Search for dissertations about: "Conditional Freedom"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the words Conditional Freedom.

2. 1. On Free Will as Categorical and Conditional Freedom

   Author : Peter Ryman; Erik Carlson; Michael Zimmerman; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Free Will; Existence of Free Will; Moral Responsibility; Autonomy; Can; Could; Ought; Categorical Freedom; Agent Causation; Conditional Freedom; Conditional Analysis; Infinite Regress Argument; Ability and Opportunity; Consequence Argument; Mind Argument; Peter van Inwagen; Harry Frank-furt; David Lewis; Robert Kane; Galen Strawson; Erik Carlson; Keith Lehrer; Krister Segerberg; Counterfactuals; Supplementers; Laws of Nature; Causally Complete; Physicalism; Closure of Physics; Supervenience.; Praktisk filosofi; Practical Philosophy;

   Abstract : This dissertation is about a complex of problems, related to the question: ‘Can we ever act differently from how we in fact act?’In Part I, the meaning of ‘can’ and ‘could’ is discussed. It is argued that when we say that an agent could do something he didn’t do (in a sense of ‘could’ involving control), this means, in what is called ‘Decision-Contexts’, that he was conditionally free to do it, and, in what is called ‘Strong-Autonomy-Contexts’, that he was categorically free to do it. READ MORE

4. 2. Bayesian Modeling of Conditional Densities

   Author : Feng Li; Mattias Villani; Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Bayesian inference; Density estimation; smooth mixtures; surface regression; copulas; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Statistics; statistik;

   Abstract : This thesis develops models and associated Bayesian inference methods for flexible univariate and multivariate conditional density estimation. The models are flexible in the sense that they can capture widely differing shapes of the data. The estimation methods are specifically designed to achieve flexibility while still avoiding overfitting. READ MORE

5. 3. Learning local predictive accuracy for expert evaluation and forecast combination

   Author : Oscar Oelrich; Mattias Villani; Francesco Ravazzolo; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Bayesian; forecast combination; predictive density; Gaussian process; bootstrap; Bayes factors; model selection; Bayesian predictive synthesis; nonparametric methods; power transformation; expected log predictive density; variable selection; statistik; Statistics;

   Abstract : This thesis consists of four papers that study several topics related to expert evaluation and aggregation. Paper I explores the properties of Bayes factors. Bayes factors, which are used for Bayesian hypothesis testing as well as to aggregate models using Bayesian model averaging, are sometimes observed to behave erratically. READ MORE

6. 4. Do Your Bit, Claim Your Share : Justice, Ethos, and the Individual Duty to Contribute

   Author : Markus Furendal; Eva Erman; Simon Birnbaum; Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; duty to contribute; distributive justice; contributive justice; reciprocity; fair burdens; markets; ethos; social sanctions; John Rawls; G. A. Cohen; Political Science; statsvetenskap;

   Abstract : Contemporary political philosophy primarily conceives of justice as a virtue of major social institutions. Yet, much advocacy of justice is increasingly focused on how well particular individuals live up to its demands, and proceeds by calling out and criticising their unjust behaviour. READ MORE

7. 5. Adaptivity for Stochastic and Partial Differential Equations with Applications to Phase Transformations

   Author : Erik von Schwerin; Anders Szepessy; Desmond Higham; KTH; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Numerical analysis; Numerisk analys;

   Abstract : his work is concentrated on efforts to efficiently compute properties of systems, modelled by differential equations, involving multiple scales. Goal oriented adaptivity is the common approach to all the treated problems. READ MORE