Philosophy Theses: Recent submissions

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    • The nature and value of art 

      Kieran, Matthew Laurence (University of St Andrews, 1995-07) - Thesis
      This thesis examines the nature and value of art. It is primarily concerned to advance an argument which makes sense of the significance we ordinarily afford art, rather than rendering it merely aesthetic and thus cognitively ...

    • The structures and significance of mimesis in Adorno's "Aesthetic Theory" 

      Hooker, Richard (University of St Andrews, 1997-07) - Thesis
      This thesis starts from the point of departure of asking why Aesthetic Theory is difficult to read. In answering this question it is argued that the difficulty of the work is a function of the unusual claims Adorno makes ...

    • Dialectics of contingency : Nietzsche's philosophy of art 

      Rampley, Matthew (University of St Andrews, 1993-07) - Thesis
      This thesis examines the function of art in Nietzsche's philosophy. Its primary concern is with Nietzsche's turn to art as the means to counter what he terms metaphysics. Metaphysics is a metonym for the system of beliefs ...

    • Realism, reference and the growth of scientific knowledge 

      Smith, Peter James (University of St Andrews, 1979-07) - Thesis
      In Chapter 1, I discuss the background to the problems which confront a realist account of the growth of scientific knowledge. At the beginning of Chapter 2, I explain in what sense relativism constitutes a challenge to ...

    • Realism and idealism in the theory of value 

      Lenman, James (University of St Andrews, 1995-07) - Thesis
      This thesis defends an account of value which emphasizes the central place occupied by experiences among the objects of evaluation, a point that is particularly stark in the case of aesthetic value, to which a chapter is ...