Philosophy Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Taking meaning out of context : essays on the foundations of natural language semantics 

      Cameron, Matthew Dunbar (University of St Andrews, 2018) - Thesis
      David Lewis articulated minimal constraints on a formal theory of natural language semantics that have been widely adopted by subsequent theorists: compositionality and sentence truth in a given context. In the process, ...

    • Kant's concept of the good 

      Tonissen, Bas Ben Martien; Snedegar, Justin (University of St Andrews, 2018) - Thesis
      This dissertation asks what Kant means when he talks about the good, and what role this concept plays in his ethical theory. It is divided into three chapters. The first examines the context in which this question was first ...

    • "You want me to do what?!" : a reasonable response to overly demanding moral theories 

      Slater, Joe (University of St Andrews, 2018) - Thesis
      This thesis is about demandingness objections. It is claimed that various moral theories ask too much of moral agents, and for that reason should be rejected or modified accordingly. In the first chapter, I consider what ...

    • Assertion : the context sensitivity dilemma 

      Simionescu, Mona Ioana (University of St Andrews, 2018) - Thesis
      It looks as though many philosophers assume that the intuitive variability of proper assertion with practical stakes motivates the following dilemma: either (1) we embrace a knowledge norm of assertion (KNA), and are forced ...

    • Exploratio intentionis 

      Crawford, J. M. B. (University of St Andrews, 1986) - Thesis