Sökning: "axiology"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 avhandlingar innehållade ordet axiology.

1. 1. Population Axiology

   Författare :Gustaf Arrhenius; Canada University of Toronto; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

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3. 2. Axiological Investigations

   Författare :Jonas Olson; Sven Danielsson; Erik Carlson; Brad Hooker; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Practical philosophy; axiology; buck-passing; conditionalism; final value; G.E. Moore; intrinsic goodness; intrinsicalism; supervenience; tropes; Praktisk filosofi; Practical philosophy; Praktisk filosofi;

   Sammanfattning : The subject of this thesis is formal axiology, i.e., the discipline that deals with structural and conceptual questions about value. The main focus is on intrinsic or final value. LÄS MER

4. 3. Future generations : A challenge for moral theory

   Författare :Gustaf Arrhenius; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Philosophy; future generations; population theory; population ethics; axiology; welfare; moral theory; social choice theory; impossibility theorems; Filosofi; Practical philosophy; Praktisk filosofi; Practical Philosophy; Praktisk filosofi;

   Sammanfattning : For the last thirty years or so, there has been a search underway for a theory that canaccommodate our intuitions in regard to moral duties to future generations. The object ofthis search has proved surprisingly elusive. The classical moral theories in the literature allhave perplexing implications in this area. LÄS MER

5. 4. On the possibility of limited weighing of lives

   Författare :Daniel Ramöller; Gustaf Arrhenius; Krister Bykvist; Hilary Greaves; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Aggregation; Axiology; Deontic Morality; Distribution; Ethics; Impartiality; Morality; Social Choice; Trade-offs; Values; Welfare; praktisk filosofi; Practical Philosophy;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis discusses the possibility of limited moral trade-offs between different people’s welfare. In chapter 2, I introduce the two central limited trade-off conditions. First, according to minimal infinite superiority, significantly benefiting one person matters more than slightly benefiting each of any number of better-off people. LÄS MER

7. 5. Value Grounded on Attitudes. Subjectivism in Value Theory

   Författare :Fritz-Anton Fritzson; Praktisk filosofi; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Subjectivism; objectivism; relativism; absolutism; value and attitudes; supervenience and constitutive ground of value; final value; intrinsic value; good and good for; motivational internalism; idealization; value projection; error and evaluative language;

   Sammanfattning : The thesis examines a specific way of understanding the subjectivist position in value theory according to which subjectivism is the view that value is grounded on attitudes. It is argued that this should be seen as a second-order claim about the nature of value although with pluralistic implications on the substantial, first-order level. LÄS MER