Search for dissertations about: "intuition"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 113 swedish dissertations containing the word intuition.
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16. Conserving the American Dream : Faith and Politics in the U.S. Heartland
Abstract : Recent decades have seen substantial changes in the U.S. political landscape. One particularly significant development has been the growing influence of a conservative coalition encompassing evangelical Christianity, interventionist foreign policy and neoliberal reform. READ MORE
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17. What is Wrong with Extinction? - The Answer from Anthropocentric Instrumentalism
Abstract : The book contains the first part of an investigation aimed at finding out why it is morally wrong (at least prima facie) to cause species to go extinct. That it is morally wrong seems to be a very basic and widely held intuition. It seems reasonable that a moral theory worth taking seriously ought to be able to account for that intuition. READ MORE
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18. Reflections on Autism : Ethical Perspectives on Autism Spectrum Disorder in Health Care and Education
Abstract : In the four papers presented in this dissertation I analyze and discuss various value statements and moral stances, which I regard as unjustifiably harmful for persons with Autism and obstacles for the creation of an Autism-friendly society. In the papers I try to show that the positions underpinning the Autism-phobic moral stances are not warranted and cannot be defended in a good way. READ MORE
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19. Over-Determination and Act-Consequentialism
Abstract : This dissertation is a discussion of the challenge that cases of over-determination pose to Act-Consequentialism. Although there are many realistic examples of such cases – for example, pollution, overfishing, or the election of an inappropriate politician – I consider structurally purer examples, one of which I call “Case One. READ MORE
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20. Reducing and absorbing variations in a manufacturing context : A capacity management perspective
Abstract : Variations can have substantially negative effects on performance and it is therefore important to investigate how the variations can be reduced or absorbed in an appropriate way for competitiveness. Manufacturing companies are daily exposed to variations and operations managers need to take capacity management decisions with this in mind to secure the delivery capability. READ MORE