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1. 1. Practical Perspective Compatibilism

   Detta är en avhandling från Stockholm : Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis

   Författare :Sofia Jeppsson; Stockholms universitet.; [2012]
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Free will; moral responsibility; moral agency; compatibilism; incompatibilism; determinism; the practical perspective; practical freedom; Fri vilja; moraliskt ansvar; moraliskt agentskap; kompatibilism; inkompatibilism; determinism; det praktiska perspektivet; praktisk frihet; Practical Philosophy; praktisk filosofi;

   Sammanfattning : In this dissertation, I argue for what I call “practical perspective compatibilism”. According to this thesis, an agent with practical freedom is sufficiently free to be a moral agent and morally responsible for his or her actions.The concept of practical freedom is originally found in the writings of Kant. LÄS MER

3. 2. Power and Social Ontology

   Detta är en avhandling från Bokbox förlag

   Författare :Åsa Burman; Lund University.; Lunds universitet.; [2007]
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Filosofi; Philosophy; John Searle; Social structures; Institutional facts; Moral facts; Opaque kinds of social facts; Social power; Philosophy of special sciences; Collective intentionality; Särskilda vetenskapers filosofi;

   Sammanfattning : This work presents an account of social power based on recent advances in social ontology. It is argued that a conceptual analysis of social power can be informed by developments in social ontology, but also that this field can be enriched, and in fact requires, an analysis of this central social concept. LÄS MER

4. 3. Morality and the Pursuit of Happiness : A Study in Kantian Ethics

   Detta är en avhandling från Johan Brännmark, Department of Philosophy, Lund University

   Författare :Johan Brännmark; Lund University.; Lunds universitet.; [2002]
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Systematic philosophy; Henry Sidgwick; G. E. Moore; wide reflective equilibrium; metaphysics of the person; Ethics; value; moral realism; social constructivism; philosophy of action; theories of motivation; the dualism of practical reason; the highest good; happiness; virtue; the categorical imperative; maxims; moral principles; Immanuel Kant; moral judgment; aesthetics; metaphysics; epistemology; ideology; Praktisk filosofi; estetik; metafysik; kunskapsteori; ideologi;

   Sammanfattning : This work seeks to develop a Kantian ethical theory in terms of a general ontology of values and norms together with a metaphysics of the person that makes sense of this ontology. It takes as its starting point Kant’s assertion that a good will is the only thing that has an unconditioned value and his accompanying view that the highest good consists in virtue and happiness in proportion to virtue. LÄS MER

5. 4. Empatisk förståelse. Från inlevelse till osjälviskhet

   Detta är en avhandling från Department of Philosophy, Lund University

   Författare :Mats Johansson; Lund University.; Lunds universitet.; [2004]
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; mental simulation; simulation theory; altruism; unselfishness; role taking; perspective taking; empathic understanding; empathy; sympathy; Philosophy; Filosofi;

   Sammanfattning : This treatise examines the nature of empathic understanding, i.e. understanding of what it is like for someone to be in a particular mental state. Its aim is twofold: (1) to explain how empathic understanding is possible, and (2) to explain how empathic understanding can cause unselfishness. LÄS MER

7. 5. Voluntary Coercion. Collective Action and the Social Contract

   Detta är en avhandling från Practical Philosophy

   Författare :Magnus Jiborn; Lund University.; Lunds universitet.; [1999]
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; convention.; evolutionary stability; equilibrium; Assurance game; Prisoner s Dilemma; evolutionary game theory; game theory; collective action; Social contract; Systematic philosophy; ethics; aesthetics; metaphysics; epistemology; ideology; Praktisk filosofi; estetik; metafysik; kunskapsteori; ideologi;

   Sammanfattning : This work provides a game theoretical analysis of the classical idea of a social contract. According to what we might call the Hobbesian justification of the state, coercion is necessary in order to provide people with basic security and to enable them to successfully engage in mutually beneficial cooperation. LÄS MER