Philosophy Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Voluntarism and virtue in Hume's moral philosophy 

      Galvagni, Enrico (2024-06-10) - Thesis
      The nature of morality and its foundations are prominent subjects of debate in the history of early modern ethics. A standard characterisation of the early eighteenth-century dispute opposes moral rationalism to moral ...

    • Conceptual baggage and how to unpack it 

      Wilson, Emilia Lynette (2024-06-10) - Thesis
      Our interpretive resources enable us to make sense of, navigate, and communicate about our shared world. These resources not only carve the world up into categories, but also guide how we, individually and collectively, ...

    • Essays on indiscernibility 

      Nizzardo, Matteo (2024-06-10) - Thesis
      This Thesis is a collection of essays on qualitatively indiscernible entities, i.e. entities which agree with respect to all the qualitative properties they instantiate. In Chapter 1 I introduce various accounts of ...

    • Aristotle on the limits of final causes. The case of extended teleology 

      Hernández Villarreal, Andrés (University of St Andrews, 2021-12-01) - Thesis
      In this thesis, I discuss the concept of Aristotelian extended teleology (i.e., non-theistic teleological causation in which more than one substance is involved). I argue that some passages of Aristotle’s corpus and ...

    • Trust, audit, and public engagement 

      Kelsall, Joshua James Clarke (University of St Andrews, 2021-12-01) - Thesis
      Public auditors such as Audit Scotland aim to provide independent assurance to the public that money is spent effectively, efficiently and that it, and the activities of public organisations, provide public value. This ...