Sökning: "Empirical Ethics"
Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 244 avhandlingar innehållade orden Empirical Ethics.
6. Ethical Adaptation to Sea Level Rise: The Planner’s Perspective
Sammanfattning : This thesis addresses local adaptation to climate change-induced sea level rise, taking an ethical perspective and focusing at the role of planning and the planner. The research, which has been conducted within a transdisciplinary research project, takes a bottom-up approach to applied ethics, and relies to a great extent on empirical data. LÄS MER
7. Brain, consciousness and disorders of consciousness at the intersection of neuroscience and philosophy
Sammanfattning : The present dissertation starts from the general claim that neuroscience is not neutral, with regard to theoretical questions like the nature of consciousness, but it needs to be complemented with dedicated conceptual analysis. Specifically, the argument for this thesis is that the combination of empirical and conceptual work is a necessary step for assessing the significant questions raised by the most recent study of the brain. LÄS MER
8. Det moraliska ifrågasättandet : alkoholmissbrukares upplevelser av och reaktioner på tvångsvård
Sammanfattning : The aim of this study was to investigate how compulsary treatment of alcohol abuse is experienced by persons forced to submit to it, the majority of whom are negative in their attitude toward treatment of this sort. The importance of considering the resluts obtained not in isolation but within a larger context is emphasized. LÄS MER
9. Ethics at work : Two essays on the firm's moral responsibilities towards its employees
Sammanfattning : Essay I analyses a sample of corporate codes in the Swedish banking sector. The purpose is to investigate the codes’ ethical status. LÄS MER
10. Too Enabling to Fail – Ethics and Practices in the Legitimation of Nanotechnology
Sammanfattning : This thesis reads Beck’s Risk Society in the context of nanotechnology and the politicization of failure in the promise of enabling technologies. It aims to investigate how researchers and innovators legitimate nanotechnology in society. LÄS MER