Search for dissertations about: "Moral Skepticism"

Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the words Moral Skepticism.

  2. 1. Moral Disagreement and the Significance of Higher-Order Evidence

    Author : Marco Tiozzo; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Moral Disagreement; Higher-Order Evidence; Moral Skepticism; Peer Disagreement; Faultless Disagreement; Moral Intransigence; Epistemic Rationality;

    Abstract : Recent years have seen an increasing interest in the philosophy of disagreement, especially in epistemology where there is an intense debate over the epistemic significance of disagreement and higher-order evidence more generally. Considerations about disagreement also play an important role in metaethics – most prominently in various arguments that purport to establish moral skepticism. READ MORE

  4. 2. 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

  5. 3. 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