Search for dissertations about: "guiding action"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 48 swedish dissertations containing the words guiding action.
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1. Guiding Concepts : Essays on Normative Concepts, Knowledge, and Deliberation
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
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2. Hedonistic Act Utilitarianism : Action Guidance and Moral Intuitions
Abstract : According to hedonistic act utilitarianism, an act is morally right if and only if, and because, it produces at least as much pleasure minus pain as any alternative act available to the agent. This dissertation gives a partial defense of utilitarianism against two types of objections: action guidance objections and intuitive objections. READ MORE
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3. Assessing Sustainability and Guiding Development towards More Sustainable Products
Abstract : Companies need to develop more sustainable products that fit into future more sustainable markets. For this reason, the integration of sustainability considerations is needed in the early stages of product development, where a major part of the sustainability performance of a final product is determined. READ MORE
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4. Imagination, variation, and firm behavior : observations from 3G
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5. Explaining Early Adoption : National Action Plans on Business and Human Rights
Abstract : Diffusion of innovations theory concerns the process by which innovations are communicated through the members of a social system. Previous research has shed significant light on how public policies diffuse across governments over time, but there is little understanding of why they diffuse. The answer may lie in the motivations of early adopters. READ MORE