Search for dissertations about: "Metaethics"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 swedish dissertations containing the word Metaethics.

2. 1. The Duality of Moral Language : On Hybrid Theories in Metaethics

   Author : Stina Björkholm; Anandi Hattiangadi; Anders J. Schoubye; Mark Schroeder; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Metaethics; Hybrid Expressivism; Hybrid Descriptivism; Dynamic Descriptivism; Moral Disagreement; The Frege-Geach problem; The Practicality Problem; Philosophy; filosofi;

   Abstract : Moral language displays a characteristic duality. On the one hand, moral claims seem to be similar to descriptive claims: To say that an act is right (or wrong) seems to be a matter of making an assertion, thus indicating that the speaker has a moral belief about which she can be correct or mistaken. READ MORE

4. 2. Moved by Morality : An Essay on the Practicality of Moral Thought and Talk

   Author : John Eriksson; Sven Danielsson; Jan Österberg; Gunnar Björnsson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : Philosophy; Metaethics; moral talk; moral thought; internalism; externalism; cognitivism; noncognitivism; motivating states of mind; dispositions; motivation; attitudinal expression; the notion of expression; the possibility of amoralists; accommodation projects; sincerity conditions; Filosofi;

   Abstract : It is part of our everyday experience that there is a reliable connection between moral opinions and motivation. Thinking that an act is right (wrong) tends to be accompanied by motivation to (avoid to) perform the act in question. This is mirrored in moral talk. READ MORE

5. 3. Guiding Concepts : Essays on Normative Concepts, Knowledge, and Deliberation

   Author : Olle Risberg; Erik Carlson; Andrew Reisner; Wlodek Rabinowicz; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; action-guidance; adherence; all things considered ought; alternative normative concepts; conceptual engineering; debunking; deliberation; disagreement; epistemic pluralism; epistemology; ethics; external world skepticism; idealization; metaethics; meta-skepticism; moral skepticism; normativity; ought; reasons; response-dependence; uncertainty; Filosofi; Philosophy;

   Abstract : This thesis addresses a range of questions about normativity, broadly understood. Recurring themes include (i) the idea of normative ‘action-guidance’, and the connection between normativity and motivational states, (ii) the possibility of normative knowledge and its role in deliberation, and (iii) the question of whether (and if so, how) normative concepts can themselves be evaluated. READ MORE

6. 4. Narrative Ethics and Intuition of the Infinite: E. L. Doctorow´s Gnostic Hope for the Postmodern Era

   Author : Catharine Walker Bergström; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ethics; postmodernism; narrative ethics; metaethics; intertextuality; intuition; truth; Self; moral agency; deconstruction; Gnosticism; Kabbalah; Levinas; Emerson; Jung; Derrida;

   Abstract : Abstract: Walker Bergström, Catharine. Narrative Ethics and Intuition of the Infinite: E. L. Doctorow s Gnostic Hope for the Postmodern Era, Department of English, University of Gothenburg, 2008. READ MORE

7. 5. The relevance of metaethics to ethics

   Author : Torbjörn Tännsjö; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

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