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1. 6. Incentives in Education and Moral Behavior in Groups

   Författare :Pol Campos-Mercade; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Field experiment; Academic performance; Threshold incentives; Lab experiment; Moral action; Group size; Bystander effect; Volunteer s dilemma; Social preferences;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis uses field experiments, lab experiments, and theory to study questions that are relevant to the fields of education and behavioral economics.The first paper, Threshold Incentives and Academic Performance, begins with the observation that students often face incentives to reach performance thresholds. LÄS MER

3. 7. Moral Hazard and Insurance: Optimality, Risk and Preferences

   Författare :Kristian Sundström; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; asymmetric information; second best solution; first best solution; Insurance; Moral Hazard;

   Sammanfattning : The thesis consists of an introductory chapter, followed by three chapters which all deal with theoretical issues related to moral hazard and insurance. In Chapter 2 we assume symmetric and perfect information. LÄS MER

4. 8. Practical Perspective Compatibilism

   Författare :Sofia Jeppsson; Gunnar Björnsson; Ragnar Ohlsson; Derk Pereboom; Stockholms universitet; []
   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

5. 9. 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

7. 10. Först när vi får ansikten: Ett flerkulturellt samtal om feminism, etik och teologi

   Författare :Karin Sporre; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; universalism.; moral agent; Oppression; subject; ethical knowledge; vision; Katie G. Cannon; Chung Hyun Kyung; Mary C. Grey; justice restorative ; feminist ethics; feminist theology; contexts; epistemological privilege; women’s experience; Theology; Teologi; Religion Theology; Gender studies;

   Sammanfattning : In this thesis in ethics I study and analyze feminist theological texts from 1988–1997 by Katie G. Cannon, Chung Hyun Kyung and Mary C. Grey. LÄS MER