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  1. 1. On Free Will as Categorical and Conditional Freedom

    Författare :Peter Ryman; Erik Carlson; Michael Zimmerman; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Free Will; Existence of Free Will; Moral Responsibility; Autonomy; Can; Could; Ought; Categorical Freedom; Agent Causation; Conditional Freedom; Conditional Analysis; Infinite Regress Argument; Ability and Opportunity; Consequence Argument; Mind Argument; Peter van Inwagen; Harry Frank-furt; David Lewis; Robert Kane; Galen Strawson; Erik Carlson; Keith Lehrer; Krister Segerberg; Counterfactuals; Supplementers; Laws of Nature; Causally Complete; Physicalism; Closure of Physics; Supervenience.; Praktisk filosofi; Practical Philosophy;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation is about a complex of problems, related to the question: ‘Can we ever act differently from how we in fact act?’In Part I, the meaning of ‘can’ and ‘could’ is discussed. It is argued that when we say that an agent could do something he didn’t do (in a sense of ‘could’ involving control), this means, in what is called ‘Decision-Contexts’, that he was conditionally free to do it, and, in what is called ‘Strong-Autonomy-Contexts’, that he was categorically free to do it. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Judar i det svenska folkhemmet. Minne och identitet i Judisk krönika 1948-1958

    Författare :Karin Sjögren; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Freedom of religion act; Jewish National Fund; Blue-Box; historiography; identity; social memory; democracy; Wizo; Commemoration Day of Israel; New Years Day of the trees; Jewish New Year; Jewish holidays; tree planting; Judaism; Zionism; Israel; Judisk krönika; Sweden; education; the people s home ; Jewish holidays.; Non-Christian religions; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ;

    Sammanfattning : The thesis deals with the queswtion of which historic events have been emphasised amog Jewish people in Sweden after the Second World War. The founding of Israel is the point of departure and the termins ad quem is ten years further. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Kulturprosten. Torsten Fogelqvist som DN-publicist och folkbildare

    Författare :Ingmar Lundkvist; Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoria; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History of philosophy; general education; anti-Nazism; journalism; Dagens Nyheter; Torsten Fogelqvist; biography; history of ideas; Filosofins historia; idéhistoria;

    Sammanfattning : The dissertation outlines the ideas behind Torsten Fogelqvist's (1880-1941) ambitions as a publicist for Dagens Nyheter and as a public educator. The study also seeks to do justice to a forgotten, or at least not exhaustively analysed, discussion, during the first four decades of the last century, and deals with education, humanism, modernity, cultural heritage, the role of the press and anti-Nazism. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Falling Freely : Anselm of Canterbury on the Will

    Författare :Tomas Ekenberg; Lilli Alanen; Mikko Yrjönsuuri; Calvin Normore; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Philosophy; Anselm of Canterbury; will; choice; action; free will; determinism; metaphysics; ethics; evil; Filosofi; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen; teoretisk filosofi; Theoretical Philosophy;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis clarifies the concept of will in Anselm of Canterbury in the context of his overall theologico-philosophical project. The will is central to Anselm's understanding of freedom of choice (libertas arbitrii), which he defines as “the power to keep rightness of will”. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Ethics at work : Two essays on the firm's moral responsibilities towards its employees

    Författare :Dan Munter; Sven Ove Hansson; Lars Lindblom; Gert Helgesson; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ethics; employees; consent; moral responsiblitiy; codes of ethics; philosophy;

    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