Philosophy Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Believing, imagining, and their relationship : a new theory of belief via the imagination 

      Marber, D. (2021-06-28) - Thesis
      This thesis defends that to better grasp the nature of human belief and why imagining can lead to belief change (for example through propaganda), we must revise the 'Standard View' of belief, of imagining, and of the ...

    • Intuition, metacognition, and philosophical inquiry 

      Egler, Miguel (2019-12-04) - Thesis
      This thesis examines whether appeals to intuition provide warrant for philosophical positions and claims. Recent empirical studies suggest that people’s intuitions are sensitive to a host of epistemically irrelevant ...

    • What people say : publicity without semanticity 

      Tamburini, Victor (2024-12-04) - Thesis
      When a speaker utters a declarative sentence, we may report her speech indirectly: ‘She said that p’. What determines the content reported as what is said (p in ‘she said that p’)? In this dissertation I argue in a novel ...

    • The liberal case for transformative manipulation 

      McLean, Colin Alexander (2024-12-04) - Thesis
      The liberal philosophical tradition is defined in part by a commitment to political conditions that reflect a view of persons as independent agents who are capable of determining for themselves what matters in life. ...

    • The ethics of harming 

      Joseph, Joel (2024-12-04) - Thesis
      Commonsense morality rejects an unqualified requirement to promote the overall good. Moral constraints prohibit you from bringing about the overall good. For example, you seem morally required to save five people over one. ...