Philosophy: Recent submissions

Now showing items 1-5 of 267

    • Title redacted 

      Laurens, Hannah Pleunke Elizabeth (2022-06-13) - Thesis

    • Multi-descriptional physicalism, level(s) of being, and the mind-body problem 

      Ioannou, Savvas (2022-06-13) - Thesis
      The main idea of this thesis is multi-descriptional physicalism. According to it, only physical entities are elements of our ontology, and there are different ways to describe them. Higher-level vocabularies (e.g., mental, ...

    • The group right to privacy 

      Puri, Anuj (University of St Andrews, 2022-06-13) - Thesis
      In the age of Big Data Analytics and Covid-19 Apps, the conventional conception of privacy that focuses excessively on the identification of the individual is inadequate to safeguard an individual’s identity and autonomy, ...

    • Consent, epistemic equity and a revised theory of legitimacy 

      MacDougall, Graham David (University of St Andrews, 2021-12-01) - Thesis
      In this thesis I argue, against prevailing wisdom in contemporary political philosophy, that consent is a sufficient ground of political legitimacy and I argue for a set of necessary conditions that must be satisfied in ...

    • Existence, actuality and logical pluralism 

      Rossi, Alessandro (University of St Andrews, 2021-12-01) - Thesis
      This work considers data about the intentional nature of human cognition, and traces their consequences for debates in the philosophy and epistemology of logic, and metaphysics. The first part of this work, comprising its ...