Sökning: "moral attitude"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 35 avhandlingar innehållade orden moral attitude.
1. Communities of Judgment : Towards a Teleosemantic Theory of Moral Thought and Discourse
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
2. Aspects of Blame : In which the nature of blame, blameworthiness, standing to blame and proportional blame are discussed
Sammanfattning : This thesis discusses what blame is, what it is for an agent to be blameworthy for having performed a certain act or omission, what makes an agent blameworthy for having performed a certain act or omission, whether the idea of standing to blame generalises to blame understood as something privately held, and what it is for blame to be proportionate. It provides original answers to these questions that move the current discussion of blame forward. LÄS MER
3. Prosocial Behavior, Social Interaction and Development: Experimental Evidence from Vietnam
Sammanfattning : Paper 1. Funding a New Bridge in Rural Vietnam: A Field Experiment on Conditional Cooperation and Default Contributions The ability to provide public goods is essential for economic and social development, yet there is very limited empirical evidence regarding contributions to a real local public good in developing countries. LÄS MER
4. Value, Fittingness and Partiality : On the Partiality Problem for Fitting Attitude Analyses of Value
Sammanfattning : This dissertation is about the partiality problem for fitting attitude (FA) analyses of value. More specifically, it is about whether and how the problem might be resolved. In Chapter 1, I set the stage by offering a short introduction to the topic and a rationale for investigating it. LÄS MER
5. Kränkningar och förlåtelse. En etisk studie med hänsyn till föreställningar om offer, förövare, skuld och ansvar
Sammanfattning : This thesis focuses on forgiveness, its meaning, implications and consequences in relation to violations, victims, perpetrators and responsibility. It questions wheter forgiveness is always the right answer when a person is subjected to evil and violence. LÄS MER