Essays about: "Simon Rosenqvist"
Found 4 essays containing the words Simon Rosenqvist.
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1. Developing pause thresholds for keystroke logging analysis
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för psykologiAbstract : Research on the process of writing uses bursts and pauses as key artifacts of underlying cognitive processes. However, the definition of a pause in writing is primarily based on tradition and ease of comparison between studies. READ MORE
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2. Coherentism and the Sensation Objection
University essay from Lunds universitet/Teoretisk filosofiAbstract : Coherentist theories of justification face the Sensation objection, according to which some experiences, such as that of a headache, independently justify us in holding certain beliefs regardless of whether they cohere with the rest of our beliefs. Since coherentism holds that our beliefs are justified only on the basis of coherence with the rest of our beliefs, coherentism is, or so it has been argued, false. READ MORE
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3. Collective Consequentialism
University essay from Lunds universitet/Praktisk filosofiAbstract : Any plausible consequentialist theory should fulfill the following intuitions: (a) if an agent satisfies the theory she should produce the best possible consequences she can in that situation, (b) if all agents satisfy the theory they should produce the best possible consequences as a group, and (c) all agents should, in fact, be able to satisfy the theory. This thesis shows that while act-, rule- and cooperative consequentialism each fails to fulfill at least one of these intuitions, generalized act-consequentialism is successful by directing itself to both collective and individual agents. READ MORE
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4. A Utilitarian Dilemma on Diachronic Preferences
University essay from Lunds universitet/Praktisk filosofiAbstract : When preferences from the past or future disagrees with present preferences about what to do now, it seems counterintuitive for preference utilitarianism to take these past and future diachronic preferences into account. In this thesis I discuss two different solutions to this problem. READ MORE
