Search for dissertations about: "normative reason"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 39 swedish dissertations containing the words normative reason.

  2. 21. Democracy Reconsidered : Britain, France, Sweden, and the EU

    Author : Hans Agné; Kjell Goldmann; Jörgen Hermansson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Democracy; Democratic theory; Autonomy; Participation; Deliberation; Internationalisation; Globalisation; EU; Budget policy; International Political Economy; parliament; European integration; Sweden; France; Britain; Political science; Statsvetenskap;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to investigate whether some positions in democratic theory should be adjusted or abandoned in view of internationalisation; and if adjusted, how. More specifically it pursues three different aims: to evaluate various attempts to explain levels of democracy as consequences of internationalisation; to investigate whether the taking into account of internationalisation reveals any reason to reconsider what democracy is or means; and to suggest normative interpretations that cohere with the adjustments of conceptual and explanatory democratic theory made in the course of meeting the other two aims. READ MORE

  4. 22. Belief & Desire : The Standard Model of Intentional Action — Critique and Defence

    Author : Björn Petersson; Praktisk filosofi; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ethics; Systematic philosophy; Michael Smith; David Hume; Donald Davidson; akrasia; 2nd order desires; reasons; understandings; intention; propositional content; tendency; desire; disposition; belief-desire model; motivation; aesthetics; metaphysics; epistemology; ideology; Praktisk filosofi; estetik; metafysik; kunskapsteori; ideologi;

    Abstract : The scheme of concepts we employ in daily life to explain intentional behaviour form a belief-desire model (BD model), in which motivating states are sorted into two suitably broad categories. The BD model embeds a philosophy of action, i.e. READ MORE

  5. 23. After Inclusion : Intellectual Disability as Biopolitics

    Author : Niklas Altermark; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; intellectual disability; disability studies; biopolitics; Foucault; Butler; crip theory; inclusion; inclusion exclusion;

    Abstract : This dissertation examines contemporary politics targeting people with intellectual disabilities. Since this group first emerged, under labels such as ‘idiocy’ and ‘mental deficiency’, around the turn of the 20th century, its members have been seen as lacking the capacities necessary for citizenship and full societal belonging. READ MORE

  6. 24. How It All Relates : Exploring the Space of Value Comparisons

    Author : Henrik Andersson; Praktisk filosofi; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; värderelationer; vaghet; paritet; ojämförbarhet; värdejämförelser; svåra jämförelser; transitivitet; kollapsprincipen; Value relations; vagueness; parity; incomparability; incommensurability; indeterminacy; value comparisons; hard cases of comparison; transitivity; the collapsing principle;

    Abstract : This thesis explores whether the three standard value relations, “better than”, “worse than” and “equally as good”, exhaust the possibilities in which things can relate with respect to their value. Or more precisely, whether there are examples in which one of these relations is not instantiated. READ MORE

  7. 25. 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