Against boredom : 17 essays on ignorance, values, creativity, metaphysics, decision-making, truth, preference, art, processes, Ramsey, ethics, rationality, validity, human ills, science, and eternal life to Nils-Eric Sahlin on the occasion of his 60th birthday
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Summary, in Swedish
Abstract in Undetermined
Table d’Hôte
Ingar Brinck:
Investigating
the development of creativity:
The Sahlin hypothesis 7
Linus Broström:
Known unknowns
and proto-second-personal address
in photographic art 25
Johan Brännmark:
Critical moral thinking
without moral theory 33
Martin Edman:
Vad är ett missförhållande? 43
Pascal Engel:
Rambling on the value of truth 51
Peter Gärdenfors:
Ambiguity in decision making
and the fear of being fooled 75
Göran Hermerén:
NIPT: Ethical aspects 89
Mats Johansson:
Roboethics:
What problems should
be addressed and why? 103
Johan Laserna:
Ambivalenta bilder 113
Anna-Sofia Maurin:
Metaphysical explanation 161
Kevin Mulligan:
Is preference primitive? 169
John D. Norton:
How does your garden grow? 181
Johannes Persson & Annika Wallin:
The (misconceived) distinction
between internal and external validity 187
Johanna Seibt:
Becoming our selves 197
Paul Slovic, Robin Gregory,
David Frank, and Daniel Vastfjall:
Confronting the collapse
of humanitarian values
in foreignpolicy decision making 209
Peter Sylwan:
Det eviga livet 215
Claudine Tiercelin:
Chance, love and logic:
Ramsey and Peirce
on norms, rationality
and the conduct of life 221
Epilog 257
Frank Ramsey
Table d’Hôte
Ingar Brinck:
Investigating
the development of creativity:
The Sahlin hypothesis 7
Linus Broström:
Known unknowns
and proto-second-personal address
in photographic art 25
Johan Brännmark:
Critical moral thinking
without moral theory 33
Martin Edman:
Vad är ett missförhållande? 43
Pascal Engel:
Rambling on the value of truth 51
Peter Gärdenfors:
Ambiguity in decision making
and the fear of being fooled 75
Göran Hermerén:
NIPT: Ethical aspects 89
Mats Johansson:
Roboethics:
What problems should
be addressed and why? 103
Johan Laserna:
Ambivalenta bilder 113
Anna-Sofia Maurin:
Metaphysical explanation 161
Kevin Mulligan:
Is preference primitive? 169
John D. Norton:
How does your garden grow? 181
Johannes Persson & Annika Wallin:
The (misconceived) distinction
between internal and external validity 187
Johanna Seibt:
Becoming our selves 197
Paul Slovic, Robin Gregory,
David Frank, and Daniel Vastfjall:
Confronting the collapse
of humanitarian values
in foreignpolicy decision making 209
Peter Sylwan:
Det eviga livet 215
Claudine Tiercelin:
Chance, love and logic:
Ramsey and Peirce
on norms, rationality
and the conduct of life 221
Epilog 257
Frank Ramsey
Publishing year
2015
Language
English
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Publisher
Fri tanke förlag
Topic
- Philosophy
- Psychology (excluding Applied Psychology)
- Medical Ethics
Keywords
- ignorance
- values
- creativity
- metaphysics
- decision-making
- truth
- preference
- art
- processes
- Ramsey
- ethics
- rationality
- validity
- human ills
- philosophy of science
- eternal life
Status
Published
Research group
- VBE
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISBN: 978-91-87935-37-4