Philosophy Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Quantifier expressions and information structure 

      Mankowitz, Poppy (University of St Andrews, 2019-06-24) - Thesis
      Linguists and philosophers of language have shown increasing interest in the expressions that refer to quantifiers: determiners like ‘every’ and ‘many’, in addition to determiner phrases like ‘some king’ and ‘no cat’. This ...

    • Refugee law and states' obligations 

      Walker, Jessica (University of St Andrews, 2016-06-23) - Thesis
      The current legal definition of the term ‘refugee’ fails to recognise the centrality of refugees’ hardship and in doing so draws morally arbitrary distinctions between different types of refugees. I use Wiggins’ 1987 paper ...

    • Personal identity and practical reason 

      Hummel, Patrik Alexander (University of St Andrews, 2018-06-28) - Thesis
      In this thesis, I argue that the interdependence between personal identity and practical concerns is overstated. In paradigmatic places where philosophers and common sense suggest that personal identity constrains how we ...

    • Invariance and intensionality : new perspectives on logicality 

      Grossi, Marco (University of St Andrews, 2018-12-07) - Thesis
      What are logical notions? According to a very popular proposal, a logical notion is something invariant under some “transformation” of objects, usually permutations or isomorphisms. The first chapter is about extending ...

    • The dual nature of causation : two necessary and jointly sufficient conditions 

      Touborg, Caroline Torpe (University of St Andrews, 2018-06-28) - Thesis
      In this dissertation, I propose a reductive account of causation. This account may be stated as follows: Causation: 𝘤 is a cause of 𝘦 within a possibility horizon ℋ iff a) 𝘤 is process-connected to 𝘦, and b) 𝘦 ...