Essays about: "Moral agency"

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1. 16. Respect for animals - with what implications? : A critical policy analysis of the Swedish Animal Welfare Act

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Camilla Björkbom; [2020]
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   Abstract : In this thesis I interrogate the concept of respect for animals, or intrinsic value, in the new Swedish Animal Welfare Act adopted in 2018. I draw on poststructural theory and conceptual input from political theory as well as Martha Nussbaum’s capability approach. READ MORE

3. 17. Moral machines : The neural correlates of moral judgment and its importance for the implementation of artificial moral agency

   University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för biovetenskap

   Author : Kristin Winnerheim; [2020]
   Keywords : Neural correlates; moral judgment; deficits; machine ethics; artificial moral agents; moral dilemmas;

   Abstract : Society and technology are advancing, in which morality is being artificially implemented into machines, often known as artificial moral agency. Along with this implementation, knowledge about the underpinnings of morality, such as the neurocognitive and ethical basis are an important matter. READ MORE

4. 18. Rediscovering Beatrice and Bianca: A Study of Oscar Wilde’s Tragedies The Duchess of Padua (1883) and A Florentine Tragedy (1894)

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Minon Weber; [2020]
   Keywords : Oscar Wilde; Victorian Literature; Drama; Theatre; 19th Century Literature; Renaissance Drama; Theatre; Elizabethan Drama; Jacobean Drama; A Florentine Tragedy; The Duchess of Padua; Wilde; Wilde Studies; Transgression; Feminist Criticism; Historicist Criticism; Genetic Criticism;

   Abstract : Towards the end of the 19th century Oscar Wilde wrote the four society plays that would become his most famous dramatical works: Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). The plays combined characteristic Wildean witticisms with cunning social criticism of Victorian society, using stereotypical characters such as the dandy, the fallen woman and the “ideal” woman to mock the double moral and strict social expectations of Victorian society. READ MORE

5. 19. Vying for victimhood : subtextual moral judgements and news organisation standpoints reporting Gaza 2014

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

   Author : Amy Margaret Franck; [2019]
   Keywords : Israel; Palestine; Gaza; Victimhood; Media Bias; Media Morality; Mediapolis; Objectivity; Proximity; Al Jazeera; Associated Press; News Agency; Newswire; Dehumanisation; Standpoint theory; Journalism; Hamas; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : In the summer of 2014, a violent conflagration erupted in the isolated Palestinian enclave of Gaza. Whilst the fighting was between Hamas and Israel, Palestinian civilians paid the price. The stark disparity in deaths triggered a debate in the West about Israeli tactics, and the media was accused of ‘bias’ by both Israelis and Palestinians. READ MORE

6. 20. Between given and created value : Finding new grounds for justifying human rights

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Rita Rubnell Spolander; [2019]
   Keywords : value; metaphysics; philosophy of language; philosophical anthropology; conceptual schemes; primitive reactions; agency; värde; metafysik; språkfilosofi; filosofisk antropologi; primitiva reaktioner; agens;

   Abstract : This thesis aims at formulating a human rights justification based on the assumption that disbelief in human rights is found in communicative grounds, rather than some sort of unreasonable evil. I first identify what I believe to be a flaw in the communicative strength of existing human rights justifications in explaining why rights should be. READ MORE