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1. Empathy and emotions : on the notion of empathy as emotional sharing
Sammanfattning : The topic of this study is a notion of empathy that is common in philosophy and in the behavioral sciences. It is here referred to as ‘the notion of empathy as emotional sharing’, and it is characterized in terms of three ideas. LÄS MER
2. An Inferentialist Interpretation of Classical Logic
Sammanfattning : The aim of this work is to provide an account of the meanings of the standard logical operators meeting the following requirements:1) It should meet Dummettian standards of intelligibility; specifically, it should do without any notion of recognition-transcendent truth.2) It should validate Classical logic. LÄS MER
3. Workplace Ethics : Some practical and foundational problems
Sammanfattning : The aim of the present thesis is twofold: first, to analyse some practical ethical problems that stem from the workplace and the working environment and to offer guidelines concerning how such problems can be solved; second, to illuminate how the specific nature of work and the working environment is intimately connected to the relation between the employee and the employing entity, as set forth in an employment contract, and how the form and content of such contracts are, among other things, determined by culturally and socially established ideas. The normative question to be addressed is thus: which of these ideas should be maintained? This can be seen as a second-order, or more fundamental, ethical question whose answer depends on determining which normative principles are right. LÄS MER
4. Frege och idén om det givna : En undersökning av logisk form och idén om ett begreppsligt givet innehåll i språket
Sammanfattning : This study is an investigation of some main problems of the philosophy of language initiated by Gottlob Frege. Frege wanted to show that there is a conceptual content in expressions that is not the same as the psychological associations given in intuitions. He also wanted to show that such a content is objective and independent of thesubject. LÄS MER
5. Falling Freely : Anselm of Canterbury on the Will
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
