Search for dissertations about: "Moral luck"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the words Moral luck.

  2. 1. Responsibility and Ambivalence

    Author : Alexander Velichkov; Praktisk filosofi; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; moral luck; responsibility; ambivalence; free will; guilt; regret; psychopathy;

    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

  4. 2. Reasons, Blame, and Collective Harms

    Author : Mattias Gunnemyr; Metaphysics and Collectivity; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Skäl; Klander; Orsakssamband; Ineffektivitetsproblemet; Kausala bidrag; Kausalitet; Omärkbara skador; Moralisk tur; Kontrastiva skäl; Den törstige resenären; Reasons; Blameworthiness; Causation; The inefficacy problem; Helping; Causal contributions; Imperceptible harm; Non-threshold cases; Moral luck; process-connection; security-dependence; Contrastive reasons; The thirsty traveller;

    Abstract : Collective harm cases are situations in which things will become worse if enough acts of a certain kind are performed but no single act of the relevant kind will make a difference to the outcome. The inefficacy argument says that since one such act does not make a difference to the outcome, you have no outcome-related reason to refrain from acting in this way. READ MORE

  5. 3. Your Treatment, My Treat? : On Lifestyle-Related Ill Health and Reasonable Responsibilitarianism

    Author : Max Fonseca; Ludvig Beckman; Jouni Reinikainen; Kristin Voigt; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; responsibilitarianism; lifestyle; health; distributive justice; contractualism; Thomas Scanlon; luck-egalitarianism; the harshness objection; free will; accountability responsibility; sin-taxes; Political Science; statsvetenskap;

    Abstract : How should the costs of unhealthy lifestyles be distributed between individual citizens and the state? This study approaches this question by investigating the justifiability of the responsibilitarian idea that people who are responsible for their lifestyle-choices should also be held responsible for the costs that these lifestyle-choices generate.Two main conclusions come out of this investigation. READ MORE

  6. 4. Just responsibilities? On responsibility for health in Swedish healthcare priority setting

    Author : Joar Björk; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : The overarching aim of this project is to explore, empirically as well as philosophically, the arguments for and against making Swedish healthcare priority setting decisions sensitive to patients’ degree of responsibility for their ill health. Arguments of interest are those expressed by important stakeholders in the debate – physicians, lay people and, as this is a matter of some theoretical importance, bioethicists. READ MORE

  7. 5. The Employment Contract between Ethics and Economics

    Author : Lars Lindblom; Sven Ove Hansson; Peter Fabienne; KTH; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Justice; work; efficiency; desert; consent; contestability; workplace inspections; whistleblowing; the market; equality of resources; justice as fairness; the employment contract; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen; Practical Philosophy;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates what work ought to be like. The answer it presents consists of an outline of a liberaltheory of justice in the employment contract based on theory developed in the area of political philosophy. READ MORE