Search for dissertations about: "moral explanation"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 19 swedish dissertations containing the words moral explanation.
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1. Moral Reality. A Defence of Moral Realism
Abstract : The main aim of this thesis is to defend moral realism. In chapter 1, I argue that moral realism is best understood as the view that (1) moral sentences have truth-value (cognitivism), (2) there are moral properties that make some moral sentences true (success-theory), and (3) moral properties are not reducible to non-moral properties (non-reductionism). READ MORE
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2. Moral (de)coupling : moral disengagement and supply chain management
Abstract : This research aims to fill an important gap in focusing on why individuals are able to take part in and/or support activities that have effects on economic, environmental, and social dimensions that are not consistent with their sense of right and wrong. The research focuses on the relationship between supply chain management and moral disengagement, and how this relation affects social responsibility. READ MORE
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3. The Queerness of Objective Values : An Essay on Mackiean Metaethics and the Arguments from Queerness
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
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4. Practical Perspective Compatibilism
Abstract : In this dissertation, I argue for what I call “practical perspective compatibilism”. According to this thesis, an agent with practical freedom is sufficiently free to be a moral agent and morally responsible for his or her actions.The concept of practical freedom is originally found in the writings of Kant. READ MORE
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5. An Essay on Thomas Reid´s Philosophy of Science
Abstract : Though generally recognized as a formative force in his philosophy, Thomas Reid’s Newtonianism and his philosophy of science has not received due attention among scholars. My aim is to inaugurate a detailed survey. In ch. READ MORE