Search for dissertations about: "Praktisk filosofi"

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2. 6. Harm, Benefit, and Non-Identity

   Author : Per Algander; Jens Johansson; Gustaf Arrhenius; Ben Bradley; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; harm; benefit; population ethics; person affecting view; asymmetry; well-being; reasons; autonomy; Praktisk filosofi; Practical Philosophy;

   Abstract : This thesis in an invistigation into the concept of "harm" and its moral relevance. A common view is that an analysis of harm should include a counterfactual condition: an act harms a person iff it makes that person worse off. A common objection to the moral relevance of harm, thus understood, is the non-identity problem. READ MORE

4. 7. Reinterpreting Liberal Legitimacy

   Author : Emil Andersson; Folke Tersman; Patricia Mindus; Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; liberalism; political legitimacy; liberal principle of legitimacy; contractualism; justice; political liberalism; John Rawls; Practical Philosophy; Praktisk filosofi;

   Abstract : This thesis is an inquiry into the Liberal Principle of Legitimacy, formulated by John Rawls in his later writings. According to this principle, the exercise of political power is legitimate only if it is justifiable to all citizens. READ MORE

5. 8. The Good, the Bad, and the Dead : An Essay on Well-Being and Death

   Author : Karl Ekendahl; Jens Johansson; Erik Carlson; Chris Heathwood; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; death; well-being; Epicureanism; deprivation account; the timing argument; fission; temporal well-being; extrinsic value; prudence; Filosofi; Philosophy;

   Abstract : This book examines some central arguments in the debate about the value of death. The first main chapter, Chapter 2, begins with an introduction to the debate and a clarification of Epicureanism, i.e. the view that it is not bad to die. READ MORE

6. 9. Measures of Freedom of Choice

   Author : Karin Enflo; Erik Carlson; Thomas Anderberg; Martin van Hees; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Freedom of Choice; Measure; Choice Set; Diversity; Cardinality; Evenness; Decision Theory; Metric Space; Practical Philosophy; Praktisk filosofi;

   Abstract : This thesis studies the problem of measuring freedom of choice. It analyzes the concept of freedom of choice, discusses conditions that a measure should satisfy, and introduces a new class of measures that uniquely satisfy ten proposed conditions. READ MORE

7. 10. The Queerness of Objective Values : An Essay on Mackiean Metaethics and the Arguments from Queerness

   Author : Victor Moberger; Jens Johansson; Erik Carlson; Russ Shafer-Landau; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; J. L. Mackie; argument from queerness; objective values; moral realism; claim to objectivity; argument from relativity; non-naturalism; supervenience; normative explanation; authoritative prescriptivity; objectivity; categoricity; minimal realism; ardent realism; Filosofi; Philosophy;

   Abstract : This book investigates the argument from queerness against moral realism, famously put forward by J. L. Mackie in Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong (1977). The book can be divided into two parts. READ MORE