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1. 6. Nonhuman Moral Agency: A Practice-Focused Exploration of Moral Agency in Nonhuman Animals and Artificial Intelligence

   Författare :Dorna Behdadi; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; moral agency; moral responsibility; artificial intelligence; nonhuman animal; moral psychology; practice-focused; blame; social norm; Strawson; participant stance; consciousness; moral status; moral patient; machine ethics; animal ethics;

   Sammanfattning : Can nonhuman animals and artificial intelligence (AI) entities be attributed moral agency? The general assumption in the philosophical literature is that moral agency applies exclusively to humans since they alone possess free will or capacities required for deliberate reflection. Consequently, only humans have been taken to be eligible for ascriptions of moral responsibility in terms of, for instance, blame or praise, moral criticism, or attributions of vice and virtue. LÄS MER

3. 7. Emergent Consciousness. Themes in C. D. Broad´s Philosophy of Mind

   Författare :Kent Gustavsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

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4. 8. "Unity pervades all activity as water every wave" : principal teachings and philosophy of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

   Författare :Anders Lindh; Malmö högskola; []
   Nyckelord :Maharishi Mahesh Yogi; Transcendental Meditation; TM-Sidhi programme; Meditation; Indian philosophy; Philosophy; Maharishi Effect; Consciousness; Consciousness-Based Education; Bhagavadgītā; Metaphorical language; Veda; Vedic literature; Shankara; Vedanta; Advaita; Yoga;

   Sammanfattning : The major purpose of this thesis is to investigate some essential aspects of the teachings and philosophy of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1917-2008) expressed during different periods of time. There is a primary focus on the teachings expressed in Maharishi’s translation and commentary on the didactic poem, Bhagavadgītā, with extensive references to Maharishi’s metaphorical language. LÄS MER

5. 9. Kunskapens gräns, gränsens vetande : En fenomenologisk undersökning av transcendens och kroppslighet

   Författare :Jonna Bornemark; Sören Stenlund; Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback; Martina Reuter; Ulla Holm; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Phenomenology; transcendence; body; limit; female mystics; philosophy of religion; intersubjectivity; Edmund Husserl; Edith Stein; Max Scheler; Mechthild von Magdeburg; Theoretical philosophy; Teoretisk filosofi;

   Sammanfattning : The limit between the proper and the foreign – how this limit is established, but also crossed and dissolved – has remained a crucial issue in phenomenology. Setting these questions in the context of the phenomenology of religion, this thesis develops an analysis of the relation between transcendence and body understood in terms of a certain limit. LÄS MER

7. 10. Autonomous Systems in Society and War : Philosophical Inquiries

   Författare :Linda Johansson; Sven Ove Hansson; Philip Brey; KTH; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; UAVs; drones; military robots; laws of war; justification for killing; ethics of care; care robots; functional morality; moral responsibility; Moral Turing Test; robot morality; artificial agent; artificial agency; autonomy; norms; disruptive technology; co-evolution; scenarios; autonomous systems; security; decision guidance; technology assessment;

   Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this thesis is to look at some philosophical issues surrounding autonomous systems in society and war. These issues can be divided into three main categories. The first, discussed in papers I and II, concerns ethical issues surrounding the use of autonomous systems – where the focus in this thesis is on military robots. LÄS MER