistemic state Epistemic entrenchment Contraction Nonmonotonic reasoning Withdrawal Epistemic entrenchment Base change Base revision Base contraction 121.6 Nonmonotonic reasoning Philosophy of mind Belief and doubt. Intelligent agents (Computer software) Epistemics.
113	Arts de la ruse: pour une expérimentation tactique des sciences humaines à partir de Michel de Certeau / Arts de la ruse: pour une expérimentation tactique des sciences humaines Courtois, Fleur 16 February 2009 (has links) A travers l'oeuvre de Michel de Certeau, les manières de dire et de faire d'une part, dans le quotidien d'autre part dans les sciences humaines sont travaillées pour rendre compte d'une philosophie de la ruse. Sont mobilisés à cette occasion le constructivisme (Latour, Stengers), le pragmatisme (James), le structuralisme (Lacan, Barthes) et les philosophies de Deleuze et Foucaut. / Doctorat en Philosophie / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished Sciences humaines Philosophie de la religion Certeau, Michel de (1925-1986) Foucault, Michel (1926-1984) Deleuze, Gilles (1925-1995) Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century Belief and doubt Deception -- Philosophy Historiography -- Philosophy Constructivism (Philosophy) Pragmatism Structuralism Philosophie -- 20e siècle Croyance et doute Tromperie -- Philosophie Historiographie -- Philosophie Constructivisme (Philosophie) Pragmatisme Structuralisme ruse tactique épistémologie historiographie pragmatisme structuralisme danse croyance fiction fable mystique baroque Deleuze Certeau Foucaut Latour Pinchard
114	The roles of commitment and attributions on uninvolved partner responses to imagined sexual infidelity Johnson, Courtney Beth 06 August 2014 (has links) Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / This study examined the roles of commitment and attributions in uninvolved partner responses to imagined sexual infidelity. Undergraduate students (N = 298) in dating relationships participated in a hypothetical sexual infidelity scenario in which they imagined their romantic partner engaged in sexual intercourse with someone else. Measured-variable path analysis was used to evaluate the predictive ability of commitment and attributions on negative emotional responses and predicted relationship continuation. The hypothesized conceptual model demonstrated poor fit to sample data. Through exploratory model building, an alternative model was generated that demonstrated good fit to sample data. A subset of commitment, investment, predicted negative affect. In addition, attributions predicted predictions of relationship continuation. Negative emotional responses were highly endorsed on a validated measure for emotional responses, the PANAS-X (Watson & Clark, 1994). Further, study findings highlight the importance of the use of a compliance check in assessing successful participant completion of imagined infidelity scenario. Unique study contributions include directions for further conceptual model development for this area of research as well as support for the use of compliance checks and careful selection of infidelity scenario. infidelity commitment attributions Inference -- Psychological aspects Social psychology -- Research Sex Sex (Psychology) Sex differences (Psychology) -- Research Men -- Sexual behavior Women -- Sexual behavior Intimacy (Psychology) Affect (Psychology) Emotions -- Research -- Surveys Paramours -- Research Self-disclosure -- Research

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