Sökning: "meta-ethics"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade ordet meta-ethics.

  1. 1. Communities of Judgment : Towards a Teleosemantic Theory of Moral Thought and Discourse

    Författare :Karl Bergman; Sharon Rider; Andrew Reisner; Marc Artiga; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ruth Millikan; teleosemantics; biosemantics; content; descriptive content; meta-semantics; meta-ethics; cognitivism; non-cognitivism; moral objectivity; moral relativism; moral disagreement; moral psychology; evolution of morality; Filosofi; Philosophy;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis offers a teleosemantic account of moral discourse and judgment. It develops a number of views about the function and content of moral judgments and the nature of moral discourse based on Ruth Millikan’s theory of intentional content and the functions of intentional attitudes. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Hedonism as the Explanation of Value

    Författare :David Brax; Praktisk filosofi; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Value; Pleasure; Hedonism; naturalism; affective science; Meta-ethics;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis defends a hedonistic theory of value consisting of two main components. Part 1 offers a theory of pleasure. Pleasures are experiences distinguished by a distinct phenomenological quality. This quality is attitudinal in nature: it is the feeling of liking. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Kommentar till Sanusi : En systematisk studie i islamisk teologi

    Författare :Tobias Andersson; Mohammad Fazlhashemi; Ola Sigurdson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Islamic theology; Systematic theology; Commentary; al-Sanusi; Ash arism; Kalam; Sufism; Alasdair MacIntyre; Tradition; Meta-ethics; Natural theology; Prophetology; Islamisk teologi; Systematisk teologi; Kommentar; al-Sanusi; Ash arism; Kalam; Sufism; Alasdair MacIntyre; Tradition; Metaetik; Naturlig teologi; Profetologi; Systematisk teologi med livsåskådningsforskning; Systematic Theology and Studies in Worldviews;

    Sammanfattning : Throughout the postclassical period (c. 650/1250 to 1300/1900) commentaries on earlier texts dominated the literary output of Muslim theologians. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Moral Reality. A Defence of Moral Realism

    Författare :Caj Strandberg; Praktisk filosofi; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; epistemology; ideology; Praktisk filosofi; ideologi; kunskapsteori; metafysik; estetik; Morallära; Systematic philosophy; Moral science; Gilbert Harman.; Simon Blackburn; Michael Smith; J. L. Mackie; G. E. Moore; David Brink; Nicholas Sturgeon; moral explanation; argument from queerness; metaphysics; supervenience; fetishist argument; externalism; internalism; moral motivation; moral properties; open question argument; moral reason; moral disagreement; naturalism; reductionism; error-theory; Cornell realism; moral realism; non-cognitivism; meta-ethics; ethics; aesthetics;

    Sammanfattning : The main aim of this thesis is to defend moral realism. In chapter 1, I argue that moral realism is best understood as the view that (1) moral sentences have truth-value (cognitivism), (2) there are moral properties that make some moral sentences true (success-theory), and (3) moral properties are not reducible to non-moral properties (non-reductionism). LÄS MER

  7. 5. Some Basic Issues in Neo-Aristotelian Virtue Ethics

    Författare :Frans Svensson; Sven Danielsson; Erik Carlson; Julia Annas; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Philosophy; Aristotle; elitism; expressivism; neo-Aristotelian naturalism; right action; virtue ethics VE ; Filosofi; Practical Philosophy; praktisk filosofi;

    Sammanfattning : During the last three or four decades, a number of moral philosophers have moved in the direction of virtue ethics (VE). In this essay we begin by providing an outline of the main features of VE. It is argued that the basic normative requirement of VE is to aspire towards developing a morally virtuous character. LÄS MER