Search for dissertations about: "Regret"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 40 swedish dissertations containing the word Regret.
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1. Under The Sign of Regret
Abstract : Under the Sign of Regret focuses on aesthetically mediated responses to regret. It interrogates the qualities of the feeling of regret as well as what is produced under its influence (as objects and as experiences). READ MORE
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2. Minimizing Regret in Combinatorial Bandits and Reinforcement Learning
Abstract : This thesis investigates sequential decision making tasks that fall in the framework of reinforcement learning (RL). These tasks involve a decision maker repeatedly interacting with an environment modeled by an unknown finite Markov decision process (MDP), who wishes to maximize a notion of reward accumulated during her experience. READ MORE
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3. Responsibility and Ambivalence
Abstract : I use the concept of ambivalence—the state of being faced with a choice that cannot be resolved without sacrificing something of value—to approach five contemporary debates in the philosophy of moral responsibility: (1) psychopathy, (2) free will, (3) the emotion of guilt, (4) regret and indirect moral luck, and (5) moral demandingness. Rather than arguing for one theory or another, acknowledging ambivalence paves the way for resolving these debates by reconciling the opposing sides. READ MORE
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4. Studies on Factivity, Complementation, and Propositional Attitudes
Abstract : This dissertation is a collection of seven papers in which a number of questions are investigated regarding verbs that take a sentential complement as their direct object. These verbs are considered from different perspectives, namely from the perspective of the propositional attitude they express, or from the perspective of the syntactic construction they select, or from the point of view of the implications to which they might give rise. READ MORE
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5. Risk and Rationality : Effects of contextual risk and cognitive dissonance on (sexual) incentives
Abstract : Paper [I] theoretically analyzes how the level and uncertainty of future prospects affect incentives to abstain from sexual risk taking in the presence of HIV. The results suggest that, for individuals with limited access to HIV treatment, uncertainty of future health may be an important factor driving unsafe sex practices and support the empirical finding of a weak link between sexual behavior, HIV prevalence, and HIV knowledge in poor countries; therefore suggesting that AIDS policy needs to be calibrated in order to fit within different social contexts. READ MORE
