Philosophy Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Hume's theory of obligation : morality between nature and artifice 

      Qi, Xiao (2025-06-30) - Thesis
      Hume’s account of obligation has been widely discussed in the literature, but many aspects of his conception of obligation, including its definition, taxonomy, and scope, are still subjects of interpretative controversy. ...

    • Kantian constitutivism and the limits of agency 

      Frank, Michael Paul (2025-06-30) - Thesis
      The philosophical method referred to as constitutivism regards some norms as constitutive of the active exercise of a particular capacity. The distinctive feature of Korsgaard’s Self-Constitution Constitutivism (SCC) is ...

    • If you're so rational, why don't you have any friends? : a theory of doxastic wrongdoing and interpersonal rationality 

      Shearer, James (2025-06-30) - Thesis
      This thesis is concerned with two key ideas. The first is doxastic wrongdoing, the idea that doxastic attitude could, in and of itself, constitute a wrong. The second is interpersonal rationality. A distinct sense of ...

    • Understanding inference 

      Wells, Joe (2025-06-30) - Thesis
      In this thesis I am investigating the topic of inference. This involves understanding the nature of inferential justification, namely, what grounds the transition from premises to conclusion within an inference. To achieve ...

    • Groups can speak : a study on group speech acts 

      Garibay Garcia, Daniel (2025-06-30) - Thesis
      We naturally interpret groups as making all kinds of speech acts. However, it is not obvious under which conditions we can properly say a group performed such actions. This thesis provides a comprehensive study of group ...