Sökning: "moral thought"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 51 avhandlingar innehållade orden moral thought.

  1. 1. 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

  3. 2. 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

  4. 3. Moved by Morality : An Essay on the Practicality of Moral Thought and Talk

    Författare :John Eriksson; Sven Danielsson; Jan Österberg; Gunnar Björnsson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Philosophy; Metaethics; moral talk; moral thought; internalism; externalism; cognitivism; noncognitivism; motivating states of mind; dispositions; motivation; attitudinal expression; the notion of expression; the possibility of amoralists; accommodation projects; sincerity conditions; Filosofi;

    Sammanfattning : It is part of our everyday experience that there is a reliable connection between moral opinions and motivation. Thinking that an act is right (wrong) tends to be accompanied by motivation to (avoid to) perform the act in question. This is mirrored in moral talk. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Hedonistic Act Utilitarianism : Action Guidance and Moral Intuitions

    Författare :Simon Rosenqvist; Folke Tersman; Jens Johansson; Ben Eggleston; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; hedonistic act utilitarianism; consequentialism; action guidance; moral intuitions; hedonism; thought experiments; ignorance; imagination; morality; normativity; ethics; moral theory; normative ethics; Filosofi; Philosophy;

    Sammanfattning : According to hedonistic act utilitarianism, an act is morally right if and only if, and because, it produces at least as much pleasure minus pain as any alternative act available to the agent. This dissertation gives a partial defense of utilitarianism against two types of objections: action guidance objections and intuitive objections. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Utmaningen från andra berättelser : En studie om moraliskt omdöme, utvidgat tänkande och kritiskt reflekterande berättelser i dialogbaserad feministisk etik

    Författare :Gull Törnegren; Per Sundman; Karin Sporre; Carl Reinhold Bråkenhielm; Eva Skærbæk; Eva Skaerbaek; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ethics; feminism; feminist ethics; communicative ethics; dialogue based ethics; discourse ethics; deliberative democracy; public conversation; public deliberation; moral judgment; political judgment; enlarged thought; storytelling; narrative; narrative matrix; story image; critical perspective; enlarged thought-storytelling; marginalized experience; marginalization; identity; narrative ethics; socio-narratology; resistance; life-story; story; experience; hermeneutics; narrative-hermeneutic competence; narrative competence; hermeneutic competence; Etik; Ethics; Intercultural Studies;

    Sammanfattning : The present study has a threefold aim: First, the theoretical aim is to give a contribution to refinement of the theory of dialogue based feminist ethics, concerning the understanding of judgment and narration within such an ethics.  The study also has an empirical aim, defined as to clarify what kind of knowledge, relevant to the moral judgment of an engaged outsider actor, can be received from dialogical interpretation and analysis of a limited selection of critically reflecting life stories. LÄS MER