Philosophy Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Wittgensteinian fideism and the linguistic turn in post-war British philosophy of religion 

      Souter, Adrian (University of St Andrews, 1998-08) - Thesis
      The intention of this dissertation is to provide a descriptive account of the changes that occurred in British philosophy of religion after it began to be influenced by the so- called 'revolution in philosophy' in the ...

    • The Kantian defence of freedom : with special reference to eighteenth-century determinism 

      Lewis, Walter L. (University of St Andrews, 1954-08) - Thesis

    • What structuralism could not be 

      Ferguson, Stephen (University of St Andrews, 1998-05) - Thesis
      Frege's arithmetical-platonism is glossed as the first step in developing the thesis; however, it remains silent on the subject of structures in mathematics: the obvious examples being groups and rings, lattices and ...

    • Intuitionistic semantics and the revision of logic 

      Weiss, Bernhard (University of St Andrews, 1992-07) - Thesis
      In this thesis I investigate the implications, for one's account of mathematics, of holding an anti-realist view. The primary aim is to appraise the scope of revision imposed by anti-realism on classical inferential practice ...

    • Belief and action 

      Pehrson, Claud W. P. (University of St Andrews, 1976) - Thesis
      The role of "believes" is identified by finding a unique and unparaphraseable use of the term that is integral to the structure of important forms of language. This role can only be roughly indicated here. Roughly, "believes" ...