Sökning: "moral properties"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 16 avhandlingar innehållade orden moral properties.
1. Moral Reality. A Defence of Moral Realism
Sammanfattning : 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). LÄS MER
2. The Logical Structure of the Moral Concepts : An Essay in Propositional Deontic Logic
Sammanfattning : In this thesis, the main focus is on deontic logic as a tool for formal representation of moral reasoning in natural language. The simple standard system of deontic logic (SDL), i.e. LÄS MER
3. What is Wrong with Extinction?
Sammanfattning : The aim of this investigation is to answer the question of why it is prima facie morally wrong to cause or contribute to the extinction of species. The first potential answer investigated in the book is that other species are instrumentally valuable for human beings. LÄS MER
4. Children's Social Emotional Competence : Advances in assessment and practice
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this dissertation was to examine associations between different facets of children’s social emotional competence in culturally diverse samples. Specifically, I explored associations between relationship skills (i.e., cooperation, listening skills, turn-taking, seeking help), social awareness (i. LÄS MER
5. Financial journeys : Reasoning about debt and money among young adults in Sweden
Sammanfattning : Young adults are often mentioned as among the most financially vulnerable groups, and Sweden is often characterized as being one of the countries in the EU with the most indebted households. While this houshold indebtedness mainly is linked to home loans, also other forms of credit usage have become increasingly common. LÄS MER