Browsing Acta Philosophica Gothoburgensia by Title
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Fri vilja?
(Göteborg : Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2002)This thesis, Fri vilja?, deals with one of the classical issues in philosophy: the problem of Free Will. My aim is to dissolve, rather than to solve, the standard formulation of the problem by arguing that problems of this ... -
Giving Executives Their Due: Just Pay, Desert, and Equality
(2021-11-19)Before, during, and after the global financial crisis of 2008, executive pay practices were widely debated and criticized. Economists, philosophers, as well as the man on the street all seem to have strong feelings towards ... -
The Human Good
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Intentionality and intersubjectivity
(Göteborg : Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2007)This is a dissertation about the problem of other minds. Its point of departure is the modern philosophical and cognitive-scientific discussion of our attribution of mental states to others, in particular as it is conceived ... -
Introspecting representations
(Göteborg : Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2005)During the last couple of decades, so called representationalist theories of mind have gained increased popularity. These theories describe mental states in terms of representations of external objects and states of affairs. ... -
Metaethical Relativism : Against the Single Analysis Assumption
(Göteborg : Acta Universitatis Gothenburgensis, 2007-12-20)This dissertation investigates the plausibility of metaethical relativism, or more specifically, what I call “moral truth-value relativism”: the idea that the truth of a moral statement or belief depends on who utters or ... -
Metaphor and Indirect Communication in Nietzsche
(2014-02-10)The main focus of this theses is indirect communication in Nietzsche's texts. Some concrete examples of how Nietzsche's texts can be read are given. -
Minds, Brains and Desert: On the relevance of neuroscience for retributive punishment
(2019-08-30)It is a common idea, and an element in many legal systems, that people can deserve punishment when they commit criminal (or immoral) actions. A standard philosophical objection to this retributivist idea about punishment ... -
Modal Empiricism Made Difficult: An Essay in the Meta-Epistemology of Modality
(2019-01-18)Philosophers have always taken an interest not only in what is actually the case, but in what is necessarily the case and what could possibly be the case. These are questions of modality. Epistemologists of modality enquire ... -
Moderate nominalism and moderate realism
(Göteborg : Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2008)The subject matter of this thesis is analytic ontology. Chapters II and III deal with two versions of trope theory, or moderate nominalism; these are defined as ontologies which recognise properties and relations but no ... -
Moral Disagreement and the Significance of Higher-Order Evidence
(2018-12-07)Recent years have seen an increasing interest in the philosophy of disagreement, especially in epistemology where there is an intense debate over the epistemic significance of disagreement and higher-order evidence more ... -
Nonhuman Moral Agency: A Practice-Focused Exploration of Moral Agency in Nonhuman Animals and Artificial Intelligence
(2023-12-05)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 ...